Question Correct me if i am wrong, but are these solder pads on this board?

[reaper89971]

https://imgur.com/4KZ7CA5

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This is a fat playstation 2 board, Wondering if i could potentially solder in 2 more ram chips there.

Forgive me for asking about a non computer related motherboard, But if i could get 64mb of ram on this thing, then upgrade the video output using a kit out there now then i could potentially install a windows base os on it. I would love to get xp on there.

 

[USAFRet]

The existence of those pads does not automagically mean RAM would work there.

Win XP in 64mb RAM would be painful. It might 'run', but thats about it

What CPU is on that board?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Those are not RAM solder pads, there are nowhere near enough of them for RAM nor are they arranged properly. They look more like either test points or through board connections to the other side. And good luck trying to add anything not already added by the factory to a proprietary system such as a Playstation.

 

[reaper89971]

Those are not RAM solder pads, there are nowhere near enough of them for RAM nor are they arranged properly. They look more like either test points or through board connections to the other side. And good luck trying to add anything not already added by the factory to a proprietary system such as a Playstation.

Thanks for your reply
Agreed, they look odd to me those solder points, and i most likely would not succeed at adding anything to a playstation

They are beneath the ram chips on the other side and it just had me wondering if i could simply solder another chip taken from another board to the bottom and essentially have 2 chips running together in parallel or something like that.

Also i would find it hard to believe that after all these years something so simple has not been done already by someone in the world

Are you sure it couldn't be a custom ram BGA package from the year 2000? or are there simply not enough solder points for any ram to work from that time period?