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JOKA_ on 21 October 2010
ShadowSnake said:

lol awesome. you're a inspiration to all of us who lack the balls to rip apart 600$ machines.

i'd do some backups though just for safe-keeping. i've heard several stores of fixed up ps3's not always lasting too long.


lol thanks.  I figured since it was dead, and waaaaay out of warranty (its a 60 gig launch unit) I had nothing to lose.  I would never have done this to a working machine, or even a dead one still under warranty.

 

And yeah, my next step is to back up all my saves and deactivate my PSN account, along with delete all of my music/pictures/games/etc.

I have a plan for this PS3...



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JOKA_ on 21 October 2010
Parasitic said:
JOKA_ said:

My reaction:

After going through all that and fixing it, your reaction should've been much more epic...


I know!  but this was the best gif I had for the situation. 

Actually now that I think about it, my reaction was more like this:



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Rafux on 21 October 2010

Congratulations dude.



Sweep on 21 October 2010
JOKA_ said:
ShadowSnake said:

lol awesome. you're a inspiration to all of us who lack the balls to rip apart 600$ machines.

i'd do some backups though just for safe-keeping. i've heard several stores of fixed up ps3's not always lasting too long.


lol thanks.  I figured since it was dead, and waaaaay out of warranty (its a 60 gig launch unit) I had nothing to lose.  I would never have done this to a working machine, or even a dead one still under warranty.

 

And yeah, my next step is to back up all my saves and deactivate my PSN account, along with delete all of my music/pictures/games/etc.

I have a plan for this PS3...

Just be cautious now, I did this trick with my 40gb out of warranty and it was a no go : YLOD was still there.

You can't be sure this PS3 will last for very long



ethomaz on 21 October 2010

Congrats.

EPIC WIN!!!



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zuvuyeay on 21 October 2010

good work

forgive my technical ignorance but what was wrong with it

new paste and reflowed(whats that) is that what you did



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Gilgamesh on 21 October 2010

A little heads up, it's probably not permanent. There's a good chance in a months time it'll YLOD again.



JOKA_ on 21 October 2010
zuvuyeay said:

good work

forgive my technical ignorance but what was wrong with it

new paste and reflowed(whats that) is that what you did


It got the yellow light of death, so I looked online to find a solution.  I admit that I also have almost no technical knowledge, and pretty much just followed some youtube videos. 

From my understanding (and anyone please correct me if I'm wrong), "re-flowing" melted some of the connections on the board and reset them into their proper place.  To re-flow it I held a heat gun that got up to 700 degrees over the the RSX and the CELL.  And 2 other spots...as the youtube video instructed.



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JOKA_ on 21 October 2010
Gilgamesh said:

A little heads up, it's probably not permanent. There's a good chance in a months time it'll YLOD again.


Oh I know



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IMU1808 on 21 October 2010


ROFL