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    Default PS3 yellow light of death!!

    I was wondering if I could get some help from the tech guys here. I am in the process of repairing a PS3 which has the yellow light of death. You turn it on then it blinks green then yellow then back to blinking red in a kind of stand by mode. I have done everything I could think of from checking fuses in the power supply to making sure there was enough thermal putty on the processors. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks guys.

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    Son - why do you have a question on the PS3 and a picture of an XBOX 360 as your avatar?

    Is this suppose to show the duality of man?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dsullo View Post
    Son - why do you have a question on the PS3 and a picture of an XBOX 360 as your avatar?

    Is this suppose to show the duality of man?
    No I am actually a microsoft fanboy its just im repairing this console for a customer so I am looking for the best interests of the customer. thanks for being Oh so concerned about my standing on the console wars.

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    hahaha

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    So finally Ryan admits he's a microsoft fanboy a.k.a. tool. Now everything is becoming clear!

    -mike

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    Quote Originally Posted by killersquirel View Post
    So finally Ryan admits he's a microsoft fanboy a.k.a. tool. Now everything is becoming clear!

    -mike
    Love you mike

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    RyanMurf - it's Dustin - you helped me with my PSP last night at DP. My joke was a poor attempt at quoting the movie Full Metal Jacket

    I think it goes: "Son - why do you have born to kill written on your helmet and a peace sign on your uniform?"

    "it's to show the duality of man sir"

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    Quote Originally Posted by dsullo View Post
    RyanMurf - it's Dustin - you helped me with my PSP last night at DP. My joke was a poor attempt at quoting the movie Full Metal Jacket

    I think it goes: "Son - why do you have born to kill written on your helmet and a peace sign on your uniform?"

    "it's to show the duality of man sir"
    O hey man. Yeah its been a while since ive seen that movie. FYI i was joking too. Ill see you next time.

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    About the question, I've only successfully restored one whole PS3 with this problem with a repair to the cooling system. ALL of the rest were heat damaged, and irrecoverable motherboards.

    If it's a 60GB or 80GB flavour mobo, your cust may be screwed, unless you are lucky.

    Definitely rule out it's a bad HDD, or some other component (PSU) by testing. It's unlikely those things, but it's easy to eliminate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by omnedon View Post
    About the question, I've only successfully restored one whole PS3 with this problem with a repair to the cooling system. ALL of the rest were heat damaged, and irrecoverable motherboards.

    If it's a 60GB or 80GB flavour mobo, your cust may be screwed, unless you are lucky.

    Definitely rule out it's a bad HDD, or some other component (PSU) by testing. It's unlikely those things, but it's easy to eliminate.
    Yes thanks for the help, I think it might actually be a heat damaged board because I have done everything to the cooling system for the better and still nothing. So what does this mean is it basically the same problem that the xbox 360 (HAD)?

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    Same but different. Much less common on the PS3. She's likely parts now.
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    This happened to my PS3 (60GB) last October; turns out it was the power supply that had died. Luckily it was still under the one year warranty, so Sony replaced it for free.

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    So your unit had no power at all, no red light, no yellow light?
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