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i repaired a ps3 last night for flashing red light , stripped it all down heated the board up with an heat gun and put a layer of as5 on and put it all back together worked perfect but after one hour it went again , is this common or did i do something wrong
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any heat gun fix
is not a permanent fix
as far as how long
thats up to how well it all re-flowed
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so do you think i should do it again but for longer to get it hotter time and is it best to heat it on both sides
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man
i cant give you advice on that
i dont like the heat gun stuff

i would find some where that would re-ball the chip
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re ball mate never heard that before what does that mean and how is that done
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they take the cpu/gpu off the mobo and clean it up
then put very small balls of solder on the chip and heat the board up to flow the solder
then its as good as new
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clever stuff then a bit out of my league mate cheers for the advise mate
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haha
i dont do it myself
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