PSA: I thought reflowing a PS3 was total junk science until last month
Honestly, I always heard people talk about the 'oven trick' for fixing the Yellow Light of Death and thought it was just a dumb hack that would wreck your board. Ngl, I avoided it for years, telling folks to just replace the whole console. Then last month, my buddy's launch model 60GB PS3 died and he had nothing to lose. We followed a guide from a guy in Austin, used a $20 toaster oven from a thrift store, and set it to exactly 385 degrees for 8 minutes. I was fully ready for it to just melt into a plastic brick. But we let it cool, plugged it in, and the thing booted right up. It's been running his old NCAA Football saves for three weeks straight now. Has anyone else had a reflow actually hold up for more than a few days, or did we just get stupid lucky?