Sony PS3 "Fat" YLOD Repair - Faulty Console Restoration

Another PS3 restoration, this one being the first YLoD repair on the channel. This particular unit is a CECH-H01 model, which is a revision older than the PS3 HDMI repair video that I shared a couple of weeks ago:
🎮 Sony PS3 "Fat" HDMI Repair: • Sony PS3 "Fat" HDMI Re...
YLOD needs no introduction. The console doesn’t turn on and presents a yellow light followed by 3 beeps and a flashing red light i.e. the "Yellow Light of Death" or simply abbreviated YLoD.
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• SYSCON thread on PSX-Place: www.psx-place....
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