This is my first post, so if I've stuffed up, please be nice
okay, my ps3 has gone ylod on me.
I think
rather than the standard green-yellow-flashingred mine goes
green-yellow-green(for a second)-flashingred+threebeeps
it does this at startup and I am unable to enter the xmb
I have tried:
switching it on
leaving it for a day
disassembling is and reassembling it completely
removing and inserting the hdd
formatting the hdd
changing av cables
cleaning out all the internal and external dust
I have closly observed the power board and there doesn't seem to be any damage evident. This same light/beep sequence keeps in coming. I have done everything advised on the web except a reflow, which I am reluctant to do because of the concept behind it and the fact that I don't want to risk it. And obviously i cannot send it to Sony because I had to take the warrenty sticker off to get inside. Besides they wanted to charge me $250 to have ig repaired. It is a limited edition 60gb model. Anyone have any suggestions on any other fixes apart from reflow, if not I might check some local pc/ gaming stores and see if they do it. Thanks
MrQwerty
(ps. Sorry if the post looks scuffy, I'm on my iPod touch)
Same thing happend to me the only solution I found was to do a reflow it's easy enough to do and since the your ps3 is dead without it you might as well give it a try. If it doesn't work just sell it on ebay, there's plenty of people that buy damaged systems repair them then resell them. Plus you'll probably get more money for the system this way than trading it in to gamestop (i think they take trades for damaged ps3).
I did my reflow differently ( I say more realistic, some say I was crazy) In place of the heatgun I used an oven. I preheated the oven to 400 degrees F, then I stuck the PS3's mainboard on a baking sheet in the oven for 4 to 5 minutes. My ps3 has been working again for 2 months. I did the reflow with a heat gun, but my PS3 YLoDed again after 2 weeks. The oven method spreads the heat more evenly therefor melting the solder back down more efficiently.
Reflow is the last-case attempt to fix a system with no other potential fix...the RSX fix is easy, and if it is not needed, then you can always do the heatgun fix, the same is not always true in reverse.
Oh, I am not sure on the battery placement in the specail edition 60GB...make sure you removed a battery and left the board without it for about an hour...this is another "Hail Mary" fix.
Yeah def a last resort. Mine went fine but I had no thermal compound. Ordered some came in a week from when I did the reflow and now the drive does not pull in disks. I don't know if it's the drive or the drive board. Gears inside are fine nothings jammed and the rest of the system runs fine (even plays the games and movies on the HDD).
