Victims of the dreaded PS3 RLOD, assemble!

[Del Murder]

The whole thing. He said he baked at 150 degrees F overnight (!) and the next morning it worked fine.

[Goldenboko]

Preheat oven, add flour, water, baking soda, leave in overnight and you'll have baked your very own PS3 in no time!

[Pete for President]

The whole thing. He said he baked at 150 degrees F overnight (!) and the next morning it worked fine.

That is wicked. If the hairdryer method fails, I'll try this. If anything it'll be a good story!

[Slothy]

I'd probably remove the hard drive at least before sticking the PS3 in the oven. Even if 150F isn't really that hot.

[Pete for President]

THE HAIRDRYER FIX; IT WORKED. I am so stoked!

Here's what I did:
Put the PS3 in a box and used the hairdryer on semi-max for 15 minutes. Let the PS3 cool for a couple hours. Fired it up: it only worked for maybe 20 seconds. That kind of sucked, but on the bright side it worked 20 seconds more than before.

Then I tried the hairdryer again, this time on maximum heat, maximum blow speed and 18 minutes instead of 15. Let it cool overnight and voila; it worked! I've had enough time to backup all my saves to USB. But the tricky part was securing my precious Dark Souls saves. They're copy-protected and can only be copied by transferring all data to a different PS3 as if you bought a new one, or cloud save through Playstation Plus.

I tried transferring to a friends' PS3 I borrowed for this occasion, but what I didn't know was for this to work my friends' PS3 would be formatted. That was a big no-go.

So then I raced to the PSN Store, bought a 3 months subscription to Playstation Plus and cloud-copied the Dark Souls save files. SUCCESS. Thank you hairdryer!

Tomorrow I will log-in on my account on my friends' PS3 and download the cloud-saved files. That way I will have a physical backup in case I don't buy a new PS3 before the 3 months PS+ subscription expires.

Hurray for urban myths in technology fixes

[Pheesh]

Wow, congrats. This must be the new version of smacking your computer to make it work.

[Del Murder]

Or blowing in a NES.

[Dr. rydrum2112]

PS3 Repair | iPhone Repair | Xbox 360 Repair

For USA people- I've found they were good & they can tweak the system with upgrades and stuff.

[Pete for President]

The hairdryer fix seems to last a lot longer than expected. This post will probably jinx it, but since the fix my PS3 has been running like normal. I don't dare to guess how long it'll last, but I'm impressed!

(SPOILER)Dark Souls... I'm back! For now. Muhahahahaha

Edit: jinxed it. It died again this afternoon :0