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rabeatz
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 16:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
im lookin at the installation instructions rit now... and.. my board is WAYYY different than the one they show in the installation..

i took some picturs of my PS2 board with my phone...

top view

bottom view

where i put the chip

board shown in installation instructions..
http://www.raddigitaldesign.com/MP188_V4E-150.jpg

its what you see on the "Final View"
*EDIT* had the wrong link it there.. i uploadd the wrong image to my server... fixed now
i dont know where to solder or nothing.... cuz miness totally different.. im soo damn confused... and why is my board so different?
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Vader01
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 18:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am no expert but I do know that version 4's have either a gap or nogap bios go here to make sure what version you have firsthttp://www.mod-chip.com/en/ps2version.htm
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Vader01
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 18:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Looks like you have the wrong install instructions for your chip that chip don't sat ma-303
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rabeatz
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 18:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yeah i kno that.. but i mean. my board is totally different.. theirs is a big rectangle with this hole in the center, mine is... a square..

yeah i was just usin that pic as an example that had a picture of the v-4 board.. the ma 303 instructions just have closeups of where to solder... http://www.raddigitaldesign.com/ud.bmp
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rabeatz
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 18:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
my board is like half the size of all the instructions i find...
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Vader01
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 18:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I see what you mean I have never seen a ps2 mother board that looks like yours
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Vader01
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 18:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Is it the new slim line ps2? I just looked at a picture of a version 12 mother board and it looks alot like yours
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rabeatz
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 18:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
lol... no its a V4... as in the topic title.. but old as hell.. SCPH - 30001


the chips on the inside all say 2000 on it
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Vader01
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 18:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sorry I was not any help I have a version 4 also but it looks nothing like yours here is the picture of the version 12 with a DMS4 http://mod-chip.com/Installation_View/DMS4/v12_GH035_bottom.jpg
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rabeatz
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_ 		26. July 2005 @ 19:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
is it possible it's like some... foreign model or sumthin??
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Vader01
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_ 		27. July 2005 @ 05:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
can you post a picture of the case
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rabeatz
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_ 		27. July 2005 @ 11:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
uhh.. it looks like a regular ps2... it says SCPH 30001 on the serial part..
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rabeatz
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_ 		28. July 2005 @ 03:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
OKKKKKKKKKkkk

welll the person who helped me identify my PS2 was.. WRONG.. lol.. its a V3.. when i look at the V3 instructions it all starts making sense!! ok well thanks for the help anyways
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