Recent content by PS3FatRIP

There were YLODs in 2009 for sure, but thats not the life expectancy. Maybe the lower limit or a huge range. My UK launch edition PS3 didnt fail until 2019

I'd be more than happy to get new NECs. Where can you get them from?

Are there differences between the nice black tantalums and the orange yellow tantalums?

Good news! Let's hope this lasts longer than a month!

I saw your post on reddit! What are the advantages (or otherwise) of using the piggyback method?

Well done! Can I ask what testing you've done on these since then? Hours of testing on games and heat cycles?

Think I'll try it - if it works for my mate Vince...

I think I'm going to try and replace the caps. Just to test what happens really, as I say I it's not a BC board so I'm not overly bothered what happens to it. If replacing the caps 'solves' the YLOD or even makes it better, I'm not sure how Sqeeubz can argue it does nothing. But that's getting...

Yeah it's great news in that the board works. But I'm none the wiser as the cause of my YLOD. Is it bad caps. Does it need a reball.

Okay - so I just did this (funnily enough, without seeing this post) I was trying to work out what squeebz meant about putting pressure on something (I'll have to go through his posts and find it) but couldnt work it out. So thought I'd try and heat up the NEC/Tokins with a heat gun and see...

Makes sense as a likely cause. One of my PS3s that I've had from new is YLODing at turn on. So for that, what is best diagnostic test? 1) Weight on the CPU/GPU? 2) What is the next test.?

Hello All! First time posting here - please be gentle. After reading god knows how many pages of this, we have at least two schools of thoughts. 1) A large portion of the YLODs experienced by PHAT PS3s are caused by NEC/TOKIN Capacitors dying over time, just as they did in Toshiba laptops...