I decided to buy another playstation, it was missing a few screws and the disc drive was broken. so I swapped the drive around with the one that has broken audio. I'll keep the broken one as a parts system for now, maybe I'll manage to fix it sometime in the future if it's fixable.

I'll look at the data sheet a little more and try to figure out what other chips are related. I don't think the cables are the issue, it happens with both the multi out and RCA connectors. The cables I've tried do work on other systems. I don't have a modchip, but I do use tonyhax via freepsxboot. H...

I have a PU-8 motherboard. I understand that this model is supposed to have the HM62W256LFP-7T chip on the bottom side, but it doesn't have this chip. I did find a chip labelled KM62V256CL6-7L. Looking up the parts number for the chip lead me to believe this is also an IC303 chip, as it is also 32Kx...

Thanks for the help, then I'll try to find the IC303 chip on the motherboard and reflow the solder. Same goes for the cdrom controller chips. If that doesn't work I'll borrow a playstation from a friend to swap the power supply and see if it makes a difference. I'll post again when I make some progr...

Yes, I mean the music usually used in cutscenes. For example, the intro cutscene in Silent Hill has no music, but most music in Final Fantasy VII works just fine. As for the water damage, there is some rust on the RF shield and some white powder on the bottom of the motherboard. From what I've heard...

Hello everyone. I just created my account so apologies if I do anything incorrectly. I recently bought a Playstation (SCPH-1002), but it appears to have some water damage. At first glance the systems appears to work the way it should, it had some trouble reading discs, but I swapped the drive with t...