The solder is working its magic at that point. Make sure the foil doesn't touch the board and make sure it's level. No-clean flux is mandatory and a quality thermal past like I used from TIM Consultants will make it last longer. AS5 is pretty good too, but TIM is better. that tim-consultants com, you want the quantum. Temperature is important since solder melts at a specific temperature. Best of luck to all of you.
I tried all the fan test eject stuff and it didn't work for me, must depend on your particular situation. I had an issue with the blue light last time and I fixed it by disconnecting and reconnecting all my ribbon cables. You will see many temps online, I can only tell you what worked for me with my particular gas oven. 350 put it in go to 450 and shut it off and leave it til it cools. At about 430 you will get some not so delightful smells and that's when you know your close.
Well, I got 7 months out of it, but when it YLOD'd again, my daughter was playing without the fan on that I have over it. Just shut the oven off with the PS3 in it again. It's been about an hour and 15 minutes. I'll let it cool down for at least an hour, then repaste it and put it back together. We played the crap out of it this summer and it was hotter than hades here, so this is a good fix if you do it right. It is not a permanent fix, since it's the same inferior solder inside, but oh well.
SONY used cheap thermal paste I think that's why the paste dried out. my 07 80GB YLOD 08/29/09. The last b/c PS3 made sent to SONY it happen to refurb so researched and fixed it myself I put motherboard in oven 425' 10 min and used Arctic Silver 5 it's been 6 months no problems.
SONY used cheap thermal paste I think that's why the paste dried out. my 07 80GB YLOD 08/29/09. The last b/c PS3 made sent to SONY it happen to refurb so researched and fixed it myself I put motherboard in oven 425' 10 min and used Arctic Silver 5 it's been 6 months no problems.
I cooked my ps3 and it worked for 10sec and turned off again no yellow light this time but the blue doesnt turn on only the green whats wrong with it? plz reply
@iciiciban The Cause of the Ylod is that the chips have heated up so much there solder connections to the motherboard crack , so heating it up with a heatgun to let the solder conecters melt then cooling it down so they go back to a sold and reconnect . simple really.
I would guess it took me 3 or 4 hours, but I was in no hurry. I didn't go straight from the this video, I took pieces from different sources and put together what I thought would be best. My posts below pretty much outline what I did. Most importantly, I think the putty around the capacitors, foil over and under, following the temperature pattern I used, let it cool down before messing with it. Note, it will smell, but flux will do that.
nice work, im thinking of doing the same to mines. how long did it take you to cmplete it, not including the cool down time. and was it easy following the instruction thru that video? pleaz let me know
sounds like you didn't get one or two ribbon cables hooked up right. or you baked the blu-ray drive with it-just kidding. I used a few different oven baking stories and went with what I thought was best.. Perfectly level is important, the foil helped, and the blu-tack/putty was also important. I thought about frozen lasanga before I did it. For that, you remove the foil at the end to brown it. Thus loosly encasing the boardin foil helped keep it from "burning".
i used the oven method and i did actually work (to my surprise). but it still gets hot quite quickly, so we had to buy a new console... :( and the USB drives and blu ray didn't work.
@sussex113 If you're asking me who made the last post, no. It went straight to the oven as described. By the way, it's still working a couple weeks later! I need to order some better compound and reapply since I have the 2.99 radio shack stuff. My research has told me that AS5 isn't the best out there due to long cure and price. I'm going with Tim Consultants Quantum - 3.00 per syringe.
I figure if I go back an put some good compound on, it will run cooler. Easy, cheap sucess. We will see how long it lasts. It's already longer than many heat gun posts I've read, so I can't complain. I got my game and download, everything else is gravy-epecially the happy daughter. PS: I used no flux. Good luck to any and all who try.
The fan increase initially after a few minutes and getting an overheat warning, I pulled the top off (BR drive & power supply exposed) and put it on the floor (heat rises) put my little 8 in fan over it and it worked fine, except for the increase PS3 fan speed. Today I played battlefield 1943 and it worked fine and was now at one fan speed lower than the last night. My daughter played Little Big Planet 2 for 6 hrs straight! The fan increased in speed during the last 2 hrs but never got ovht warn
After it cooled down to around 300 I ever so slowly cracked the door and at less than 200 I opened it all the way. Sat til cool to the touch. Yes it stunk the house up, but it was the putty, not the board. I broke and in the middle of nowhere, so I got the cheap silicone Radio Shack thermal compound for $3. Spread it thin on both sides and put a pea-sized dab in the middle. I also put a bit on the two pressure plates and their screws and reassembled. Voila! got the game out and backed up data!
