Ps3 YLoD Attempted fix's. Any more ideas?

For those who are saying there is no permanent fix for YLoD, its not correct. I have fixed my PS3 Yellow Light of death problem, and its working well for last 8 months, and I think if its working for 8 months, the fix worked well!
what do you guys say?

sorry for the repost, in the first one I missed e from my email address.

 

hi,
It seems you will need to change your power supply unit.

 

99%

 

"When I pull my HDD out and try to turn it on, it takes MUCH longer to YLOD" this indicates that when you dont have hdd connected your power supply takes much longer to fail -> YLOD because the power that is drawn from it is less so your ylod takes much longer to develop. Try open up your power supply and have a look at capacitors on top, some or any of them are swallen on top or burned resistors -> black burn marks.
Is a proximity we are talking about, hope you get lucky

 

hey guys ive just had the YLOD on my 60GB and ive just done the heatgun trick and was so so so happy when it fixed only now the fans louder than my hoover asoon as i turn it on. any suggestions on how i can fix this problem. thanks for any information guys. clare xx

 

manugirl, sounds like it is overheating immediately, did you use enough (or too much) heatsink compound on the chips? Thats what I would assume anyway.

Also, did you bend the "clips" to apply more pressure on the heatsinks to the chips?

Hope you get it sorted .. at least it turns on

 

yeah m8 ive done some research an ive just ordered some artic silver 5 instead of the crap ive been using apparantly thats my problem so fingers crossed an ill let you know how i get on... cheers clare xx

 

hi everyone,,, ive just put artic silver 5 on evenly pretty thin and nothing has changed, everything is the same except now a box comes up in the top right corner telling me that the ps3 is overheating and that i should turn it of for a bit. i also bent the clips... does anybody know why this is and how to get past it. the fan comes on very quit then its like it keeps changing gears until its louder than my hoover LOL. thankd clare xx

 

Have you put everything back on as it should be. You don't have bits left over / lost do you

Mine overheated but I had forgotten to connect the can power again .. haha! Obviously you don't have this issue, but certainly sounds like a heatsink connection type issue :S

 

yeah WallyHale, everything except the bluray drive, im no expert but that shouldnt make the fan do whats its doin, should it ???. other than that theres nothing left over, also i followed gilksys guide on youtube to the T, any1 got anything else up there sleave. thanks clare xx

 

Hi.
Remove the heatsink and have a look on the cooling surface if it make any contact and have as5 on it.

 

hi ntemis,,, thanks for your advice, sorry for being such a noob ive removed the heassink , whuch bt is the cooling surface ??? is it the 2 square bits at back of heatsink, cheers, clare xx

 

Yeap thats the one, you must have 2 perfect flat ones. Are they covered with AS5?

 

hi ntemis, there not covered it as5 but theres a little bit on both squares mostly in the corners of the left side of each. cheers clare xx

 

You have a connection problem,
i suggest you use mx3 or tuniq tx4 and put a thick coating or add more pressure on the heatsinks.i know for fact that mx3 can be put thick and as a matter of fact using it thick works better, dont have any experience with tx4 but will work even better as is easily spreadable as as5 but better than as5.

 

thanks ntemis,,, ill go about getting some mx3 or tx4 an see if i can sort this problem out. thanks, clare xx

 

manugirl - did you bend the clips before you put them back in. Can't remember if it's in the gilksy guide, but it's in a related guide The two clips that you screw down to put pressure on the chips and heatsinks can be bent a bit so the pressure is greater. I think there is a washer fix as well if you haven't seen this already.

At least it sounds like you have found the cause of the overheating, and haven't had it YLOD in the meantime

 

Hi Guys

I've got a 40Gb which switches green for a few seconds then the fan revs up to full load then shuts down. Not the typical YLOD that I've seen?
I've reflowed the unit with no clean flux, applied AS5 (very thin layer) bent the clamps and added a washer to give a little more presure.

I've had a few attempts at this one, the contact area for heatsinks to chips seem good.
There is no visable damage to the board, no real signs of warping.

Thought about a faulty temperature sensor or PSU, am I missing something daft?

here's a vid of it starting..
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/9845/file6257.mp4

Any help would be great
Cheers
John

 

hello all
nice to see this thread still going strong.
i havnt been around l8tly due to high email demand lol

heres an update to the original fix links provided below

PLEASE BE AWARE THERE ARE PEOPLE TRYING TO SELL VERSIONS OF THIS FREE

GUIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DO NOT SUPPORT THEM BY BUYING IT........... DOWNLOAD AND WATCH FOR FREE AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE!!!!!!!!


Edited by binkie to add - Please see my profile page

THANKS

GILKSY THE PS3 SURGEON! PSN= GILKSY


Here is my pdf guide

http://www.filefactory.com/file/af246bg/n/YLOD_fix_pdf


Added video guide as requested!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70SgRDVcBo


Also my fluxing and clamp bending video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZRReDIHTe0



New!!!!!! PS3 40GIG STRIPDOWN GUIDE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6qRLytwykE



New!!!!!! ANTI VOIDING REMOVAL METHOD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHyLsP8KYyg



International ylod victims list

http://ylod.llysn.net/

 

hey ntemis and WallyHale, thank you both so much, i now now have my 60g running smooth. what i did was put AS5 on thicker and bent the clips now its perfect TYSM, clare xx