i know my revelprog the will verify contents match uploaded or saved vs actual eeprom data. So I'm sure it's all up to the person or program that is being utilized. At the same time using an oscilloscope and verifying clock and data transfer from Southbridge to the chip will verify whether or not things are working as intended IC wise....

I'm your friendly neighborhood spiderman, been lurking a long time since getting into motherboard repair back in 2016. Completely forgot to introduce myself. Just stepped into console repair having been blessed with a troublesome ps5. Greatly appreciate all the information posted here! Keep up the good work gents

Why was my post deleted then? I was never in contact with BWE ever? check my messages I haven't received a single one ever on this platform, well mostly because I forgot to introduce myself like 8 years ago😂. Nor has he ever told me to endorse his product? It was a legitment fix to a problem. I mostly lurk here as you can see my account age vs posts as most have been answered when finding problems using this forum, this particular question hasn't been and he had a legitment solution, to which I ended up finding myself as his comments were always deleted before anything. The practices here...

How would you go about repairing your existing nor read? I'm just trying to fix my own console. Shelling out 100+ dollars for your utility to use it once isn't exactly in the cards....