Recommend a good YLOD repair service?

Sweetloaf · 11 Apr 2011 at 13:07

PS3 decided to give up and I cannot be bothered attempting a fix myself, can anyone recommend a cheap and quick repair company?

Cheers

antijoke · 11 Apr 2011 at 13:15

Sony.

Sweetloaf · 11 Apr 2011 at 16:00

anticonscience said:
Sony.

CHEAP, and quick

It's out of warranty by about 2 years!

sniperone · 11 Apr 2011 at 18:53

Do it yourself ,its very easy to do .
Take off the warranty sticker using a hairdryer so you can re-apply it after you fix it . Then take along to your local game / gamestation and trade it in for a new one .

I did. :-)

sniperone · 11 Apr 2011 at 18:54

There are loads of vids on youtube showing you how to do it .

Sweetloaf · 13 Apr 2011 at 10:59

sniperone said:
Do it yourself ,its very easy to do .
Take off the warranty sticker using a hairdryer so you can re-apply it after you fix it . Then take along to your local game / gamestation and trade it in for a new one .

I did.

So the DIY fix isn't permanent or were you just playing it safe?

Might attempt a DIY fix but at the minute time to do it is limited and a £50-£60 fix would be more convenient

Naan_H · 13 Apr 2011 at 11:36

The YLOD fix isnt permanent full stop - i fixed mine as per ?Gilskys guide on youtube and tbh it lasted only a few minutes. Then did the hairdryer trick and it worked long enough for me to get all my save games etc off and take it to gamestation and a play test there to trade it in.

If you cant be bothered to take it apart then at least try the hairdryer trick. Worth a shot even to get a disk out the drive.

Sweetloaf · 14 Apr 2011 at 18:34

Hair dryer worked for long enough to grab my saves