for anyone with YLOD issue, there's a new discovery as to what's the cause.
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/tutorial-...ylod-fix.25260/i tried the method and it works. i bought the tantalum caps in alixpress and took the ps3 motherboard along with the caps to a mobile phone repair shop to solder the replacement caps after they remove the nec/tokin caps.
the shop that i go to tests the connection with a multimeter to make sure there are no shorts after soldering.
i had a ps3 phat's cpu damaged when i sent it to a guy without the proper testing done after soldering. wasted a ps3 console.
as for delidding the IHS, the RSX is easy but the cell is harder.
i used a combination of fishing line, razor blade and painter knife.
destroyed another ps3 phat's cpu also when i scratched the cpu green surface that contains the traces. 2 phat ps3 had been sacrificed altogether.
hope this knowledge helps people to save their PS3 from the landfill.
This post has been edited by deathninjax: Nov 3 2019, 09:28 AM