Lpc Problem Options

[vincent111]

Here's the story.....

I was messing around with a modchip an hour ago and i accidentaly striped the screw hole where my solderless went in.

I panaked(cant spell it ) and i wiped out the old Hot Glue gun and glued the solderless back down onto the board.I pluged the X2.6 chip back in and started up the console.

With the chip on i Received a Green/Red flashing light after 3 startups

With the chip off i Got 3 start ups and a Orange/Red flashing light

I know that this error has to do with lifted trace on the LPC bus, However upon inspection of the board i see no lifted nor damaged trace anywhere.

So im puzzled, can anyone help me with this?

[vincent111]

cmon am i on my own here?

someone has to have something about this?

[Bomb Bloke]

I know that this error has to do with lifted trace on the LPC bus, However upon inspection of the board i see no lifted nor damaged trace anywhere.

When you say this, are you referring to the lights you get when you use the chip? Or the lights you get without?

Booting thrice then FRAO'ing can mean quite a few different things, but most of them have to do with actual motherboard damage (and not just to a certain area, either - It can mean damaged RAM, etc, etc, etc). Does your modchip actually connect to the LPC bus? If not, double check the area where it does go.

[vincent111]

The lights i get with teh chip are simple green/red lights, the lights i get without the chip are Orange/red which is actualy alot more helpful.

and not just to a certain area, either - It can mean damaged RAM, etc, etc, etc

thats what im afraid of

this board has had 3 more ram chips installed and that was one of the first things i inspected.

I went to push down on the pins of the ram chips to see if they were making contact all the way and im most likely sure that i bridged one for 2 of them along the way.

And i am most definately sure that the solderless is making connection to the LPC

also is it possible that when i hot glued the solderless down it melted a part or left a trace? im not sure because im not sure if the glue gets hot enough to do that.

[Bomb Bloke]

No glue gun I've ever seen could melt solder, let alone the components themselves. Though if you move the glue once it sets it's bound to bring along anything attached to it.

Three more RAM chips? What, you mean like a 48mb upgrade? Had no idea you could do such a thing, thought you needed a full extra set of four.

When I finally got my RAM upgrade working everything was fine and dandy for a few days then suddenly it went back into the rebooting routine. Double checked the chips over and over, finally had to remove them to go back to normal operation. I've tried attaching again a couple of times since with no luck (if you discount the fact that the box still works after each try ). Getting rather hard now that the original solder on the pads is long since gone.

Why not take a look the thingy the solderless connects to, and see where that trace leads? Then you can bypass the whole thing with a wire. If it's accesible enough you can even just hold it in place while you see if the console boots up, and if it does then there's your problem.

[vincent111]

Well i just removed 1 of the ram chips that i "thought" was giving me the problem since there were bridges on the pins, still not working

I have just now discovered that My X2.6 Chip is fried(must have been that ploom of smoke i saw) which would explain the 3 restarts and the red and green lights.

so what im hoping is that it did not fry my TSOP chip along with it

so i guess now i need a new modchip...o boy....