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== Thermal Config Formats == | == Thermal Config Formats == | ||
The [[Syscon Firmware]] is designed to read the data from inside the thermal config region in a specific format, if the format is incorrect the [[Syscon Hardware|syscon]] cant read it. The thermal config format was updated 2 times along the whole lifetime of retail PS3 models, so there is a total of 3 thermal config formats used in retail PS3 models (and one more used for non-retail PS3 models, like the reference tool [[DECR-1000]])<br> | The [[Syscon Firmware]] is designed to read the data from inside the thermal config region in a specific format, if the format is incorrect the [[Syscon Hardware|syscon]] cant read it. The thermal config format was updated 2 times along the whole lifetime of retail PS3 models, so there is a total of 3 thermal config formats used in retail PS3 models (and one more used for non-retail PS3 models, like the reference tool [[DECR-1000]])<br> | ||
Every unique [[Syscon Hardware|syscon model]] contains an unique [[Syscon Firmware|syscon firmware]] version associated with it, but the syscon firmware keeps backward compatibility with previous motherboad models, for this reason we really need to know the exact syscon model (instead of the motherboard name or PS3 model name that could be misleading). As example, sony repair centers was repairing [[COK-001]] motherboards by using [[CXR714120-303GB]] syscon to replace the factory | Every unique [[Syscon Hardware|syscon model]] contains an unique [[Syscon Firmware|syscon firmware]] version associated with it, but the syscon firmware keeps backward compatibility with previous motherboad models, for this reason we really need to know the exact syscon model (instead of the motherboard name or PS3 model name that could be misleading). As example, sony repair centers was repairing [[COK-001]] motherboards by using [[CXR714120-303GB]] syscon to replace the factory 95nm [[RSX]] by a 65nm [[RSX]], or [[CXR714120-304GB]] syscon to replace the factory 95nm [[RSX]] by a 40nm [[RSX]]. In this kind of refurbished consoles the thermal config format is updated from v1 to v2 because the new syscon firmware requires it. In other words, the syscon from factory was using thermal config format v1 but the new syscon uses thermal config format v2 | ||
*'''Thermal config format v1''': Old [[Mullion]] syscons with '''32KB used EEPROM''': [[CXR713120-201GB]], [[CXR713120-202GB]] | *'''Thermal config format v1''': Old [[Mullion]] syscons with '''32KB used EEPROM''': [[CXR713120-201GB]], [[CXR713120-202GB]] | ||