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While cleaning out one of my ps3’s the ribbon cable that attaches to the power eject control board pulled the connector that attaches to the motherboard from the soldered pins. I know it’s a10 pin flat ribbon connector, but I can’t find one to replace it. I’m not looking forward to having to remove the few remaining pins that are still attached to the board and soldering new ones and installing the connector. As far as I can tell that is my only option to get my ps3 back up and running. If anyone knows where I can find the connector and pins Orr an alternate way to make the connection I would be greatly appreciative.
Hey mate, I have no idea how it was able to rip the connector from the motherboard. But to my understanding, they are called ZIF connectors (zero-insertion-force). As for where to get them, I could only find them on Aliexpress, but in bulk. That said, they would be very hard to solder on, basically SMD soldering. You could possibly get a connector off another circuit board, if you were lucky, but i don’t know if they like being de soldered. The other option, would be buying a new motherboard. Sorry that its not the most positive of answers, but i hope it was of some help.