My 80gb ylod with RSV2 in it. A couple hundred bucks and no real guarantee of a good fix is too much risk for me to send it to Sony. It's better to just buy a slim. So why not cook a 300 dollar piece of electronics for the heck of it. I cleaned, then put my board on a glass baking dish with foil in the bottom. I put blue-tack (poster putty) around the capacitors and over my outputs. I then put a sheet of foil over the top. Put it in at 350F and immediately increased to 450F, turned off @ 450.
you got 2 ps3s o.0 my ps3 i think is bout to break :( it keeps freezing/crashing and just recently it started to make a werid noise readin a game ill have a video of it soon i liked this video deff suscribed
that sucks i have a xbox360 and i see y they over heat.. but how did urs over heat?? my ps2 was bought when it came out i played it in a area with barly any airflow. still today it never over heated i was surprised. can u anwser my question if u can? is this how awsome sony is and how good ps2 last or u think i got a lucky ps2 or something i thought ps3 are close to impossible to overheat i wish xbox was made by sony...
@bmxer1269 I found another way. If you put the PS3 on standby and hold down the eject button, then it will start to hum quite loudly, at which point you let go of the button and the disc should come out.
How can we force congress to pass a law that requires company to provide at least 3 years warranty for expensive products? Something has to be done!!!
Help?! Okay so I did this, it worked and gave back my disk, yeah awesome.... but only like 10 mins later when i put in another disk, it came back?!!?! And by it I mean that horrid yellow light, whats wrong?? did i do something wrong when i was "fixing" it?! Please comment, im really clueless on whats happening here!
@gorefinder he also reflowed the the cpu and gpu with the heat gun to reshape the solder balls that causes a broken connection and thus causes the ylod you can also put it in the oven there is videos and tips for that
or u could have just held down the eject button for 30 seconds turn the power off keep holding it wait 30 seconds then turn it back on and keep holding it for another 30 seconds and the disc will come out
A buddy of mine works for a repo company and this is how they fix dead phones and all kind of broken electronics. It's not the best way to do it but it does work.
i did the reflow and then my 40gig worked for a month but then it starting turning itself off after a little while so i melted it again and it is working again hopefully forever!
This happened last Thruday, sending for the sheet form so I can send my 60GB UK off, hopefully by the end of this week. So it's basically the thermal pads, or what ever they put in them...as long as it comes back working and everything with my HDD still intact i'll be happy. Didn't dare pull it all apart, mint have made it worse. Still under garentee anyway. how is it now? Sill ok?
tin08290 mw2 did not kill your ps3 sony uses cheap thermal paste and after about a year the thermal heats and cools down and causes the ps3 to overheat that causes the ps3 solder to crack abd in result in ylod so blame sony should fix every ylod ps3 for free
@air6199 you take the components off that is prone to the heat and when heating stay in the area make small circle motion when done pull gun up-ward not across the board!
Guys my ps3 was working fine until one day it just went boom i heard a sound of that of a ballon burst and it stopped working and after i restarted it...........it gave me a yellow light i thought one of my capacitor pooped up and i changed the power unit but still the same result................plz help me guys...................by the way i live in india
@Loochy808. learn yor facts yes it does i did it on mine yesterday. unplug ur hdmi lead from ur ps3 then turn it off at the back then hold down eject then turn it back on at the back while still holding eject and BAZINGA!!!!! fan test
Dude, i just need a fucking way to get into the bastard without fucking up the warranty seal!!!!!!! I have a conscience, but couldnt give a fuck about large gaming coorporations like freaking gamestation!
Update on your PS3 dude! is it still working or what? I payed some dude 60 bucks to repair my 60GB and 28 days later it died again. They fixed it again but I'm through with it. If anyone wants it give me any offer and it's theirs.
Hey everyone! Just a tip on fixing these... dont use that dynex crap they sell at bestbuy its not dense . at radioshack they have the artic silver #5 that is denser and it works a hell of a lot better. just some advice, i have fixed like 20 of these and the ones i used that dynex on came back so i started using the #5 and its been good so far
Urgh, Fml i hate YYOD it happened to me luckily i had a 3 year extended warrenty on it. So i sent it off and got it back in a week same playstation so i was happy. 2 months later happened again and im still waiting on the same insurance company to fix it been two weeks now! :(
Ahhhh! That Heat sink compond is CRAP! If your really wanting to fix your PS3 after going thur all that work, Please go online to newegg or some other place and buy Artic Silver 5 or 6. Not Radio Crap or Best Buy Dynamax Crap, it drys out and then your back to a broken PS3!
