So I went ahead and bought a 60GB YLOD'd PS3 on ebay. It took a few days of disassembling, poking around inside, looking up info on the net, and doing some things, but I finally can get it to power on and stay on. Let's hope it continues to do so for a long long time. I did however cause a problem with the bluray drive when it was opened manually to remove the disk that the former owner had gotten stuck inside (CoD4), so my system is now up and operational, and I'll hopefully be able to get the drive working some time in the next few days. Just gotta find some sort of guide or something on how to proerly disassemble/assemble the drive so I can hopefully get it in the positions it needs to be. My PSN name is in my profile.

How'd you fix it? Just tinkered around and things just started working?

I've heard of people baking the motherboard in the oven.

you sound like me working on my car... I went to change my fuel filter and I snaped the fuel line I fix one thing but break another.

After awhile of looking around trying to figure things out, I was able to find a guide where you reflow the CPU and GPU, so I followed it and it seems to be working so far. I at least have the menu. Haven't gotten to try any games yet. It did involve a heat gun. I would think an oven could be a little dangerous.

so you're the guy who outbid me. -.-

Heh, I did a buy one now. Sorry, but your outbidder is in another castle.

So the outbidder was a princess...the plot thickens.

Get an intercooler for it if you had to do a solder reflow. Otherwise it will happen again.

I plan to. First I'm trying to figure out why the games I download aren't loading right. It just gives me a blank screen with no sound. I don't have the bluray drive connected, but I don't think that should prevent demos from playing.

you should open up a repair shop :D