The reason the WiFi and Bluetooth are powered first by 5v is so you can turn the PS3 on via the controller. Great video again Vince. Keep going!

Ha. That USB stick is the most British USB stick ever made.

Hello Vince. I have repaired many consoles with the same glitch. This fault also appears on super slim models. The 1.8v regulator is guilty here, which is constantly turned on because it supplies the bt module, so that the console can be turned on by the controller. First, the regulator burns (this small black system near the smd coil), which then burns the module (not always). You can replace this small regulator with for example ams1117 (more resistant). You should check before soldering a new bt module if there is 1.8v on the coil, otherwise you will burn the new module. This can be checked very simply by connecting the power supply only with a flexible cable without connecting the 12v line. Best regards from Poland, faucolt.

My wife calls you the beep beep guy because all she ever hears from your videos are the beeps from you doing continuity testing.

There's nothing better to watch at like 9PM than another video from Vince. It always interests me if he can get his faulty devices back to life ^^

I love watching the progress you've made Vince. Youve become a confident and competent fixer of electronics and you have brilliant methods of deduction. Also you are so confident when soldering now you dont get phased at all anymore. Well done on finding the problem excellent video!

Subscribed for using common sense. I've looked for many a video for PS3 workovers and you simply do it. No fuxing around with music or 20minute disassembly routines... Thank you. Just for being normal.

I just wana tell you, it is really enjoyable watching you figure these things out man. You really do a great great job.. Inspiring!!

I'm so proud of your soldering skills! You're a champ! I still think you should go back to that first switch you worked on and see about fixing it! How about if you put the card back on and remove the little chip? See if the ground goes away and just see if you can replace that chip?

Vince, do the right thing, buy the wifi/bluetooth module. Then do a revisit video on it. Waiting for it! Keep up the good work, love your videos.

My anxiety can’t cope with the fact that you didn’t buy the WiFi chip. I’ll bloody buy it for you, please fix it!

I know this is an old video, but I wanted to share my story in case it helps someone with my simple problem that turned into a bigger issue. I used this guide for troubleshooting. Long story short, I had no power after a repaste. I triple-checked all connections, tested the incoming power (120v), and checked the (5v) rails. Everything seemed normal: the motherboard, capacitors, and power supply all looked fine. Then, randomly, when I re-tested my power/eject input on the board with power being fed, I jumped my system on while I was reading a solder point with my meter lead. So I checked the power ribbon that feeds the power/eject bar to the board since it was the last variable. I found the pins snapped in half. I wasted half a day on such a simple fix. So check those ribbons!

I've got a pile of 14 or 15 slims in my loft, as well as a few boxes full of the first Gen 4 USB models. I'll dig through them this week and see if I can find one with rev1 wifi card

One thing you might want to do is, if you get another module you can connect it with wires instead of conecing it directly to the MB, do the installation and take it out again. WDYT?

Hi Vince you need to recognize that sometimes not everything is a short to ground. Alot of things have a low resistance to ground in circuit and our meters show it being a short so when you pull the ic off you think the short has gone but then you might stick a new part on and it will do the same thing great video keep up the good work mate :)

I just love your videos, so entertaining, relaxing and useful... Thanks for doing this! 🙏

a couple of days ago I accidently touched a ps2's power supply, got some of that juicy electric in my body and dropped the ps2. I'm glad that you are keeping your hands clear and keep reminding that :)

Man you're getting really skilled with all this soldering stuff, nice video

Vince, When looking for a short circuit rather than using the continuity tester try setting your meter to a low ohms range. The closer you get to the short the lower the reading will be, so if the short is the opposite end of the board you may see 0.34 (for example) and as you test nearer the short you will get a lower reading. It works best with a 7.5 digit meter but it is worth a try.

You are turning into a GOD at what you do now when things break around my house I always think in my head I wonder if Vince can fix that

Just saying, you made great progress through out your videos. Interesting to watch you try new things

Another new My Mate Vince video, excellent!

