Remember this thread? I'm here to tell you that the same thing works for PS3s! A friend of mine had an issue with his system, that had been "fixed" before. The problem was that the machine would beep and not power on. He had had someone else "reflow" the cpu and gpu chips twice before, which worked for a short time, but the thing failed again in a week or two. He took it back to the same guy again who told him he might as well just buy a new one as there isn't much chance the reflowing trick would work again. So he did. He bought a new one, and brought his old one over to me to "mess with". See if you can do anything with it he said laughing, "what's the worst that could happen, you break it?"

So that's what I did. I messed with it. I did a little reading online. I stripped it, cleaned it, and BAKED IT! I put it on a cookie sheet, supported by foil (Thanks for the idea HarvesteR) put it in the oven, leveled it (pretty important) and set the oven to 425 F. I used an electric oven, so the temp. rose pretty slow. Once at the 425 F mark, I let it "cook" for 5 minutes, then turned the oven off, and cracked the door open to let it start cooling down. 1/2 an hour later, I reassembled the unit, reapplying thermal paste and heat tape where it was before and tried it out. Low and behold! The wavy and spakley screen appeared just as it had in the past! No Idea how long it will last this time, but wow!

Heat, the Alpha and the Omega of electronics!

You gotta love it!

A couple of guys have been doing this for PS3s here in the UK ..... Sony won't fix them after the warranty has run out unless you pay almost the same price as the unit and 60% of the time they fail within 3 months. These guys have been baking the relevent parts for £30 ($45) and getting at least another 12 months out of the unit.