Ps3 YLoD Attempted fix's. Any more ideas?

are you using a heat gun or a hair dryer?

can a hair dryer work?

the xbox 360 needs the gpu removed and reballed I wonder if its the same issue with the YLOD?

 

the first time i used a 1800w hair dryer thinking my heat gun would be too hot, but since i got the ylod in the middle of midnight club i decided i would just heat the gpu with my heat gun(iwa thinking maybe the hair dryer didn't get it hot enough). Also when i said 200 might be too hot that's where the gpu popped off for me so i had to reball it, and so far so good, Its been going for a week.

 

coxwain the ps3 with no a/v, plug every thing in then hold down the power button in stand by mode until u here 2 beeps the let go and reboot

 

Do you have to supply Sony with proof of purchase when getting the $150 trade in special for a broken console? Or are they ok with it as long as they receive a unit and where to ship the refurbed one?

 

I tried the hold down thing for no av and it didn't work

Nothing wrong with sending your unit to Sony it sounds like you have something bigger than just a be drive

So you used a heat gun not a hair dryer some guys told me u should have an infrared stand to change CPUs

 

It would be the best to use an infrared stand if you have one, but i didn't so i just tried it without and it is still working.

 

hey what happened to your ps3? is it still working I have 20 gig version. I just got YLOP I hope you can help me

 

Hey guys I have been reading through this thread and I have some very interesting and possibly strange information to add.

Recently I received the YLOD on a 80 GB mother board that all I was trying to do was take it apart and work on the Blu-Ray drive. I didn't feel there was any reason as to why it should of happened but it did. Before that point everything booted fine it just wouldn't read disks in the Blu-ray drive.

So at the point that I started getting the YLOD I decided to not worry anymore about the Blu-ray drive and focus on the YLOD. Well I tried all the normal fixes. Taking the hard drive out and back in, flipping upside down, taking apart, etc... Nothing up till tonight worked.

Tonight I tried (for the first time with a heat gun to reflow the solder around a few of the chips and when I got finished and tried to boot it up for the first time it worked. However, I decided to try and see if I could repeat the process by turning the system off and then back on and it started to fail again. The funny thing about this is I am not trying to play a game right now just get to the boot screen. I have managed to get it working several times but there is no steps or reasoning to why it all of sudden will work and then not work again. It hasn't, so far, shut off in the middle of running only after I shut it down and then try and restart. This is the only pattern I have seen up till this point.

RECAP:
Either reflowing worked or completely breaking down the system and rebuilding worked. Then it came on the first time. After shutting down and rebooting it did not work. I then unplugged the power cable and A/V for a minute. Rebooted and it worked again. Then tried to shut down and reboot. Did not work. Tried to turn off power and leave cables attached and reboot. Did not work. The only way I have got it to work after it stopped working was to unplug everything for a while then replug in and reboot. This does not work everytime. I think I have a PS3 with a mind of it's own.

ANY THOUGHT....ANYONE?

 

UPDATE:

I think it is overheating....now. Before I fixed the YLOD that was not the case, because I had never left it on very long and never played a game.

I was able to boot once turn off real quick and boot again without getting the YLOD. The third time I tried it came back. There is a heat sensor on the board somewhere or maybe a fail safe in the bios of the system that is triggering this alarm.

Does anyone know the best way to do a fan test and make sure it is working properly? It sounds like the fan is barely running.

Hitting the sack.
Updates to follow.

Thanks,

 

Does anyone know how to manually adjust the fan speed on the PS3? Is there a bios screen or something I can get access to?

My opinion after doing a little more research is there is a heat sensor on the PS3 and during my reflow experiment I have burned it out and the fan is running at MIN level all the time and therefore overheating the system in a matter of a couple minutes. If I could manually adjust the fan speed to say 50% then I could control the temperature and check to make sure there was no more overheating. At that point the YLOD would go away. I am going to order some Arctic Silver 5 and put on the GPU's along with maybe an external fan and see how that does.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Ced

 

i too recieved the ylod just after swapping fifa 09 for cod4,10 mins in and it died,tried the usual turning on off checking cables and shit but nothing,i was about to crack the thing open when my missus said phone sony up,so anyway being from england i was suprised to here some good news.spoke to a dude for about half hour running through various crap,then he said sir u are aware your warranty has expired ! im like yeah it would of being 2 years old,anyway after some abuse on my part the dude said due to it being an isolated inccident they would send me a new 60gig version(which i thought got discontinued) free of charge,and my cod4 which was stuck in the p.o.s was being replaced too,so all round was a result considering people across the atlantic are being ripped off by paying $150.

 

I just got my YLOD fixed

The unit turns on NP and I can logonto the PS store and download demo's but I cannot play games
it goes to a black screen after the PS splash screen

I have reinitalized everything, reformed the drives, swapped drives and redownloaded programs

it is the older 60gb ps3 model backward compatible

the LIFE and HOME doesnt work either so I think its like a graphics switch problem

Also tried HDMI and regular video

 

I am glad to report that I tried this method and it also fixed my YLoD... I just used a heat gun over the reality synthesizer chip and applied pressure with my hand wearing a construction glove. I applied enough temperature that the top of the chip started looking shinier.

Unfortunately though is that the system wont recognize any discs nor play any online content. My next attempt will be to reflow the cell chip as well, but somehow Im losing fatih in this now.

 

Anybody know where you can get specific PS3 parts? Such as mechanical or small boards for the blu-ray drives that go inside the PS3? I have had 2 Blu-ray drives go out on me and I just can’t figure it out. I have been working on them but not really doing anything that should kill them. They were accepting disk fine and then all of a sudden they did not load and eject the disk anymore. They pick up that you are trying to put a disk in but will not suck the disk in or eject it out. It is really strange I have had 2 different drives do the same thing. I alternated another disk drive to the PS3 and it worked so I know it is the disk drive. I also swapped the controller board from a working drive to that one and it didn’t work. So I know it is not the control board. I believe it is the control board on in the middle of the bottom section toward the front. It is a small board that connects to the main control board. Any thoughts anyone? Has anyone else had this problem?

 

Got another question for you guys. Does anyone know which diode should be used for the PS3 laser? Is it the 3 pin or 4 pin? Thanks for your help.

Ced

 

the heat sensor it's probably on the cpu like a computer cpu and you can view the temperature in bios.But on Ps3 i don't know where to find it. The second thing is for the heat sensor, if burn out the system won't start because in boot startup the system check if it'a all right (self test) and if one thing is missing like one heat sensor the ylod appear! I supposed it's same thing on GPU he have a heat sensor too. And finaly to protec hardware the heat sensor if is missing (burn open) the system see this information like the sensor tell him a high temperature and shut down . In few words if the sensor is missing or damaged the system won't start. It's what i thing !!

 

as for this problem cable for this circuit board on my blu ray is very fine removing it was not easy.have you checked the continuity of this cable.on mine it has small square yellow 2 pin plug.after that pass.

 

scratch that does the drive make any noises and not take in the disc?

 

hello all
i am about to spread some goodwill
i have successfully fixed 2 yloded ps3's
and ive made a guide as follows
http://www.filefactory.com/file/af246bg/n/YLOD_fix_pdf

 

thx for the help.. what happened to your ps3 have you played it for long hours?