YLOD- Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Stop The Bomb

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This is my somewhat ghetto cooling method. I noticed an immediate change in temperature, and obviously air flow too.
 
oohhh yeah
If you have slim and 2 year warranty you don't need to worry about anything right?
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Supposedly, but so much GT5 made my fans kick in higher. So I'm using the little USB fan in those pictures to keep it cooler.
 
ImprezaAddict
This is my somewhat ghetto cooling method. I noticed an immediate change in temperature, and obviously air flow too.
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An immediate change in temp where? Placing your hand near the back of the system isn't a valid test.

Your system is seemingly out in the open, I doubt you have any airflow issues. And it's unlikely that fan has enough power to cause any hot air to be pulled from the system via suction as it blows past the rear vent.

Sorry but I honestly can't see this setup doing any actual good.
 
dougdoberman
An immediate change in temp where? Placing your hand near the back of the system isn't a valid test.

Your system is seemingly out in the open, I doubt you have any airflow issues. And it's unlikely that fan has enough power to cause any hot air to be pulled from the system via suction as it blows past the rear vent.

Sorry but I honestly can't see this setup doing any actual good.
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By directing the hot air out of the system. The fans don't kick in as high anymore.
 
dougdoberman
Hooray Chicago Gadgets! They fixed mine as well. I was happy to pay the $50 as my saves were a bit outdated, but I've since given that PS3 to a friend whose family has been hammering it (including a lot of GT5 time) for the last month. I've told him he should unload it on eBay while it's still working and use that cash to buy a new slim, but so far he's not done so.

Mine had spent its entire life since launch day laying flat.
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Yeah, I was almost ready to drop 3 large and just buy a new slim, but I was about 40-60 hours into Fallout New Vegas and didn't want to lose the game saves.

I was glad I found Chicago Gadgets in a Google search. $50 is a downright bargain compared to buying a new system, or doing an out of warranty refurb swap with Sony.

Hopefully it will last me while I grind though the 24 hour b-spec races...
 
I have a launch day 80gb fatty, kept in a cabinet all those years, never cleaned it once, never moved it unless I was moving stuff around and never had a problem. I leave it on for weeks at a time, it's also standing up. Either I'm lucky mine haves't bit the dust (lol) or mine is the one of a kind hulk edition lol?
 
I had an original 40G Fat boy, mostly played the NHL series and Tiger Woods Golf. We did watch a ton of Blu-Ray movies, last summer the drive quit working,will not load any disc anymore. I purchased 2 slims, one for upstairs and the other downstairs. Also purchased 2 copies of GT5 so my son and I can race each other. :)
 
I also switched to a SSD, it uses less power, it produces less heat because the lack of moving parts also. Not to mention GT5 load times are basically cut in half.
 
Have had my 60gb since 07 always standing up in an open area and have never had one single issue at all with it. Until 90 laps at laguna seca when it shut itself off and gave me the brlod with absolutely no warning whatsoever. I went and bought a heat gun (20 bucks from home depot paint section, has low setting(750degrees) and high setting(1000degrees), some arctic silver 5 (about 10 bucks from radio shack), and a 20-piece precision screwdriver set (about 7 bucks from radio shack). I then watched this video, followed it exactly to a tee, and it worked. PS3 ressurected, game saves now backed up on usb drive, hd backed up on usb HDD. So yeah, never thought it would happen to me, but it did. The fix was WAY easier than I thought it was going to be, and took only 30 minutes to do. Anyone outside of warranty should just fix it themselves for 37 dollars! To me it is worth the 30 minutes, even though the fix is only temporary.
 
