SureThread title, lol. Can I use wires harvested from an ethernet cable to solder the chip onto the board? I don't have any wire but this stuff looks like it would work right?
Great thanks! Wish me luck, I'm doing the wired one since I don't trust myself to solder a chip directly to the motherboardSure
Your gonna find it a hassle burning gamesGreat thanks! Wish me luck, I'm doing the wired one since I don't trust myself to solder a chip directly to the motherboard![]()
I'm just planning on loading them onto a SD2SP2Your gonna find it a hassle burning games
Unlike the PS2 you cannot burn out the laser immediately as there is always an additional fixed resistor.Update: I think I may have blown out my laserI foolishly was adjusting the pot on my laser, and think I went too low. Now my cube makes a couple of clicking sounds but won't read any discs, even after turning the pot back up. Do you think the laswer is totally shot?
Unlike the PS2 you cannot burn out the laser immediately as there is always an additional fixed resistor.
Lowering the resistance is not without risks though – and should be done in tiny steps. Clarification: Did you use a multimeter and write down the original value? Blindly adjusting the potentiometer might result in the drive behaving like you described.