PS3 Worried about a PS3 Slim I just got having a YLOD after this.

[Fujean]

Long story short, I don't know if I'm looking at a potential YLOD down the road, a failing hard drive, faulty ISO backups or Webman Mod and Cobra Tools conflicting with each other.

I was playing a PS2 Classic (God Hand) for a while (about 30 minutes) and forget about adjusting the fan settings for PS2 games. When I exited the game, the fan started speeding up like crazy so I panicked and shut the system off. Turned it back on and the fan started speeding up again, Webman Mod showed the CPU temperature was at 78 degrees, so I turned the system back off, let it cool down and once it was on again I tried messing with the fan settings in both Webman Mod and Cobra Tools. Then my PS3 started acting weird when playing ISOs via Webman Mod. Some of them would work, others wouldn't and in the worst case, they made my console crash to the screen where it tells you to connect a controller by USB and reinstall the firmware. That makes me think the HDD might be dying (it's a 1TB so I put all my ISOs on it), but then I could just press the PS button to reset the system and bypass that error. I can still play .pkg based games with no issue but if if I try an ISO, especially via Webman Mod, it's like Russian Roulette. Therefore, I uninstalled Webman Mod and with it lost access to my PS2 ISOs. Because Multiman won't let me mount them. It'll let me mount PS3 ISOs, but as soon as I go to the PS2 ISO folder in that app, it crashes to the XMB.

 

[Berion]

If You got 78*C it means You need to change cooling system. Repaste it or in worst case, delid it. It is to hot, hardware issue. But to be sure, first set in WebMAN MOD to leave fan control to the SysCon, not Your custom.

This not eliminating other issues but that one is serious and need to be resolved first.

 

[Fujean]

I think the only reason it was able to get to 78*, which was once, was because I played a PS2 game for 30 minutes without having any PS2 fan settings. From what I read here, when you launch a PS2 Classic, the fan speed stays at whatever it was on the XMB. So mine would have been at 25-30% when it should have been at at least 40%. So when I finally exited the game, the console could start properly cooling itself. Fortunately I wasn't playing the game for long, as I was just using it to test a PS2 controller adapter. So I'm hoping that incident didn't do any real damage. As I'm sure the same thing YLOD'd my original pre-2009 fat PS3. This slim is, or should be in good shape. It's a 2501a model that was made in December 2010 and has only seen 60 days of total use.