I haven't thrown it away. I still have the Playstation 4, if you remember the last time we looked at How not to repair a Playstation 4 - The Risks of Second Hand Electronics , my intention was to look again at the vias and pathways on the board and see if I could resolder the connections from the HDMI port to where they were supposed to go.
However, unlike many of you who are very capable at soldering (according to What (metric) size have you managed to hand-solder ? ) I am... not, well to give myself some leniency I didn't have a very good magnifier, which I'm starting to believe is definitely a necessary piece of equipment for working with soldering fine electronics. I need spectacles to see, and sometimes that can be disorientating.
I'm about to take it apart again, there's some quiet commentary:
The best part of checking it over on this occasion, is using this useful USB microscope I acquired - though I think I need some better dexterity over the zoom and a frame to hold it - there're some designs on thingiverse that I should probably 3D print!
It looks like I need to re-solder a chip on the board, it probably slid when I put it in place the first time, well I'll wait for the Hackspace to re-open so that I have access to a re-flow station!
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