Hello everyone,
I saw yesterday a very good video tutorial on how to prevent the chances of getting ylod on your PS3 system.
The whole process and best thing that you can do is if your PS3 is older then 2 years to open it fully and change the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU.
I thought that it is hard to do that but now that i've done it i can say simply it isn't difficult to do.
Like you know the thermal paste is there to take the heat away from the CPU and GPU and after 2 years the factory thermal paste will be really dry so it won't cool it down well and your PS3 will overheat and then get YLOD.
Here you have the first part of the video (of the 7 part tutorial);
[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu3QU8xWxI8[/video]
i have a 40GB PS3 model and it's not the same as the one in the video but i managed it anyway, not much difference ....
I have taken pictures all the way of doing it but just follow this guy on the video and you can't really do anything wrong
There is just 1 thing that you need to care off, just do it very slow with patience, don't pull anything off with force if it won't take off, just do it slow and look close at everything first ... And also you need something to get the screws there but not all screws in the same bottle because you won't know later where which belongs, just make sure you know where you've taken off every screw and where and in which order you've disassembled every part and you'll be fine.
I hope that this will help someone like it was helpfull to me, because this will really help your PS3, extend the lifespan and minimize the chances of getting YLOD, if you fear it so much like i do :S
And anyways it's "Prevention is better then fixing later"
Good luck and if you stuck somewhere feel free to ask me for help and i will do that
P.S. Watch every part of the tutorial COMPLETE every minute of it, when done the 1st one go to the 2nd on the right side and so on ....
I saw yesterday a very good video tutorial on how to prevent the chances of getting ylod on your PS3 system.
The whole process and best thing that you can do is if your PS3 is older then 2 years to open it fully and change the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU.
I thought that it is hard to do that but now that i've done it i can say simply it isn't difficult to do.
Like you know the thermal paste is there to take the heat away from the CPU and GPU and after 2 years the factory thermal paste will be really dry so it won't cool it down well and your PS3 will overheat and then get YLOD.
Here you have the first part of the video (of the 7 part tutorial);
[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu3QU8xWxI8[/video]
i have a 40GB PS3 model and it's not the same as the one in the video but i managed it anyway, not much difference ....
I have taken pictures all the way of doing it but just follow this guy on the video and you can't really do anything wrong
There is just 1 thing that you need to care off, just do it very slow with patience, don't pull anything off with force if it won't take off, just do it slow and look close at everything first ... And also you need something to get the screws there but not all screws in the same bottle because you won't know later where which belongs, just make sure you know where you've taken off every screw and where and in which order you've disassembled every part and you'll be fine.
I hope that this will help someone like it was helpfull to me, because this will really help your PS3, extend the lifespan and minimize the chances of getting YLOD, if you fear it so much like i do :S
And anyways it's "Prevention is better then fixing later"
Good luck and if you stuck somewhere feel free to ask me for help and i will do that
P.S. Watch every part of the tutorial COMPLETE every minute of it, when done the 1st one go to the 2nd on the right side and so on ....
