Has someone fixed a ps3 with only thermal paste?

I had a old 40gig fat ps3 that died on me a long time ago. But since then, I bought a new 160gig slim.

My 40gig is way past warranty, and I wanted to try to fix it myself and wanted to know if all it takes is applying new thermal paste? The probem with it wasn't the YLOD. What was wrong with the 40gig is about after 30 minutes of playing, the screen will freeze, then put green/white lines with green/white checkered boxes across the screen.

Would just applying thermal paste (tuniq tx-4 paste) potentially fix the problem? If not, i'll just erase all data on the 40gig HDD and keep it as more storage, and switch it with my other 160gig back and forth in my slim (if thats even possible, i hope so)

EDIT: Just did a little research, you can put an older HDD into a new ps3. Its just the new ps3 will format the HDD, which no problem for me since I started over on everything anyway. But my question is, once my slim formats the old HDD, then I put back in the original HDD, will the original HDD be formatted as well? Or will both HDD be perfectly fine to switch back and forth?

I had a old 40gig fat ps3 that died on me a long time ago. But since then, I bought a new 160gig slim.

My 40gig is way past warranty, and I wanted to try to fix it myself and wanted to know if all it takes is applying new thermal paste? The probem with it wasn't the YLOD. What was wrong with the 40gig is about after 30 minutes of playing, the screen will freeze, then put green/white lines with green/white checkered boxes across the screen.

Would just applying thermal paste (tuniq tx-4 paste) potentially fix the problem? If not, i'll just erase all data on the 40gig HDD and keep it as more storage, and switch it with my other 160gig back and forth in my slim (if thats even possible, i hope so)

EDIT: Just did a little research, you can put an older HDD into a new ps3. Its just the new ps3 will format the HDD, which no problem for me since I started over on everything anyway. But my question is, once my slim formats the old HDD, then I put back in the original HDD, will the original HDD be formatted as well? Or will both HDD be perfectly fine to switch back and forth?

ristactionjakso

[QUOTE="ristactionjakso"]

I had a old 40gig fat ps3 that died on me a long time ago. But since then, I bought a new 160gig slim.

My 40gig is way past warranty, and I wanted to try to fix it myself and wanted to know if all it takes is applying new thermal paste? The probem with it wasn't the YLOD. What was wrong with the 40gig is about after 30 minutes of playing, the screen will freeze, then put green/white lines with green/white checkered boxes across the screen.

Would just applying thermal paste (tuniq tx-4 paste) potentially fix the problem? If not, i'll just erase all data on the 40gig HDD and keep it as more storage, and switch it with my other 160gig back and forth in my slim (if thats even possible, i hope so)

EDIT: Just did a little research, you can put an older HDD into a new ps3. Its just the new ps3 will format the HDD, which no problem for me since I started over on everything anyway. But my question is, once my slim formats the old HDD, then I put back in the original HDD, will the original HDD be formatted as well? Or will both HDD be perfectly fine to switch back and forth?

MethodManFTW

Applying paste won't fix that problem. I've tried it with my 60 gig that had the same problem. I also did the ylod of death fix to try and the issue, nothing. Let me guess your screen freezes and you get those lines/checkered colors, but the games still play, sound does as well, but you are unable to see things? That's happened. Also, I get times when the screen just freezes with the stuff mentioned above and I'm forced to reset to fix it. It's lose/lose because it keeps happening. As far as I know there's nothing to fix that, otherwise I'd be using that ps3 and for it's b/c :P 2ndWonder

But ya, I hear the game, it plays and what not, but the screen is froze and those lines ad checkers are everywhere.

[QUOTE="2ndWonder"]Applying paste won't fix that problem. I've tried it with my 60 gig that had the same problem. I also did the ylod of death fix to try and the issue, nothing. Let me guess your screen freezes and you get those lines/checkered colors, but the games still play, sound does as well, but you are unable to see things? That's happened. Also, I get times when the screen just freezes with the stuff mentioned above and I'm forced to reset to fix it. It's lose/lose because it keeps happening. As far as I know there's nothing to fix that, otherwise I'd be using that ps3 and for it's b/c :P ristactionjakso

But ya, I hear the game, it plays and what not, but the screen is froze and those lines ad checkers are everywhere.

[QUOTE="MethodManFTW"][QUOTE="ristactionjakso"]

I had a old 40gig fat ps3 that died on me a long time ago. But since then, I bought a new 160gig slim.

My 40gig is way past warranty, and I wanted to try to fix it myself and wanted to know if all it takes is applying new thermal paste? The probem with it wasn't the YLOD. What was wrong with the 40gig is about after 30 minutes of playing, the screen will freeze, then put green/white lines with green/white checkered boxes across the screen.

Would just applying thermal paste (tuniq tx-4 paste) potentially fix the problem? If not, i'll just erase all data on the 40gig HDD and keep it as more storage, and switch it with my other 160gig back and forth in my slim (if thats even possible, i hope so)

EDIT: Just did a little research, you can put an older HDD into a new ps3. Its just the new ps3 will format the HDD, which no problem for me since I started over on everything anyway. But my question is, once my slim formats the old HDD, then I put back in the original HDD, will the original HDD be formatted as well? Or will both HDD be perfectly fine to switch back and forth?

ristactionjakso