10-18-2016, 08:59 PM
Thanks for the reply. That was my guess as well, it's such a shame these fat consoles had this design failure. I'm getting close to the end of Cold Steel but I still have the 2nd one to play, so here's hoping it holds out until after I finish that one. The current rate of puking the disc out seems to be only once every 2-4 hours, but oddly it doesn't do the triple beep every time now which is somewhat scary, although sometimes it still beeps like mad. It's strange because it almost feels like it was programmed to happen. As in, it goes from playing the game, to a "Please Wait" screen, then does all that junk I mentioned before.
I've done the heat gun trick in the past on my second PS3 but that only lasts so long. I eventually tried to delid it to replace the TIM and hoped it would stay cool enough that the solder wouldn't remelt, but unfortunately that didn't go so well and I ended up destroying it. I really regret selling the first one now... I might just grab a super slim eventually if this one craps out, but it's a shame that Sony put out junk and I might have to buy yet another PS3 just to play these games.
I've done the heat gun trick in the past on my second PS3 but that only lasts so long. I eventually tried to delid it to replace the TIM and hoped it would stay cool enough that the solder wouldn't remelt, but unfortunately that didn't go so well and I ended up destroying it. I really regret selling the first one now... I might just grab a super slim eventually if this one craps out, but it's a shame that Sony put out junk and I might have to buy yet another PS3 just to play these games.