(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I have seen this asked so many times and the answer is always the same "search on youtube or google it" well i thought i would just search this as i had a bit of spare time and wanted to help. This has probably been done before but when i search i only get a how do i? and a pdf file. this was found on another site.

You will need:

1.) Heat gun (temperature controlled preferably).
2.) Isopropyl alcohol (acquire from chemist).
3.) Vacuum cleaner or compressed air blower.
4.) Phillips screw driver.
5.) Flat blade screw driver or slotted torx bit.

Instructions

1. Remove warranty sticker and rubber foot thats positioned above hard drive bay.
This will invalidate any warranty.

2. Using a small flat blade screw driver or slotted torx bit, unscrew cover plate screw.

3. Slide cover plate towards the left until it stops and lift off.

4. Remove all Phillips screws marked noting size and position.

5. Hinge case towards you until disengaged and then tilt towards the left. See below.

6. Remove ribbon cable by carefully lifting black part of connector (locking tab).

7. Lift/tilt blue ray drive towards the right whilst disconnecting power cable and the large ribbon (lift tab) underneath.

8. Remove 5 screws and the earth wire screw on psu, and unplug connector plug.

Before removal of psu unplug small bnc connector (black wire) and remove tape on side of psu, now lift off psu.

9. Now remove the wide ribbon from connector (lift tab) unscrew the four screws on the Bluetooth board and remove.

10. Remove hard drive cover.

11. Unscrew blue hard drive screw and disengage hard drive by sliding towards gap in the bay.

12. Remove hard drive, see below.

13. Unscrew 4 screws holding the bracket, on/off and eject control panel. Remove small ribbon (lift tab) and remove control panel.

14. Unscrew 8 screws.

15. Lift enclosure out of plastic base, see below.

16. Now unclip black rear panel and remove.

17. Unscrew 4 screws and remove sprung brackets, see below.

18. Lift of metal cover plate whilst allowing ribbons to pass through gaps in plate without damage, see below. (Taking note where heat sink rubbers are positioned).

19. Supporting fan assembly turn board over, remove fan power connector and fan.

20. Remove 2 screws holding plate to hard drive connector and unplug battery connector.
Now remove plate.

21. Clean off old heat sink compound from the 2 mainprocessors using Isopropyl alcohol making sure all traces of the old heat sink compound has gone.

22. Clean both touch plates on bottom of fan/heat sink assembly with Isopropyl alcohol until all traces of the old heat sink compound has gone.

23. Now using a vacuum cleaner or compressed air blower get rid of all dust build up in the case and on all component parts of the ps3 (pay special attention to the fan assembly and heat sink fins(MUST BE CLEAR OF DUST).

24. Typical example of dust build up.

Ps3 case (dusty).
Heat sink plates before
heat sink compound removed (dusty).

25. Once cleaned you should now have a nice pile of bits that looks something like this, see below.
Now for the tricky bit!

26. Check the top metal cover plate (underside) for burn-in marks, as you can see below this ps3 got very hot before it yloded!

27. Place the ps3 mother board on a flat heat resistive surface (kitchen work top or melamine shelf will be fine).

28. Turn heat gun on and set temperature to 350 deg and the fan speed to low (to high and it will move the surface mount bits).Allow gun to get up to temperature before continuing!

29. Using a circular motion hold heat gun over areas outlined below (keep heat gun an inch above
board/components at all times).

30. CPU side first.

31. After 15 to 20 seconds move onto the next area.

32. Once all marked areas have been heated/reflowed on the mother board LEAVE for at least 10 to 15 minutes to cool. (DO NOT MOVE MOTHER BOARD WHILE COOLING).

33. A popping noise may be heard during cooling, dont worry this is normal.

34. NON CPU side.

35. After 10 to 15 seconds move onto the next area.

36. Once all marked areas have been heated/reflowed on the mother board LEAVE for at least 10 to 15 minutes to cool. (DO NOT MOVE MOTHER BOARD WHILE COOLING).

37. A popping noise may be heard during cooling dont worry this is normal. Heat sink compound still on in this picture, remove before reflowing. Heat sink rubber pads still on in this picture remove
before reflowing also hold ribbons out of way while reflowing

Congratulations!!

You have just repaired youre yloded ps3 mother board.

38. Now its time to apply new heat sink compound to the 2 processors, when doing this its always best to follow the manufacturers instructions but I believe the process is the same with all types (please check instructions that come with paste), before continuing

39. The paste I am using is called AKASA 450 its a silver based compound with a thermal conductivity of 9.24w/m deg c and an operating range of 0 to 200 deg c. You can buy it from most pc shops but I get mine from my local Maplin ( I have been told that there is a better compound on the market called arctic silver but I havent tried it as yet so the choice is yours).

