PS3 Weird Startup: 1 Time YLOD Then Its OK?

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Anwar

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Hello everyone,

This is my first post on this site as I was told that it is the place to ask about everything PS3 related. I have recently bought 3 used PS3s. 1 slim Black CECH2100 and 2 fats CECHH Ceramic white and CECHL Satin Silver. The reason for buying the fats is I really liked the white one and wanted it since I knew they existed and as for the silver one, well that one I got it really cheap for parts since it had a GLOD then in my attempt to fix it then it got YLOD but that is for another thread.

The reason for me writing this thread is the CECHH White one. It was advertised as working fine which I tested and it was ok. I took it back home I opened it and repasted it. Believe it or not but it was on OFW and it had a running time of 5 days 10 hours only and the internals were reflecting that. After the repasting job I started it and it worked fine. It got better with temps so shut it down and left it for few days.

I tried to start it after a couple of days and the when I touched the power button I was greeted with the YLOD. I was in shock and did not want to believe it. So I touched the power button again but this time it worked! I played it for few hours and it was fine, only being slightly hotter than last time I played it but that was fine (it might need deliding plus our ambient temps is kinda hot). So I turned it off and unplugged it and called it a night. Next day, I plugged it into the wall and touched the power button again and I was again greeted by the YLOD. I mean the exact sequence (Standby red, Green, Yellow then flashing red). But then I tapped the power button again and it worked fine! This is really weird since I have looked all over the internet about this exact issue and only found one post in which the PSU was suspected to be the reason but no conclusive answer was given on it.
So my observation is whenever the console is unplugged from the power source and then replugged, first start up will always result in a YLOD. After that startup the console works fine.

I am also slightly suspecting the HDD since it has the original 40gb. I have 1TB SSD on order and should arrive soon planning to use it on the console.

Any one faced this exact issue or has any hints on what is happening here?
 
Hi,

I was going to ask the same thing. I thought it was something because of the latest HEN hfw update 4.91 (the console worked fine in the previous 2 versions of HFW, only in-games freezing), because for me that's when red-green-yellow light started flashing as well as freezing anywhere, not just in-game.
I was very sad when flashing lights appeared and left the console alone for about 2 weeks. Then I tried it again and it turned on fine, until I plugged in my external hard drive and it immediately froze when doing a gamelist refresh on Webman tool.
On the next reboot I copied the game to the console's HDD and disconnected the external one and the refresh worked fine in Webman. Nothing bad has happened so far, so I'm not really sure if it's a problem with the latest webman or HEN update dealing with external ISO games, or if my external hard drive is kind of faulty (it's old).

I hope someone else can clarify this issue better
 
Raidmax said:
Check the SYSCON logs through @bguerville's toolset in the browser and report back what codes (A0xxxxx) are listed there.
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This is the error log. Some of the errors related to sudden power shutoff which I want to clarify happened few times while I was transfering games via FTP and testing them (probably related to webman bugging or something). Other errors might indicate bad token caps?
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3001 points to 12v... tried another PSU? Could very well have been caused by something imperfect in the PSU side. Otherwise I can't see anything standing out from there - 1004 and 1001 are user-triggerable, and there's too little 1002s to need a TOKIN replacement as it is.
 
Raidmax said:
3001 points to 12v... tried another PSU? Could very well have been caused by something imperfect in the PSU side. Otherwise I can't see anything standing out from there - 1004 and 1001 are user-triggerable, and there's too little 1002s to need a TOKIN replacement as it is.
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Sounds like a good plan. I have another CECHH and a scrapped CECHL. You know if the CECHL PSU will work on the CECHH? I opened both few weeks ago and they seem similar.

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Anwar said:
Sounds like a good plan. I have another CECHH and a scrapped CECHL. You know if the CECHL PSU will work on the CECHH? I opened both few weeks ago and they seem similar.

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Not from the CECHL as it has 4 pins. A CECHH/CECHJ/CECHK PSU should work as it has 3 pins, which is the type of connector the DIA-001 mainboard uses.
 
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