PS, That liquid crap SONY uses, worthless, Every PS3 I get I take it apart and redo the Heatsink compond.
do you know... that you can now go on over to "ps3bigskydownload" and down load this game for truely free. we have gamed it and it's just a splendid game. just google "ps3bigskydownload" and check out the first link. me and friends we hope the public delight in it!
I have the very first ps3 that came out the 20 gig i paid 900 for it -_- it crashed 2 days b4 christmas because of MW2 i had it for like 6 years or when evr they first came out and not one problem since that F'N game but its in peices now all i need is a heat GUN or another way i read a comment that said oven sounds to risky ppl say a dryer wont work but if u hold it there long evn i think it should get hot enough ANY other ideas?
@supersyrette I can assure you 100% that MW2 has nothing to do with your PS3 breaking. Everyone just assumes the game that they've been playing is the cause of the system ceasing to work..
I've seen people blaming VidZone, Uncharted 2, FIFA 10 and God knows how many other things for the YLOD, but it nonsense.
i wouldn't say 100% cause i was playin my lil bros xbox360 MW2 same game and it got the red ring he just got the 360 for xmas now if it isnt the game GOD himself is interfering with everyones system while there playin this game mabey this game causes WW3 ;)
but why is it that i have had it 2 years no problems then 1 day of mw2 it breaks just like the 1000s of other ps3 users who this all of sudden started happened to
yes that is exactly how i got it except my problem is not the ylod its freezing problems with the hdd and the blu ray reader just bc of mw2 b4 mw2 nothing was rong but i see now that mw2 is an enemy to ps3 thats y theyre so many news and features on xbox while ps3 just says com check out ur website at infinity ward!!!
That dynex stuff is crap, Use artic silver 5 as the stuff you put on your ps3 will actually cause a YLOD in 2 years time. YLOD is caused by crap thermal paste.
@Loochy808 just keep fixing it add more past when it gose again..it beats paying 3 to 400 bucks on a new one ,an even when the ps4 comes out the slim will drop to 99 bucks,you cant lose
much longer than the guy who posted the walk through... i probably worked on it for about 3 hours.... about an hour of that was cooling time. a half hour after each heating session.
did you played a game or had a cd inside when it got the ylod? because most of the ylod happen when they play modern warfare 2, i have a 80gb ps3 and i wanna know all possible ways to get ylod so that i can avoid it. until now all i know is that the ylod happens if you overheat or play call of duty MW2. is theyre another flaw that i dont know about? p.s. my ps3 is only 2 weeks old and never had problems.
sold* mine and got the slim
TheMisterBobShow 1 week ago
i got that once so i ao
TheMisterBobShow 1 week ago
THUMBS UP IF U CAEM HER FROM PORNHUB.
ASFASDFSDFASDFASDFAS 1 month ago
I did, now I can play my son since I have two PS3's. Merry Christmas, I'm off to bake a friends PS3.
BmlocK 2 months ago
u should sell that and buy the slim version
pamoso15987 2 months ago
@pamoso15987 he has a slim.. It showed it on this vid..
kalebtaylor567 4 weeks ago
The solder is working its magic at that point. Make sure the foil doesn't touch the board and make sure it's level. No-clean flux is mandatory and a quality thermal past like I used from TIM Consultants will make it last longer. AS5 is pretty good too, but TIM is better. that tim-consultants com, you want the quantum. Temperature is important since solder melts at a specific temperature. Best of luck to all of you.
BmlocK 4 months ago
I tried all the fan test eject stuff and it didn't work for me, must depend on your particular situation. I had an issue with the blue light last time and I fixed it by disconnecting and reconnecting all my ribbon cables. You will see many temps online, I can only tell you what worked for me with my particular gas oven. 350 put it in go to 450 and shut it off and leave it til it cools. At about 430 you will get some not so delightful smells and that's when you know your close.