40. Use syringe supplied and dispense a small worm of compound from top to bottom on the left hand side of processor chip, now using credit card supplied spread compound evenly and thinly over processor face (to much is bad and not enough is also bad) the ideal amount is when you can almost see through the paste.

41. Now repeat on the other processor.

42. See below.
NOW IT IS TIME TO REASEMBLE THE PS3.
RETRACE YOUR STEP IN REVERSE TO REBUILD
MAKING SURE ALL RIBBON CABLES HAVE BEEN
FULLY INSTERTED INTO CONNECTORS AND LOCKED
DOWN IE. (TABS).

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(part 1) found on youtube no credit to me plz credit guy who posted.

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(part 2)

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(part 3)

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(part 4)

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Part 5

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(part 6)

Hope this helps??

Do 80gb NON backwards compatible Ps3 get YLOD?

there was a survay a few years ago that said phat ps3 since V1 were at a rate of 10% susceptible to YLOD so bearing in mind that this was a couple of years ago will probably have gone up to about 15 now

still dont understand V1? Yes or no?

sorry the answer is yes the phat ones still get YLOD although it seems that the slims may be a bit more susceptible. Backward compatible or not its the heat that causes it not backward compatibility!

I did the heat gun reflow only after my warranty was up. I had nothing eles to loose on my first 40gig cechh01 ps3 that I paid $400 plus tax for.I only used flux under the Rsx and Cpu chips sets but I was very carefull as I only wanted the joints under the chips to have the flux on them and not to have a big mess on the mobo 2 clean up.The heat gun I used has 2 settings low and high 750 f and 1100 f temperature settings also my gun has nozzles with it concentrator and window nozzle I used the concentrator one has the smaller bore at the end of it. I used the 750 f temp setting for reflowing only I used a air compressor to clean the board of dust then I warmed up the topside of the mobo really its the bottom of the chips but upside down then I fliped it over apply the flux around the chips then I used to 2 chairs and 2 empty packs of cigs on each chair with a gap big enough inbetween the chairs so I could have the chips facing up and I could reflow from the bottom as well as the top of the chips as soon as the joints where hot enough the chips drop down and puff back up. That system worked well for awhile I had that ps3 for 3 years be4 the mobo broke I guess it lost picture the rsx chip must have shorted out or stoped working but it would still turn on.

Like To Add, Another Key Problem With YLOD When 'Fixed' Is The Update Loop Error (Google It If You Dont Know What It Is)

Currently The Only Semi-Working Option To Get Rid Of This Is Formating The Hard Drive Via PC (System Recovery Does Not Work)

Look Out For It If You Ever Get YLOD

I dint have the money at the time it broke to get a new one with a warranty. So I bought a used cechg01 from ebay from a guy in my state he sold it to me for $70 american dollars with the cords and one controller no shipping since I drove over 1 hour and 30 mins to his house also he emailed me his number so I called him aswell. I used paypal to pay him so I wouldnt get scamed or robbed he was a nice guy who happend to live footsteps away from the beach in my state since I live in the city. It had the YLOD never was open still had the warranty sticker on it. I did the same thing for reflowing as in my above post but with one diffrence I took off the ps3 Black case the mobo sits in and put it aside. I Put the mobo on top of a ps3 box to sit on. I riged up 2 fans one above the power supply and one on the right side it also holds up the blue ray drive 1 1/2 inches above the mobo to cool it even more (air is flowing under the blue ray player). Ever since then I havent had the YLOD return at all instead if I dont run my fan mods and let the mobo get hot the fan speed will speed up and after about 1 hour of playing a game it will shut off with no beep or stand by red light on. If I leave my fan mods on the mobo wont shut off on me and I could play for hours and hours without a problem sometimes I fall asleep while playing and left it on all night to wake up and its still on. I then suspected the power supply was bad I checked the voltage on the mobo power supply pins (hooked up some wire around each pin pos is the first pin and the neg is the second one) got a reading of 12.05 volts on start up with no fan mod on then it will drop as the ps3 fan speeds up drops again to 12.04 then down to 11.99 just be4 a hour is up so I know its close to shuting off cause their is not enough voltage to supply the power the ps3 needs. Now I tested it with my fan mods so the mobo is super cool as well as the power supply 12.05 volts down to 12.04 then it will not drop past 12.03 volts no matter how long I play for

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when I get some extra cash I will get a power supply and see if I was correct about my power supply being bad but for now I just leave my fan mods on be4 I start the ps3 up and keep it running like that for as long as I want or untill the power supply dies I guess.SORRY about the long post guys I just felt I needed to explain my story maybe it could help someone eles.

No thanks all i was trying to do was help!!! I would like to get this stickied but dont think it will be even though the amount of probs we have with it!! If you think i should add this into the tutorial plz tell me where? I will be glad for your help and assistance and will credit you with it thanks again i will +rep when this 24hr thing wears off!

Thank you soo much