RocketSpaceship
Beginner
Is the battery on the CPS3 motherboard supposed to be switched out also? Is it a ticking time bomb like the ones inside of the security carts?
CPS3 battery on motherboard!?
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msamiullah
Professional
you should remove it, it can leak as well, AFAIK it serves no purpose and was removed in the later revisions of the board.
https://junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php/CPS-3_board_models
https://junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php/CPS-3_board_models
kazuo
Champion
+1 to yanking it out, serves no purpose for end users/ops. If you do not have the proper tools for removal, just carefully snip the legs with side cutters or equivalent.
I believe the intended use case was to maintain the SRAM right next to it, which was presumably used for debugging games (patches/hotfixes).
I believe the intended use case was to maintain the SRAM right next to it, which was presumably used for debugging games (patches/hotfixes).
RocketSpaceship
Beginner
Yes, I removed it from the motherboard, and it seems to work just fine without it. Thank you, I’m thinking about doing a volume potentiometer swap and a recap next.
msamiullah
Professional
yes very common for those to go bad.
ShootTheCore
Legendary
Glad you pulled that battery before Something Bad Happened.
ForestOfDreams
Grand Master
Pull that and arguably just leave the white casing off.
My understanding is that was a dev feature so they could flash securely boards on location to test new features.
Then people figured it out and so they left the casing on all boards so people couldn't figure it out.
As far as I know only rev 2 boards have it.
My understanding is that was a dev feature so they could flash securely boards on location to test new features.
Then people figured it out and so they left the casing on all boards so people couldn't figure it out.
As far as I know only rev 2 boards have it.