Xbox 360 Slim (Trinity) RGH2 CR4 XL install

Glitch times are awesome and super stable with this chip, it boots on the first pulse 9/10 no major tweaking just #3 set to ON in dip switch :)

Many console repairs this week!

Some more BGA soldering for the gallery :)

PS3 Slim Damaged usb ports..

I guess they forced the connector in backwards?  remember usb only fit one way! :D

No place like 127.0.0.1

So true! heh.

Xecuter R-jtag

Multiple consoles lined up for R-jtagin weekend.  fun fun :D

360 Jasper board broken trace repair.

 I didn't have any smaller guage wire so its a bit more sloppy than I like, but But it works and that's what matters hehe :D

Reflow profile.

This is the profile i use for the older xbox 360 xenon board (non hdmi) model.

there are 3 heating stages, this is important as it prevents thermal shock and delaminating "pop corn" to the board and the SMD package being reworked.

Preheating stage.

Soaking stage.

Reflow peak stage.

Xenon board.

iPod 3rd generation closeup of headphone jack repair.

the headphone jack is soldered to the logicboard with a flex ribbon circuit. a bit more advanced than your average soldering repair, so be careful if you attempt to DIY.

Customer's iPad in bad shape.. but repairable i've seen worse :D

Prepping a PS3 phat model motherboard for repair.

xbox 360 slim motherboard right after re soldering the XCGPU (cpu/graphics) chip.

Nintendo 3DS charging port repair

Customer's iMac was having intermittent boot issues, the hard drive was failing and needed to be replaced.

 super dusty! gonna have to bring out and air blast it. :-)

360 nand dump.

dumping the nand flash on a pre-nxe xbox 360 console using the xecuter "nand x" spi/usb flasher.

my new tech bench, and some new gear :)

the machine on the bench is a Jovy-Systems RE-8500 BGA/SMD rework station