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Forums - Gaming Discussion - I bricked my PS3 Fatty today!

bartkuz on 10 January 2017

Or is there a way to bring it back?

So thats what happened - I bought a new hard drive for my PS4 and decided to put the old one to PS3. When the system software was updating tv signal disappeared and stayed like that for couple of minutes. Then I did something stupid and restarted my PS3. It was running but still no signal. After that i tried to take out new hdd and turned it on - message appeared on screen that there is no storage. Then I turned PS3 off, put hdd back in and when I turned it on again it gave me ylod - green light then yellow then blinking red and it turns off. Can't go into safe mode either. I guess there is no way.



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DannyDesario on 12 January 2017

I had my og PS3 brick on me a few months back. i had just bought FFXII too -___-. But yeah its bricked, the YLOD is the end. I tried to replace the thermal paste and nothing worked.



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bartkuz on 12 January 2017
BraLoD said:
Did you search forums for this kind of issue? There should have been plenty of info on that over the years, maybe someone was able to find a solution, even if sounds like you broke it.

I did, but didn't found any solution. They say if you restart your PS3 while it's updating - it's over. Maybe I will try to bring it to private technician and see what he says. Such an amazing machine, can't say my goodbyes :]



bartkuz on 12 January 2017
Versus_Evil said:
:| my fatty is still going strong even after the years of beatings my little bro has given it. Any day now.

I wish your machine a long life! Those fat PS3's are beauty :]



pbroy on 12 January 2017

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Yellow+Light+of+Death+Repair/3654

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BillyBong on 12 January 2017

Reflow & Reball the solders.. unfortunately you'll have to find someone who can do that and have the proper setup to do so. I had my electrical engineer colleague reflow with lead solder on my bricked 60 phat a few years ago when it had YLOD on me. That plus cleaning the fans and my phatty still kicking like brand new, also is whisper quiet. This was about 2.5 years ago. Reheat unfortunately will only buy you a bit of time cus the original solders are the weak link. All you're really doing is hoping the heat from the heat gun, blow dryer, oven, etc. softens the broken solders enough to make contact with eacother again. Also, heating like that could cause more harm than good on the motherboard and other components.

I'd almost wager that my reflowed should last a good long while.. pretty important if you have a big collection of ps1, ps2, and ps3 games like I do.



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