PS3 RLOD NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

[Joebob]

Just sat down for a quick go on Uncharted 3 and 5 minutes in I got flashing red light!!! I plan on stripping it down and doing a reflow but I don't have a heat gun - has anyone tried an oven bake instead?

 

[Joebob]

Putting plastic in the oven? *facepalm*

I have fixed a GFX card from my old laptop and a 360 this way before - you strip it down to the motherboard, cover in tinfoil but leave the GPU & CPU exposed then bake at 200c for 10 minutes.

Never done it on a PS3 though so just wondered if anyone had.

Simples.

 

[Joebob]

Borrowed my mates heat gun, striped it down, did 2 passes with the heat gun for 45 seconds on each chip to reflow and flipped over mobo and did the same on the other side... let her cool, applied some AS5 and rebuilt her...


...she lives - woooooooooooooh!!!

Thank god for that, it's not just games I would be missing but TV too as I use PlayTV and my screen doesn't have a built in tuner!