About half a year ago my PSone died a quick death. In fact it was so quick it gave me no warning. Well, I like to take things apart so I decided to share with you what I found.
The PSone is actually an extremely simple design containing twelve (12), yes twelve, parts all together (six of them being screws).
The first hurdle in getting the PSone apart was unscrewing the screws on the bottom. There are five screws that I could see and one that was hidden. The hidden screw was located under a silver manufacturer warning label. The easiest way I found the screw was to take my screwdriver and feel the label until I felt the recess of the hole where the screwdriver was located. WARNING: DOING THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY.
OK. Now that the screws were out I then went on to removing the top cover. This was easy and came off with no problem. Underneath the cover I saw the CD laser assembly. It was connected to the PSone’s motherboard via two wires and no screws. I removed the flat ribbon cable first and removed the power cable next. When I finished that I removed the whole CD laser assembly and set it aside (well after taking a picture).
What I saw next was a metal piece covering the motherboard. All I had to do was lift it off because it was attached to nothing.
The motherboard was now exposed. The motherboard didn’t come out as easy because of the controller and memory card ports that were attached to it. With a little force I was able to extract the motherboard.
Under the motherboard there was another metal plate that separates the plastic bottom of the PSone and the motherboard. Under the metal plate is the date the PSone was manufactured as well as the name that manufactured the console – FOXCONN.
Here’s some pics for you to check out.
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