I decided to just buy a broken one off Ebay that has a good power supply. Since I have two with broken power supplies I will see what I can do to get them fixed. Is there anyone with some circuits knowledge that would be interested in teaming up to make a power supply repair tutorial? I have a degree in Electrical Engineering, but I dont really have the time to do it all myself.
GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS ahh yeah 2 days ago my PS3 died on me:( but theres a fix, What usualy makes the YLOD happen is over heating in the power supply, so the power supply will still give enough power to keep ur light on but once u wanna start it up it will fail and give you the YLOD so heres what you do open up your ps3 take out your power supply go on ebay buy a other one and replace it the BAM your beautiful baby will be working again! but for some of u it might not work but the chances are it will good luck and post tell me how it worked out. HAPPY TO HELP!:)
Originally posted by Ace476: GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS ahh yeah 2 days ago my PS3 died on me:( but theres a fix, What usualy makes the YLOD happen is over heating in the power supply, so the power supply will still give enough power to keep ur light on but once u wanna start it up it will fail and give you the YLOD so heres what you do open up your ps3 take out your power supply go on ebay buy a other one and replace it the BAM your beautiful baby will be working again! but for some of u it might not work but the chances are it will good luck and post tell me how it worked out. HAPPY TO HELP!:)
what happens if the power supply swap doesnt work what else could it be? i plugeed my ps3 into a bad out let and now i have no red light at all and i have changed the power supply tht didnt fix the problem at all?
I have tried fixing thew ylod times before,and to my conclusion believe that its not the gpu overheating.Its the power supply.
I put rubber spacers underneath the power supply to let the air inside circulate between the board and the pack.
If anyone else tried similar and with sucess let us know.
What I did notice was that the console was alot cooler when I did this
That PSU is just a piece of crap...mine still works, and I am still thinking of upgrading to a corsairATX supply to prevent it from killing other parts. I bet going to an external ATX power supply would really cut temps.
Originally posted by onehanded: amazing though that we all have to spend extra money on these machines when sony and microsoft should have got it right to start with
Welcome to reality; these systems are built to be as cheap as possible, with little concern for reliability after the warranty expires. The PS3 has been around so long that it has outlasted slower, more expensive computers from companies like Dell & HP...and then people get mad when you have to make a tweak here and there to keep it running.
Sure, they could have built the PS3 to last, but the slim would costs $500, and the launch units would have been $1200+.
