PS3 CECHA00 60gb PS3 Shuts off in only one game, YLOD style.

So it looks like an aging capacitor about to meet it's end...
Good thing we are getting to the bottom of it
Thanks for Fanhais for being the first to bring the NEC TOKIN up.

It usually happens 5-30 minutes into the gameplay.
It might happen in a different game,it happens to me with Gran Turismo 5 and 6.

 

If your NEC TOKIN is totally fried then you should replace it.
If the NEC TOKIN is still alive you can solder a Tantalum in parallel.

 

Well good thing its the NECs even these kids beat the crap out of this 60Gb.

I have to start it like 6/15 times just to get it to XMB, and even so, shutodown its imminent, tested with 2 PS2 games, GT4 and NFSU2, so thats shorts the probability to be the GPU, so the NECs are 50/50% working, now i dont know if i solder them in parallel or remove them, as soldering isnt my high regarding skill :P

 

A dying GPU will most likely display artifacts under heavy load,The last of Us,Red dead redemption and Beyond:Two Souls are good for stressing the whole console.

 

Yeah i know that mate, thanks for the heads up, even on the XMB a failing GPU its enough for showing artifacts, my unit isnt showing anything, so its all good, except for the NECs

 

Ah, thats the Japanese 20gb? These things came out exactly when my CECHA did, so i dont see why there should be an issue of the boards causing the shutdown. Leaning towards a failed component. Thanks for weighing in.

 

Hang on here.. from what I am reading regarding Naked Snakes' problem here is that the faulty Nec Tokins cause way more erratic behaviour in shutdowns, typically when the unit is still cold. My unit can already be at optimum temp and the unit still shuts down. Always in an actual match and never anywhere else. It must be something to do with resources needed to power the game play that it fails on.

Is there a COD 2 or Uncharted demo on the PSN store or something? I'd really like to test these games out and see if i get the classic shutdown, or whether its literally just TAG2 causing this.

 

direct solder on Nec in parallel but you need to do some ground or link an wire on negative point of capacitor and solder some zone was ground on the board i show you this picture from internet to try explain what i did

 

NEC TOKINs can shutdown even when the temperature of the machine its at a hot state, it happend me before on the old TOSHIBA laptop (most common brand with these problems), the 1st time it only worked when at a warm operational state, after some months of use, it would shutdown, even at the extra hot operation temperature, which its what i suspect happend to this 60Gb, and the kids who i got it from tortured it with COD in blazing summer, and let me share a little secret with your lads, summer in Portugal its like living under a grill, its blazing hot

 

Ahhh i see you soldered them with jumpers, a little easier, but ive seen lads soldering them side by side with the NECs including the Grounding points on the MOBO, which its on the middle of the NECs

 

TRY this way and solder 4 tantalus on gpu side from the top of motherboard and test if works fine if not well put in cell side but should work with for on rsx side, you have two NECs on top and you will put 4 Tantalus in parallel like image from the picture

 

Thanks mate, ill try with the bypass wire like you did,only a shorter lenght, not to do a mess, or solder directly to the NECs and GRD points on the RSX and CELL (just for precautions),still have to order a few, what Tantalum specs you used btw!?

 

i use 470 uf but i think for 330 uf can do the job,
solder on this marks the pole positive on the board

and the tantalum the marks are red Positive and blue negative/ground

 

Just to make sure,Can i use what i marked in red as ground?
They aren't connected to any trace or component as far as i look at it

 

Don't worry mate, i understand perfect Portuguese, so Brazilian Portuguese isn't an issue, thanks for the schematics

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How about puting a capacitor on every red+blue?:


Will it work?