ANSWERED Coolrunner stopped glitching

[skrue]

So I hade my JAsper 16MB up and running with RGH.

Now it seems like coolrunner dont even try to glitch anymore.

Coolrunner show one red light, but the green light that used to flash on coolrunner is now completely gone.

This is the second jasper console this has happen to.

Any ide on how to get it working again?

On the RF board it flashes green in the center.

I could take some pictures, but I have hot glued all of the soldering as soon as it was working.

 

[Martin C]

The fact it's happened to two consoles tells me it's your soldering. No idea why hot glue over the points ever sounds like a good idea, as it's not.

Sorry, but that's the long and short of it.

Unless you want someone to come teach you how to solder, the only solution here is to keep practising.

 

[aclark20]

One thing you could try, is flipping the switch the phat/slim switch back and forth once or twice. I've had one with a marginally acceptable switch that did the same thing, i flipped it and it started working again.

 

[GSIBOY]

One of your soldering points came lose, pity you hot glued your points, that's the worst you could have done, try routing wires. Maybe it might work

 

[skrue]

I removed all qsb and did direct wires on top of the board, and now it works again, booth of them.

Acualy, glitch times are faster as well.

Believe I will go without qsb in the future and just use direct wires as it solved it for me

 

[GSIBOY]

Awesome stuff, well done, each to his own. I actually don't like qsb myself. Prefer direct wiring

 

[Martin C]

I removed all qsb and did direct wires on top of the board, and now it works again, booth of them.

Acualy, glitch times are faster as well.

Believe I will go without qsb in the future and just use direct wires as it solved it for me

Well glad you sorted it

 

[skrue]

Ok, so now i glitch, but not all the time.

I glitch just fine 4-5 times in a row, then it wont glitch again before I remove power and video cable and reconnect them.

It also freezes now after a while in FSD or in games.

I think my soldering is ok since it is glitching, but something is definitely wrong somewhere.

 

[mespo365]

Ok, so now i glitch, but not all the time.

I glitch just fine 4-5 times in a row, then it wont glitch again before I remove power and video cable and reconnect them.

It also freezes now after a while in FSD or in games.

I think my soldering is ok since it is glitching, but something is definitely wrong somewhere.

Post pics of your soldering. Thats most likely the problem

 

[Racoon]

Check your fan settings, I have been testing the problems with console fan setting being to low and it looks to me that its a big big problem...
Graphics glitch as the GPU heats up and bad glitch times as the CPU slowly dies.


the other thing you can try is moving the wires, I like the green and yellow thru different holes and miles apart, and the blue around the board, Falcons (1st pop) Jaspers (1/2nd) everyday all the time.
All the best...

 

[skrue]

Ok, here are som pics from soldering and from where the wires are underneath the mobo.

The pics are to large to post here, so please folow my link.

https://picasaweb.google.com/100031396408368409583/RGH

 

[Goldensavage]

The blue wire at the coolrunner end has a melt in it?

Also the coolruner soldering at PCB end looks very blooby, You could have dodgy joints there. It need to be as smooth to the coolruner as possible, Could be the joints have gone dry.

Also, Is the glue still over the smaller soldering points as the look okay to start but you will be very hard pressed to see the joints under the glue now, and removing it will be difficult, One wrong move could have made one of the smaller points come away.

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Especially point A on the coolrunner, looks just like a bloob of solder sitting on a pad.

 

[skrue]

I will test with a different coolrunner to se if that helps.

The pic with glue was take first. Then I removed the glue just to take pics of the soldering.

You are right regarding the blue wire. It seems like I have meltet it. I will try to replace that one aswell.

It actually stopped glitching now, no green light on coolrunner at all.

 

[Martin C]

It actually stopped glitching now, no green light on coolrunner at all.

This is not good news. Check the voltage on CPU_RST when you turn it on. It should be a constant 1.1v

 

[skrue]

I am about to give up now!

So I got it glitching again. The only problem is that I have to re-connect power AND video cable for it to glitch. If I dont it just tries for ever to glitch, but nothing at all happens. If I turn it off and on again it just keeps trying to glitch but nothing happens.

If I re-connect power and video cable it glitches just fine most of the times, but as soon as I turn it off I have to re-connect booth cables to get it glitching again.

Have anyone had this problem before?

 

[paul.86]

Honest dude rewire your green wire I know but when I get glitch probs on a phat system I redo the green wire and solder it to the risistor as well as the little point all goes well then


Try move your blue above the coils a little more as well pal
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[DayvG]

Dude, in your last picture you have no wire going to STDBY_CLK. Plus the resistor isn't there?!?

 

[skrue]

I know, i f**ked up that point but had it fixed.

I have tried to move the blue wire. Will try to move the green one to a different point as well.

 

[skrue]

Still the same problem after using alternative point for the green wire.

It only glitches if I remove and reconnect power and video cable.

Since it glitches just fine as soon as i reconnect video and power, what can be the problem then?

 

[dumaytje]

From what i've seen from your photo's it's probably your soldering.
Do you have a fluke multimeter or something like that? Then you can check connections.

Also the ground connection to your AV-port looks a little troubling......