BmlocK 4 months ago
Well, I got 7 months out of it, but when it YLOD'd again, my daughter was playing without the fan on that I have over it. Just shut the oven off with the PS3 in it again. It's been about an hour and 15 minutes. I'll let it cool down for at least an hour, then repaste it and put it back together. We played the crap out of it this summer and it was hotter than hades here, so this is a good fix if you do it right. It is not a permanent fix, since it's the same inferior solder inside, but oh well.
BmlocK 4 months ago
how long did you have to use the heat gun on either side?? I'm trying to fix my 60gb
xp3085 4 months ago
nicely done sweet
AngelaFbabyy 5 months ago
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SONY used cheap thermal paste I think that's why the paste dried out. my 07 80GB YLOD 08/29/09. The last b/c PS3 made sent to SONY it happen to refurb so researched and fixed it myself I put motherboard in oven 425' 10 min and used Arctic Silver 5 it's been 6 months no problems.
berettagt88 7 months ago
SONY used cheap thermal paste I think that's why the paste dried out. my 07 80GB YLOD 08/29/09. The last b/c PS3 made sent to SONY it happen to refurb so researched and fixed it myself I put motherboard in oven 425' 10 min and used Arctic Silver 5 it's been 6 months no problems.
berettagt88 7 months ago
I think everyone is playing that game when they get the YLOD lmao!
la4slow 7 months ago 2
@molildon well atleast its worth it its a damn 30 - 40 odd £ -$ game
Chubster1990 7 months ago
I cooked my ps3 and it worked for 10sec and turned off again no yellow light this time but the blue doesnt turn on only the green whats wrong with it? plz reply
lol mw2 killed mine as well
doesalilyayo 8 months ago
can anyone tell me whats the point of heating it up with a heat gun?
iciiciban 9 months ago
@iciiciban The Cause of the Ylod is that the chips have heated up so much there solder connections to the motherboard crack , so heating it up with a heatgun to let the solder conecters melt then cooling it down so they go back to a sold and reconnect . simple really.
14677 8 months ago
@molildon MW2 I hacket got platin 3 days.
How repar ps3 SLIM ?
Samaitis 10 months ago
I would guess it took me 3 or 4 hours, but I was in no hurry. I didn't go straight from the this video, I took pieces from different sources and put together what I thought would be best. My posts below pretty much outline what I did. Most importantly, I think the putty around the capacitors, foil over and under, following the temperature pattern I used, let it cool down before messing with it. Note, it will smell, but flux will do that.
BmlocK 11 months ago
nice work, im thinking of doing the same to mines. how long did it take you to cmplete it, not including the cool down time. and was it easy following the instruction thru that video? pleaz let me know
gavilan355 1 year ago
sounds like you didn't get one or two ribbon cables hooked up right. or you baked the blu-ray drive with it-just kidding. I used a few different oven baking stories and went with what I thought was best.. Perfectly level is important, the foil helped, and the blu-tack/putty was also important. I thought about frozen lasanga before I did it. For that, you remove the foil at the end to brown it. Thus loosly encasing the boardin foil helped keep it from "burning".
BmlocK 1 year ago
i used the oven method and i did actually work (to my surprise). but it still gets hot quite quickly, so we had to buy a new console... :( and the USB drives and blu ray didn't work.
sussex113 1 year ago
all that just for mw2......
snoopy72296 1 year ago
did you heat gun the board?
sussex113 1 year ago
@sussex113 If you're asking me who made the last post, no. It went straight to the oven as described. By the way, it's still working a couple weeks later! I need to order some better compound and reapply since I have the 2.99 radio shack stuff. My research has told me that AS5 isn't the best out there due to long cure and price. I'm going with Tim Consultants Quantum - 3.00 per syringe.
BmlocK 1 year ago
I figure if I go back an put some good compound on, it will run cooler. Easy, cheap sucess. We will see how long it lasts. It's already longer than many heat gun posts I've read, so I can't complain. I got my game and download, everything else is gravy-epecially the happy daughter. PS: I used no flux. Good luck to any and all who try.
BmlocK 1 year ago
The fan increase initially after a few minutes and getting an overheat warning, I pulled the top off (BR drive & power supply exposed) and put it on the floor (heat rises) put my little 8 in fan over it and it worked fine, except for the increase PS3 fan speed. Today I played battlefield 1943 and it worked fine and was now at one fan speed lower than the last night. My daughter played Little Big Planet 2 for 6 hrs straight! The fan increased in speed during the last 2 hrs but never got ovht warn
BmlocK 1 year ago
After it cooled down to around 300 I ever so slowly cracked the door and at less than 200 I opened it all the way. Sat til cool to the touch. Yes it stunk the house up, but it was the putty, not the board. I broke and in the middle of nowhere, so I got the cheap silicone Radio Shack thermal compound for $3. Spread it thin on both sides and put a pea-sized dab in the middle. I also put a bit on the two pressure plates and their screws and reassembled. Voila! got the game out and backed up data!
