yea thats right...my ps3 finally broke down..........i was playing warhawk online then......IT RESTARTED......and the ps3 started flashing red then flashed yellow once and then red again. I called sony and they said my warranty expired....they cant do jack.....does anyone wanna buy a broken ps3.......? man im so angry and pissed off......lets hope it'll turn on in a week or so.
Ps3 YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH!!
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 04:17 PM
whoa thats not cool at all, how long did you have it
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 09:15 PM
geez man..thats why im waiting for about a year to buy one.. that way my chance of getting a bad one is low
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Posted 24 October 2007 - 09:17 PM
my buddys ps3 broke down but he didnt get a yellow light
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 12:18 AM
thats y ps3 blows...xbox 360 is so much better anyways.
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 04:36 AM
ur kidding right? roughly a quarter or so 350's get the red ring of death, its a major problem. this is the first time ive heard of a 'yellow light of death', that said failure rates of the PS3 are pretty low. sry number23 but ur one of those unlucky fewthats y ps3 blows...xbox 360 is so much better anyways.
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 06:38 AM
ive got a ps2 lol ive had it since they came out like 5 years ago and i hasn't stuffed up yet so i cant wait to get a ps3 
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 07:09 AM
OMG first i have heard of the yellow light of death:( damn man that sucks ive had 2 360's crap out on me and well my ps3 is working better then ever! only had it for a few months though so i hope it dosent crap out, how long did u have it before it broke?
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 05:40 PM
Send it back to Sony and they'll send you a new one.
A 360 can cook an egg. That just means it will overheat and die a lot more easily.The 360s with falcon chips are better and won't RROD as fast as the old ones.thats y ps3 blows...xbox 360 is so much better anyways.
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 09:48 PM
I didn't know Sony had such a thing
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Posted 26 October 2007 - 09:16 PM
Sounds like something that would happen to me, I don't know what it is, but whatever Sony product I get, it usually breaks down or has some adverse effect, and most of it has to do with the fact the hardware just isn't capable for what I want it to do, even if that is what the device was built to doI have heard of other glitches that the PS3 had but I have never heard of the yellow light, and the fact that your warranty was expired, the PS3 wasn't even out for a year yet, was it? And isn't it known that Sony gives out at least 1 year warranties if not 2 year warranties? So either you did something to void your warranty that they asked you over the phone, or they scammed you
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 12:00 AM
Hmmmm mine works perfectly and i havent dusted it in a while. I also leave it one for about 8 hours at a time in folding@home. Is your ps3 put in a properly ventilated area.
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 12:08 AM
Don't be too surprised by this, having worked in the industry for a while it is happening on both sides of the console war. Seemingly Microsoft have managed to monopolise the bad press but it is fairly common in both machines. I know of at least a dozen cases of PS3 shut-downs but i guess sadly thats what warranties are for!! Funny thing is i had a 360 since Jan 2005 and the thing thats killed it is GPU failure.... As for ther cooking an egg comment, doesn't anyone realise that it might be a good idea NOT to squeeze it into an unvented spot.....
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 01:34 AM
Man, sorry about your PS3. Big bummer. Shouldn't buy them so soon though.
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 02:28 AM
Buy a new PS3. It's not that hard its so easy to buy how much is it because you could always get it at Wal-Mart.
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 03:25 AM
Even if you leave it out in the open, it doesn't change the fact that it's very hot and that the failure rates are very high.As for ther cooking an egg comment, doesn't anyone realise that it might be a good idea NOT to squeeze it into an unvented spot.....
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 05:09 AM
Instead of saying "I cast BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH upon you!", it's "I cast YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH upon you!"
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 04:16 PM
My friend's just turns off by itself, without any lights.
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Posted 27 October 2007 - 11:24 PM
LAWSUIT LAWSUIT. Also, I believe its called "Red eye of death." Then again, my yahoo news could lie.
Ahaha, bringing back memories, huh? Get phoenix Wright, we'll figure this out.Instead of saying "I cast BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH upon you!", it's "I cast YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH upon you!"
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Posted 30 January 2009 - 06:14 PM
RIP ur PS3warranty must have expired JUST before it died huh 
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Posted 15 February 2009 - 01:22 PM
sucks, mine overheats too much im not sure if thats what happened to urs.
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Posted 19 February 2009 - 05:55 PM
this is the first time i have heard about that. my PS3 is still doing well after 2 years.maybe it did it because the auto update was on. i keep it off a update my self, when there is one.AsrarQ
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Posted 19 February 2009 - 07:48 PM
tht sucks, never happened to my ps3, probably never will and who would want to buy tht?
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Posted 21 February 2009 - 03:26 PM
I've heard about that, apparently it happens to the first generations of ps3, when it tries to update it breaks down, and sony does not help you with it even if you have your warranty, they just give you another one and some credits.yea thats right...my ps3 finally broke down..........i was playing warhawk online then......IT RESTARTED......and the ps3 started flashing red then flashed yellow once and then red again. I called sony and they said my warranty expired....they cant do jack.....does anyone wanna buy a broken ps3.......? man im so angry and pissed off......lets hope it'll turn on in a week or so.
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Posted 26 February 2009 - 11:26 PM
ya i think my lame ps3 is about to jail your ps3 cause i've also been seeing a yellow light on it as well and it's also been restaring alot and heating up alot more then offten which has realy been pissing me off all that work and for nothing. But i got to ask were did you see the yellow light was it were you normaly plug in the controler or the area around the one switch. Cause this is staring to make me wounderYou know what i think sony was doing that on purpose so they could see some more ps3 cause aprently sony ps3 isn't selling to well right now
