Hello everyone, I need some help with my CPS3 that always had some problems with the cartridge slot since I bought it about a year ago.
I got this board from a guy from another city so I couldn't test it too much before I pay.
The thing is that this board started having some trouble since day 1, I just installed it on my cabinet and after a while playing the screen just went black, It was kinda weird but then I moved the cart and worked just fine, but then this kind of things became too frequent until a couple days ago when after I tried to reinsert the cart to turn on the board (sometimes the board didn't boot up so I have to move the cart and so), the board didn't boot up well anymore, I started having graphic issues so I decide to re-install the game, this was impossible because I was getting error 23 or others too everytime I tried to install the game. Later this week, I travel to a friend's house that has a cps3 and we did some testings, we tried his cartridge to check if it was my cart the problem (mine was kinda loose) but the same thing with his, so I ask him to reinstall the game on my simms to have it installed and keep trying back in my home. So now I got the board with the game but I can't start the game because the cartridge causes some issues, sometimes I reach the region selector but when I choose any the board just goes black, and then when I boot up again it shows me a cd drive error, and if I move the cartridge again before boot up again that error dissapears and I'm able to choose region again.
My theory is that the cart slot is making a bad contact or something and that's why sometimes it doesn't recognize cd drive or give other errors. I assume that the cart work as a bridge on some connections so if a pin lose contact it will to cause a random error with any part of the board.
So please I need some help to repair this, I'm thinking about replace the 120pin socket by myself (I live in a small city out of the states so I don't have anyone to ask for help with this) but I don't know if it's too risky or maybe is something else.
I'll attach some videos of me doing some testings moving the cartridge and powering on the board.
Thank you!!
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I got this board from a guy from another city so I couldn't test it too much before I pay.
The thing is that this board started having some trouble since day 1, I just installed it on my cabinet and after a while playing the screen just went black, It was kinda weird but then I moved the cart and worked just fine, but then this kind of things became too frequent until a couple days ago when after I tried to reinsert the cart to turn on the board (sometimes the board didn't boot up so I have to move the cart and so), the board didn't boot up well anymore, I started having graphic issues so I decide to re-install the game, this was impossible because I was getting error 23 or others too everytime I tried to install the game. Later this week, I travel to a friend's house that has a cps3 and we did some testings, we tried his cartridge to check if it was my cart the problem (mine was kinda loose) but the same thing with his, so I ask him to reinstall the game on my simms to have it installed and keep trying back in my home. So now I got the board with the game but I can't start the game because the cartridge causes some issues, sometimes I reach the region selector but when I choose any the board just goes black, and then when I boot up again it shows me a cd drive error, and if I move the cartridge again before boot up again that error dissapears and I'm able to choose region again.
My theory is that the cart slot is making a bad contact or something and that's why sometimes it doesn't recognize cd drive or give other errors. I assume that the cart work as a bridge on some connections so if a pin lose contact it will to cause a random error with any part of the board.
So please I need some help to repair this, I'm thinking about replace the 120pin socket by myself (I live in a small city out of the states so I don't have anyone to ask for help with this) but I don't know if it's too risky or maybe is something else.
I'll attach some videos of me doing some testings moving the cartridge and powering on the board.
Thank you!!