Topic: PS2 vs XBOX installation of MOD CHIP (Read 106 times)

powerben5000 · « **on:** July 27, 2002, 10:16:00 PM »

Yeah...my understanding is that many of those points aren't pre-tinned like the xbox's mobo, either, so you could rip those traces out easily...the xbox mods have a greater margin of error than ps2 messiahs, which is strange to me, considering the xbox's sophisticated hardware, you would think it be the other way around...

--BenMan

joeflux · « **Reply #1 on:** August 21, 2002, 05:11:00 PM »

swap out chips are the easiest I found. So weeks later I installed the Neo 2.6 chip, that one is very easy to install. Only 6 points and very easy to find solder points, away from other points. With the no swap chips I would have to solder onto chips and those points were way to close for my experience.

andreo · « **Reply #2 on:** August 24, 2002, 04:47:00 PM »

I thought it was kinda fun, but I'm pretty good at soldering. There's supposed to be a clip that attaches to the bios chip. This is supposed to get rid of the hardest points to solder IE: the bios connections. and leave something like 11 connnections or something like that. I bought one of these just to cut down on the install time. However it didn't work very well with my version 5 and I ended up having to take all the wires off and resolder just the chip.
But to break it down a little better these are my install times for different systems:

PS1 (4 wire mod) = 10 minutes from the moment I touched the first screw to when I put the last screw in.

XBox (bare enigma) = 2 hours this included soldering the wires to the legs on the chip

PS2 (Magic 2 w/clip) = 1 hour I did this while talking to my buddy on the phone at the same time

PS2 (Magic 2 w/o clip) = 2 hours. lots of checking and double checking that I was connecting to the right points.

There are some points that I just wouldn't want to do again and there were a couple of scary moments during the PS2 regular install. I will avoid installing a chip in the PS2 in the future and if a friend wanted me to do it I would make it very clear to him or her that they may have a 200 paperweight when I'm done.

Unregistered007 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2002, 05:27:00 PM »

PS2's mothboard is very small so its hard to solder thats all.

whackawookie · « **Reply #4 on:** July 09, 2002, 01:15:00 PM »

i attempted doing the original neo 2 chip and failed. that was only 6 wires if i remember correctly. first attempt though on enigmah, got it booting. takes much patience and a very good source of light on the board but if you can solder, it can be done.

recombinator · « **Reply #5 on:** July 11, 2002, 04:23:00 AM »

XanTium · « **Reply #6 on:** July 11, 2002, 08:26:00 PM »

enigmah install is alot easier then messiah install on ps2.

The Legendary Rob · « **Reply #7 on:** July 15, 2002, 02:36:00 AM »

from what i remember u have to do some desoldering of pads and cut some tracks for messiah... very much an expert soldering job

malone · « **Reply #8 on:** July 15, 2002, 03:33:00 PM »

messiah doesn't need any slashing of tracing or component removal - the neo4.x does. The messiah install is many times more difficult than an enigmah. Some pic's of my install can be seen on the ps2ownz forums at http://www.modchipforums.com/
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