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Hacking Ps3 YLOD board level repair guides?

Thread starter grey72
Start date Nov 16, 2018
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I've been practicing with an old phone, and am now pretty confident with soldering on expensive stuff. Any guides/websites I can follow for fixing YLOD eg Tokin replacement?

Ps already tried reflowing the CPU/GPU, got nowhere. Now looking for other solutions

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