RIP-Felix
Senior Member
I feel like it's necessary to defend @Naked_Snake1995 a bit. His tutorial id helpful for a potential cause of the YLOD. And he was correct in the capacitor to use to solve the problem (need low ESR, but he can be forgiven for not being an expert). It was just a trap he and everyone else fell for. False repairs due to thermechanical reconnection of BGA/bump defects gave the impression the nec/tokins were real issue. It was too juicy a narrative for people to resist - The idea that reballing was a con and the tokins were the real problem all along. Way too enticing an idea to resist. It sold a ton of YLOD consoles to hopeful DIY'er speculating on their own ability to solder. The truth is it looks easier than reballing. Reballing is so difficult that it presents a brick wall to the idea of fixing it themselves. Whereas the capacitors and tutorial make it look easy enough to be within their ability. That dangles hope in front of desperate gamers who want to believe they can easily revive their beloved console. Combine that with the idea that you can't break what's already broken and you have a recipe for destruction.
It gained it's own momentum, exasserbated by the fact that thermomechanical reconnection of BGA defects look like a fix initially. There were all kinds of rationalizations to fit the evidence into the myth's narraitive. Rationalizations like, "Heating the tokins restores capacitance, proving its bad tokins. If you use a hair drier or heat gun on tokins and it turns on, that means the toki s are bad." Nope, that's the BGA defect. In fact, since then we have shown that verified bad tokins, measured with an oscilloscope and correct SYSCON error code (1002), do not exhibit the same behavior as BGA defective consoles. Rarely do worn out tokins cause an instant YLOD (less than 10s). Most of the time they cause instability that progressively gets worse, forcing you to shelf the console before it gets that bad. The only time I have ever seen a console have a bad tokin cause an instant YLOD was when the tokin was physically damaged. Literally struck in shipping by a heavy thin cylindrical object right on the tokin. A lucky shot! I was planning to replace them anyway.
None of that was @Naked_Snake1995's fault. This was all before the we had the SYSCON UART error codes. Really, its SONY's doing. The errorlog should be accessible to repair technicians, not just SONY certified repair shops. Same with parts and schematics. It's a right to repair issue. If PS4 were backwards compatible with PS3 or if the PS5 were, there would be no need to keep old failing PS3 hardware out of the recycling bin. But there isnt any new hardware capable of playing PS3 games. So the demand for keeping PS3's alive is high. Especially the early backwards compatible models.
@Naked_Snake1995 fell victum to the narrative. So did I! Read my posts starting on page 137 of the YLOD thread. Before the SYSCON all we had were the opinions of reballers like @squeept who laid a steaming pile on our tantalum party. An unwanted, but necessary, jolt of reality. There were growing pains in the ensuing arguments as everyone came to terms with the truith. The old adage, "if it's too good to be true, it ain't" is always...and I mean ALWAYS...met with staunch resistance.
I think for @Naked_Snake1995 it was embarassing to be proven wrong. No one like to be an outspoken supporter of the incorrect side. But its not like he was completely wrong and the evidence couldnt have possable supported his position. It made sense from his perspective, as competing hypotheses do. But the truith had only one explanation and time and new evidence revealed it. I have no hard feeling for anyone who took either position. I just dont forgive willful ignorance after it's apparent what the truth is. Only when there is good reason to be wrong is it okay. When the truth is staring you in the face and you stanchly dig your heels in, that's when you transgress the line to foolishness. Its stupidity laid plain for everyone to see.
