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Ps3 YLoD Attempted fix's. Any more ideas?
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WallyHale
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16. November 2009 @ 06:29 |
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:( I'm an Aussie living in the UK but that's no good .. hehe
Might just stick it on eBay
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Fgermana
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18. November 2009 @ 11:58 |
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Can anyone help.....
I have 2 PS3's.
First one's issue. YLOD.....
I have followed the step by step guide doing the reflow 4 times. First 3 times no luck. 4th time PS3 started up I heard the audio but no display. After about 15 seconds the system stop and I'm back to the YLOD. I have increased the heat gun temp and extended the time. I have swapped the power supply with a known good one. Any other ideas???
Second PS3- System boots up fine but does not see discs. I replaced the laser and it worked for about 2 weeks. I put a working drive in the system from another PS3 same model # and it still doesnt see the drive. I have reseated all connections for the drive with no luck. Any idea's on this one?
Third PS3 - System powers on with no display or audio. I have tried to reflow this system as well with no luck.
I want to throw all this things through a sony store window..... Any help is greatly appreciated.
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mmayhemm
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18. November 2009 @ 12:49 |
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System 2: Make sure you use the old drive board ? the board that comes with the original blueray drive is married to the main board.
System3: Have you tried keeping your finger on the start button until you get the 3 beeps?
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Fgermana
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18. November 2009 @ 14:27 |
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mmayhemm,
Thanks for the info. Got 1 system up and running. Replaced the bluray drive and put the original bluray controller on it and it works perfect. Didnt realize the control and mobo were married.
I tried the reset the video trick and that doesnt work. Anymore info would be great.
Thanks again
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abms
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19. November 2009 @ 23:08 |
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yo guys,.... new to this forum however i use afterdawn tons for my electronic needs. so i too have a ps3 with some issues. i get the ylod but only after playing for 10-30 min. if i let it cool i can start it back up and play for another 10-30min then ylod again. Damn blinking red light. anyway it seems that i have a unique problem because my ps3 will run fine after a cool down. It does not run hot.( it has been alot worse) so i'm thinking maybe the temp control is not functioning as it should. i think the only logical solution wold be to put on some new heat grease? it seems as though the board is ok. any ideas..... moderate or crazy... i'm open to anything.
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Hotice17
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20. November 2009 @ 04:26 |
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your sure it's not over Heating problem? does it has the yellow light? because it's the first time i heard that kind of problem. any ideas guys?
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WallyHale
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20. November 2009 @ 06:07 |
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abms - Is your fan kicking in before it is shutting down? Do you get a heat warning notification before it shuts down?
When I reassembled mine for the first time I forgot to plug the fan back in, so it overheated watching PlayTV after about 15 minutes, but I was warned that it was overheating and would shut down. I don't know if it went yellow before hand because I was out of the room and my missus told me of the notification.
I wonder if the power supply is heating up and shutting down with a YLOD? I have heard of the power supply causing YLOD before. If the fan / temp monitors are for the chips etc rather than the power supply, and the fan isn't kicking into high, then maybe it's power supply related? Got a mate that you can 'borrow' his power supply for a minute to check it out :)
Since I don't know where the temp sensors are and what is the cause of a YLOD (other than requiring a reflow!), if I was in the same situation I would go power supply, then thermal compound / clamp bending :)
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abms
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20. November 2009 @ 10:15 |
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Originally posted by WallyHale:
abms - Is your fan kicking in before it is shutting down? Do you get a heat warning notification before it shuts down?
When I reassembled mine for the first time I forgot to plug the fan back in, so it overheated watching PlayTV after about 15 minutes, but I was warned that it was overheating and would shut down. I don't know if it went yellow before hand because I was out of the room and my missus told me of the notification.
I wonder if the power supply is heating up and shutting down with a YLOD? I have heard of the power supply causing YLOD before. If the fan / temp monitors are for the chips etc rather than the power supply, and the fan isn't kicking into high, then maybe it's power supply related? Got a mate that you can 'borrow' his power supply for a minute to check it out :)
Since I don't know where the temp sensors are and what is the cause of a YLOD (other than requiring a reflow!), if I was in the same situation I would go power supply, then thermal compound / clamp bending :)
well the fan definately kicks on when i turn on the consol. it didn't seem to kick onto high before it froze then black screen blinking red light... i personaly didn't see the yellow light. i did vacume it and it seemed to run for bout 3 hours but who knows. when it shut down the first couple of times i put me hand on top of the power supply but it seems normal(as it always was). the hdd is definately fine. i did not get any kind of warning mesage about anything. it seems that the heatsink fan won't kick up to a higher speed, because when playing modern warfare the fan stayed on low the whole time? i might try to completely disasemble, vacuum, bend clamps, and new thermal paste before i try a reflow. any comments?
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WallyHale
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20. November 2009 @ 11:12 |
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Comments? Do it :P
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abms
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20. November 2009 @ 23:53 |
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just happened again. it is definitely the ylod cause i saw the yellow light this time. it seems even after like and hour the fan will not kick up to a higher speed. I think it is actually overheating. so how should i go about this. do you guys think that a new heatsink fan would help or is it the controller itself that is causing the fan speed to remain constant. now i have to open it up. but same as before i can turn it back on right after and it will boot and run fine. so weird.
