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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?
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joseph_hart15d ago
That Austin guide is the same one I used on my old 360. It's wild how many "dumb hacks" actually work because the original factory solder was just bad. My cousin's been using a reflowed PS3 as his main Blu-ray player for almost two years now. Makes you wonder what other fixes we write off as junk science just because they sound too simple.
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