
I'm mainly looking to trim off that little piece with the usb port, regulator, and power/reset switch.
I normally don't ask questions here anymore, but there aren't any people experienced with PS2s on modretro.

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good work Zeturi. make sure to test EVERY little thing you do. Oh and if you are serious about this slimming, I'd go and order 2 more motherboards right now. Nothings more discouraging than busting a motherboard and not being able to test a new hypothesis on a spare. Good luckZeturi wrote:Okay, I also did some tracing, and I now know where the power/reset tact connected. I used some wire to short the spot to ground, and it turns the system on, will reset the system, and totally shut it off when it's held for a few seconds.
I'm still working on where the lid switch leads to. Once I have that part figured out (should be done tonight, for sure) then I'll be able to chop off that tiny lil section of motherboard.
Yeah, I know what you mean by having a spare motherboard. I did figure out how to turn the system on/off with a couple of pins, and I did it five or six times and it all worked great. But when I was fiddling around with the disk switch stuff, my system shut off. I haven't been able to power it on since, and the red LED doesn't turn on like it normally did when I had the power plugged in. I'm going to give it a couple of days to sleep, if it doesn't turn on then, then I'll have to label it as fried.Tchay wrote:good work Zeturi. make sure to test EVERY little thing you do. Oh and if you are serious about this slimming, I'd go and order 2 more motherboards right now. Nothings more discouraging than busting a motherboard and not being able to test a new hypothesis on a spare. Good luckZeturi wrote:Okay, I also did some tracing, and I now know where the power/reset tact connected. I used some wire to short the spot to ground, and it turns the system on, will reset the system, and totally shut it off when it's held for a few seconds.
I'm still working on where the lid switch leads to. Once I have that part figured out (should be done tonight, for sure) then I'll be able to chop off that tiny lil section of motherboard.