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Development:
Guide by:
rama
seewood
8. Place the QSB on the mainboard as shown, the yellow markings help with
the alignment.
Page 1: ...LATE PU 8...
Page 2: ...an be found in most SCPH 100x most SCPH 3000 3500 Why the mainboard called LATE and is there an EARLY Literally yes The PU 8 came in two major flavors EARLY and LATE You can check which mainboard you...
Page 3: ...velopment Guide by rama seewood 2 The GPU and especially the VRAM area on the top side of the mainboard is different see picture below 3 The Mechacon controller chip has different sizes see picture be...
Page 4: ...on 1 completely to get to the mainboard PLEASE REMOVE ALL CABLES FROM THE POWER SUPPLY MAKE SURE THAT THE POWER CORD IS DISCONNECTED 2 Search for IC309 IC309 is labeled CXD2510Q You will find it in th...
Page 5: ...4 63 66 and 69 Please make sure that only the shown pins are lifted 4 Please be careful not to damage the mainboard when lifting pins Use a needle or x acto knife and a fine soldering tip to simply to...
Page 6: ...ompletely They should not have contact with the motherboard nor with each other 6 Now we ll get to the purple area on the mainboard top side In this area you can see the 67mhz oscillator You need to d...
Page 7: ...a seewood We are now finished with the top side of the mainboard turn it bottom side up Here 3 resistors have to be desoldered and then the Quick Solder Board QSB installed 7 First we need to desolder...
Page 8: ...7 Development Guide by rama seewood 8 Place the QSB on the mainboard as shown the yellow markings help with the alignment...
Page 9: ...opment Guide by rama seewood 9 Connect the IO16 pad from the QSB to the marked location Please ensure that the cable does not run over the metal areas where the shield could crush it It should look li...
Page 10: ...to be prepared Clip off the small plastic pin marked below in red This is necessary to prevent the flex cable from pinching and taking damage during installation 11 Connect the flex cable to the cable...
Page 11: ...re the PCB and push all 3 spacers into the xStation board If you look at it from above they can be found in the lower middle right next to the ESP32 the upper right corner the upper left corner The sp...
Page 12: ...connect it to the cable holder on the xStation When it is done you have to fold the flexcable a bit Folding it like this is best 16 Mount the xStation on the posts of the original Disc Drive It should...
Page 13: ...er exFAT or FAT32 18 Create a folder on your microSD card named 00xstation without quotation marks then download the latest update files and copy the files update bin and loader bin to the 00xstation...
