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Quote: SCPH50002 board damage
Hi all, just a slight problem on 50002 V9 and messiah 2
this chip seems to drive the CD optical focus and tracking mechanism to the limit until the LA6508 will just cook and give up.
Original blank media seems to be the main reason why this chip is dying. There is no in-built fails-safe on this chip eg. no boot reject disk (red screen).
Also this LA6508 is very heat sensitive, the old PS2 used a different chip and was more robust, but on V9's the fan runs at a lower RPM the chipset is more sensitive to overheating.
Sony remove the front dust grill from the V9 (and also the rear fan dust grill as in V3)
to improve air flow.
Increasing the fan speed may solve all the problems with M2.
Cheers Ram
Last edited by RamRod on 27-12-2003 at 01:19 PM