Awesome try as always thanks for making awesome videos love to watch you work and always learn something new!!

Greetings Vince, well that's a nice fault finding investigation video with excellent results

Easiest way iin my opionion to remove wifi card is from underneath with hot air. Excellent job on fault finding. well done

very entertaining vince... i am really enjoying all the content you upload and share with us on youtube.... im always looking to see if there is a new video from you...i always look forward to watching them... so thankyou for all the hard work you put into them and sharing them they are top draw 1st class entertainment........seasons greetings to you and your family........looking forword to your next video i cant wait..........kind regards....and thanks again vince........

Another great video making me feel great :)

Best entertainment while writing my bachelor thesis!

You are so amazing ..! Keep it up your good work Vince , and MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and your FAMILY..

The combination of the misterious music in the begining and the text was very nice.

Thanks for the fun video. Btw your vioce audio sounds alot better than the previous couple videos. It's still a bit fuzzy but not at such a noticable level.

First of all buddy great video again! loving the content! Always when a complete dead system, check fuse on the power supply first... checking main big fuse first, then the small ones. usually the big ones die, so then check the motherboard over.. check current to the bridge rectifier .. then the resisters ... if all good and the fuse is dead, replace the fuse... then try power it up :) u can get lucky sometimes :)

My slim ps3 is still working great. Had it since new and it's one of my favorite systems.

Very nice work vince! 👍👍👏👏👏

Good video Vince, I have noticed you have gone beardy, welcome to the club lol!

Vince - You know what I love about you? It is the fact that you established it was a WIFI card fault. As a computer engineer I would just change that part and carry on, but not Vince.. You dig even further and try to isolate the chip that has failed and you would have changed the tiniest chip in order to get the machine running again. Well worked out though, at least you have a good board you can harvest parts from in the future - a valuable commodity.

Great video! I had a similar issue on a PS4 where I had to change the bluetooth/wifi chip and at least on the PS4 and I assuming it is the same on the PS3 is that even though you have the controller wired up, it still uses the bluetooth protocol to initiate and sync which is dumb...because in safe mode it works fine since it only uses USB...again it is dumb. But at least that is one quick way to tell if the bluetooth module is faulty. But either way I really think you need to replace that chip and see the repair through :) I will paypal you the $ for the chip I must hear the triumphant "YES! It WORKS!!"

Go get preheater Vince. Nice video as always

Good luck, I've got one doing the same thing, so am watching with hope... if not, you'll be getting it in the next care package :-p

Hey Vince! If i bored i like to watch your videos :)

Fascinating video, many thanks for your hard work and teaching the valuable lesson that some things can be beyond economic repair. Just a thought ... if you had some of that fine patching enamelled wire could you possibly patch the Wi-fi module free-floating as it were? And if successful bond it to the main board as a separate job?? 88 connections is a lot of work though. Just a thought.

Thanks bro.. Followed u step by 🚶.. Good thing I didn't have to go that far😂😂 its fixed now..thanks again

I have been experiencing similar Power issues, in my case it was the WIFE not the WIFI.

Nice bit of detective work =D Regards that wifi module - you could compare the components on top of it to the other one (you would need to remove its top shield first) - at least then you might be able to compare where those resistors and caps went. With regards to the solder balls, you can buy solder balls really cheap, and a generic set of BGA stencils that might work if you chose the right size. Well done finding it was the wireless module though!!! BTW - it was that drop that caused those components to move on the wireless PCB! =/ Easily done! I super hate working on things like that, so difficult! BGA is bad when its the only issue, but when there are components on the PCB that is BGA fitted it's hell lol

Hey Vince, the next Slim video will be quite interesting with the fault of it shutting off after the green light, I have a system that does the same thing and I was never able to figure out what the fault was. It's not related to water or a failed PSU, and the system in question stopped working when someone had hit the top of it. Odds are that possibly one of the solder joints cracked. Perhaps the one you have was dropped at some point and had caused the fault. As for replacing the wifi chip on this PS3, it might be worth looking into a parts motherboard on eBay and find a matching board with severe damage (cracked board, already been used for parts, etc) and just yank the wifi chip off of it, would likely be cheaper than buying the chip on Aliexpress and would give you some more nice parts for other PS3 Slims.

