Games Retrospect Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 (edited) Hi! So my cousin gave me his broken Super Slim PlayStation 3 and since I have some free time here and there, I made it my personal mission to try and fix it. I got it today and disassembled the whole thing, cleaned it as much as I could (it was really dusty) and replaced the HDD with one that worked. The problem is that the system is not working properly: when you turn it on, it immediately turns off. As far as I know, this is a common issue (yellow light of death is the internet is to be believed), but I can't seem to find if there's an actual solution. My cousin's solution was to wrap a bunch of rubber bands around the system and this seemed to work for a while (it might be similar to what's happening to this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz-_RL1h-4U). Although I like to troubleshoot these kind of problems, I'm by no means a technician or anything like that. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do other than start to replace parts, take it to someone else (who, god forbid, knows what they are doing) or throw it away. Again, I have some free time and I'd love to sort this out myself, but there are so many ideas out there that I wouldn't even know where to start. Should I use thermal paste, should I re-ball, should I disassemble the PSU? I don't know, any ideas are more than welcome. Slim Thanks in advance! Edited September 3, 2020 by Games Retrospect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punisher5.0 Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Lol the first thing I thought of was that video when I read your post. There must be some bad connection on that board. I haven't run into this problem yet so I don't have any tips for you unfortunately. The super slims are too cheap in price to pay someone to fix it imo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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