BmlocK 1 year ago
My 80gb ylod with RSV2 in it. A couple hundred bucks and no real guarantee of a good fix is too much risk for me to send it to Sony. It's better to just buy a slim. So why not cook a 300 dollar piece of electronics for the heck of it. I cleaned, then put my board on a glass baking dish with foil in the bottom. I put blue-tack (poster putty) around the capacitors and over my outputs. I then put a sheet of foil over the top. Put it in at 350F and immediately increased to 450F, turned off @ 450.
BmlocK 1 year ago
much love to your video. Thank you for posting it.
megadud20 1 year ago
you got 2 ps3s o.0 my ps3 i think is bout to break :( it keeps freezing/crashing and just recently it started to make a werid noise readin a game ill have a video of it soon i liked this video deff suscribed
joshfig96 1 year ago
this ps3 is evil it eats good games and ejects shity ones
agenttubsproductions 1 year ago
I've lost black ops to the YLOD :(
spicynacho888 1 year ago
@spicynacho888
that sucks i have a xbox360 and i see y they over heat.. but how did urs over heat?? my ps2 was bought when it came out i played it in a area with barly any airflow. still today it never over heated i was surprised. can u anwser my question if u can? is this how awsome sony is and how good ps2 last or u think i got a lucky ps2 or something i thought ps3 are close to impossible to overheat i wish xbox was made by sony...
TheYomamaLandon 1 year ago
@spicynacho888 me too ffs
poipoipoipoipois 1 year ago
@spicynacho888 you can take it apart to get the game out i did it with mgs4. its actually pretty easy if i can do it anybody can
bmxer1269 7 months ago
@bmxer1269 I found another way. If you put the PS3 on standby and hold down the eject button, then it will start to hum quite loudly, at which point you let go of the button and the disc should come out.
spicynacho888 6 months ago
How can we force congress to pass a law that requires company to provide at least 3 years warranty for expensive products? Something has to be done!!!
DwyaneWadeCounty 1 year ago
Help?! Okay so I did this, it worked and gave back my disk, yeah awesome.... but only like 10 mins later when i put in another disk, it came back?!!?! And by it I mean that horrid yellow light, whats wrong?? did i do something wrong when i was "fixing" it?! Please comment, im really clueless on whats happening here!
sierraKENZIEstyle 1 year ago
So you just replaced the thermal paste, and it works!
How long does this fix last, i have no problems with taking it apart, did it several times, but i always get the YLOD after a few minutes.
PLEASE RESPOND! :D
gorefinder 1 year ago
@gorefinder he also reflowed the the cpu and gpu with the heat gun to reshape the solder balls that causes a broken connection and thus causes the ylod you can also put it in the oven there is videos and tips for that
cgtombraider3 1 year ago
f*** Mw2 and Congrats Black Ops
MGCxLeAdEr 1 year ago
the fan shit doesnt work with all ps3's i have an older 80g and it did not work so shut the fuck up unless you know what your saying.
DHISKEY4U 1 year ago
did your ylod come back yet?
UpskirtPower 1 year ago
removing the ps3 is like removing the mask of darth vadar you know lol
rogelioVela1985 1 year ago
or u could have just held down the eject button for 30 seconds turn the power off keep holding it wait 30 seconds then turn it back on and keep holding it for another 30 seconds and the disc will come out
IEightMYFRIENDS 1 year ago
A buddy of mine works for a repo company and this is how they fix dead phones and all kind of broken electronics. It's not the best way to do it but it does work.
bgggbb 1 year ago
i did the reflow and then my 40gig worked for a month but then it starting turning itself off after a little while so i melted it again and it is working again hopefully forever!
sodahawk 1 year ago
Its not the game its overheating
mousepad6 1 year ago
Wasn't everybody playing that game when it happened???
