Ps3 YLoD Attempted fix's. Any more ideas?

Sweet lord it worked, just hammered mw2 for 2 hours solid and still working !!!!

My fix involved flux around each gba and heat for about 30 seconds after pre heating the board area gently. Before I put it all back together I powered it up on the bench and was able to eject the disk so knew it was looking good then I applied artic 5 paste, I used the whole 3.5grammes on both gba's. I also bent both heat sink clamps to apply more pressue to the chips,,,,,,credit to youtube vids by gilksy parts 1 to 6

 

My replacement PS3 was 9 months old when it failed, I'd fiddled inside around inside it and they still gave me another PS3. They didn't discover the warranty sticker had been fiddled with until after the exchange LOL. They haven't said anything yet!

Gilksy - is that really you drunk in the video lol?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S5aNagztEc&feature=related

Looking forward to the re-ball guide!

 

so what your saying is that it will boot with all devices blue ray ect not connected to indicated def motherboard failure

 

I have booted motherboard without thermal paste/no blueray connected/no hd/loads of screws missing and lid off to see if ylod gone, only for 10 seconds though, saved wasting any paste

 

What if u were to replace the thermal paste on a ps3 that still hasnt gotten the ylod. Or change the paste every certain time period. Would that prevent the ylod?hmmm.... I wonder. What do u guys think?lmk.

 

Don't tell them then.

They never asked me so I never told them, and I got a free replacement (without asking) when the PS3 replacement warranty expired months ago.

I think they went easy on me because it was my third PS3 (second replacement) that had gone wrong

 

From personal experience it wont prevent it,
I had a schedule, every 6 months just lens and fan cleaning and every year all that plus new thermal paste and thermal pads.
Well that didnt prevent my PS3's death after 3years and 1or2 months.

in a previous post i said that i believe that one of the main reasons that PS3 gets hot and maybe gets the YLOD is the x-treme temperatures of the PSU cause is just above the CPU.

After the 2nd reflow i didnt put back the upper part of the case, so... i have placed a USB fan to cool down the PSU and last night i was playing GOW3 for 4hours straight and the fan never got over level 2.

I am pretty sure that if i get the PSU out of the box the PS3 will last for ever.

btw... the ps3 will power up even without the battery, last time i forgot to connect the battery, and everything was working. the only problem is that will loose time/date and the controllers every time you turn it off, that made me have doubts if i have connected the battery or not.

something else,
when i was testing the PS3 after the reflow i didnt connect the wi-fi card, tried to get on-line to see if everything works, and even though that the green led was ON at the Lan Plug and the router's led was ON also, i got the error "An ethernet cable is not connected", as it seems it isnt just a wi-fi card after all.

 

I see, but urs lasted longer than than the average time due to ur maintanaince on ur ps3. So regardless of what thermal paste u use it wont make a difference due to the ps3 overheating or producing excessive heat,making the motherboard faulty once the ylod completeley kicks in. An external power source might help and if its out of its case its exposed to more dust so ud have to clean it oftenly.

Well I'd say heat is the main issue thats causing further damage as we continuely try to fix it by reflowing it. I was looking into liquid cooling and I thought it would be great way to maintain the system cool. Only it requires knowledge on how to istall the kit and its not as cheap.lol.

Sony needs to rethink the position of their internals in their future system or find a solution to this cause its a shame. My ps2 still goin and the only issues id get from it is not reading the disk but that was fixable. I guess as technology advances these type of issues occur due to the lack of review on their product and stubborness of not admitting thats an increasing issue with in their product.

 

Compared to my frineds ps3's and from what i have reed on the net, yeap it lasted long enough. but it eventually died.

I have already figured out how i will do it, (at least in theory lol)
I have an old PC PSU (fortunately is black) i will remove the internals and place the internals from the PS3's PSU plus a 5v charger from a mobile phone for the fan (5v Fan is enough to do the job and it wont make noise either)

I will mod a female and a male electrical plug to connect the 12v from PSU to PS3 and just extend the 5v cables and the grounds.
The electrical plugs in my country looks like this
http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/236024/776639/0/1088470062/POWER_PLUG.jpg
that is why (i hope) it will feat, cause as far as i can think of now the only problem is the space between the 2 metal parts and that can be fixed.

I wanted to place a fan were the PSU is now but the idiots that designed the PS3 have made holes to the side of the BD-Drive
and not to the side that the PSU and the HDD is.

If you remove the HDD cover and you put your hand you can feel that air comes out from there also....but no, no left side holes they cost too much.

 

I doubt you can say it lasted longer because of the maintenance being done on the unit. Mine lasted about 3-4 years with no maintenance at all ... some are still going strong, they don't all die .. yet

I just hope this won't be an issue with the slim in a few years

 

Hi, i think should prevent it but you have to put it away in the summer and power it on afterwards.
A friend of mine openned it up after 1st year, put artic silver 5 thin layer close it, cure time in dash for a week and all the stuff, played only for 1 hour after that for a long time, checked the fan speeds, updated firmware only through usb never from wifi.
Now re-open it and used Tuniq TX4 thin layer also, this time he used a washer on every screw to push more the heatsink onto chips because the f..ing heatsing is not falling onto the cpu/gpu is falling against it on the back case. Still Ps3 going strong and it is a 60GB first edition 2007 model. When is hammered for long time playing always is with air condition onto 25 Celsius. He is on 3.15 and has UBUNTU 10.04 on it and using it as a pc with mouse and keyboard and never has failed on him, only some game freezes on Uncharted 1 and uncharted 2 but that where game specific freezes and not overheating because GOW 3, MGS 4 ,R&C tools of destruction, infamous , Ninja gaiden Sigma and NG sigma 2, Resistannce fall of man etc never froze the system on him, only uncharted games did one time each.
So yes replacing the thermal paste with a quality one will give you a good working system for a looong time but you have to stay away from summer mid-day playing or you ask for it

 

Well mine was 3.5 years old and had heavy dust build up around cpu/rsx and the paste was dried out. I recommend hoovering out and changing paste to every ps3 owner every few years or so.

Also anybody know where I can buy replacemnet heat pads cheaply

 

@WallyHale
maybe you can say that without the maintenance would have died earlier, dunno, but one thing is for sure it will eventually die.

Thats what i call a great console, lol

i am not mocking you ntemi , i am mocking sony for the faulty design cause you are right.

I know what you mean the summer here gets really hot too, this days is up to 40-42C and i believe that if i turn on the PS3 without the A/C on, or i will get YLOD (again) or it will take off and hover all around the living room.

I dont think though (actually i am 100% sure) that game freezes has anything to do whether you get YLOD or not in the future.
My PS3 was working like a charm, i have more than 30games, never got any freezes or something, but i've earned the YLOD trophy! It took more than 3 years but my collection is now complete lol

 

@SDF_GR .. Yep .. unfortunately I think it's inevitable ..

I loved my phat PS3, but happy with the Slim now .. hopefully don't have to add to this thread in a few years time saying "My PS3 Slim has YLOD!!!!"

 

Hmm thats odd how some systems are still running strong, I guess it depends on many variables or things.

 

Nice, hopefully it turns out positive.

 

Well that proves that I was right, but it still different for everyone regardless.

 

I think you hit the nail on the head with the varibles. This thread kinda proves it

And mine is still working. It still only kicks the fans to high after 3 or 4 hours of play, disc or HD games. But I have no hopes or expectations of it lasting forever. Its a first relase unit! I don't think it was played constantly though, and it sat for 2 years too lol

 

hacking the ps3 with jailbreak has arrived, yeah baby, sony ripped me now I will rip them, every loser wins bleep