Can i fix ylod ps3

Step 16 Now grasp the power board and remove it from its placement. Step 17 Unscrew the 2 screws circled in red in the photo. Step 18 You can now grasp and remove the bracket for the power supply board from its placement.

Step 19 Now unscrew the 6 cross headed screws circled in red in the photo. Step 20 Now remove the hard drive access door using the nylon spudger. Step 21 Lift the internal frame metal structure in order to remove it entirely.

Step 22 Delicately unplug the power supply cable AC-In on the back of the power supply block. Step 23 Unscrew the cross headed screw circled in red in the photo. Step 25 Delicately unplug the power supply cable DC-In on the front of the power supply block. Step 26 Unscrew the 5 cross headed screws circled in red in the photo. These secure the metal power supply block to the internal frame of your console.

Step 27 Delicately lift the power supply block to remove it from its place. Step 28 As indicated in the photos, use the nylon spudger to unclip the two plastic brackets. Don't try to remove the front panel of your PS3 now, it's still attached by other brackets. Step 29 Turn over your PlayStation 3. Step 30 Unclip the final bracket on the left holding the rear panel to your PS3.

Step 31 Now, very delicately, lift off the rear panel. You shouldn't feel any resistance. Step 32 With the nylon spudger move the fan cable delicately out from under the black plastic clip. Step 33 Unplug the fan from the power supply. Step 34 Unscrew the 4 cross headed screws circled in red in the photo. Step 35 Remove the first support bracket using the nylon spudger. Step 36 Do the same for the second bracket. Step 37 Now lift the radiator heat sink up to delicately remove it from its placement.

Step 38 Using a nylon spudger, delicately lever up the antenna connector in order to disconnect it. Step 39 Move the antenna cable aside to prevent it interfering with future steps. Step 40 Now use the cross headed screwdriver to unscrew the 4 screws circled in red in the photo. Step 42 Using the nylon spudger, lift the latch for the connector carefully, releasing the cable. Step 43 Then disconnect the cable carefully, no resistance should be felt during this step. Step 45 Now lift the mother board in order to remove it completely.

Step 47 With a clean cloth, now clean off the thermal paste residue. Step 48 Do step 46 again, applying a few drops of ArctiClean 1 solution on the second processor graphics. Step 49 Still using the cloth, clean the residue dissolved by the ArctiClean 1 solution. Step 50 Now, using a nylon spudger, unfix the first thermal pad.

Step 51 Repeat the previous step, unfixing the second thermal pad from the other chip. Then, again with a clean cloth, clean the dirty areas until all thermal paste has been removed.

Step 53 Now restart this operation on the other processor. The whole point of this is number one to get your game saves off. To do this you will need to eventually plug the system back into the wall and into the TV. In the video he says to flip the PS3 upside down before you apply the heat.

Everything still worked fine after. Go plug in your USB 3. Go to where the game saves area is and select all then copy to the USB. Everything should transfer fine and you will now have all your saves backed up! You can also head to the settings and back up the entire system, but this may take hours. I did both and my backup of 40GB took 2 hours. I would also recommend syncing up your trophies.

If everything went smoothly you have fixed your system and got your saves off! Very easy to do as shown here. Now for the bad news. There is no guarantee your system will last much longer. People have reported as little as a few minutes to as long as a few months. Not a single person still has their PS3 working for multiple years after this.

All we did was save our asses to get back game saves and other backups to move to a new system. I suggest buying a used newer system slim or super slim or the Playstation 3 12GB System to use for the future. You can just switch your old hard drive to the new system, format it, and plug in your USB with the back ups on it to be back where you were at. First step for the switch is take the mount off of your old hard drive if needed , put the new mount on it and slide it in.

My plan was to switch the drives, but I had major trouble as the next few paragraphs explain. The Ethernet cable transfer method is even easier and guaranteed to work perfectly, but it took me at least 6 hours. I followed this video to back everything up and do the Ethernet transfer. Very easy, but took a while.

You will have to buy it separately and this is the only way to put a real hard drive into the system. I had to buy the part from China which is good because it was very inexpensive, but bad because it takes basically a month to ship to me. I know people who have done this and said it works fine, but it looks sketchy. When my mount finally arrived I switched the hard drive into it.

I have had the worst luck ever with every step and this was no different. Switching it was easy, but once I put it back in the PS3 told me my system needed to do a database rebuild. This means something was corrupt and the system is trying to save what it can. Everything was fine once it was done took about 10min but I did lose all my music playlist not songs and a demo game. I now recommend either sticking to waiting for the mount or leaving it with the sketchy no mount way to avoid anymore problems.

Small story I have to share with all of you. I was sick of waiting for the mount to arrive and figured what was the worst that could happen using the trick above? Well the answer is a lot! I decided to try this on a Friday. I took off the hard drive cap from my old PS3 and already removed the hard drive.

All I had to do was unscrew the existing old mount from it which is only four screws and put it into the new PS3. Easy enough, but that is when the problems start. I had to take the cover off of the new PS3 Super Slim to get access to the hard drive which is just slide the plastic.

I tried for at least 10 solid minutes until finally it came off. No idea why mine was so stuck as nothing is even holding it on, but low amounts of friction. If you pop it up it will break it.

Got the cover off of the new one now taking the old hard drive out of the mount is next then finally putting it in the new PS3 with this sketchy jam stuff in method above.

Undo one screw no problem, next one no problem, third one no problem, last screw is a problem. Now a screwdriver will not fit at all inside because there is no more shape. It is a huge problem, but even more of a problem on small devices like hard drives since you are not supposed to move them around too much. I tried every possible method I could think of and some suggestions from The 12 Best Ways to Remove Stripped Screws yet nothing helped.

My only option was cut it right off. I left it for the moment to think more about what to do. I came back later and got pliers and grabbed the outside of the screw twisting it until it came undone.

There is just enough of the screw head sticking out you should be able to use pliers to grip the outside. By the time I did this I had already gotten a new 2. From what I hear you can fix this for good, but it is a considerable amount of work.

More than what I felt I was capable of. I can not guarantee that it will last forever or at all after you do all the work, but this seems to be the most common problem and common fix. Plug in your new system and put the old hard drive in. Plug the USB stick in and load back all the saves. You should have everything back to where it was as if nothing even happened. I could of loaded back the save game files, but would of had to re-download all the game files again.

All those years of game updates will take a while to download again. That is why I suggest to backup your entire system AND your saves separately just in case the full system backup fails. As stated earlier I broke the ribbon cable connector flap.

The broken connector however is a totally different problem. The only way to truly fix it is by taking it off, buying a new part, and soldering it onto the motherboard.

It is not something you want to do. However there are ways to fix it if the flap is broken. The flap is the little part that you needed to flip up to detach the ribbon cable. If the entire black piece came off the motherboard flap and piece connected to the system you are screwed.

With the piece broken off this may not seem possible, but it still is. I will list a few ways you can try as each break will be different. If you look at the broken piece really hard you will be able to tell how it is supposed to attach. The easiest thing to do is place it down where it is supposed to be with the cable already pushed in and push down hard and then in. You can push fairly hard as their is a metal plate protecting your PS3 in this area, but you do NOT want to break the ribbon cable itself.

It may take a while of trial and error to figure out exactly which side is up and trying to get it to push back, but eventually you can do it. Now begins the most delicate part of the tutorial. Wrap with aluminum foil over the motherboard and leave naked only the two chip. Ok you're almost done Did you make this project? Share it with us! I Made It! Retro Arduino Radio by exposedwire in Arduino.

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