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neoassasin

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I just wanted to find out if anyone else has experienced the "yellow light of death". It happened to me and I'm really psd off cause my warranty expired in October and since no one repairs PS3s it's gonna cost me about R3000 to have it replaced by Partserve with a refurbished one. I was thinking about gettin a XBox but I have too many PS3 games to change now.
 
In October? Isn't it supposed 3 years ... ? *stir*

urgh they're much of a muchness ... may as well stick to the PS3 because you have the software already. Is the YLOD also a hardware problem?
 
Neoassasin, PM Maestro_za, he does 360 repairs and might know some ps3 parts/suppliers that could help
 
neoassasin said:
I just wanted to find out if anyone else has experienced the "yellow light of death". It happened to me and I'm really psd off cause my warranty expired in October and since no one repairs PS3s it's gonna cost me about R3000 to have it replaced by Partserve with a refurbished one. I was thinking about gettin a XBox but I have too many PS3 games to change now.
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Nope.

Give ps3za.co.za a visit for some help in that regard.
 
Read the link below and the ask Maestro for help. I think he stated he already repaired 25 PS3's. He gave no details so have no clue what was the problems. He may have reflow soldering equipment. I do have the equipment but never worked on a PS3, never had to. I will wait for mine to YLOD to experiment. But if you are totally stuck and willing to take the risk I may help by doing a reflow on those chips for you.

Seems to me "Houston, we have a problem!" A heating problem. Time to look at additional cooling?

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/676411
 
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To be honest, YLOD is not a specific hardware failure. Could be a funked GPU (no fix if it's completely melted) or a myriad of other problems. A thorough inspection of the motherboard is needed.

@ IAP: The majority of the PS3's I fixed were a dead laser or replacing the BD7956FS IC on the PCB of the Blu-Ray drive. I've had 1 YLOD which couldn't be repaired as the GPU was a goner.

I have reflow soldering equipment. I'm not some flea-market operation!

The reason I don't go in to much detail with you is that your interest is just to argue for argument's sake.

@ neoassassin: I can have a look at your PS3 at no charge. You will have to get it to me in Pretoria though.
 
maestro_za said:
To be honest, YLOD is not a specific hardware failure. Could be a funked GPU (no fix if it's completely melted) or a myriad of other problems. A thorough inspection of the motherboard is needed.

@ IAP: The majority of the PS3's I fixed were a dead laser or replacing the BD7956FS IC on the PCB of the Blu-Ray drive. I've had 1 YLOD which couldn't be repaired as the GPU was a goner.

I have reflow soldering equipment. I'm not some flea-market operation!

The reason I don't go in to much detail with you is that your interest is just to argue for argument's sake.

@ neoassassin: I can have a look at your PS3 at no charge. You will have to get it to me in Pretoria though.
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Hey, dude. Be nice. I did not start an argument. I posted very handy information as a possible solution and refered a client to you. Why so naafie? :confused: :sick:
 
maestro_za said:
To be honest, YLOD is not a specific hardware failure. Could be a funked GPU (no fix if it's completely melted) or a myriad of other problems. A thorough inspection of the motherboard is needed.

@ IAP: The majority of the PS3's I fixed were a dead laser or replacing the BD7956FS IC on the PCB of the Blu-Ray drive. I've had 1 YLOD which couldn't be repaired as the GPU was a goner.

I have reflow soldering equipment. I'm not some flea-market operation!

The reason I don't go in to much detail with you is that your interest is just to argue for argument's sake.

@ neoassassin: I can have a look at your PS3 at no charge. You will have to get it to me in Pretoria though.
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No it's cool dude I will just have to suck it up and pay the 3 grand, thanks anyway. Only crap thing is the replacement only has a 90 day warranty so fingers crossed that nothing happens after the 90 days.
 
No problem neoassassin.

Xbox 360 replacement consoles warranty if you don't have proof of purchase is also 3 months.

All of the best :D
 
jeppe777 said:
i hope all ps3s die
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oh i get it, so that sony goes bust and therefore stops making consoles thereby pretty much leaving microsoft as the monopoly in the hard core gaming market and that's a good thing because monopolies always have the consumers' best interests at heart, i mean, look at telkom and how much they have changed all our lives for the better. right?

think twice, speak once. lol
 
Oh well, at half the price with three times the warranty you can't go wrong.

YLoD, yet another example that consoles fail regardless :/
 
timgaul said:
Oh well, at half the price with three times the warranty you can't go wrong.

YLoD, yet another example that consoles fail regardless :/
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Yeah, the fail ratio is just much, much, much, much, much, much higher on some. :/
 
Kerrrang! said:
Yeah, the fail ratio is just much, much, much, much, much, much higher on some. :/
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Used to be much higher, I think you mean. But as I said at a third of the price with thrice the warranty (9 times better, me thinks) its not really a massive issue.
 
timgaul said:
Used to be much higher, I think you mean. But as I said at a third of the price with thrice the warranty (9 times better, me thinks) its not really a massive issue.
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The warranties of all those launch consoles a are starting to expire, and unless they've all already been replaced (quite likely;)), then methinks that yes, it could potentially be quite a massive issue.
 
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