SELACARTEL 1 year ago
@SELACARTEL
No happened to me when I was playing NBA 2k11 for the 1st time, my 1st game wow
ss4vegeta92 1 year ago
Guys... mw2 didnt kill it, it was the time you spent on the system! OVERHEAT lol
DefexGaming 1 year ago
T870A IS THE ONLY REAL WAY TO FIX A BGA
NOTSODOTCALM 1 year ago
This happened last Thruday, sending for the sheet form so I can send my 60GB UK off, hopefully by the end of this week. So it's basically the thermal pads, or what ever they put in them...as long as it comes back working and everything with my HDD still intact i'll be happy. Didn't dare pull it all apart, mint have made it worse. Still under garentee anyway. how is it now? Sill ok?
astaroth99 1 year ago
same exact as me! same ps3.. same ylod..same game stuck in their
planbkid23 1 year ago 6
same as me 2.
b4dm1n 1 year ago
tin08290 mw2 did not kill your ps3 sony uses cheap thermal paste and after about a year the thermal heats and cools down and causes the ps3 to overheat that causes the ps3 solder to crack abd in result in ylod so blame sony should fix every ylod ps3 for free
12344richard 1 year ago
MW2 killed my system too
tin08290 1 year ago
this "cooking" is really dangerous as you are heating other components aswell
just go to
ppc-fix.webs.com
they do it properly and cheap
air6199 1 year ago
@air6199 you take the components off that is prone to the heat and when heating stay in the area make small circle motion when done pull gun up-ward not across the board!
buggeazy102 1 year ago
@buggeazy102
not evryone does that tho
so i advise
ppc-fix.webs.com
air6199 1 year ago
the thermal compund look like water? use Artic..... thats what i use on my P.C and Xbox... and if i ever get the YOLD i would use it on that
k32323 1 year ago
thx man helped a lot
xxryanryanxx 1 year ago
Guys my ps3 was working fine until one day it just went boom i heard a sound of that of a ballon burst and it stopped working and after i restarted it...........it gave me a yellow light i thought one of my capacitor pooped up and i changed the power unit but still the same result................plz help me guys...................by the way i live in india
sing086 1 year ago
whats that blue thing ??
where do i get it ??
i need one my ps3 just died 2 days ago =\
lexacost 1 year ago
Dat shyt dnt work
TheDaffy12 1 year ago
Dude!
All you had to do was hold your finger on the eject button and then turn the system on. Keep your finger on the eject button until the disc ejects.
99Paradigm 1 year ago
@99Paradigm dude that shit wont work u fukking retarded prik
xxryanryanxx 1 year ago
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@xxryanryanxx
if you live in england go to
ppc-fix.webs.com
air6199 1 year ago
@xxryanryanxx Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!
99Paradigm 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
i got my fixed by these guys
w w w . thecreativetechnologies . com
mitnik28 1 year ago
yea it YLOD becuse the thermal compound was dryied up
67CopperHead 1 year ago
MW2 will kill the PS3 fatboys it will
67CopperHead 1 year ago
MY UNCHARTED 2'S FAKIN STUCK!
JustKuda 1 year ago
i got ylod by playing tooo much red dead redemptioN!
pnoiBOT 1 year ago
Nice!! My friend and I are going to attempt a fix today!! I think I will make a video!!!
PaintballOO7 1 year ago
how long it last?
therockbottom2 1 year ago
So its pretty easy to fix?
PiotrWeselak 1 year ago
You did all of that just to get your game hahahaha
Simply run the fan test a few times and your game will eject on its own SIMPLE
daveuddin 1 year ago
@daveuddin did this so that it would work again. Also, learn you facts: fan test doesnt work on this model.
Loochy808 1 year ago 8
@Loochy808 burn!!!
xxryanryanxx 1 year ago
@Loochy808. learn yor facts yes it does i did it on mine yesterday. unplug ur hdmi lead from ur ps3 then turn it off at the back then hold down eject then turn it back on at the back while still holding eject and BAZINGA!!!!! fan test
Djharrop99 1 year ago
@Djharrop99 Doesn't work on my 80 gig
sickler4201 1 year ago
i have a ps3 and it's 60 GB and has rlod can u help me
Chrismyname99 1 year ago
lol i wasplaying cod4 wene it broke..Infinity ward wanna make ps3 players stop? and xbox ppl more adicted..?who knows lol
TehLauteh 1 year ago
am gonna try this sadly my copy of red dead reemption is stuck in it and precious photos of my dog....
