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[Bleepey]

As the title says, for £50. Is it worth it?

Edit: the ps3 I have doesn't read blu rays or games. It hasn't ylod

 

[Deleted member 81567]

Yes.

 

[manzo]

No. You might get 1-3 months out of it by changing the thermal pastes and reflowing the mobo, but YMMV.

 

[Grinchy]

I suppose you could make an interesting art piece out of it.

 

[YianGaruga]

As the title says, for £50. Is it worth it?

I guess you could try to get it to work for some time, and if it breaks again, sell it off to the next person. Nothing wrong with it if you declare it as broken.

Probably wouldn't even have to take much of a loss.

 

[rukland]

Yes, if all else fails send it in to Sony for a cheap replacement. I have a friend who buys YLOD PS3's from people and just sends them back in for new ones from Sony. His latest PS3 this way cost him $5 to buy broken and $100 for the new one from Sony. Not a bad price

 

[angelfly]

No. The extra time you get out of it by fixing it isn't worth buying one purposely in that condition. You could get anywhere between 2 weeks to 2 months of playtime with it assuming that heating is the source of the problem.

 

[entremet]

No.

 

[Wario64]

Yes. Hook it up to your TV, load up a YouTube clip and pretend you're playing. Same thing.

 

[Jhriad]

No.

Yes, if all else fails send it in to Sony for a cheap replacement.

^This would be the only reason to do so. Be aware that they only do this for certain models and the system has to be tamper free.

There might be other scenarios where it would be a good option. I think YLOD also covers HDD failure so if that's the issue (and the idiot that owns it didn't figure that out) you'd have an easy fix. That's unlikely given how easy it is to diagnose HDD issues though.

 

[DidntKnowJack]

Just for backwards incompatibility? Hell no. Buy a PS2 instead.

 

[MadmanUK]

Broken or not, it makes no difference. The PS3 has no gamez.

 

[offshore]

 

[Keyser Soze]

A Play Station Three?

Yes?

Okay?

 

[Digishine]

Nope not even if it was £10

It's gonna break eventually = Save game's gone etc..

 

[lemonade]

Just save up 200 bucks. There are bundles out there.

 

[Pandaman]

yes, most YLOD's are bludisc drive failures, an easy and cheap fix.

 

[Flek]

repair / resell / repeat / profit

 

[ToastyBanana]

I got one with the red light for £30 to fix up and play Journey. I did the reflow thing on the GPU with a heatgun a few times to bring it back to life. It was fine for the first week but now on a cold boot it'll red light on me a several times. It's almost like an old banger that needs the ignition turning a few times before it'll start properly. Once it does boot up I can play for hours without it crashing which makes me think there's some weird sensor problem when it cold boots.

If you're okay with opening it up to mess with the insides then I say go for it.

 

[Bleepey]

I bought a different PS3, everything works except it can't read blu rays and games. First day it could read Assassin's creed after I did this:

http://community.eu.playstation.com...ng-disks-there-may-be-a-solution/td-p/6086723

Is there anything I can do?

 

[DonMigs85]

Assuming the GPU solder is the only issue and you can get it reballed cheap, go for it.

 

[Perkel]

It depend what Ylod it got. If it is cammon one. You just need to put ps3 on back, use hairdryer on vents like 20 minutes but cover whole ps3 before it with cloth and then leave it for hour.

Should work fo month. If again it will have ylod do same as above.

I have ylod for like one year now and this method still works.

Yes buy it.

 

[DonMigs85]

I got one with the red light for £30 to fix up and play Journey. I did the reflow thing on the GPU with a heatgun a few times to bring it back to life. It was fine for the first week but now on a cold boot it'll red light on me a several times. It's almost like an old banger that needs the ignition turning a few times before it'll start properly. Once it does boot up I can play for hours without it crashing which makes me think there's some weird sensor problem when it cold boots.

If you're okay with opening it up to mess with the insides then I say go for it.

That's pretty much what happened with my old 40GB Fat. I think as you keep restarting it, it warms up the solder balls on the GPU and they expand just enough to make full contact again.

 

[Bleepey]

I will edit the op but the ps3 I have doesn't read blu rays or games. It hasn't ylod

 

[Phuturephunk]

If you have the right expertise to solder anything to anything else, sure, why not.

 

[Bleepey]

I tried formatting it and it's still not reading, Sony say that i need to send it into to them. Is there anything i can do? Maybe do some blu ray cleaning or something?

 

[Bboy AJ]

I tried formatting it and it's still not reading, Sony say that i need to send it into to them. Is there anything i can do? Maybe do some blu ray cleaning or something?

Formatting and not reading? Blu ray cleaning? Sounds like you were in over your head from the start. Send it to Sony.

 

[surly]

Yes, if all else fails send it in to Sony for a cheap replacement. I have a friend who buys YLOD PS3's from people and just sends them back in for new ones from Sony. His latest PS3 this way cost him $5 to buy broken and $100 for the new one from Sony. Not a bad price

It's not worth doing that in the UK. You can currently get a 160GB PS3 with GT5, 3 months LoveFilm and some free Real Triggers for £160 at Amazon, so it's not worth paying £50 for a knackered PS3 and £128 to Sony for a refurb.

 

[Bleepey]

Formatting and not reading? Blu ray cleaning? Sounds like you were in over your head from the start. Send it to Sony.

I suppose, i might be able to sell it off for a profit, but i was wondering if anyone has suffered anything similar and had been able to fix it

 

[Jhriad]

Does it not read ANY discs, including DVDs, or just games & Blu Ray discs?

 

[Bleepey]

Does it not read ANY discs, including DVDs, or just games & Blu Ray discs?

DVDs are fine, i even put a 360 disc inside and it detects it, it's just blu ray media that it can't detect.

 

[Massa]

You just need to replace the lens on the Blu-ray drive and it's quite easy to find a "new" one on eBay. Look up tutorials on Youtube to see if it's something you'd be comfortable doing yourself.

I replaced it on mine but then got the YLOD a couple months later.

 

[Bleepey]

You just need to replace the lens on the Blu-ray drive and it's quite easy to find a "new" one on eBay. Look up tutorials on Youtube to see if it's something you'd be comfortable doing yourself.

I replaced it on mine but then got the YLOD a couple months later.

Haha.....



charming.

I swear next gen i want fucking reliability more than anything.

 

[sublimit]

Yes.

Are you the one who's selling it?

 

[Bboy AJ]

I swear next gen i want fucking reliability more than anything.

But you bought the broken PS3...

 

[Bleepey]

But you bought the broken PS3...

But in general, the Wii has been the only reliable console.

 

[Wickerbasket]

Accidental bump. My bad.

 

[PumpkinPie]

But you bought the broken PS3...

LOL

 

[NM0dz]

If it's on firmware 3.55 or less i would be jailbreaking the unit and playing games off the HDD, that's a matter of sticking a USB with the appropriate files into the PS3 and clicking 'i agree'. ahhhh, unless you enjoy playing games released in the past year or two...

 

[G_Berry]

I have a launch 60gig that ended up ylodding on me. It's just sitting there gathering dust because I have no idea what to do with it.

What's the repair cost at Sony for fixing one of these things? or is it just a case of me sending it in and them sending me a new model?