for anyone who owns one of the older fatter ps3s. and you have ever come across the yld (yellow light of death) you know how frustrating it can be. well this happened to me not that long ago over summer and i took it to a place that does that sort of stuff and they charged me 80 bucks. it fixed it. but since it happened again and they said they would charge me again. i said screw it. so i looked it up how to fix it and viola. its fixed!!!! only cost me 30 bucks too for the heat gun and the thermal compound. i know its going to happen again sooner or later but at least i know i can fix it now. heres the link incase anybody else has had the problem. this took me all of a couple hours to do. including the trips to the store. so enjoy.

PS3 YLOD Fix Part 1 of 3 - YouTube

PS3 YLOD Fix Part 2 of 3 - YouTube

 

and to think, ps3 owners were giving us hell about our (every one who owns an xbox) RROD =p

 

I've had a RROD, lucky for me it was still under warranty.

 

RROD is caused by the exact same issue... pretty well the identical fix too.

 

the rrod is cause by not enough thermal paste on the GPU or the CPU i do remember right