juggershadow 1 year ago
Dude, i just need a fucking way to get into the bastard without fucking up the warranty seal!!!!!!! I have a conscience, but couldnt give a fuck about large gaming coorporations like freaking gamestation!
rudebwoi93 1 year ago
ROFL I bought mine in Dec 07 and broke March playing MW2 :(
elel70 1 year ago
dynex is alright but you should really use artic silver 5, its one of the best.
jose5080007 1 year ago
Is it still working? I hear that reflows don't last very long.
ih8suvz 1 year ago
i hate the way he holds the disk
codKINGps3 1 year ago
Update on your PS3 dude! is it still working or what? I payed some dude 60 bucks to repair my 60GB and 28 days later it died again. They fixed it again but I'm through with it. If anyone wants it give me any offer and it's theirs.
2800boy 1 year ago
What was the website you used to get step by step instructions. I would like to use the same one.
slickfox1269 1 year ago
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slickfox1269 1 year ago
Hey everyone! Just a tip on fixing these... dont use that dynex crap they sell at bestbuy its not dense . at radioshack they have the artic silver #5 that is denser and it works a hell of a lot better. just some advice, i have fixed like 20 of these and the ones i used that dynex on came back so i started using the #5 and its been good so far
Sudo209 1 year ago
Urgh, Fml i hate YYOD it happened to me luckily i had a 3 year extended warrenty on it. So i sent it off and got it back in a week same playstation so i was happy. 2 months later happened again and im still waiting on the same insurance company to fix it been two weeks now! :(
MrG0ldy 1 year ago
some of the new ps3 games fry the old ps3
u should check if the slim fans work and fit on the fat version to replace them or get some usb fan and put them under ur ps3
bestkian 1 year ago
how long does this work for until it does it again cause i hear people say that it works for 10min and then it fuks up again
Fabolous206 2 years ago
Ahhhh! That Heat sink compond is CRAP! If your really wanting to fix your PS3 after going thur all that work, Please go online to newegg or some other place and buy Artic Silver 5 or 6. Not Radio Crap or Best Buy Dynamax Crap, it drys out and then your back to a broken PS3!
PS, That liquid crap SONY uses, worthless, Every PS3 I get I take it apart and redo the Heatsink compond.
micflynn1 2 years ago
I agree, dynex is garbage, radioshack had artic silver #5 tho. atlease one by me does
Sudo209 1 year ago
great video on the ps3 fix. alot of users have had the ylod problem and i have found the best fix is this guide at fixps3(dot)info
MrFixps3 2 years ago
I actually did a drum roll I'm ashamed lol
nani1962 2 years ago
do a fan test and u will get ur game bak
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sethsamamu 2 years ago
all i did is use a hair dryer for 15 mins on the side of ps3, waited for 30 mins to cool, than boom fix.
Alan00376 2 years ago
realy? no way!?!?!? great dude
ufousonlo 2 years ago
@Alan00376 is your ps3 still working,i did the same as you but only lasted for 3 hours :(
zimzum08lol 1 year ago
@zimzum08lol yeah it works but dont do it too much because it will melt
Alan00376 1 year ago
i did the same thing you did, EXACT SAME THING lol, then i took my game out :) next week im getting a slim :)
MegaPurpleCrayon 2 years ago
i would laugh if you stood on it and broke it accidently, after fixing it
SOF006 2 years ago
i had no warrenty either but SONY still fixed it for me
starwarsmaniac99 2 years ago
well yeah, for 150 bucks.
Loochy808 2 years ago 9
I think i will probably mix all parts if I doo fixing like you... please fix my ps3 ;) I pay :)
btw. You know where is Croataia?! :))
ufousonlo 2 years ago
@Loochy808 They do pretty much the same thing anyways. They just have a fancier way of doing it.
bgggbb 1 year ago
I have the very first ps3 that came out the 20 gig i paid 900 for it -_- it crashed 2 days b4 christmas because of MW2 i had it for like 6 years or when evr they first came out and not one problem since that F'N game but its in peices now all i need is a heat GUN or another way i read a comment that said oven sounds to risky ppl say a dryer wont work but if u hold it there long evn i think it should get hot enough ANY other ideas?
supersyrette 2 years ago
@supersyrette I can assure you 100% that MW2 has nothing to do with your PS3 breaking. Everyone just assumes the game that they've been playing is the cause of the system ceasing to work..