After you've removed the ferrite bead and start taking measurements at 21:15, the bottom pad no longer shorts to ground. That tells you that the chip underneath is fine and there was no need to remove it.

So sad you could not get it to play any games but congratulations on getting it to turn on. Is there going to be a revisit video on this coming?

pretty sure someone on here will find a board with one of them on for you. looking forward to part 2 when that happens.

Hey Vince I love you man!

Great video, like your process of elimination very thorough. You should attempt a PS3 portable mini that would be great.

You’ve got the machine to post. It’s 100 percent worth it.

This is what we like to call a 'Donor Machine' :)

5v is for the chips on the board, 12v is for the DVD drive and hard disk.

One thing to know about these newer consoles is the disc drives are married to the motherboard. If you have a bad disc drive you can swap out the mechanical parts out with another drive and use the board from the old drive with the mechanical parts of the new drive.

Excelent video vince

This video worked for me thanks bro

Just purchased a 60gb ps3 CECH-A01. YLOD. Going to do the capacitor fix on it.

Please buy that WiFi module and try it! You’re so close yet too far from fixing it!

Please I need that second video of the other console cause I have the same problem on one of my consoles and you vid would help me ❤️

Hey Vince, thank you very much for your video, thanks to you i hape hoppe and i am repairing my own playstation, funny enough, it seems to have the same problem, so another one for the list...but thanks to your video, me, a noob in these things can understand and know what to doo, i just wished you would say what that gel is tha you use to remove the parts.

A fair assumption to make when the 5v rail is not showing anything on the pcb and you are certain that the PSU is ok, than there is probably a short in the voltage rail that the PSU sensed and turned itself off.

Killed by "that white chalky stuff". Can we be sure this isn't the Playstation of Pablo Escobar?

Omg I like to listen to him work and you knoe how when he is scooting the vid along and plays a song in the background well I was listening and a advertisment came on with a christmas Carroll and I really truelly thought for 4 minutes he eas scooting the video along lol

VINCE look on aliexpress they have the wifi complete for £10

Maybe you can run voltage injection with some power supply instead of popping out capacitor or chip 1 by 1. Awesome video btw.

The wifi board is a full module on its own PCB, like the Bluetooth module on the bush boombox

Oh man, getting access to the battery at the motherboard seems to be even more complicated than I thought :/ I was under the impression that it wouldn't be necessary to open the metal shield on the motherboard but from this video it seems unavoidable and have to replace the thermal paste also.

Vince, do you still have this unit? There's a custom firmware now which explicitly bypasses the BT/Wifi check. However, this PS3 is 3XXX, and only 2XXX models have the ability to install CFW on them this one is only HEN capable. :(

What would be the best place to learn more about circuit boards and other things needed to be known when repairing electronics? Any help is appreciated.

I heard you can bypass the 8002F1F9 error by taking out the hard drive while the firmware is installing. You need to take it out in the percent that in usually fails. It is very timing dependent. I have not done this myself but I think is worth a shot.

Hello. I have a question, what do you use to remove the capacitor @ 20:29? Also would you happen to know its capacitance?

Awsome! So julius of your Yoda fault finding skills! 1337 ;) not every fault is worth fixing an to it works, but if a know you right it is not going to take that long until you have a spare motherboard and fix that ;) your brain is gonna tell you that it is maybe further away :) nice job always entertaining! Hope you and your brother fix something Christmasy soon miss when you work together!

instead of taking the module off. you should of used your bench power supply to inject 3 to 5v on the pad to see what component gets hot.

