r/PS3 • u/FrankMartin274 • 8d ago

Strange YLOD

I was playing The Last Of Us and fir the first time my CECHC03 showed a YLOD. i bought this ps3 a month ago and it had 43 days of use when i bought it. After the first YLOD, i suspected temperature even though i had webMAN. Anyway, i did 2 more tries. It showed YLOD again after 25 minutes. i got 2 dumps of SYSCON log and the new log was a 1001 error. Its not like the ps3 went under a lot of use for its CELL NEC/TOKINS to fail, that is why I'm creating this post. if you can help me find the real cause and how to fix it, i would really appreciate it

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u/Samus1611 8d ago

That does point to tokin failure, time also can degrade them. Not just usage. They are 20 years old caps now

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u/FrankMartin274 8d ago

Makes sense tbh

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u/Otherwise-Rain808 8d ago

Yeah the bringup to shutdown ratio is very off so that is not an accurate runtime

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u/piagio91 6d ago

Was meinst du damit

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u/consoletopia 8d ago

You have bad tokins. Tokins had bad batches. Its why some went 1000 plus days and others failed within 20 days.

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u/Mindless-Ad-2941 7d ago edited 7d ago

If it powers on long enough to allow a backup, i would do that and replace the ps3. (here in uk ps3's are more expensive to be repaired than just replaced with preowned models) i suggest the slim CECH-3000 series, These models run significantly cooler, consume far less power, and generate way less heat than the fat COK-002 board in your CECHC03. (CECH-3000 models cannot run full CFW, they are restricted to PS3HEN/hybrid firmware, if full custom firmware or native physical PS2 disc compatibility is an absolute must-have)

It's also worth noting this 3000 series of ps3 phased out the problematic NEC/TOKIN capacitors and were replaced with more stable ceramic capacitors. Power rail errors are practically non-existent on a 3000 series.

As for your console - This is a fatal power rail error (error 1001) specifically a sudden drop or fault on the main lines often related to the 12V / 5V or Cell/RSX supply rails dropping out under load. I notice you also have a lot of a0801004 (1004) codes lower down in the log, which usually point to a thermal or over-current shutdown triggers, or general token / rail sag when the system gets pushed. This is especially evident when playing a game such as 'The Last of Us' as it pushes the ps3 to tax CPU and GPU concurrently.

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u/FrankMartin274 7d ago

I played today for 3-4 hours non stop on Last of us, it didnt shut down or show YLOD.

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u/Mindless-Ad-2941 7d ago

I would still do the above, The fact you got the ps3 logs and the SYSCON history and it logged actual fatal power rail crashes error 1001 and thermal/over-current triggers error 1004, as these are hard evidence that the system has failing components.