I put a link up for the site yesterday.
That’s exactly my point. I still have my NES, SNES, Gene/32x/CD, Duo-R etc and they all work too.
Systems nowadays- you look at them and they break. Hell, you try and update the firmware on a ps3 and it borks your hdd.
Just a heads up if your serious about permanently fixing your ps3. DO NOT REFLOW YOUR CONSOLE. It is a temporary fix that will PERMANENTLY damage the gpu/cpu. Think logically for a second, how could a problem caused by heating be fixed by more extreme heating. It is a temporary solution that will ylod again and each time it does it will be tougher to fix and last less until it is eventually broken beyond repair. Don’t send it in to sony either as they are a rip off and you will just get a refurbished console back with unknown future issues.
Your best solution is to send it in to 1 of the guys on ebay that will actually RE-BALL it (sounds real manly I know) with LEAD-Solder. This is a PERMANENT fix and pretty much makes your console as reliable as the old cartridge consoles of yore with the exception of the blu-ray/dvd drive of course which will still need replacing/service every few years.
The problem stems from Sony’s use of lead free solder which with constant heating and cooling over time warps and looses contact with the cpu/gpu. Sony has to use lead free because lead solder is banned in many places around the world (EU) since early mid 2000s. Theoretically the ps3 slim and xbox slim might resist this problem because they don’t heat up as much thus have a less extreme enviroment of cooling/reheating on the lead free solder and supposedly lead free solder has gotten better over the last few years. Time will tell how resistant the new slim consoles are.
Re-balling with lead solder is the best and only real solution to make the older hotter ps3s& xbox’s 100% reliable.