My PS3 Took a giant one on me

[AWE Daniel]

Yup it just took a huge shit on me, thanks for that! It wouldnt recognize any discs in it, and then I decided to see if there was an update for it, and there was, but it checks all the hardware when it updates and it will not get past the bluray drive check, and keeps restarting the update, there is nothing I can do unfortunately.

So keep an eye out for a PS3 for 200 or less for me, thanks!

[004x41500]

call sony? they should fix that for you free if under warranty still.

[SmokedRam]

This aint the one I sold you is it?

[AWE Daniel]

Nope its about 3 years old, no warranty, I'm gonna fukk with it in the am

[004x41500]

Well damn, good luck my friend

[Storm Rider]

My son in law had a PS3 that over heated. It was going to cost the same to repair it as it was to buy a new one.

[004x41500]

that rediculous. id trash it, and buy a new one. lol

[OklaHemi]

I haven't had that, I have had the yellow light of death or overheating and fixed it myself for less than 6.00. Can you back up your stuff at all? You can plug it in to another ps3 or external hdd and copy all of your saves and data utility the format the disk to see if that helps. It's a lot of waiting but it may save you a couple hundo.

[004x41500]

howd you fix those?

[OklaHemi]

There are videos on YouTube. The YLOD is caused by the shit job Sony did on the thermal Paste on the CPU and GPU allowing the solder to overheat and the chips to separate from the board. You will have to totally take the ps3 apart to the mother board, which I think is cool shit. and clean off the old thermal paste, use a heat gun to remelt the solder, maybe add some flux and the re apply thermal paste(best buy or radio shack), and put it all back together. Sound like a lot but I got to fixing friend and could do it all in 30 min and that's with 15 minutes for the board to cool after using the heat gun.

[004x41500]

Nice.

[AWE Daniel]

I Think i might have figured out what the problem is, there is this tiny black clip on the motherboard that holds the ribbon cable from the bluray drive down. I think that is partially broken and the connection was loose, I pushed on it real good and got it to finish the update, now I just need to get some electrical tape and make sure it doesnt come up again.

Great design on that part sony hoo-rah!

[Silverbullet08]

microsoft ftw!

[AWE Daniel]

Lets not start that, this is the first time the ps3 has given me trouble but I've been through 5 xboxes

[Silverbullet08]

apple ftw!

[SmokedRam]

^^^haha.....

[OklaHemi]

Dammit nick lol. Try hot glue daniel

[4XLGator]

My son in law had a PS3 that over heated. It was going to cost the same to repair it as it was to buy a new one.

My nephew's did that exact same thing, he was told the same thing and bought a new one.

[OklaHemi]

sell me your overheated ones

[004x41500]

Oranges ftw. ;) lmao.

[johnnysart]

Daniel, sorry to hear about that have you tried one of them dvd cleaners?

So far non of ours have given us trouble.

[OklaHemi]

My old 40gig did the YLOD but my 9 yr old had a bad habit of leaving it on for days at a time, these newer systems aren't designed to stand up like the nntendos and segas of yesteryear

[AWE Daniel]

I got it working at least but after 30 minutes of infamous it still sounds like a jet engine

[OklaHemi]

Did you vacuum the vents?

[AWE Daniel]

yeah it is as clean as a whistle

[AWE Daniel]

Well here is what is happening, I took a look at Best Buy's trade in program, and I am going to trade in a bunch of games that I really have not been playing, most of them best buy is giving me 30$ a piece for, so In return I will get a 270$ best buy gift card, so when I get that I will get a new ps3. So thats good.



So once I get the new ps3, I will take the old one out and shoot the shit outta it with the .45, so be on the lookout for those pics and videos.

[Onk]

Bring it to wiregrass and let me run it over!

[AWE Daniel]

After it gets shot, sure!

[BigJuice55]

That sucks man. I still have my 1st gen PS3 and it's still running strong.

[NOTPAID4]

WOW, for the $ those cost; thought they would be a lot better than THAT!!! Didn't realize these had problems.

[004x41500]

after kev runs it over, i wanna run it over too. :)


i agree jim,for the 300+ we pay for these things youd think they could be left on 24/7 i guess sony decided profits before quality. as they always have.