Top of the morning y'all. I was wondering: I have an acquaintance with two PSP mainboards, one is bricked and on the other one some of the electric tracks got scratched in a horribly failed attempt, rendering the thing rather useless. Excluding the obvious and trite way of salvaging one by using a modchip, since it's a self-inflicted torture to install, would it be feasible to remove the flash chip itself from the one with the working firmware and soldering it back on the other mainboard? I was wondering that so I could also see if I could salvage my own old mainboard that way, and maybe open up a new, amusing way to recycle broken mobos :P Thoughts?

i m not sure but ibelieve the nad is built into the mother board u just can't remove the nand alone but u can change the mother board

u_c_taker Wrote:i m not sure but ibelieve the nad is built into the mother board u just can't remove the nand alone but u can change the mother board

It's just soldered, not pressed into the PCB. I saw that o0km did, but then those people are gods :P what I'm asking if it's possible for an average joe with a soldering iron to actually pull it off.

Go try it then.

okay, I'll have my friend give it a stab :) I'll post reports when i get results.

Cool I'll be wating.

me 2..this seems interesting

BeastOfSoda Wrote:Top of the morning y'all. I was wondering: I have an acquaintance with two PSP mainboards, one is bricked and on the other one some of the electric tracks got scratched in a horribly failed attempt, rendering the thing rather useless. Excluding the obvious and trite way of salvaging one by using a modchip, since it's a self-inflicted torture to install, would it be feasible to remove the flash chip itself from the one with the working firmware and soldering it back on the other mainboard? I was wondering that so I could also see if I could salvage my own old mainboard that way, and maybe open up a new, amusing way to recycle broken mobos :P Thoughts?

yes make sure they are both TA-079/81 boards as the nand chips are 3.3v or make sure that they are TA-082/86 as there nand chips are 1.8v. get yourself a hot air gun and the chip will come off, after it comes off fix the BGA tracks on the nand chip and put it on the other board.

how do you resolder the nand to the motherboard? (the pins are not pins so there hidden) do the contacts go right through the board to the other side or something?

I guessing they do, not sure.