Finally am around to fixing my PS2 TOOL. I took it apart the other day. I mounted the hard drive to another disk I had linux on and backed it up. Then I had to do some searchin to find a CPU card so I could replace it. The big key in finding one is using the words passive back plane with cpu card. with that I have found a few options. I know the original cpu was a 233 but I am looking into how fast I can go.
Since it is not working as a tool right now it really can not make it worse. I really do not think it should effect it since the tool runs a passive backplane and on this type of system the card is an accesory just like a network card or a video card would be. In worst case I already copied the entire hard drive so I could re-install and reload software. shoudl be interesting
hmm is the firmware stored on the hdd or on another chip/rom flash what ever memory ? cause then it could still be broken even after you copied the backup back
If firmware is on the cpu board I am in big trouble. Although I would think it is on the other board that runs off the backplane. That is the board video is diplayed out of when you run in debug mode. Although, The tool runs a PCI-586HVE cpu card. I have seen the PCI-586HV but not the HVE.
i know nearly nothing about the tool the firmware was just a guess maybe someone other can tell you more about that btw. while you have the tool open could you take some nice photos of it in high res would be very nice
Some pics here: http://www.interq.or.jp/red/freedom/g_page02.htm This thread hasn't been updated in one year!
