RGH Trinity Power Issue

[AteOeight]

I RGH'd Trinity using JRunner, nand read four times... all good. Glitched fine for Xell and RGH, set it aside for a month, and came back to it. Now the consoles works for awhile then starts to have power issues. After awhile of playing it starts degrading with shutting off, then no power. My external HDD starts to go on/off. Chimes on power and eject buttons, but doesn't turn on. When sitting with power cord in, it randomly goes on quick with fans at %100 then shuts off. Also, it randomly ejects tray and closes tray. I noticed the CoolRunner power LED is dim...

 

[xColorado880]

I sometimes get the dim led when the ground wire is bad.

 

[AteOeight]

I sometimes get the dim led when the ground wire is bad.

So I should use another wire for the ground?

 

[BL4K3Y]

Use the supplied wire (black) for the GND connection.

You may also wish to re-solder the 3.3v wire (on the CoolRunner and the point on the motherboard) to ensure a good connection.

 

[AteOeight]

I have used the supplied GND wire, but lemme get back yous about the resoldering.

 

[socalbill]

probably one or more cold joints due to oxidation in solder

 

[AteOeight]

probably one or more cold joints due to oxidation in solder

Sorry, I haven't been soldering long. How does oxidation occur in solder, is that when not enough flux is used? What's cold joint?

 

[sarah1331]

Sorry, I haven't been soldering long. How does oxidation occur in solder, is that when not enough flux is used? What's cold joint?

Ignore him oxidation only happens to untinned copper

I would reheat all your joints tho and test with multimeter


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[AteOeight]

I'll give all the advise a shot, will be back to thank...

 

[AteOeight]

So all points test good with multi meter. Wrote original nand with success and no bad blocks, console boots fine and shuts off automatically intermittently. Then console E71, E79, and RDODs ramdomly. Then boots fine on another try... I'm soon throwing in the towel on this console.