OK a friend of mine bought a faulty PS3. He knew it was faulty the guy selling it claimed it was the blue ray drive that was faulty.
First I though my mate was lucky he got it for £70 but its a PS2 compatible PS3!
So we connected to a TV and the xmb appeared on screen. Decided to put a disk in and before the disk was fully in the screen turned pink and pixelated and then crashed. Had to turn off the PS3 from the switch, but when we restarted it it wouldnt load at all!
Left it for a bit and turned it on again, xmb appeared thsi time, but crashed even though do disk was inserted into it.
Now is this really a faulty drive or could it be a motherboard issue or someting else?
We opened the top half of the PS3 and used an air can to blow some of the dust away, mate didnt want to take off the psu and drive, maybe try that tomorrow see if fan is clogged or not.
Whoa...before you pull out the heatgun, there are a few things to try first.
First, dissasemble the unit...we want just the mainboard; with the heatsinks removed. There are two big chips that would touch the heatsinks. Once says "Cell" on it; we want to look at the other one. It has a metal plate on top of it, and this plate may be loose. If it is, it is just a simple job of sanding off the old glue, cleaning off the old thermal compound, and then putting new thermal compound on the core and new glue on the 4 squares in the corners.
The YLOD heatgun thing should be your absolute last resort; it is a coin-toss...sometimes it fixes a problem, sometimes it creates new, unrepairable problems where there was only a minor issue before.
Originally posted by KillerBug: Whoa...before you pull out the heatgun, there are a few things to try first.
First, dissasemble the unit...we want just the mainboard; with the heatsinks removed. There are two big chips that would touch the heatsinks. Once says "Cell" on it; we want to look at the other one. It has a metal plate on top of it, and this plate may be loose. If it is, it is just a simple job of sanding off the old glue, cleaning off the old thermal compound, and then putting new thermal compound on the core and new glue on the 4 squares in the corners.
The YLOD heatgun thing should be your absolute last resort; it is a coin-toss...sometimes it fixes a problem, sometimes it creates new, unrepairable problems where there was only a minor issue before.
wait, are you saying its not necessary to use the heatgun before applying thermal compound? i have the YLOD nothing on screen just flashing red light but i dont own a heat gun so it would be quite the load off if i could just apply the thermal compound by itself...
