PS3 SLIM YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH (YLOD) FAULT

Over the last few years I have repaired 100's of PS3's with the dreaded "yellow light of death fault". I presumed when Sony released the PS3 Slim they would have fixed the problem. But recently I have seen a few PS3 Slims with the same problem, they have been repaired by the same reflowing methods as I use with the old style PS3 model. The PS3 slim uses less power and generates less heat yet the problem still seems to exist. I doubt the Slim will have the same high failure rates as the old model, but only time will tell... The biggest cause of this type of fault is the lead free solder they now have to use in modern electronic devices. Since CPU's and GPU's generate a lot of heat, the expanding and contracting of the chips and mainboard cause the solder which goes brittle with age to break connections to either the CPU or GPU or both, hence the YLOD. Also a lot of laptops with Nvidia GPU's suffer the same type of problem. This similiar problem is known as BSOD (black screen of death). This can normally be repaired but can be quite expensive (£70+) as the laptop needs totally disassembled and the GPU reflowed.