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The <b>Yellow Light of Death</b> (often abbreviate YLoD) is a common problem which affects non-slim models of the [[Playstation 3]], although there have been some reports of it happening to slim PS3's as well. The YLoD is similar to the RRoD of the Xbox 360 in that both are usually caused by the cracking of the lead-free solder used on the CPU and GPU due to thermal fluctuations. The solution is to either reflow the solder (using a heat source such as a heat gun or conventional oven) or have the chips professionally reballed, which involves removing the chips and reattaching them with fresh, lead-based solder.