ironman on 26 June 2009
| CDiablo said: Iv'e brought both of my PS3s back to life with the solder reflow trick. I would recommend using a heat gun to terget the gpu/cpu over using an oven, but both ways are temporary. Sadly the poor design of certain runs of certain models(ie: very few) cause the machine to heat up so much that the solder on the gpu or cpu disconnect from their socket connection to the motherboard. If this does happen to any vgcharter and you do the fix it is best to buy an independently powered ac adapter intercooler(one that has its own power supply, not one that pulls from the usb ports). This trick also works on RROD xboxes, which is what the towel trick does......also the update most likely has nothing to do with the ylod, just bad luck for some PS3 owners. |
The towel trick ruined countless 360s, the fix was temperary, the damage was permanent.
