Ps3 ylod... <.<

[KAV]

Originally Posted by McQ59

My dear old fat PS3 60gb gave me the YLOD last weekend. It happend in the middle of a dogfight. All just went black... Disc stuck inside and all!
My hole BOP-life went down the cyberdrain in a yellow blink. At least I thought so, but then I made a deal with the Devil in me and disassembled the hole f*#in' box. To get it together again I searched the net and found hundreds of very helping hands. After all, I'm not the only one with the ylod-experience.
After doing the "hairdryer-trick" (I used a heatgun) and reapplying thermal paste to the cpu and the gpu (I think thats what they are called), I finally got the box together. And it worked!

I'm flying again!

Dr. McQ59
Congrats mate !
So this is the reason to your absence ! I thought you to were lost in the mud crawling of CoD or tarmac burning of GT5 !

Good to hear you managed to fix it, keep the recipe for this safe.
Looking forward to c u in the skies mate.

[McQ59]

I'm up for a mission or two this weekend my friend.
I can't drive fast cars or crawl in dirt. BOP is is my recreation.
If u ever get the ylod, call me

[Korsakov829]

A friend got this a few months back, he reapplyed the thermal paste and placed small packets of dry ice inside. Its worth a try.

[Akula]

Originally Posted by McQ59

My dear old fat PS3 60gb gave me the YLOD last weekend. It happend in the middle of a dogfight. All just went black... Disc stuck inside and all!
My hole BOP-life went down the cyberdrain in a yellow blink. At least I thought so, but then I made a deal with the Devil in me and disassembled the hole f*#in' box. To get it together again I searched the net and found hundreds of very helping hands. After all, I'm not the only one with the ylod-experience.
After doing the "hairdryer-trick" (I used a heatgun) and reapplying thermal paste to the cpu and the gpu (I think thats what they are called), I finally got the box together. And it worked!

I'm flying again!

Congratulations on getting your system to work.

Just a heads up - It may be a good idea to get a new PS3 while your YLOD-Fixed one still works & transfer the data over. The system probably will die again, VERY soon.

[McQ59]

Thanx Akula. I will get a back-up for sure. In fact, the hole reason I took the box apart was to try to save my data.
That said, There has been reports about ps3's working for months after ylod-resurrectoin. And now that I know how to do it, I'll give it another try if it blinks at me again. I have feelings for my old fat little friend...

[McQ59]

Originally Posted by Korsakov829

A friend got this a few months back, he reapplyed the thermal paste and placed small packets of dry ice inside. Its worth a try.

Cool...

[Davedog74]

good job mate,can you fix my old zx spectrum, the j button doesnt work

[McQ59]

Originally Posted by Davedog74

good job mate,can you fix my old zx spectrum, the j button doesnt work

No worriers mate. Send it over

[Shadowcorp]

No YLOD for me, but my blu ray drive has packed up after 2 and a half years of extensive use. Only option is a replacement costing just shy of 100 pounds. Safe to say i will not be able to play any disc based games untill after christmas.

[KAV]

Originally Posted by Shadowcorp

No YLOD for me, but my blu ray drive has packed up after 2 and a half years of extensive use. Only option is a replacement costing just shy of 100 pounds. Safe to say i will not be able to play any disc based games untill after christmas.

So you think you have been a good boy, making Santa give you another for X-mas ?
Thats not what I have heard.