#78 Repair of PS5 No Power

[@isahizhenfahm6576]

It was the resilience for me. The ability of not giving up. Thank you for another wonderful video, learned quite a lot.

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you! This was probably because I had invested quite a bit of money into the broken PS5 and I did not want to lose it.

[@petel6856]

The best Play Station repair videos you will ever see on KZbin. The techniques used and explanation of what has caused the issue in these units is great. I've learned so much from watching these videos. The only complaint I have is that he does not make enough videos. I can watch these all day. Keep up the good work.

[@ToltecMerc]

Thanks so much! I'm glad you are enjoying the videos! My approach is to try to bring the viewer along for the highs and lows of repairing broken items. Still learning. Oh and as far as the number of videos, I do have a day job that takes quite bit of time in the Spring. I have a lot of free time in the Summer.

[@petel6856]

@@ToltecMerc Totally understand your job situation. Appreciate the videos that you are able to put out. Keep them coming at your own pace.

[@Ilegator]

Totally agree with you. These are by far the best repair videos you can see on youtube. No other has such an in-depth understanding of the system functioning. We are blessed to be able to enjoy his content for free. Forever thankful to him.

[@JoeyDoesTech]

Your persistence and knowledge is incredible. Great fix 👍

[@ToltecMerc]

Thanks Joey! I enjoy your videos as well!

[@on2wheels504]

Good job man! I like how you show the whole job and you never give up till it is fixed👍

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I like to bring the viewer along for the ride and actually see how some repairs go.

[@toolsarecool]

Amazing persistence, what a thriller! 😎 Nice work!!

[@ToltecMerc]

I'm so happy you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

[@Mymatevince]

Brilliant video! Looks like I have a whole back catalogue of your videos to watch. Keep up the great work 👍👍

[@ToltecMerc]

Thanks Vince! I'm honored! I do enjoy your videos as well.

[@Mymatevince]

@@ToltecMerc Thank you 👍👍👍

[@robertl8057]

I've been lurking on your channel for about a week now, and I must say that I am very impressed with your work. Your videos are educational and relaxing. I enjoy watching you work. Thank you for what you do and please keep it up! I look forward to many more videos in the future. Oh, and take a well-earned sub.

[@ToltecMerc]

Welcome aboard! I appreciate the visit and the comment! Thank you!

[@shiftctrlhack]

Great Video !!!! Thank you :) Keep posting please. I keep a look out for when you post because notifications sometimes don't always show up.

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you! I will to bring you more!

[@AniDormi]

I'd have never gone back over that first IC to check and most likely gave up, great job

[@ToltecMerc]

I got lucky. I thought I had fixed the original problem (South Bridge) so it made sense to me that I had created the secondary problem somehow. I'm not sure what made me test each pin for continuity to ground. Maybe it was because I knew there was a ground pad underneath that ic that was very close.

[@paschalokeke3216]

I would like to be an apprentice under your work bench i love tech repairs grabs a whole lots of joy seeing fantastic repairs done over these boards ..its marvellous in our sight...thank you so much

[@90sArcadeKid]

Brilliant, deserves a lot more of subscribers. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.

[@ToltecMerc]

That's very kind of you. Thanks for stopping by!

[@MrDinakdakan]

I love the way you narrate your thoughts, new sub!

[@ToltecMerc]

Thanks for the comment and the sub! More to come!

[@_mylastname]

Just awesome.i love your persistence and patience..

[@ToltecMerc]

There was money and honor on the line! Mostly money as I had paid close to $300 for it broken. I was motivated! Thanks for stopping by!

[@udontknowus2]

Awesome! Could you please make a troubleshooting "step-by-step guide" video one these repairs? especially what voltage rails need to be present and where to check them. This would be very very helpful.🙏

[@ToltecMerc]

Hmmm. Possibly.

[@pcbsolder]

a pure masterpiece, I take my hat off.

[@johnrazor8720]

That was a tough one. Makes success even more sweet. I reviewed the earlier work on that one IC and I don’t see the problem but it obviously was there - go figure. I would never have questioned that work. Good on ya.

