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.