@chililili: Well I can't send it to Sony... I would have in the first place, but my warranty has already run out, and since I opened it I definitely can't send it to them. And it is currently working, I just know with how hot it is getting, it will just yellow light again if I leave it running for a while. It seems like the problem might be the power supply now... Not sure, but it is getting unbelievably hot pretty quick, and then the heat seems to spread from there. Does anybody know if this PSU is defective or if they all get too hot to touch like that on the older fat models?
@Rockdalf: Yeah, I have backed up everything I can now... But it seems like when the PS3 heats up, the fan stays at the slow startup speed so it isn't enough to cool it off... Maybe the heat senors are faulty... I have no idea where they are though.
@commandercup: Yeah... That's what I was thinking, but I figured I'd wait and see if there was maybe another fix before I tried that since the fan is still spinning up. I guess I'll try that.
@commandercup: Well the way the notches and stuff are, there no way to put it back wrong... It just seems like not a lot of air is being pushed at all. It used to be a lot more obvious air flow, even with the case on.
@commandercup: Well, with the case on, it got hot enough to yellow light again. And the way the vent is designed on the side where most of the air comes out, it would still be pushed in the correct direction. It just isn't being pushed in the right direction it seems, with the case on or off.
I got the YLOD about a month ago, so I did the reflow method, and I noticed that while it was running there wasn't as much heat coming from the side of my Playstation. Then, about an hour later, it yellow lighted again. So, I reflowed again, and it was working for about an hour, and yellow lighted again. This is my third time reflowing, and I have the case off while it is running to make sure the fan is running and everything. I tried it for about five minutes to make sure everything is working right, and it pretty much is, but it just seems like it isn't dispelling as much heat out of the side as it should. The fan is running, I put Arctic Silver on the GPU and CPU, I don't see why the heat isn't being blown away from the console. After a few minutes of running, the residual heat made the PSU so hot it felt like a stove eye. Someone, please help. What is going wrong? If I try to use my Playstation before I get this fixed, I know it will just yellow light again.
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