How to Fix PS3 OVERHEAT (YLOD) easy Part 2
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@101gamesolver looks like the long-term fix is one of two things:
1) keep PS3 upside-down, or
2) make an air-conditioned box to keep the PS3 nice and cool.
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@Qrazey when it overheats, it melts the solder holding the cpu to the motherboard. By applying heat, you help to re-solver the cpu back to the motherboard. In theory you could just turn the PS3 upside down and leave it on, and it would do the same thing.
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@chewy1s21 it's called "Thermal Paste" or "Thermal Grease" (depending where you buy it)
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solder and reconnect the CPU to the mother board then new Heat Sink Grease to keep it cool so it doesnt heat up and separate again ... all the "uhhh mmm see hmmm uhh that thing ahh mm " was driving me nuts man
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the white stuff he cleaned off is Heat Sink its a type of grease that connect the fan to the CPU so that the fan can cool the CPU better, the reason why you put new heat sink "grease" is because the type that Sony used was crap so it didnt draw the heat out of the CPU to cool it well enough causing CPU to heat up and causing the solder that connects the CPU to the mother board to get to hot, melt and separate the CPU from the motherboard , thats why he`s heating up the CPU so that it`ll melt the
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do you know ,what you doing???
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can u use a foodstamp card?
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what is that white liquid stuff
I have the 40gb ps3 model and a relative did mine for me, he did it like you did yet it only lasted about 3months and it seemed completely fine throughout, it just turned off when I was downloading a game and when I tried to turn it back on I got the YLOD yet AGAIN! He'd done it on other consoles and he aid they'd lasted about a year and a half, so I guess I was unlucky :( Is there any long term fix for the YLOD? Thumbs up if you want to know too :)
101gamesolver 1 week ago 5
So you fix an overheated PS3... by overheating it? This is a contradiction!
Qrazey 1 month ago 5