linkx2k1
May 26, 2002, 06:50 PM
For those of you who are interested about the V4 no-solder mod, I have just installed one and I have some complaints/compements about it.
This chip is harder to install than the diagrams look online... The area that you have to work with between the board and the hard drive bay is very limiting which makes it so your fingers cant squeeze in, forcing you to carefully resort to tweezers. The chip is really freakin small, and that little pink connector is really hard to disconnect and reconnect. The ribbon cable on my V4 ps2 didnt have that nice long blue tab thing that the one at lik-sang had so it was that much more difficult to reach, an I ended up creasing the cable (luckily It still worked). The ribbon cable is fairly thin about .25" wide, and it is a pain to plug in, because of its thinness, it crumpled, and bent very easily. It doesnt give you much leverage as you install it. Also, it was very scary to plug in the chip to the ribbon connector because it requires much more force than it appears. You will really need to force it in.
After the installation though, I was happy that it worked and although people often complain about the 630mb boot limit, I could really care less, there are no mod patches for most games. Also, it is really weird how the reset light can turn from red to a yellow. I also must comment that the disk drive seems to fly out much faster than than usual. But it really does make life easier to swap and boot games, the whole point of this chip.
Oh and one more thing, I dont think I will ever be willing to reopen my ps2, so I have to hope the chip is durable for I dont think the chip can be easily uninstalled.
This chip is harder to install than the diagrams look online... The area that you have to work with between the board and the hard drive bay is very limiting which makes it so your fingers cant squeeze in, forcing you to carefully resort to tweezers. The chip is really freakin small, and that little pink connector is really hard to disconnect and reconnect. The ribbon cable on my V4 ps2 didnt have that nice long blue tab thing that the one at lik-sang had so it was that much more difficult to reach, an I ended up creasing the cable (luckily It still worked). The ribbon cable is fairly thin about .25" wide, and it is a pain to plug in, because of its thinness, it crumpled, and bent very easily. It doesnt give you much leverage as you install it. Also, it was very scary to plug in the chip to the ribbon connector because it requires much more force than it appears. You will really need to force it in.
After the installation though, I was happy that it worked and although people often complain about the 630mb boot limit, I could really care less, there are no mod patches for most games. Also, it is really weird how the reset light can turn from red to a yellow. I also must comment that the disk drive seems to fly out much faster than than usual. But it really does make life easier to swap and boot games, the whole point of this chip.
Oh and one more thing, I dont think I will ever be willing to reopen my ps2, so I have to hope the chip is durable for I dont think the chip can be easily uninstalled.