Monday, 31 May 2010

Yellow Light of Death and reflow

If you are one of the unlucky sods with a PS3 suffering the infamous YLOD syndrome, you might have heard of the Gilksy reflow fix. You might even have tried it, and actually brought your PS3 back from the dead, but chances are it's living on borrowed time. Read on to learn why.

Meet the patients

In order to be able to experiment, I've scrambled together a ragtag collection of PS3s and parts.



Sunday, 25 April 2010

YLOD and heat sink problem

What is the infamous "Yellow Light of Death"?