i have a 80gb old style ps3. It's been working completly fine and i haven't had any long sessions on it as i haven't been home for a while. It has been cleaned whilst i haven't been at home.
So i get home after exams, sit down on my sofa and switch the thing on and it's fine for about an hour.... then in the middle of playing blops the screen freezes for about 5seconds then the whole this just force shuts down with a constant red flashing light. At this point i haven't really bothered reading about ylod, so i did't know that it was on the brink of it.
After it shut down i was kind of like wtf, but i wasn't to fazed by it so i switched it back on straight away. it boots up, tells me i didn't switch it off correctly last time i played and starts restoring stuff of the hdd, gets me to the home XMB. i then boot up blops again and get to the press start screen. As i go to press start the same thing happens, it just switches off. At this point im begining to think my blops cd is causing this so i try restarting it up again without blops but i get the same thing.
Each time i switch it on it lasts a shorter and shorter time, now it just doesn't boot and YLODs. I recorded it to show my friend and as i was watching the video back over i noticed it flash yellow before it went red. so the sequence is- green (for about 5secs) - yellow (for 0.5 secs) - then it just constantly flashes red until i either switch it off or try and switch it back on.
To my understanding YLOD is caused by overheating, which is why i'm so confused. my ps3 is in pristine condition. Its in a well ventilated area, nothing is blocking any of the vents and its in an open area. I have taken my ps3 apart before, but it was a year ago and i replaced the standard thermal paste with artic5 themal paste.
This has never happened before, so i took it apart and have a look inside. there is literaly not one flake of dust on the inside. I have also tried the fan test- which worked, then i tryed to boot it without the HDD which didn't work. So its not a fault with either the HDD or the power
Any ideas?