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VERY IMPORTANT INFO
FOR ALL PS3 AND XBOX 360 OWNERS


	All Xbox 360's and PS3's will eventually die from overheating due to the breakdown of the factory-applied thermal compound used on the GPU and CPU microchips. Thermal compound (or thermal paste) is a substance that transfers the heat generated by the CPU and GPU processing chips to their respective heatsinks. The chips literally get hot as a iron as they're being used and will overheat in a matter of seconds without the heatsinks and fan operating to blow the excess heat out of the console. Almost all YLOD's and RROD's are due to overheated chips and/or the overheated solder than connects the chips to the motherboard. The thermal paste applied at the factory will usually work perfectly for a while but will inevitably dry out and lose the ability to transfer heat - often after just a few years. It's been brought to my attention that there are websites out there promoting the idea that there's nothing you can do about this - that every single Xbox 360 or PS3 will eventually die from dry paste and the resultant overheating. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE! PS3's and 360's have various problems but dried out thermal paste is one that really isn't that difficult to take care of - especially if you have the right tools and good instructions. I'm currently working on DIY kits that will make this a very easy task for everyone to handle themselves at home regardless of any prior electronics experience. Most people don't have a proper game repair shop nearby and mailing an Xbox or PS3 is going to be expensive and quite possibly create even more damage just from getting tossed around. Replacing the thermal paste won't guarantee you'll never get a YLOD or RROD but not replacing it pretty much guarantees that you will. Click here if you'd like to see some pictures from my own repairs here. These game consoles don't just die for no reason. Old age takes it's toll on certain parts but there really isn't anything in there to degrade and conk out other than the paste. I'm sure after 20 years or so something will have to give but in the meantime it's akin to driving your car around with a slow oil leak - at a certain point there just won't be enough oil left to do it's job. For most folks this will wreck the entire engine, for some it'll still be fixable but only after coughing up a large amount of money, and then the last lucky few that can be salvaged cheaply at the last minute. The point is that there's no good reason to let this happen at all. The older fat PS3's especially are dropping like flies right now as they've all reached the maximum lifespan of the factory applied paste and the older 360's are in the same boat. There are tutorials all around the Internet on how to handle this job and I just cannot stress enough how important it is to take care of this problem BEFORE you get a YLOD or RROD. If it were me, and I had an old fat PS3 - I would literally turn the machine off right now and leave it off until I had new paste on it. Every single one I re-paste has completely dried out - in several cases to the point that it had started blackening from being burnt so kudos at least to Sony for making a machine that could live through that - can't say that for Microsoft unfortunately. Despite what you might see on You Tube or certain websites YLOD's and RROD's can almost always be temporarily fixed but that's all - it will never be back to uniform and optimum operation without paying serious money. All these people advertising to fix your YLOD or RROD's for $70 or so are only reheating or "reflowing" the broken/damaged solder underneath the CPU/GPU chips just like you see people doing at home on You Tube - and if your luck is like mine this repair is pretty much guaranteed to last until about two days after their warranty runs out. To my mind that money's much better spent on a new console which is why I don't offer that service at all. I spend a lot of time explaining this nearly every day - over and over - which upsets a few people but most are really glad to have heard the truth before they paid somebody good money to do this rather pointless job. To permanently and properly repair a YLOD or RROD you have to completely remove the problem chips from the motherboard and replace all of the solder joints - hundreds of them - under each chip. This is called a "reball" rather than a "reflow" and it takes some serious machinery and know how which is why people charge $100+ for the service. Avoiding this problem in the first place is a much cheaper endeavour no matter how you go about it plus you won't have overheated/partially damaged microchips to deal with for the rest of the console's life. PS3's and Xbox 360's have various problems but far and away the most common repairs (for me) are laser replacements and now thermal paste replacements - every repair I do now comes with new thermal paste if it's an older console. Once I've put new paste on it'll be good to go for at least eight years and I know even the most inexperienced beginner will be able to achieve the same great results at home once I have these kits made up. DIY Xbox repair kits are how I got started about 10 years ago and I have thousands of happy customers to verify that these certain repairs can be easy to do for even the most electronically challenged parents and the like. It'll be a while before I have these kits set up and ready to sell but in the meantime it's important that you get this job done as soon as possible for ALL fat PS3's and the first few PS3 Slim and 360 models as well. You can find lots of tutorials around the Internet that will explain how to replace the thermal paste on your PS3 though you'll want to make sure you find proper disassembly instructions for your specific PS3 model first. For 360's there's only the original models and then the Slims but these two are entirely different animals so again you'll want to locate the right instructions first. For thermal compound everybody started hawking Arctic Silver for the RROD's though any new paste will be better than what you have on there now. Once you've handled the job and see how easy it is you won't have a problem putting better quality and thus more expensive paste on at a later date though Arctic Silver isn't really the best option from what I can see. They do have an excellent product for getting the old paste off though which is a task in itself sometimes - speaking of which it is of utmost importance that you don't damage the top of the microchip "die" scraping the dried paste off. They're often mirror-finished to make the best contact possible with the heatsink and they need to stay that way. I use a piece of stiff cardboard to scrape the bulk of the dried paste off first and a lot of people use credit cards. For the fat PS3's you can get away with using machine oil to cut and remove the dried paste too instead of paying for special thermal paste remover. Either way though it's of utmost importance to get all of the old paste residue off before putting the new stuff on. Even after you have all the visible paste removed go back over both surfaces with alcohol several times and if it was really burnt on you'll probably need to wet-sand the heatsink a bit too to get rid of the melted-on metal fragments (and yes they definitely do get that hot). For more in-depth information PS3's and 360's are both set up very much like your average home computer (which probably also has thermal paste you might want to check). The people that are truly obsessed with determining what exactly is THE BEST thermal paste/compound and/or how to keep things running as cool as possible get into something called computer "overclocking". The object is to get your computer (or console) running as fast and cool as is possible - with OCD attention to detail and actual proven facts - so please check their websites for answers rather than what the teenager's are ranting about on the PS3 and Xbox forums. I do hope this information is helpful to you and please take a moment to tell your friends and family about this too. I don't want to see anyone wasting money just for a lack of information - especially now with so many people barely scraping along as it is. In my experience nearly every single YLOD and RROD I've seen also had bone-dry thermal paste. I can't say for sure what the exact probabilities are but I'd estimate 90% of PS3 YLOD's and probably 75% of Xbox 360 RROD's could have been prevented just by replacing the paste so unless you have lots of extra money to throw away please don't let a lack of proper repair shops stop you from taking care of this extremely important job. My email address is below and you can just click the link if you have any further questions. I'm happy to help when I can and I'll have the proper thermal paste DIY kits ready just as soon as I can if you'd like to check back later or email to get on the wait list. Thank you, Lynn Brown

LBrown@psprepairservice.com