RGH Falcon RGH worked at first now doesn't boot

[solidsnake666]

over the past week I isntalled a coolrunner on 2 systems. A zephyr and now a falcon. The zephyr is up and running, but I'm having issues with my friends falcon.

We Installed the coolrunner and nandx using QSB's and I tested all points with a multimeter before flashing. Everything seemed to go well. I read the nand 4 times and all matched.

After flashing with freeboot the console was booting. My buddy decided to pack it up put the console back together and went home.

When he got home he started having issues. He said it started randomly ejecting and turning on. It RRODed on him once. then it started flashing just a green light. He brought it back to me today and it's not booting at all. When plugged in you see the red LED on the coolrunner but it never flashed green to glitch. no power other than this shows when you hit any power button.

The system appears dead. I can still push timing files to the coolrunner but I can no longer read or write to the nand.

Here are some pics of the job:



NOTE: I did not give a closeup of the solder points on the back because they are currently covered with glue. This was done on both consoles once we tested and verified the points were working to prevent them from accidentally being pulled off.

 

[GSIBOY]

First of all your green wires are running through the coils. You wana run those away from the blue wires and also the coils, the worst thing you could have done was too put glue right on the solder points. You gona rip and pull a pad when trying to remove it, which you need to do now. Check your green wires soldering maybe a bridge or pull resistor

 

[solidsnake666]

First of all your green wires are running through the coils. You wana run those away from the blue wires and also the coils, the worst thing you could have done was too put glue right on the solder points. You gona rip and pull a pad when trying to remove it, which you need to do now. Check your green wires soldering maybe a bridge or pull resistor

Would this cause it to not power on though? It's completely dead. The only power I see at all is the red LED on the coolrunner. The points were all working and no bridges. the console was booting into XELL and the dashboard before he went home. I don't know what would have caused this just from the time he left and got home. It was booting every time before he left.

 

[valius21]

It could be where the J2B1 v2 QSB is soldered next to the Hanna chip, if the trace is lifted there then it wont boot, use your multi meter to check it out...

 

[paul.86]

Melt your glue on your green and try again trust I had a jasper and it worked and didn't the next day I checked everything honest everything with scopes it would boot xell sometimes (rare) I did a compleate rewire of the cr and you know what it works like a charm

I run my blue and green round the bottom of the x clamp and the yellow thrugh it and I never get a prob all my phats I MEAN ALL BOOT INSTANTLEY cap on jasper 2-5seconds

 

[mechgamer123]

The hana point is the only one that prevents the console from turning on.

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[paul.86]

The hana point is the only one that prevents the console from turning on.

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Rubbish no its not short around the green one splash of solder anything can stop it

 

[litnin]

Check your STBY_CLK. Desolder it and try to boot. You don't have to get it to completely boot (it won't anyway) you just want to see if theres life. If the green light comes on then resolder the STBY_CLK and make sure its a good connection.
I've had this with a few consoles and there seems to be more and more threads about Dead consoles. Mine seemed to be a dry solder joint so i changed my flux and it has worked a treat.

 

[solidsnake666]

Took me a bit to get back on this. I desoldered STBY_CLK and get flashing now but no boot. I've tried resoldering the point and now I always get flashing green light on the front but no green glitch led on the coolrunner now.