[@ToltecMerc]

Yeah I feel like I got lucky. I knew the original problem had to be the South Bridge so whatever problem it had beyond that had to be something I caused or whoever worked on it before had caused.

[@metzen01]

Fantastic thorough job on that PS5. Love your music while you repair these by the way. 🙏🙂✌️

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you! I try to find just the right music and have the volume low enough that it's not irritating.

[@seguramlk]

Awesome. Congrats pal 👍

[@ToltecMerc]

Thanks 👍

[@Console_Tech]

Another incredible work.

[@ToltecMerc]

Thanks so much!

[@wigmansir]

Excellent work trying to correct someone else's work I'm glad you didn't give up. 👍

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you! I don't like to give up and I can take all the time I want.

[@riparaggi]

very difficult repair. I appreciate your persistence! Thumbs up from Italy

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you very much!

[@ramy121]

Thank you very much. I learn from you. Greetings to you, Romania from Egypt

[@ToltecMerc]

You are very welcome! Greetings to you!

[@kikihobbyrepair]

Amazing job as always. Love watching your videos. So relaxing. You are so calm even when you see someone else's sh*t prior attempt :)

[@mm0077]

Thank you for sharing. Tough one but you got there in the end. Well done.

[@ToltecMerc]

Thanks! It was a tough one. It took quite a while just working on it when I could. Quite satisfying in the end.

[@Magsyboy]

Im enjoying watching you, its like listening on lectures of prof. 😅

[@ToltecMerc]

That is very kind of you! I'm glad you enjoy!

[@screen-protector]

Ok, so this one for now is my fav. on your YT channel ;). Thank you.

[@nicolaslacoste9367]

Nice. You never give up. Very interesting video. Thanks. Best regards, Nicolas

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you very much!

[@cysrandomthoughts1087]

As usual really nice video, And i would like to ask your opinion concerning your oscilloscope, how is it doing so far??

[@ToltecMerc]

It is doing well. I don't seem to use it much for console repair. I've used it for audio work in the past. It has serial data decode capabilities but I have yet to try them. Nice display. I like it!

[@Ilegator]

Crazy repair. Your diagnostics process is the best I've ever seen. Great video as always. It had so many things wrong yet you kept finding out. I do have a question. Many times when you are diagnosting you take previous experience to check the most likely faults first. What's the process you would do if you had no previous experience of one system?

[@WhoaMykey]

I don’t think those things you seen was Liquid Metal since it doesn’t go hard, but I suspect solder from a soldering station. 😂 I won’t say anything bad about a technicians work but rule 1 in repairs replace what you take away with the same content, filler or material. If it’s Liquid Metal go get some Liquid Metal and use that gently. If it’s actual thermal paste then use actual thermal paste, thermal pads use thermal pads. Can we not have enough decency to replace things exactly as they were? I know I won’t pay a technician to put something that didn’t come from high grade materials or the factory direct. Yes I know right to repair and it’s improving slowly in the USA slowly and painfully surely 😂. Great content brother keep it up

[@Trucam2020]

Thanks. Which Aliexpress shop do you buy your I.Cs?

[@ToltecMerc]

I have placed an order here but I have yet to receive them. www.aliexpress.com/store/1101039032?spm=a2g0o.detail.1000007.1.5aa57521MQWHsA

[@orion310591RS]

I swear, when I looked at 16:23 I wondered how you managed to properly solder that chip, by pushing down, with having so much solder on GND area, and not checking with multimeter afterwards. Then 40:55 happened. This is second time I was wondering about something then it turns out I was right :D Thanks for long video that included all parts! First time it was when you broke trace, while grinding glue, if you remember. 13:49 - I have not done it, but maybe manual sucker, to suck it in tube or something. 21:37 - When Novice do it 33:12 - When Doctor do it

[@ToltecMerc]

I do recall the grinding pen incident. You have good eyes! Accidents happen sometimes but I can usually get there in the end. Still learning.

