I just bought a used PS3 for 50 bucks that for the most part refuses to display any video. When I do get it to display the video it's mostly garbled and then the system freezes. I'll have to turn it upside down to temporary fix it. I'm tempted to attempt a heatgun reflow, or try baking the motherboard in the oven at 390 C. Anyone have any success stories or any tips they'd like to share on this repair?
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I would not recommend you bake the board in an oven. Too many things that can go wrong. At the very least, there's components on both sides of the board, so some of them may fall out. Plastic on the connectors may melt as well.
Besides, there's plenty of cheap heat guns that will do the job. I got mine pretty cheap from Micro Center (it's this one).
You will also need flux, preferably the no-clean type since you will be putting in under the CPU and GPU before the reflow.
Remove any thermal compound from the CPU and GPU before the reflow and put new one afterwards.
By the way, can you post a picture of the blue-ray ribbon connector on the main board? I just did a PS3 reflow last month, but was unsuccessful. I suspect the "tech" who reflowed it before me screwed up something, including the blue-ray connector (which looked damaged), but I'd like to confirm this. Thanks.Last edited by momaka; 11-20-2010, 12:30 AM.
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390C is too much. I always went with 210C over 7 minutes when i was using the oven. And no i never had any stuff fall out tho i did melt some plastic parts on an Asrock motherboard - that was because the oven's thermostat broke without me knowing it. Since then i've used my multimeter's temperature probe to monitor things.
Anyway before you try any reflow method please remove everything you can from the board, and see if the board is flat. If it's bowed forget about it. I had a Gigabyte AMD board that completely failed when i tried to reflow it because they used a plastic CPU backplate and over time the board bowed hard enough to damage the soldering. When i cranked the heat up on my hot air gun, i heard cracking noises. That was the chipset unsoldering itself completely because the board was so bowed.
Also if you want a reflow to last apply liquid flux prior to reflow and make sure the heatsink goes on real tight afterwards.Originally posted by PeteS in CARemember that by the time consequences of a short-sighted decision are experienced, the idiot who made the bad decision may have already been promoted or moved on to a better job at another company.
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Originally posted by Th3_uN1Qu3Also if you want a reflow to last apply liquid flux prior to reflow and make sure the heatsink goes on real tight afterwards.
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Here are some pictures. The first picture is of the bluray cable and the next is the aftermath of the heatgun. I bought some liquid solder flux from microcenter... but it looks messy as hell... I'm hoping I got the right type. I blasted the gpu at around 220 and 240 C for 10 minutes. I noticed the board was kinda warping so I used some bolts and washers to try to keep it in palace. This is the 3rd time I've done this. The other two unsuccessful attempts I blasted it for around 5 minutes. If this doesn't work I'm probably going to sell it for parts.
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Originally posted by spatimouth View Poststill not working..... bla.....
Are you at least still getting the same problem or is your PS3 totally dead now? Or do you have the Yellow Light of Death (YLOD)?
Originally posted by Th3_uN1Qu3390C is too much. I always went with 210C over 7 minutes when i was using the oven.
Originally posted by spatimouth View PostI bought some liquid solder flux from microcenter... but it looks messy as hell... I'm hoping I got the right type.
Originally posted by spatimouth View PostI blasted the gpu at around 220 and 240 C for 10 minutes. I noticed the board was kinda warping so I used some bolts and washers to try to keep it in palace. This is the 3rd time I've done this. The other two unsuccessful attempts I blasted it for around 5 minutes.
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