Odd YLOD PlayStation 3

Got a PlayStation 3 CECHA01 60GB a few months back that yellow lights while playing some PlayStation 2 games. This unit has very little use on it and was well cared for even coming with the original box and plastic wrappers. Works fine playing ps1 and 3 games.
Playing Star Ocean on it causes it to ylod during the first in game fmv though it’ll play the opening on a loop for hours, Soul Calibur and Tenchu do the same. Final Fantasy XII works without any problems.
I have checked the hard drive and updated the firmware, and used these games on my other bc ps3 without issue. The system works just fine after turning it back on.
Any ideas other than trashing a otherwise mint condition ps3?

 

First suggestion
Change thermal paste
Second Suggestion
Mod it and set fans higher in addition to the above

 

If the PS3 side is working fine and you get consistent crashes in the same place on PS2 games then it's most likely the RAM on the PS2 side of things - those early PS3s had 32MB of dedicated direct Rambus memory that was used only for the PS2 subsystem.

 

hopefully Pixel's info is the culprit and not Tri's. Use PS3xploit to get CFW on your PS3 and then install webman to change the fan speeds.

http://www.psx-place.com/threads/ps...tware-flash-writer-nor-dumper-released.15500/

good luck

 

I know it is not heat related, in so3 the game crashes every time in the same cutscene with about a 5 second variation regardless of if it has just started from a cold boot or if it’s been on for hours. I was suspecting the rdram or EE+GS myself, is there any practical way to test those.
Edit: is it possible to use ps2_gxemu.self instead of ps2_emu.self? Seems that would be a fairly simple way to check the rdram since that was taken out of the 80gb,

 

yes its not heat related. Overheat usually gives a message via XMB and syscon turns the fan to 95% (aka panic mode). It doesn't turn the console off.

The message is:
" The system has become hot. Please turn off the system and wait a while before turning it on again "


My guess is: some broken solder joints @ the ps2 chips like Tri said

PS1 and PS3 games use Cell CPU