Need help! Bout to pull my hair out! RSOD
 

ok so heres the deal. I have been buying ylod's and relowing for quick sale. Anyways have been 100% successful with the fix, un till I made a trade for a huge lot of ps3's and xbox 360's! In this lot i found a working ps3 that has rsod. It is in many different languages. I have done much research and not found a way to fix it. I finally did get it to start updating firmware 4.11 but when it gets done and restarts, it has rsod again!! Im losing my mind with this thing. I have reflowed and replaced thermal with arctic silver. Im not real tech saavy with the whole hacking thing but i need to get this fixed. I dont have a dongle or anything like that. I do have an external hdd FAT32 formatted. The ps3's hdd is fine i have used in another ps3 and works fine. Any help would be great! thanks in advance. It is a launch 40 gig.

If it installed 4.11 you're S.O.L. Should have left it on a lower firmware (unless it was already 3.56+) and tried this

At this point, only a hardware flasher or Sony can fix this. You might get lucky trying the options in the recovery menu, but there's a very slim chance of that.

how wouldi flash it in easy lamans terms lol!

Get a flasher (Progskeet, E3) follow the procedure for downgrading to 3.55, then try the link I posted above. Reason being, you need to be below 3.56FW to put it in factory/service mode and use the rsod fix. That's your only option, or part it out on ebay ;)

[edit] Also, the "red screen of death" has nothing to do with reflowing the board; it's a NAND corruption problem. Even after going through the steps I outlined, it may very well still rsod, depending on how badly corrupted the NAND is. I'd say just cut your losses and sell it as is on ebay.

By "flash it", he means to write directly to the flash memory of the system. If that's not laymen's terms enough for you, the system is a lost cause.

As simple as I can make it, you'd need to buy a progskeet flasher, and would likely want to buy the adaptor PCB and a NAND clip to avoid soldering. You'd need to dump your NAND, edit the dump, and reflash the system with the edited NAND image. If that makes no sense, you have two options: write off your loss on the system, or spend a crapload of time googling and figuring things out. I wish you luck.

Also, ignore the comments about the E3 flasher, as it doesn't support NAND consoles (i.e. backwards compatible 4 usb models).

Ah, you're right. Thanks for the correction :)

BTW - e3 flasher does support nand flash, but u need to have the e3 clip suit with it.
Soldering is required and I havent found any feedback for it. I believe everyone with a band model uses progskeet.

Since I have an e3 flasher, I order the e3 clip suit, which comes with e3 linker and a clip. Will give some feedback on it after I receive it.

But best bet would be progskeet, since there is way more support for it.

Well not the news i was hoping to hear, but thank you for being straight with me. So I buy these things and flip them. There is a guy around here who claims to fix rsod for $30. I gues to make a $100 profit would be worth the $30. Again, thanks you guys!

A progskeet flasher is kind of a valuable tool to have in your arsenal if you do this stuff for money (you could be the dude advertising brick fixes/downgrades etc) and the hardware only costs like 65 bucks or so. (plus the clips, if you don't like soldering) I don't own one myself, but from what I read it's a good investment. If you pay this guy $30 to fix your RSOD, that's almost half of what you'd pay for a progskeet. You could buy one yourself and fix 2 or 3 people's PS3s and it's paid for itself. Then after that, it's all profit. If you get good at it, you can dump/edit/flash a console in 1/2 hour, charge $30, that's $60/hour...

I would have to do a lot of research on how to use it. Like I said im not real hardware and firmware saavy, lol! Hell I was dumb enough to put 4.11 fw just trying to get it to work, when it had 3.15 on it. I got a lot to learn on all that stuff.