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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
explain please
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PS3s and Xboxes break because a couple of years ago, new environmental regulations came out and new lead free solder was used in a lot of these designs which were manufactured on a more primitive and larger process and which generated a lot of heat and weren't cooled properly.
The cycle of heating and cooling when you use the system and turn it on and off eventually causes microfissures and cracks in the lead free solder over the years and eventually the chips lose their connection to the motherboard and you get the yellow light or red ring of death.
The towel trick is a fix that works for some people in which they wrap up their console in towels or other insulation and run them hot. Some people use hairdryers as well. This is pretty dangerous but it has been proven to work to heat up the system so much that the solder melts again and fixes the cracks and you don't need to take anything apart.
The safer @ home solution is to take your system apart and bake the motherboard in your kitchen oven, but to make sure to find ways to protect other components on the board like the capacitors, etc. with tin foil or some kind of tack, etc.
The other ways to fix a console are with hot air guns directing heat directly at the chips. Some of the repair kids you can buy use this method and include the stuff you need like a hot air gun and new thermal compound, etc. The most expensive and the only one that is guaranteed to last is to reball the chips themselves which is cleaning up all the factory solder and resoldering the chip directly to the motherboard with modern solder. I really doubt that for $50 including disassembly and including warranty, killasoft.org is doing anything more than a hot air gun fix. Reballing takes a professional rig.
Is my PS3 done?
