My out of warranty PS3 won't start up...so time for surgery! Not sure I can make it work, but it's fun to see what's inside. It seems like most of it is a heat sink. I am hoping the fiddling and cleaning will loosen things up enough. Supposedly you can heat the mainboard to fix any loose solder caused by overheating. We'll see how it goes.
I also took apart the Bluray drive enough to get the Little Big Planet disk out, but I neglected to get pictures of that. Some of the connectors are so small you need tweezers to take them off. Delicate work for sure.
Overall it's pretty well built - unfortunately these older models get really, really hot and it causes problems when the dust builds up, which is inevitable.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
PS3 Surgery!
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