YLOD PS3

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  thesaint2 years, 3 months ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  1 way only.
  Get the YLOD PS3 working again.
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  zeus98762 years, 3 months ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  is there a cheap way of doing it ?
  

  
  Edited By: zeus9876 on Mar 10, 2011 16:46
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  thesaint2 years, 3 months ago #3Show comment toolsReply

  zeus9876

  is there a cheap way of doing it ?
  

  
  
  It's possible that it can not be fixed by any means at all, as YLOD can happen for a variety of reasons.
  
  Some people wrap it in a towel, and blow hot air from a hair dryer into one of the vents.
  
  I strip them, and heat up the relevant parts with a hot air gun to reflow the solder, and redo the thermal paste.
  
  The 1st method is the cheapest.
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  zeus98762 years, 3 months ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  ok thanks i will just pull the hdd from it and format it and sell it like it then
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  thesaint2 years, 3 months ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  zeus9876

  ok thanks i will just pull the hdd from it and format it and sell it like it then

  
  
  Yes, the quickest way to format it is to put it in the slim PS3 to format it, then put it back in the 60GB.
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  zeus98762 years, 3 months ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  oh....thought i could do it on the pc ??
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  thesaint2 years, 3 months ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  zeus9876

  oh....thought i could do it on the pc ??

  
  
  You can, but surely it's easier to do it in the other PS3?
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  zeus98762 years, 3 months ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  no idea thats why i am asking here :)
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  thesaint2 years, 3 months ago #9Show comment toolsReply

  zeus9876

  no idea thats why i am asking here :)

  
  
  To do it in another PS3 takes 15 mins tops.
  
  The longest time is removing/replacing the HDD in the caddies, as the 60GB HDD needs to go into the caddy of the slim.
  
  It depends on your PC set up whether it's quicker doing it that way.
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  cicobuff2 years, 3 months ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  Sony have now had the foresight to see how many users of old PS3s are losing their save game data and are offering (at a stupid fee) in their new firmware, the option to store game saves to a cloud, nice idea, shame it has to be paid for....I just had to update my PS3s firmware for nothing.
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  zeus98762 years, 3 months ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  just put the hdd from the ylod ps3 into a slim and it just comes up as an error. Something along the lines of
  
  The system software cannot be run correctly. Press the PS button to try to restart the system. If the system cannot be restarted correctly, the system partition of the hard disk must be reformatted and you must reinstall the system software. Insert storage media that contains update data 3.60 or later then press the start and select buttons at the same time
  
  I downloaded the updated pup file onto a memory stick but still won't let me do anything and the pc does not see the drive and i really need to wipe it
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  nebno62 years, 3 months ago #12Show comment toolsReply

  zeus9876

  just put the hdd from the ylod ps3 into a slim and it just comes up as an error. Something along the lines of
  
  The system software cannot be run correctly. Press the PS button to try to restart the system. If the system cannot be restarted correctly, the system partition of the hard disk must be reformatted and you must reinstall the system software. Insert storage media that contains update data 3.60 or later then press the start and select buttons at the same time
  
  I downloaded the updated pup file onto a memory stick but still won't let me do anything and the pc does not see the drive and i really need to wipe it

  
  
  check the update file is in PS3\update (i think)
  make sure hard drive if firmly pushed in
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  zeus98762 years, 3 months ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  so i have to create a folder called PS3 and then another inside of that one called update ?
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  nebno62 years, 3 months ago #14Show comment toolsReply

  zeus9876

  so i have to create a folder called PS3 and then another inside of that one called update ?

  
  yeah, all in capitals and the update file should be quite large (300MB maybe?)
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  zeus98762 years, 3 months ago #15Show comment toolsReply

  I downloaded the update file from the sony site and is 176mb. Will put it into folders and se what happens
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  zeus98762 years, 3 months ago #16Show comment toolsReply

  formatting now, thanks for the tip

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