[@Samsemillya]

Amazing work!

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank You!

[@SalvoMorina]

Amazing, compliments..!!

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you so much 😀

[@ryanreid309]

I repair consoles as a side gig. Love your videos, always learn so much. I'm still kind of confused by the HDMI port. I've never experienced it but I've seen other repair videos where they found pins lifted straight from factory. Is it possible this was the case and they attempted to solder them back and ended up causing all this damage in the process?

[@ToltecMerc]

This, I believe, was an after-market port. It did say LUXSHARE on the back of it. That is what my replacement ports say. If an original port has lifted pins, I would think that was likely because of the user stressing it too much.

[@ajaks7636]

Wow, I know everyone has to start somewhere, but when it's no power, dead, why would someone replace the HDMI port? Not you, but whoever was in it before you. Great Video and Repair! Very educational as well! Thank You. 😀

[@ToltecMerc]

Sometimes people are desperate.

[@jengen3624]

nice repair thx for your greats movies

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you so much! It makes me happy that people enjoy watching what I do for fun.

[@Steve_be]

Nice work as always

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you so much Steve!

[@Andreas_Straub]

Hi! Did you replace the protective foam material around the APU to prevent any liquid metal spillage?

[@ToltecMerc]

Yes I did.

[@Senux-Video]

nice job, nice video, thanks for sharing. finally I saw Your heat up station at work :)

[@ToltecMerc]

It does make BGA jobs easier. Let's me be a little more gentle to some ICs. Takes up my whole workbench though. Thanks for the visit!

[@paschalokeke3216]

I actually tried to replace an hdmi port on the ps5 board and i succeeded....the console worked for some couple of months and then had a short blue light with a single beep and immediately turns off ..been trying to recover it but i never had your kind of equipment..so i i left the board laying around...there are two of them actually

[@lynchdemartini]

how much heat and air do you usually set your hot air when you're doing qfns without the bottom heater and with the bottom heater?

[@ToltecMerc]

It depends on things like the size of the chip. I normally only use the preheater with larger BGA chips. The preheater lets me use less heat from the hot air station. These ICs are tough but they do have limits. The small QFNs I removed in this video I probably used 425-430C with no preheater. The PS5 motherboard soaks up heat well. For the South Bridge, I use the preheater and probably stay under 400C with the hot air if I can.

[@REVERSE_BIAS]

Hi there. Can you help me please? I'm trying to find out what resistance readings to ground the rows of large coils on both sides of the board should read? I'm getting seriously low readings, and all is hear is "yes that's fine it's the APU low impedance!?!?! The capacitors underneath the APU also read seriously low...I have seen one other person on Reddit with the same issue, but people again said for him not to worry?! How can you have 0.2 ohm on the non-grounded side of some caps... yet voltage injection at 0.9 volts only draws 0.8 amps and nothing heats up? I thought it'd pull high amps, but nope. Is it really supposed to be this low? Please if you can help, I'd really appreciate it.

[@ToltecMerc]

That does sound normal. The APU itself is the short. That does not mean it's bad. There is a 6-phase supply and 2-phase supply. The output of 6-phase supply will measure about 0.1-0.2 ohms. The 2-phase will probably read less that 10 ohms. Do you measure a short across the 12V input terminals?

[@REVERSE_BIAS]

@@ToltecMerc Wow fantastic mate, thank you so much for helping me! I've done electronics for years, but honestly never came across a situation where a short that low is normal. The 12V input line has been measured across the input pins, and no short, so hopefully once I repair the power supply and put it back on the board, things might actually work! Thank you so much.

[@REVERSE_BIAS]

@@ToltecMerc .... sorry I didn't reply properly. The short is after the coils. The input side of the 12V rail is not showing as a short. Hopefully it will be OK then once I try with a working power supply.

[@derkomatar]

Nice Job man 😬. Where u got the schematic for the ps 5 from ? By the way u have a awesome knowledge. Hell yeah leave u an abo right now ☺️👍🏻

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you! I broke into Sony factory and stole the PS5 schematic!

