Support YLOD

Discussion in 'Technology' started by CaptainMIG, Apr 18, 2014.

  1. CaptainMIG Gummi Ship Junkie

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    I was playing final fantasy x for a while and after I was done with it I tried to play another game, but before I had the chance to play anything my ps3 stopped working and every time I tried turning the power on, the game kept turning off on itself. so is there any steps I can take to fix it and not waste a lot of money?
     
  2. Ɍeno Traverse Town Homebody

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    Well first of all there is the towel or hair dryer method which can keep it running for maybe around another week if you're lucky and It's a good way to backup all your saves.

    I'm also assuming you have the original model of the PS3 right?
     
  3. Miles Cull a Duty 2 : Electric Boogaloo

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    There is a yellow light right? the hair dry method does work. I tried it. its really only meant to get discs out. Only permanent solution is to have it reballed. I would do but i have yet to find one who actually does it.
     
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    This happened to me a while ago. Unfortunately there's no permanent solution, and the fix is time consuming and expensive, and it will inevitably happen again. I ended up having to buy a new PS3, there no really viable other option
    And if you buy a new one, don't get a fat model, they're pretty much time bombs, they'll all ylod eventually
     
  5. Miles Cull a Duty 2 : Electric Boogaloo

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    reballing is a permanent fix.
     
  6. A Zebra Chaser

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    Is that the case? I looked around a lot and everywhere I could find insisted that there was no permanent fix
     
  7. Miles Cull a Duty 2 : Electric Boogaloo

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    nah its 100% a fix. people say that to other people becuase they think they wont go with it getting reballed.
     
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    But how does this fix the fundamental heating problem? Do they actually change something in the hardware to deal with that? I thought it was a fundamental flaw with the system
     
  9. Miles Cull a Duty 2 : Electric Boogaloo

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    it happens when the heat melts a solider or a cracked solder joint. you pretty much need to re solder it. just need to make sure to turn it off when you are not using it. I always do it with my 60GB. Except this time i left t on to get my brother from school. Came back home and it was off with YLOD. YOu can also get a higher blade fan.