Justin
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Seasons greetings to one and all.
Thanks to the incredibly kind scrappysphinx I received a very poorly PS3 to have a tinker with.
This is not a YLOD machine it is a RLOD (red, green, yellow then flashing red) this means it has a general hardware failure.
Now I must admit to not being too hopeful with this as the first thing I noticed is stuff rattled around inside the PS3, but undeterred I carried on and started stripping the machine, more bad news there are various screws missing and some address label type stickers placed across the case joints.
Once the case was off it got worse, the inside of the case had loads of plastic bits floating around and all of the internal screws were missing, the heatsink and fan were completely clogged up with dust, carpet, hair and flakes of skin (mmmmm yummy!). Also the shielding was bent and scratched.
Ah well press on, remove the shielding and find......really cheap and nasty copious amounts of thermal paste all over the chips and board, I'm guessing about 1/2 a tube per chip, also the board was covered in dry sugary coffee and worse than this there is a SMD superglued to the motherbaord!!!.
Well I reflowed the chips, but new thermal paste on, cleaned up everything, replaced the missing screws and re-assembled and guess what happened!!??..........
Yep no difference, I think this will need a new motherboard but also new ribbons as the ones in this PS3 have had a screw put through them.
The blu-ray drive may be OK, but the firmware would have to match the motherboard so it would probably be cheaper to buy a new PS3, but then where's the fun in that? I shall have another go at this beast over the weekend, anyone know how to safely remove superflued SMDs?
cheers, JuvUK
Thanks to the incredibly kind scrappysphinx I received a very poorly PS3 to have a tinker with.
This is not a YLOD machine it is a RLOD (red, green, yellow then flashing red) this means it has a general hardware failure.
Now I must admit to not being too hopeful with this as the first thing I noticed is stuff rattled around inside the PS3, but undeterred I carried on and started stripping the machine, more bad news there are various screws missing and some address label type stickers placed across the case joints.
Once the case was off it got worse, the inside of the case had loads of plastic bits floating around and all of the internal screws were missing, the heatsink and fan were completely clogged up with dust, carpet, hair and flakes of skin (mmmmm yummy!). Also the shielding was bent and scratched.
Ah well press on, remove the shielding and find......really cheap and nasty copious amounts of thermal paste all over the chips and board, I'm guessing about 1/2 a tube per chip, also the board was covered in dry sugary coffee and worse than this there is a SMD superglued to the motherbaord!!!.
Well I reflowed the chips, but new thermal paste on, cleaned up everything, replaced the missing screws and re-assembled and guess what happened!!??..........
Yep no difference, I think this will need a new motherboard but also new ribbons as the ones in this PS3 have had a screw put through them.
The blu-ray drive may be OK, but the firmware would have to match the motherboard so it would probably be cheaper to buy a new PS3, but then where's the fun in that? I shall have another go at this beast over the weekend, anyone know how to safely remove superflued SMDs?
cheers, JuvUK
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