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I used to be local teen that would fix everyones Playstation 3's, when they got the red light of death. I used to do the heat gun trick to get them back up, but
by hellojebus 2y ago
I used to be local teen that would fix everyones Playstation 3's, when they got the red light of death. I used to do the heat gun trick to get them back up, but decided to also try an oven at one point (it worked). I wonder if this was the same phenomenon...
- nubinetwork 2y agoMy understanding is that the ps3 and 360 had similar (but not entirely identical) issues, but the common "repair" on the ps3 was to change some unique (NEC tokin) capacitors around the CPU/GPU... only problem was that, like the hotbox "repair" it would fail again within a month if it worked at all.
- sebazzz 2y agoI fixed my NVIDIA video card by putting it in the oven. I wonder if I fixed the capacitors instead of the solder.
- spacebacon 2y agoI’ve exhausted options on my 4090. I sense a need for a “can you bake it” YT channel.