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herky
YEAH JEETS!!!!!!111
for my PS3. It's a refurb that is 4 years old. It's overheated 3x in the last 2 days.
I know this may sound weird, but have you tried cleaning out the dust? I had a friend that had a 360 (I know, not the same) and he was getting the red ring of death. He ended up taking it apart (just the case) and there was a shit load of dust in it. Cleaned it out and put it back together and it worked like new.
for my PS3. It's a refurb that is 4 years old. It's overheated 3x in the last 2 days.
Mine, after being near the original launch (not the first model but pretty close) finally stopped reading disks a couple months ago. It was a tragedy and I'm still contemplating trying to replace the bluray laser and the motor on the disk drive to see if I can salvage it.
I know this may sound weird, but have you tried cleaning out the dust? I had a friend that had a 360 (I know, not the same) and he was getting the red ring of death. He ended up taking it apart (just the case) and there was a shit load of dust in it. Cleaned it out and put it back together and it worked like new.
Do it, what is there to lose? My buddy tried to replace part of his. Said it was cool inside, but that the gel of some sorts that conducts heat between the CPU and the heatsync had dried up and was useless, probably what caused his issues.
If all else fails, he sold his broken one for like $50 on ebay. Guys will fix em up and resell em.
I'm not sure if I want to sink the money in when I don't know if it will fix it. That's really my only concern. I'm kind of broke lol
You can crack it open for free. If it is broken, then can't do more harm. But you might find something
If nothing else, it's a learning experience to be in there. I love to tinker on crap like that, that I have no idea how to fix
Did that with my 42 in plasma that shit the bed a while back. Cracked that bitch open, found a big ass swelled capacitor, replaced it and it's been working like a champ ever since. Of course I didn't try to fix it until after I bought a new one.
Well played, got the new one then fixed the old one. I did the same last year. The HDMI input went out on my 42", it was 18 months old but bought on credit card that doubled my warranty. Estimate to fix was as much as a new one so the CC just cut me a check for the amount paid on the TV. Put the TV downstairs for the kiddo that only wants to watch cartoons via netflix on the Wii (no HDMI input) and bought a new one. Found the video board for $70 if I ever want to swap it out to add HDMI back.
I know