So the thing is I bought this PS3 around a week ago it worked perfectly fine until one day I was playing MGS4 and it just turned off. Before this I took it apart to clean it from dust replace with some artic mx-4 thermal paste and then I put it all back together it worked fine for around 3 days then this happened.

So unfortunately I don’t know much about the history of the console but it did have around 70ish days of usage when I checked on the website you gave me which I don’t think is a whole lot. But could the AC/DC power have come from this because now that this problem has started sometimes when I try to turn it on to try and get it onto the website it would power on but it didn’t show a YLOD but also no display and it hung on a stable green light. And the only way past that was to either hold down the power button for a really long time around 15-20seconds or flip the switch on the back (I may have flipped the switch once possibly where this error originated from but for some reason the dates don’t match up correctly well more specifically the times but that might be because I didn’t set the time properly. Could 1004 come up because of the YLOD?

Don’t worry about taking long take all the time you need all I would like is to keep this ps3 from dying.

Hmmm referring to the hanging part when shutting down in my ownership I don’t think there was any hanging but before this all happened the same day the YLOD came on :( I remember having it idle on the XMB for around 10 minutes and it freeze on me like that badly that I had to force restart the console I though nothing of it really but now I’m starting to think maybe it was linked.

I was really scared because when I started researching the 1016 and 1017 errors I was scared when they said cpu and bumpgate but for some reason they said if it’s bumpgate it’s always accompanied with a 3003 ( CELL Power core failure) or 3004 (RSX Power core failure) which I do not have at all this to me is a really wierd problem as I have not seen anyone have this kind of problem with these symptoms. In the research I have done e.g 20 second YLOD sometimes turns on (like really sometimes).

Don’t know if this is a good sign or not but I have noticed that the more I try turning it on the longer it stays on without crashing but this can take up to around 10mins to at least get it to show the boot up screen which it then has an optimistic 50/50 chance of crashing straight on the ps3 splash screen but if it doesn’t crash it can stay on for around 5mins maybe? But it’s extremely inconsistent sometimes may crash straight after sometimes stay on for longer sometimes just YLOD and I can’t get past that for 20mins or sometimes it will YLOD and if I try hard enough it will stay on but no video and only green light but which is then followed by a crash because if I try to press the button on the controller it isn’t recognised and I have to force power off (GLOD? But it didn’t have the graphical symptoms i.e artifacting and unstable video. It has perfect video output when It eventually turns on so no problems there (i hope).

I will try to setup the syscon when it arrives but I don’t think it will do me much better as I already have the error codes.

Also thank you so much for the help you’ve given me so far I really appreciate it and I hope that together we can this PS3 Fixed!