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The rumors are true. (always have to find out the hard way) PS2 mod chips are a motha to install. The install is like 20 wires. 15 of those are not so bad. It is the 5 on the side of the one chip you try and solder on the side legs. I spent about 3 hours soldering the 5 wires. I actually had the connections done on the legs, but I broke them off bending the wires.
After awhile I ended up bridging a couple of those legs together. Mu PS2 motherboard now has the 3 legs bent and bridged together at the base.
I still think I can salvage the motherboard and possibly get this all hooked up correctly.
I need to go to radioshack and get something to desolder the bridge. It is a bummer though spending like 5 hours on something that turns into more work that may not even work out!
If you are thinking about a ps2 hard mod. You best be pro and have some de-soldering equipment handy. It is a challenge.

If I do end up scrapping the motherboard I will have 2x modbo 4.0 chips for sale.



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The black chip above the mod chip is where the brain surgery takes place. =p
you can see i have 1 wire connected onto a leg. It is a mofo in the spot were you have to solder 3 wires in a row. It is so easy to loosen 1 wire when solding the neighbor wire.
I had them staggered from top to bottom at first. (worked ok) The bridging occured when I tried to solder all 3 on the bottom of the legs.

Why not just use HD loader?

Swap disc cheaper and easier. 5 minutes on a new slim soldering the door switch

If anyone is interested in the chip pm me. 20.00 shipped with usps tracking info. (paypal)
I purchased 2 of these. selling 1 for sure, maybe both.

selling both chips should cover your new swap disks

http://www.modchip.ca/store/product.php ... 269&page=1

Thanks for sharing the results of your project even though it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to. I'm planning to do the chip sometime this winter.

Fuctfuct (if you're reading this), do you have any advice for this chip? Have you done one?

This is insanely hard! I also tried a couple of months ago with no luck. Id like to soft mod with action replay but cant seemed to find any local. Ill have to check ebay. Good Luck!

No joke about the spelling of "but" ... butt??

No sympathy. After doing what I've been doing, the PS2 modchip now looks easy to me. Hell, maybe I'll pick one up.

Ziggy587 wrote:No sympathy. After doing what I've been doing, the PS2 modchip now looks easy to me. Hell, maybe I'll pick one up.

So what have you been doing that is difficult?