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PS3 Red Light of Death x2
« on: January 20, 2011, 05:15:53 pm »
Both of my PS3s (both original 60GB units) chose to die via RLOD within 24 hours of each other after nearly four years of perfect service. Needless to say I was disappointed.

After re-seating the hard drives, blowing out dust, letting them cool off (all the easy recommendations) I decided to go for broke and get a heat gun and thermal paste and heat me up some reality synthesizers.

I followed these instructions that I found on YouTube:

After a few hours I had (surprisingly) both PS3s up and running fine! I was very skeptical about the process, but it worked perfectly. It's only been a week, and who knows how long the fix will last, but so far, so good.

Anyone else had to do this?
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Re: PS3 Red Light of Death x2
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2011, 11:50:49 am »
I did it with my 60GB Fat.

Didn't get a perfect job tho'

Got the machine working again, so I could get me data off the drive (500GB drive!), the whole XMB parts work fine. But networking is down and if I try and start a game it locks up with a black screen. I probably have an issue with the solder on the RSX. When I get time I'll have to have another go at it.

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Re: PS3 Red Light of Death x2
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2011, 01:42:58 am »
This is news. Do the newer skinny models suffer from this?

That's funny... "Bad things happen when people try to tinker with electronics while they're plugged in...."

In High School I was part of an apprentice* program where I was explicitly told to leave the PC plugged in while working on it to ensure the system was grounded.


*I use the term "apprentice" very loosely. The whole program was a crock. Told them to ---fudgesicle--- off and left it after a week.

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Re: PS3 Red Light of Death x2
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2011, 04:55:12 am »
Sounds like the same thing people do to rrod xbox 360s