[pereb27]

Originally Posted by chadreed#22 well i got it fixed by paying someone to reflow it. now when i turn it on and start to watch PlayTV it says its too hot and then flashes red untill i turn it off and if i dont it turns itself off and still flashes red. ive contacted the guy that fixed it and he said he will have a look at it for me tomorrow but i thought id ask you guys to see what you think

Thermal paste. Most likely the paste under the heatspreader, since that's hard to replace, and the person who reflowed your PS3 should have replaced the thermal paste on the heatsink.

[superfurry]

Originally Posted by Annelies As long as it works, I'm fine. It's a method that works and that's whats important.

Well telling someone to do that is a bit silly to be fair mate, some these people couldn't even bake a cake let alone a motherboard if you are that desperate to have an extra hour or two out of it fair enough I guess


Sent from my head at the time

[chadreed#22]

ok now the guy that reflowed my ps3 has totally stopped talking to me and i cant get in contact with him. what do i do. do i just do it myself or go to someone else and get it done?

[XZ32]

Originally Posted by chadreed#22 ok now the guy that reflowed my ps3 has totally stopped talking to me and i cant get in contact with him. what do i do. do i just do it myself or go to someone else and get it done?

Just get a cheap kit with heat gun and all in from ebay (25euro), and reflow it yourself. Did this a few months ago and still rockin' atm
http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Playstat...item1c21bd2899

Some very useful vids:
http://www.youtube.com/user/gilksy1#...AD82CEE19E40C7

follow these and ull b fine ;D

[OGzxFTW]

Originally Posted by Annelies You can temporarily fix it by baking the motherboard. Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk

Sure just go and tell him to bake it, then he'll move it and all the components will fall off or move, if you move any of the ps3 compenents whilst its still hot your more fked then when you started. And you never told him what degree celcius you need and for how long you must hold a heatgun/hot air station over each area that needs reflowing.

Btw if your going to do a reflow and your going to use the flux method then make sure its 'no clean flux' (You dont have to clean it off after applying) dont buy normal flux and use it on the board because it MUST be cleaned off after applying or it will eat away at the solder point pads, plus it would be hard to clean under the gpu and cpu :P

[Hamz75]

How long did the ps3 last until it got ylod again?