Hi Mark,
I’ve done this repair myself with my CECHA01 PS3 that I bought in December of 2006. It was my favorite system and it was backwards compatible with the ps2! I the year 2012 my system received the dreaded Yellow Light of death. I shelved it for 6 years until I finally decided to take it apart to clean and replace the thermal paste on top of the IHS over the CPU and GPU along with the reflow. To my surprised it worked! This only lasted for a month though. I took it apart, did the same thing with the same results. I did more research and found out that I had to get under the IHS over the CPU and GPU to replace the dry crusty thermal paste under there as well. Thankfully I was able to delid Both IHS without any damage. System worked great and ran cool for about 3 months and YLOD! Next I put a fan mod in that’s hooks between the fan and the mother board that basically allows the PS3 to have control of the fan VIA the Syscon chip based on the heat trace. System ran cooler than ever but eventually had YLOD. The last thing left for me to do is replace the Nec/Tokin capacitors with 330 uf tantalum capacitors. This was a common issue and solution for the Toshiba laptops years ago. People are replacing these caps without replacing the thermal paste on YLOD consoles and are able to bring these systems back to life! No reflow! No recall! I would love to see some one on this website attempt this repair and post the results.

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I know Robert. My Electronics friend Erik send me a totally wrong and confusing text message. But as I now understand he told me later that recieving your mail was not possible being 20MB or larger? And he didn't answer on my message on his answering machine either. So I hope he doesn't have any problems concerning his new bought Tektronics DV Scope.

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Hi Albert,
I already have the manuals, thanks.

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I couldn't reach my friend four a couple of days until today. He mailed me just now that he was sending Tek 2465a manuals to you Robert. Don't know why. And I don't know if he recieved your manuals. Guess he is abusievely thinking that you needed his? (His English is not that great, his German is much better). Sorry for any inconvenience. I don't know what happened, got no clue at all. I only know that his Tek 2465a DV will arrive any day now. I explained the situation to him but I am a bit confused. It must be the way he is, always helping anyone?

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Oh I didn't know Robert. He didn't tell me. I will ask him today what happened.
Thanks for Your much appreciated Help!

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I've tried to email the manuals to him twice and it doesn't seem to be getting through for some reason.

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I emailed the manuals to him.

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That original 100 parts repair and replacement kit from Team-Xecuter was not the Kit I could obtain, so I used another Simular but lesser parts Kit from Ebay that because of this also still needed a lot of Drilling. Because sadly Team-Xecuter Kits can't be bought with PayPal. And I don't want to buy an expensive Credit Card for this first too. These Simular Kits are okay but lack a lot of adhesive Cooling Blocks, and other replacement parts like Drive Belts etc.

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Thanks Robert, I will tell my good Tektronics DV friend that he needs to look on the Tektronics site for any existing DV Service Manual.

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I think I got the manuals from the Tektronix site. The guy I bought my scope from provided the links to me, but it's been a while.

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