[@derkomatar]

@@ToltecMerc you are a good one 🤣 hopefully you didnt wear a Xbox Shirt 🤣😁🤣🤣

[@m-elokkichawki9694]

great video thx for sharing

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you for watching and commenting! I do appreciate it!

[@grzegorzwozniak837]

Nice work like always 😃

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you so much! I do appreciate you stopping by!

[@madhampster]

Well done.

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you so much!

[@lubinrobles9078]

Awesome video

[@ToltecMerc]

Thanks!

[@juancastaneda3827]

Hi! Interested in having my PS5 repaired. Getting one beep and then no power after that. Anyway to get it sent into you? Thank you!

[@GangstaL72]

Hey boss, I was wondering if you offer services for repairs. I have two PS5 that I cannot figure out

[@memoryb0x]

My ps5 just bit the dust. Had a Power outage while ps5 was in rest mode. Will Not turn on, no beeps or light when trying to press power button. Checked my cord for continuity and it’s good so im guessing it’s going to be PSU or board. So depressing being that it’s out of warranty and no repair shops near me that I trust.

[@12345Mudassar]

Great job 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤

[@muratrisvan]

Thanx masters ❤️🇹🇷

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@dccon229]

I saw that HDMI bad at the beginning of the video lol

[@enzopelle9878]

hello i'm not say where I can contact you... do you found any solution for error hardware ce 1088251? In my case I think is an hardware error.

[@Іван-и1у1щ]

can you give instructions on how to flash the microcontroller in the fluke 8050A video, I'm a complete noob

[@ToltecMerc]

You need the free Arduino IDE software and a USB cable.

[@Іван-и1у1щ]

@@ToltecMerc I have a display where there is already a converter, and on the diagram it is, I am very bad at this, if you can help

[@My_canyon_can]

I would like to know if I can send you my play station 5 power supply to be repaired? Thank you

[@Funytubefunnyvideos]

Hello TF01 I can’t find what kind of chip it is. PS5

[@josef19dz]

You are amazing wow

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed!

[@njones621]

I just feel like using liquid metal was a terrible idea by Sony. Maybe there is a better way to do it, but watching you and others work on these just tells me it’s much more troublesome than old fashioned thermal paste.

[@ToltecMerc]

It certainly causes problems but I think others have tested thermal paste on the PS5 and it just does not work well enough. I think they are pushing the hardware hard.

[@Ilegator]

The only problem I see with that is that they advertised the PS5 to be placed vertically. 45:30 that solder mask is a brilliant idea. A mod definitely I would do if I had one.

[@mahmoudsaid153]

Wow , thanks so much

[@jdtoulonvar]

you're a goat !!! great job !

[@consolemods3271]

i wish i had you exp, ,for this type of job :D

[@ToltecMerc]

You have to start somewhere. Go for it! Learn by doing!

[@consolemods3271]

@@ToltecMerc already doing from past 5 year never did school for electronic but learning as i go

[@observadore]

Muito bom

[@ToltecMerc]

Thank you so much!

[@_mylastname]

Anytime I see those gray heat pads and pieces of aluminum, I know the console has not worked on properly.. Whatever company that uses that, U break fix or that other company asurian(spelling?)are notorious for using it, always leaves messy or broken work.. They shouldn't be in business

[@ToltecMerc]

I have seen some horrible work come from UBreakIFix. In the past, a seller I purchased from told me he had taken to them first. They couldn't fix it and so he just throws it on eBay. It was a mess.

[@حيدرالعرقي-ض9خ]

شلع ❤گلبك ps5😊

[@John-oo9xu]

What a mess does some shops end with. See that myself all the time. Real annoying and customers should leave a bad rating for these shops. Rapairs shops who delivers this kind of quality should go do other work. Maybe work in a garden or something

[@ToltecMerc]

Sometimes it's the owner that destroys the console or their "buddy who can fix it cheaper".