Hi, first of all i don't know if i'm posting in the right place, but where i go. A friend of mine gave me his BC ps3 60gb with ylod, i've already have one slim and one fat, but i'll always wanted one ps3 "first" model with BC (It's a CECHC04 model) My question, it's worted reballing the console? I'll put it with cfw, so i can speed up the fans and dont have temperature issues, but my doubt is if the ylod appears in the future or not, since my idea is to have the ps3 working at 60ºC or 140ªF. I'm doing this in the other too and soo far no isses, but the ylod is a new thing to me and i really dont know how it works and if low temperatures prevents future problems. Thanks in advance
It is pretty common model, it has semi-hardware emulated PS2 compatibility, the most worth-rescuing revisions are CECHA and CECHB. I do have B and C right now and once I had A. All I can say about using PS3 for playing PS2 games - better buy original PS2, SCPH-300xx model. More accurate screen resolutions, not such blury and no risk to kill an expensive hardware like PS3. Worth it or not - it is up to you to decide, If you need it so badly - reball it or buy another one. At least for me - I won't do reball. I use PS3 slim model to play any games and these two rare revisions I have just wait into the boxes when the time comes to test something. Not to play if say short).
Thanks for your reply, so, the model that i've pretty much only have the 4 door and card reader different from later ps3 fat model? i've a latter fat version (160 gb) and a slim (250gb) both with cfw, so the repair of this one was only for make it work and to had a "first" model working... the price that were ask to do it was about 50€ (rebailling and downgrade)... my fear is that i'll spent the money and after 1 or 2 months it stop working
-Technicaly that is not so important, I mean CF reader and 4xUSB, most important difference is, if I remember right, the GS unit (PS2 part) is software emulated, the EE is a real hardware CPU from PS2 there. A and B revision have both EE&GS from PS2, it's like you put and integrate PS2 with PS3 hardware. All later revisions (CECHG and further FAT's, all Slims and SSlims) have software emulated PS2 mode. Your, (CECHCxx) at least, has semi-hardware. -It can live a mounth or a year or years - no one knows. Not so long there was a conversation there one man desoldered four RSX's RAM chips to be sure there was a problem. It was YLOD unit. The cause was bad RSX. Before desoldering RAM it had bad circiut resistance between two control points on RSX and after removing RAM it remained bad, but when he completely remove all soldering iron from RAM's pads the resistance of the RSX's control circiute became normal. That means the PS3's YLOD might be caused by short-circuit under the 4x RAM RSX's chips. There is no access to that zone to fix it or also there is no direct access to the zone under NVIDIA GPU crystal. Dead end. If you heat it with heatgun or even reball it - it might help for some time to get better connection between GPU or memory with RSX's textolite substrate but that connection is weak. Someday YLOD appears again. And NAND downgrade is pretty hard and takes much time. P.S. Sorry for that much words and so much mistakes, that's not my native language.
IMO, it's not worth it to reball those systems unless you can do it yourself (heads up: it's not easy and requires expensive gear). You could just buy a never-YLOD'd system for less. Reflowing it is at-most a band-aid fix... sure, you can do it, but it will inevitably fail again from my experience. It could last weeks, or it could last a year or 2 , but it'll happen again. (edit: read Armorant's post above where he writes basically the same thing, lol) But you could always do it knowing that anyways. Reflow it, change the paste, do the potentiometer fan mod so the fan runs faster. I prefer this over using a software method with CFW... hardware method, it's always going to go faster.
Thank you both for your feedback, right now i have it disassembled and i have a friend of mine helping me doing some tests Tomorrow he i'll continue and see if i reach a dead end or not.. The primary objective to this console is not playing games with her, is just to put it working again, because, as i said before, i already have 2 ps3 without ylod issues, i just want to recover a little piece of history. @Armorant no need to sorry, is not my native language too @Mord.Fustang with softmod i can see real time temp and program a limit of temp on the ps3, so, i fell that a win win situation with cfw
PS as in power supply, swap out a known good power supply from a working unit to test it. If it's the power supply that shipped with the unit there is a 2nd revision or part number power supply, perhaps someone else can chime in.
I've dealt with several PS3s with YLOD and every time it was not a power supply issue. Most likely it is the motherboard and not PSU.
I've my recovered, a friend of mine gave some heat on the rsx and put new thermal past and the console is working again... i know that this is not a permanent fix, but i'm really happy of have it working. I'm only sad that the console is on 4.00 ofw :/