I've seen people blaming VidZone, Uncharted 2, FIFA 10 and God knows how many other things for the YLOD, but it nonsense.
dirtyprettymagpie 2 years ago
i wouldn't say 100% cause i was playin my lil bros xbox360 MW2 same game and it got the red ring he just got the 360 for xmas now if it isnt the game GOD himself is interfering with everyones system while there playin this game mabey this game causes WW3 ;)
supersyrette 2 years ago
but why is it that i have had it 2 years no problems then 1 day of mw2 it breaks just like the 1000s of other ps3 users who this all of sudden started happened to
jfkyz125 2 years ago
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Aurora3465 2 years ago
imagine a little kid came into the room and just came to demolish the ps3 that he was fixing
SILVERAMMO777 2 years ago
lol
kimooss 2 years ago
lol sony use to charge $1500
snake88h 2 years ago
$150
xxk3oxx 2 years ago
yes that is exactly how i got it except my problem is not the ylod its freezing problems with the hdd and the blu ray reader just bc of mw2 b4 mw2 nothing was rong but i see now that mw2 is an enemy to ps3 thats y theyre so many news and features on xbox while ps3 just says com check out ur website at infinity ward!!!
TheKtran95 2 years ago
I was just about to knife someone when it froze.
JebuzIV 2 years ago
same bullshit happened to me cuz of mw2
2xWoot 2 years ago
That dynex stuff is crap, Use artic silver 5 as the stuff you put on your ps3 will actually cause a YLOD in 2 years time. YLOD is caused by crap thermal paste.
jakthebomb 2 years ago
if my current fix lasts 2 years, i'll be thrilled.
Loochy808 2 years ago 2
@Loochy808 just keep fixing it add more past when it gose again..it beats paying 3 to 400 bucks on a new one ,an even when the ps4 comes out the slim will drop to 99 bucks,you cant lose
buggeazy102 1 year ago
@jakthebomb Thermal Paste did not work for me.........
nerddaddy605 1 year ago
@jakthebomb can i buy this at home depot?
buggeazy102 1 year ago
@jakthebomb just replace with thermal AS5 still didnt work........... I didnt use the heat gun mayb that will fix it...
jicee23 1 year ago
im happy you ps3 work you saved $100 from sending it to sony =)
LaughYourAss 2 years ago
launch 60 gig died playn mw2 too, done the same thing but through my board in the oven for ten mins going strong and a lot quieter
matty23484 2 years ago
yep, i hav a 80gb, had it for 2 years, MW2.... YLOD! I got the disc out, luckly. Don't know if I should send it in, or what
u00drk1 2 years ago
Good for you!!!!!!!!!!! now, when can i send mine out???/ lol...
July 2006- Won my ps3 (radio station) 60g... broke after sony update in sep 2007....
Dec 2007- Spend 300 euro on a 40g new system....
2 days ago- Playing MW2 and..... BANG... YLoD
Tommorow- I pray to God that i can fix it...
xXCarl47Xx 2 years ago
Nice!! had the same reaction after powering up and was able to eject mw2.
kanin75 2 years ago
Does the system completely work now ?
E12Reviewer 2 years ago
works completely
Loochy808 2 years ago
Dude that can be fixed. That happen to mine and all i did was open it and unplug the blu ray then plug it back in, and it worked...
xThe3nemyx 2 years ago
lol my 360 got rrod when playing mw2
Killingcheese 2 years ago
I got YLOD last night and i was playing mw2 as well! its not the ps3 its mw2
famlyforce5 2 years ago
how long did it take you to complete ? Gonna try it tomorrow.
E12Reviewer 2 years ago
@E12Reviewer
much longer than the guy who posted the walk through... i probably worked on it for about 3 hours.... about an hour of that was cooling time. a half hour after each heating session.
Loochy808 2 years ago
nicely done
kenshinhimurasz 2 years ago
My got the YLOD today. Do you mind messaging me where you got the guide and the materials you used ?
E12Reviewer 2 years ago
did you played a game or had a cd inside when it got the ylod? because most of the ylod happen when they play modern warfare 2, i have a 80gb ps3 and i wanna know all possible ways to get ylod so that i can avoid it. until now all i know is that the ylod happens if you overheat or play call of duty MW2. is theyre another flaw that i dont know about? p.s. my ps3 is only 2 weeks old and never had problems.
alienufoweird 2 years ago
Yeah I was playing MW2. I have the 80 gb and I got it yesterday had it for a year and 5 months
E12Reviewer 2 years ago