Lost My Fatty 3 days before GT5 launch thankfully!! If it had went after i woulda just bought an XBox dare i say it as i wouldn't have been able to backup data!! I had it from launch day of PS3 and was a fatty 60.. i used fans etc. when the warning sound came.. Constant running of the fans! so for those that say the problem just springs up on you, it doesnt. sometimes its not very noticeable sometimes it is but for an average user of the ps3 (2-3 hours a day) the fans will come after 10 minutes of turning the system on and stay on until the system shuts down!.. so after i had this problem i went and bough fans to cool the system down while running.. it helped for about1 month, the fans continuously stayed on along with my other fans i had bought! then boom.. YLOD. I now have the 320 Slim and i'm taking no precautions! i run my usb fans just the setup i seen in the first page.. runs of the ps3 usb ports!
 
jimy281090
so for those that say the problem just springs up on you, it doesnt. sometimes its not very noticeable sometimes it is but for an average user of the ps3 (2-3 hours a day) the fans will come after 10 minutes of turning the system on and stay on until the system shuts down!
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This was not my experience at all. There was absolutely no abnormal fan activation whatsoever with my ps3, believe it or not. Also please refer to previous posts in this thread in regards to the effectiveness (or lack there-of) in using any sort of fan to aide circulation.
 
jimy281090
Read the first page! there is a picture of someone's setup of using fans to aid circulation
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to aid circulation of his cramped cabinet that the ps3 is shoved into, maybe...

please refer to this post if you are trying to understand what I was talking about:

TJ31 Senior Member
Won't help much at all. The reason is - you still can't properly cool down cpu/gpu chips with that.
Like example in my PC. It has 6 coolers, 2x 140mm, 4x 120mm, + CPU, Power Supply and GPU fans. Also, i have an air conditioner, so i always have not more than +19C in my room.
Yet, when CPU or GPU under heavy load, it get's up to 55C on CPU and 87C on GPU (GTX480 with GF100 chip a.k.a. fermi lol ). While overall temp in my PC case is just about 30 - 33C.

Same for PS3. You'll need to modify the whole cooling system to get some real results, otherwise it'll be a self fooling.
Those things helps a bit only if: it's very hot in your room or you place your PS3 to the limited space (like on Neocodex's pic).

And even if forget about all that. YLOD usually caused by heat/cold cycles, because lead-free solder can't hanle it well and eventually cracks, so CPU/GPU losing conctact with a motherboard and you see a YLOD.
And you can't avoid those cycles unless you will never turn your console off.


and this post:

TJ31 Senior Member
TrackpadUser
If it runs cooler, there will be less expansion, and therefore less fatigue on the solder.
*sigh*
People think it runs cooler, because air from the back and up of PS3 is cooler when you use those things. But chips on the motherboard will be about same temp, it was tested million years ago and not only with PS3.
Even more, all those "devices" may ruin the proper airflow inside the case and because of that cpu/gpu won't be cooled that well = even higher temps for those chips.
I wish it was THAT simple to cool down stuff like that. Just get a bunch of the 3$ coolers and that's it.... =)
 
This is a tough call in general, I want to be able to grind my b-spec at least to level 35 so I can get the X2010. I don't have an external fan setup, but I do turn the heat off in the living room when I run an endurance race overnight or while I'm @ work.

But if I want to make it up to level 40, it would mean running the 24 hour LeMans endurance race from Level 35 up on my 3+ year old PS3Phat that has already YLOD'd once in it's lifetime.

I'm not even going to think about going for a Platinum Trophy unless Polyphony releases a patch to allow some sort of between race save, like being able to save at the Pit Stops on Endurance Races.
 
McClarenDesign
Granted, it's crude, so if you've got a better set up for your tons-o-fun fatty PS3, please share.
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Live in the UK and put your PS3 on your wooden floor with ****ing great drafty gaps in between the boards. It's not the Yellow light you have to worry about but the dvd drive frosting over.
 
I also use USB fans for my ps3 since its burried in my cabinet. It made a difference for sure. Before I did, I would hear the fans turn on high after 60-90 minutes of use. The ps3 sounded like a wind tunnel. Now, the fans never go over level 2. I left the ps3 on for 3 days a few times doing bsepc grinding.

I also do not agree that keeping the ambient tempurature down has no effect on the chips. I have case probes and therostats on my cpu and gpu and the temp on each slowly rises as the temp inside my case rises. It might only be 10-15* F, but it is still a differnce.
 

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