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select127
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21. November 2009 @ 00:02 |
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I just bought two original 60gb locally hoping to fix one of them. The first had YLOD, tried the reflow but no luck. The second console I'm not sure whats wrong. It was taken apart by previous owner and the contents were just put in place and not plugged in. I put everything back together but the system won't show any video/audio. It comes on fine and stays on but thats it. Funny thing is it will go into the rebuild database/restore system/restore file menu but when i pick something say restore database, it will proceed to start process but then go into no video/audio and few seconds later shut off. So any idea what the problem might be? Also, are the blu-ray drives swappable?
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Hotice17
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21. November 2009 @ 02:36 |
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the Bluray drive is married to the motherboard, cant swap
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abms
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21. November 2009 @ 03:33 |
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thats not true....maybe... i dont think the main motherboard is married to any drive. as long as the drive stays with its "small board" attatched to the drive i think it will work. don't quote me on that though. ya just read above on this page.
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abms
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23. November 2009 @ 10:25 |
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any options for my original problem?
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mmayhemm
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23. November 2009 @ 14:48 |
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Originally posted by abms:
thats not true....maybe... i dont think the main motherboard is married to any drive. as long as the drive stays with its "small board" attatched to the drive i think it will work. don't quote me on that though. ya just read above on this page.
The motherboard and drive board are married, if you change bluray drives the drive board must also be changed or it won't read the discs
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abms
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24. November 2009 @ 17:52 |
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Originally posted by mmayhemm:
Originally posted by abms:
thats not true....maybe... i dont think the main motherboard is married to any drive. as long as the drive stays with its "small board" attatched to the drive i think it will work. don't quote me on that though. ya just read above on this page.
The motherboard and drive board are married, if you change bluray drives the drive board must also be changed or it won't read the discs
yep i belive that is correct.
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select127
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24. November 2009 @ 18:16 |
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Originally posted by mmayhemm:
System 2: Make sure you use the old drive board ? the board that comes with the original blueray drive is married to the main board.
System3: Have you tried keeping your finger on the start button until you get the 3 beeps?
what is keeping finger on start button suppose to mean? I tried on my no video/audio 60gb and it went into restore screen but then shuts off when an option is selected.
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mmayhemm
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25. November 2009 @ 01:48 |
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Does it switch off no matter which option you choose? Does it yellow light when it turns off?
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select127
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25. November 2009 @ 11:56 |
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Originally posted by mmayhemm:
Does it switch off no matter which option you choose? Does it yellow light when it turns off?
yes, no matter which one it shuts off, no yellow light just green to red.
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b3mike
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26. November 2009 @ 03:41 |
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Originally posted by AlexBR:
Wally, thanks for the message.
I opened up the console again just to check and it turns out I forgot to connect a wire. Re-connected it and it works beautifully.
Thanks, man.
Alex what wire did you forget to connect? For the life of me I cannot get the wifi to work. I've checked the ribbon that connects the wifi card to the motherboard, I've cleaned everything and I've even replaced the entire wifi board but all I get is bluetooth and no wifi! Anyone please help. It's just terrible that I managed to revive my ps3 but I can't get online
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mbazzer
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26. November 2009 @ 09:27 |
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Originally posted by b3mike:
Originally posted by AlexBR:
Wally, thanks for the message.
I opened up the console again just to check and it turns out I forgot to connect a wire. Re-connected it and it works beautifully.
Thanks, man.
Alex what wire did you forget to connect? For the life of me I cannot get the wifi to work. I've checked the ribbon that connects the wifi card to the motherboard, I've cleaned everything and I've even replaced the entire wifi board but all I get is bluetooth and no wifi! Anyone please help. It's just terrible that I managed to revive my ps3 but I can't get online
i had this problem, fixed the ps3 but couldnt get online! i found because this ribbon get moved and bent alot that if you look into the of the ribbon the tiny wires were snapped. i chopped the end off with scissors while waiting for my new ribbon and it worked first time! im not sayin this is whats wrong with yours but its worth a look
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WallyHale
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26. November 2009 @ 11:26 |
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I know my Bluetooth didn't work coz of the ribbon cable you have pointed out. What's that small black cable that clicks into place (like a button almost)? Does that have anything to do with Wifi?
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26. November 2009 @ 11:41 |
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Here's another fix I found that worked on my friends I took his hard drive out because it was yloding I plugged it into a PC and ran Spinrite on it from www.grc.com it found a couple of bad circles but after it ran I plugged it back in to the PS3 and it worked im guessing some of the ylod is hdd issues.
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XTrez
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26. November 2009 @ 16:54 |
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The Hard drive apparenty can cause the YLOD, however, I have had YLOD always caused from the leaded solder under the bga's in need of flux and heatgun to fix it. I have swaped hard drives over when ever I got a YLOD just incase but it never worked, same with powersupply apprently causes YLOD.
BTW, 18 hours all up (MEtal Gear Solid 4 + Assasins Creed) Going well so far, looks like Flux maybe a must. However fan is louder than what it useto be but may have something to do with clamp bending or as gilsky said too much thermal paste.
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abms
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26. November 2009 @ 17:26 |
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so my ps3 officially died permanently today. now when i turn on i instantly get the ylod. so i have disassembled and noticed the the thermal compound had oozed out the sides of each chip. it had hardened with pretty much no hetagrease under the heatsink. also the clamps were barely tight, seemed sorta odd. Should i heat up the cpu and gpu or should i first try to reassemble with only new thermal compound. also there is a small component that looks like it has overheated. i will post a pic right away.
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