Originally posted by Aky84
Can it not be repaired again? Does putting too much thermal late have an impact on the flashing red light?
You shouldn't put too little or it will overheat (if it runs), but you don't need to put a lot..The ideal application (imo) is just a thin layer that is evenly spread across the top of the chip.
If a ps3 reaches a point to where it shuts off on its own, then it has suffered damages from overheating and may no longer run (properly) afterwards.
Reflowing (im assuming that's what you did to try to fix) is a temporary fix. It can last an hour, a day , weeks, months, years, you never really know.. If you keep doing this, it may break down the solder and cause a ball(s) underneath the chips to melt into one another,which will cause a permanent brick. It will absolutely require a reball at that point.
Reballing would be the best thing you could do, but good luck with all that...Reballing is the process of removing the chips to replace all the solder balls under the chip(s), in order to renew the solder and regain proper connection to the motherboard.
(imo) The easiest solution would be to just get another ps3.
All ps3s will overheat eventually, by their design, but the best thing you can do is to create a routine to renew your thermal paste every few months or once a year or so, to avoid problems such as this one.
Better luck next time.