VBR's PS3 Gets The YLOD!

[VBR]

I was in the middle of testing a race event with a good friend (I was planning on running it tomorrow night), when my screen froze & as I restarted my PS3 the YLOD made me it's ho!

Just to let the 50 friends on my list who I invited to tomorrows race event that I won't be able to run it, sorry lads. I'll be ordering a new PS3 very soon & will be up & running again before next weekend, so I'll probably be able to run the race event then.


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EDIT: Just bought a PS3 Slim 160gb from Amazon for £229.99, spent the last half hour Googling for todays lowest price, I'm happy enough with that.


Edit 2:"The YLOD appears because of hair-line fractures in the solder connecting the CPU and GPU to the motherboard. These fractures appear over time and can be caused in two ways. One is the motherboard heating up and cooling down too fast, another reason is the console getting hot enough to melt the solder and being knocked, this will knock the CPU and GPU out of place."

I'm gonna try & fix it myself, just bought the following 2 items:

YLOD Repair Kit.

Titan Heat Gun.

Hopefully it will be fixed temorarily & I can copy all my data onto my new PS3, then sell the old one on ebay as faulty so that whoever buys it knows what to expext. I've seen faulty ones for sale & some are at £75-ish at the moment, I might be able to get a few quid back that way.

 

[sdf]

Same story here and i just want to give you an advise!!!
Delete as many data as possible!!!

I used the transfer data utility and it took "10 hours and 35 minutes" to transfer 149GB!!!

I almost got a stroke from the agony waiting to finish, cause my original 60gb was as well YLOD'ed many times.

 

[nick09]

No he can just use an Ethernet cable to transfer the data between the PS3's.

 

[VBR]

Same story here and i just want to give you an advise!!!
Delete as many data as possible!!!

I used the transfer data utility and it took "10 hours and 35 minutes" to transfer 149GB!!!

I almost got a stroke from the agony waiting to finish, cause my original 60gb was as well YLOD'ed many times.

Many thanks for the advice, if I do transfer all the data I'll make sure to delete everything I don't need, including the GT5 8gb install.


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[sdf]

No problem mate Happy New Year!

No he can just use an Ethernet cable to transfer the data between the PS3's.

You should Read more carefully
I said:

I used the transfer data utility and it took "10 hours and 35 minutes" to transfer 149GB!!!

Use the Data Transfer Utility
http://uk.playstation.com/ps3/suppo...960/item250047/Use-the-data-transfer-utility/

 

[nick09]

Ah sorry I just took that as using the backup utitly(where you backup to the external HDD). Though ethernet should not take as long as 10 hours.

I'm assuming that the PS3 should have a 1Gigabit ethernet port. So if I were to convert that down to MegaBytes, that would be 125MB/s between the PS3's. It's been a while since I learned how to calculate download times so I don't remember how to property do it. So I used this and came out with 21 Minutes 19.9 Seconds with 149GB transfer.

So as long as you ethernet cable is not damaged too much(damage can cause interference and crosstalk in cables) your speeds should be close to par to the time I posted.

 

[sdf]

No reason to apologize mate

The problem isnt the bandwidth, is the way that works, it started by saying 3 hours and 15 minutes... but thats a huge lie.
There was a time that was saying "9 minutes remaining" for about 2 hours.

I dont know why but for some odd reason it doesn't just copy/paste the data between 2 ps3's.... but It goes likes this (based on HDD LED's):

A=old ps3
B=new ps3

A reading for 1-2 minutes,stops
B writing for 30 seconds - 1 minute
Simultaneously A reading, B writing for about 10 minutes, 1 stops
2 reading/writing and i dont know what else but the led stays ON without blinking at all for about 20 minutes, B stops (eventually)
.......and back from the start, this cycle again goes again and again and again.......

The good part is that copies everything.But i cant confirm that everything works, cause i havent tested everything yet.
The bad part is that takes too long, both must have the same Firmware (that adds some time) and you must have both PS3's connected to the TV , cause you must go from A to B 2-3 times to confirm the Transfer.

 

[nick09]

It'd be nice if Sony could explain the process of how this works but I don't that won't happen. I looked up the utility and it seems like you are not the only one's who have this problem.

 

[GTP_FastM3]

I just did the data transfer yesterday. My Old PS3 had somewhere just over 100GB (?108). It took about 1.5 hours to do the transfer. I had to update the firmware on the new PS3 and sync trophies on the old PS3 before doing the transfer. The total time factoring in those steps was probably around 2 hours.

edit: I agree with above posters that they could stream line the process a bit. It would make much more sense to only need one connected the TV and everything done through that. It would be much easier if there was a message at the beginning of the process with a "to do" list. I had to wait almost 5 minutes of it saying "please wait" before it told me that I needed to update the firmware on my new one.

For those doing this sync all your trophies and update firmware on both units prior to starting. That will make the process much easier.

 

[nick09]

Now that's interesting, Got one report of 10 hours and another of 2 hours. I have a feeling that the ethernet cable is at fault(damage such as being bent and the cable connector not crimped properly). I know from experience that ethernet cables will get interference from damage.

 

[VBR]

My YLOD Repair Kit & Titan Heat Gun arrived today & I successfully repaired my fat old dead PS3 this evening, woohoo!



However, when I opened my PS3 up it was quite a bit different inside than the one pictured in the PDF repair guide I'd bought. I presumed that the chips on the motherboard would still be the same or similar so I ploughed ahead & figured out how to take it apart myself, even managed to put it back together without having screws left over or putting some in the wrong holes, hehe. I'd definately recommend this fix to anyone with a YLOD PS3 who is generally competent in taking things apart & putting them back together. Also, you'll need a heat gun (with a 300 to 400 degree setting), a comprehensive set of good quality philips screwdrivers & a credit card to perform this fix.

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This is the guys who sells the kit if you're interested, part 1 of the fix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70SgRDVcBo



PS: Thanks to sdf for the Data Transfer Utility link: http://uk.playstation.com/ps3/suppo...960/item250047/Use-the-data-transfer-utility/

 

[sdf]

^ No problem mate, glad that you got your PS3 working again

Now that's interesting, Got one report of 10 hours and another of 2 hours. I have a feeling that the ethernet cable is at fault(damage such as being bent and the cable connector not crimped properly). I know from experience that ethernet cables will get interference from damage.

I dont know mate.....the cable type is patch utp c5...about 1,5mt almost new.
Maybe it depends on the data type?
cause i am not the only one with this problem.
All the data that i had was strictly PS3 Data, Game installs, game saves, DLC, DL games from psn, F@H, pre-located 12GB of PS home. No videos or music at all. in few words all the data was copyrighted.

The delay/weird part was when the data reached the slim, that was acting like when you download and install a game from PSN, the HDD Led was going nuts.

@ Gobrigavitch can you tell us what was the data type that you transferred?