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[VTEC77]

Well easy to fix for the cost of tube of heat sink compound mate :thumbup: Have done mine and a few others before and it takes about an hour and half and most of that time is spent waiting for things to cool down :salut:

[civictyper45]

im going to give it a try bu have no heat gun... :bigcry:
anyone in manchester borrow me one lol?

[numbnuts-uk]

fRom what I've gathered it's down to Sony cheaping out on there solder they used to solder the CPU and gpu chips they eventually over heat and over time they lose contact from the motherboard

Blame the EU for banning leaded solder,btw lead-free solder is 3 times the price.
It's more to do with thermal stress and eventually a crack spreads across the solder joint causing the chip to use more power until it overheats.
This is also the main cause of the 360's problems but the ATI chip in that blows when it overheats and needs replaced but just reflowing the solder usually fixes the PS3

[jymmm]

lead free solder :bad-words: hate the stuff

[Sam.]

im going to give it a go hope it works...

seems pretty easy enough

I think I'm going follow the 'gilksy' videos when mine dies again, I've done the little hair dryer trick for now and 3 or 4 days later it's still working, but when it goes again I've got nothing to lose so out comes the insides!

Re the heat gun.... Faz do you have one of those fancy heatguns in the gilksy videos, where you can adjust the temp perfectly to what you want? Mines slightly more rudimentary than that will a run of the mill heat gun get too hot??

[VTEC77]

im going to give it a go hope it works...

seems pretty easy enough

I think I'm going follow the 'gilksy' videos when mine dies again, I've done the little hair dryer trick for now and 3 or 4 days later it's still working, but when it goes again I've got nothing to lose so out comes the insides!

Re the heat gun.... Faz do you have one of those fancy heatguns in the gilksy videos, where you can adjust the temp perfectly to what you want? Mines slightly more rudimentary than that will a run of the mill heat gun get too hot??

My top of the range all singing all dancing heat gun* has two highly adjustable settings.... "Hot" and "F**king Hot"
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... EATGUN.htm

I used the "Hot" setting the first time I reflowed my ps3 and it didn't last very long before the YLOD appeared again. The second time round I used the "Hot" setting for a while then thought it would be rude not to try out the "F**king Hot" setting :thumbup: My PS3 is still going strong (am tempting fate here) after way over 30 days worth of gameplay on this 2nd fix That must be more than enough for any non OCD gamer






*ie the one that I found in the cupboard when my ps3 broke

[Sam.]

Cool thanks mate. Theres one buried in the garage of similar ilk

[samg1988]

I just did this. Works now! woop!

[civictyper45]

got my tools ready but its nearly 4 am so might hit the deck and try in the morning with a fresh head

[civictyper45]

woot woot just done as shown on youtube and its alive and working :WOOT :WOOT

[Ed Case]

Well done, mate. :salut: :salut: *

*Never used that smiley before because it really annoys me

[civictyper45]

Well done, mate. :salut: :salut: *

*Never used that smiley before because it really annoys me

thanks pal never seen so many screws in my life lol

[Seiki]

OMG WTF MERKY TING this just happened to me

Woke up nice and early to shoot one or two people in the head and RED LIGHT :bad-words:

Heatgun , wtf

But my god it's dusty

actually mines a bit different , it turns on , even allows me to take game out , but then after a minute it dies . Hoping it's just dust .

[Seiki]

Just watched the 2 vids , then hoovered mine out then turned it on again . Left it on a full minute and it stayed on . Let me look at a few pics then tuned it off again no red light

Hopefully its just dust

[andyd]

I've always thought the red light was it had just overheated and the yellow light ment it was dead?

[Seiki]

No idea but it's doing it again now and it's not hot at all :bigcry:

[Lucky7]

My PS3 is unbreakable. Had it since about a week after release and it is on every day. At the moment it's on for hours as we use the Play Tv and i haven't had a single problem with it. Its Awesome.


Watch it break now.

[civictyper45]

My PS3 is unbreakable. Had it since about a week after release and it is on every day. At the moment it's on for hours as we use the Play Tv and i haven't had a single problem with it. Its Awesome.


Watch it break now.

I can just imagine your next post is going to say f#%king me and my big mouth I have the the yellow light of death