Hi Vince merry Christmas how much do you charge to change a Nintendo switch port Vince l brought a new battery put it in and it came on plug charger in would not charge

Come on buy the card, we want the full fix. You just got rid of the nintendo switch killer nickname, don't disappoint.

My Mate VINCE in this video you referenced to you going to fix the other ps3 slim with the shutting off issue, did you have come to doing that vid? I sadly cannot find it on your channel, and I myself am having that exact issue with my ps3.

I have bought about 4-5 of these for 30 bucks each, they are great blu-ray players and media boxes in general.

You might want to buy a power supply and insert a small voltage, with current limit into the board, and then look for your short with evaporating IPA.

thx sir for sharing just saved a super slim model after lightening storm exactely the same issue .but after removing wifi/bluetooth card remote no longer playing wirellesely ....

Also if you put 12 volts to the DC in on the motherboard does the system turn on?

Nice repair, would apply power to the wifi / bt card from power supply to see what gets hot

Hi there vince! I have the similar problems with the other ps3 you've shown in the vid. When i press the power button it will have green light but after like 2-3 seconds it turns off by itself and then there's no red light. Last time it was working properly. Not until i copied a cd game to the hdd of ps3 and then after a few minutes it turns off and that's where the problem comes in. I wonder if it is the hdd on the ps3. Is there anything i could do to fix this? Please help :(

That second console where’s the vid I have a console with that problem 😦 need to fix

Damn that beginning made me thinking I was watching boss fight or something lmao

Someone may have already said this, but just a thought, what if you find a USB wifi \ BT module that has the same chipset and try running that ? Cheers !

Have you considered silver filled epoxy? Its apparently almost as good as leaded solder and doesn't require destructive heat to apply it either. I imagine there is all manners of thickness and viscosity available and I have used one called "wire glue" in reattaching quartz watch coil leads and securing new quartz circuit board smd caps to some success. I was told only gold based "glues" were acceptable but I think that isn't correct as the epoxy seals the metal thus corrosion unlikely regardless of the metals used.

also solve PS3 but fat. I had a picture and it worked. But the picture disappeared. I have short capacitors around the hdmi chip. I'll change the chip from the new one. I'm worried about it. Well your videos give me courage. Even though I've already killed a few consoles

poor Vince he hurt his middle finger on his right hand hope it gets better Vince

Hey can you do a video on the ps3 super slim powering off after 2 seconds mines not working

I have been trying to fix my wired earplugs tonight, probably your fault I can not just throw them away so could you have a go on some to see if you do a better job? They break every three days now so they are getting a bit short now!

Mine powers on but only briefly, can I rule out that it's the power supply and something else? I've changed the thermal paste

What's the set of picks/tools you have on the left side?

Awesome job 💿💿👍👍👍 Appreciate

I have a PSP that the drive failed on about 10 years ago at the time I tried to do a mod from a YT video to enable to load roms from memory stick but it failed and the menu no longer loads. Do you have any idea how I can recover the unit?

Does that firmware have the no Bluetooth checks?

Vince just to you know, whitout the wi fi module the ps3 wont actualizes it self, because the software update tests for wi-fi modube before it stars, and return an error, and not goes on... you need to replace a module and in some cases the small chip in the other side of board(it is a 1,8 voltage regulator, it supply voltage for the wi fi module(wi-fi and bluetooth to be exact) and the problem occurs is a short circuit in marvell chip itself it burns and put the PSU in protection mode like you see.

I have the issue of the second PS3, did you ever do a vid on it?

I think I have some boards of the PS3 Slim laying around. I will take them home with me and give them a look. Maybe they're the revision you need.

So...a faulty Wi-Fi chip may brick the whole machine? Is that a common problem with PS3's? Mine's been unplugged from the wall socket for a couple of weeks and now it's completely dead.

Good video sir