The Worst Video Game Console Repair I Ever Had To Do



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Today we are talking about a repair that annoyed me to no end over a decade of console repairs and was the cause of many long nights and PS3 horror stories for repairs. The Yellow Light of Death is a general hardware failure for the PS3 and at the time had little to no documentation online leaving it up to many of us to figure out through trial and error what was going on.

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33 thoughts on “The Worst Video Game Console Repair I Ever Had To Do”

  1. This happened to my first PS3 and I just got a slim in the end. I have 2 original PS3 release models but I'm frightened to turn them on for any length of time tbh. Enjoyed the stories, keep them coming!

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  2. I have one that’s been sitting disassembled for about 8 years with the yellow light. I’ve been meaning to look into it…..but not anymore I guess 🙁

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  3. My first ever actual gaming console was the original fat 90nm xbox 360 I begged my mom to buy back in 2007. Luckily enough because 14 year old me wasn't as much a gamer as today back then,it survived long enough until the first ps3 slim went on sale and I switched to playstation and never have to experience yellow light. My fat xbox 360 died eventually right before I went to college.
    Edit:I actually bought the first Kinect bundle with first x360 slim before I bought ps3 slim because I really dig Kinect back then.

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  4. Not gonna lie I am kinda scared to pull my backwards comparable PS3 out of storage… It work when I put it away so it basically Schrodinger's PS3 at this point

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  5. Found a PS3 in trash. No bluray drive no screws just crap.
    Didnt work. Put it in the oven. Works now 🙂

    Super loud and I have it tapped so it wont fall apart but is working 🙂 (of course playing games via harddrive since no drive and thankfully you dont need a drive to hack it)

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  6. My first backwards compatible PS3 got the yellow light but I was like 8 so I didn’t know how to fix it and ended up tossing it. Wish I would’ve gotten it repaired. Feel really dumb now

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  7. Jon is not just a Video Game Gangsta, he's a Re-Baller! 😎👍 Great video! I used to fix boards like this too and re-balling was very tedious! It pays to have the right equipment! Cheers!

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  8. My first PS3 was a launch day backwards compatible 60gb PS3 that YLOD on me. I still kick myself for getting rid of it, it took me years to get my hands on another BC PS3.

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  9. Those reballed ps3s will all die again in relatively short order because reballing/changing capacitors/ reflow are not repairing the actual problem. All of those methods involve heating up the rsx either directly or indirectly which will always make it work again. Don't get scammed. The only real fixes would be to repair the die to package solder balls (that is where the failure comes from 99.99% of the time) or replacing the chip altogether with a known good one. BTW in late 2000s, there was a trend of baking your gpu. AMD and NVIDIA were experimenting with cheaper methods to make chips and pc graphics cards were affected just like the console gpus. The 1st gen ps3 cooled itself totally fine, modern gaming pcs reach those temps and even higher, its just that the old chips were made using a faulty, cost-cutting method. People need to accept this and stop desperately pouring money into their failed systems because of nostalgia. It's sad that the ones affected are basically only the 90nm gpus since those were the only ones used in systems with backwards compatibility with ps2 and ps1 but what can you do?

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  10. Ahhh good ol Pro Console Netherlands haha I remember watching that video as an ASMR video to put me to sleep. Good time listening to the tear down and repair.

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  11. The triple beep still gives me Vietnam flashbacks. I had the 60GB Phat, the Cadillac model, bought in 2007. Then around 2009, it YLOD'd. Sent it to Sony for repairs. Got it back working, then died again a couple months later. Tried the whole reflowing thing with a heat gun myself. Again worked a couple months, then died. I eventually caved and bought a Slim. That generation was notorious for bad hardware. At least anything with chips on the 90nm process. Launch PS3s had something like a 10% failure rate after two years. Ironically, I had bought the PlayStation3 SPECIFICALLY because the 360 was having so many problems. The powers-that-be certainly have a sense of humour.

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  12. The years that I used to work at a computer repair store.
    Anything that came with roaches will be mandatory with a hazard fee.
    ( $35-55 depending on the item)

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