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Ps3 YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH!!
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, Oct 24 2007 01:11 PM
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Posted 14 March 2009 - 07:38 AM
do you knw how the yellow light was caused yet that happpened with my psp it bricked 36 hours past my warranty and wtf they didnt replace it or anything
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 02:33 PM
I've got a 40gb PS3 that I've had since March last year and I just got the YLOD yesterday. Spoke to Sony. Apparently what has happened is that due to the system overheating the seal around the CPU and/or GPU has cracked and separated from the main board. I have seen guys on Youtube fix it with a solder job, and Sony will fix it under warranty or may even replace it with a new console. If out of warranty, it'll cost you about $150US, but some stores offer a trade in on a dead console. EB Games in Australia offers $100AU for dead console trade-ins so I'll more than likely upgrade to the 120gb slim. But it is a rather annoying problem, especially when you don't have backups of any of your saves, despite having two PS3's in one house (mine and my brothers, his is only 3 months old, same 40gb model), and after resynching my trophies to his PS3, I've lost trophies!!! Trophies that I synced to the server maybe a week and a half before the YLOD, and now they're gone!!! I was pissed when I saw a stack of my trophies missing after resynching. I lost both of my platinums for Assassins Creed 2 and Borderlands, and am incredibly unhappy because I was 5 trophies away from the Bioshock Platinum (the 4 hard and survivor trophies plus platinum) and now I've lost all my progress on survivor mode.My new rule, and a suggestion to anyone else with a PS3 - back up your save games to an external USB device regularly and keep it safe, unfortunately games like Guitar Hero won't let you copy the save files, and synch your trophies regularly!!!! I reckon I've lost at least 20 trophies thanks to the YLOD.
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Posted 25 March 2012 - 09:13 PM
Wow that really stinks i guess your one of the 20% that breaks.
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Posted 07 April 2012 - 07:54 AM
i didn't know ps3 had a yellow light of death 
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Posted 11 April 2012 - 05:57 AM
I never really thought about that happening...now I'm scared it will happen to mine
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Posted 17 April 2012 - 11:22 PM
Should probably to clean the dust out of the ps3 to prevent overheating.
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Posted 07 June 2012 - 10:14 AM
this happend to me just this week im so dispointed I had just brought FF13-2 and wanted to play it through. Now I have a new game and no ps3 to play it on.
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Posted 28 July 2012 - 10:44 AM
Never experienced this. I don't think the new ones can get that. Hopefully
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Posted 17 August 2012 - 01:41 AM
wow man that sucks i hope its working niow
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Posted 13 December 2012 - 12:12 AM
mine died out the other day with ac3 still in it 
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Posted 26 June 2013 - 12:04 PM
lol I was just reading about 360's red rings of death or w/e anyways any kind of rings on anything is terrible I can only assume ... such as the red and yellow rings of these platforms... table rings... ghautti (can't spell) rings..... ring tossing sucks.. only thing I can thing of at the moment... ring around the rosy was about the black plague lol RING ALWAYS EQUALS DEATH *Except of course in the case of Sonic the hedgehog when the ring is the only thing keeping you alive.
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Posted 11 September 2013 - 06:11 AM
I had the same thing with mine, it was a while back and i replaced it with the white super slim. Tough break man :/
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Posted 04 December 2013 - 10:22 AM
Just like the xbox 360 red ring of death it is a relatively Cheap and easy fix if you know what you're doing. If not check youtube 
But anyways all you need is a couple screw drivers I believe a torx 9 and two phillips screw drivers one thats pretty small can't exactly think of the size, and the only other thing you need is some thermal compound which usually runs about 5 bucks depending on where you get it.
But anyways all you need is a couple screw drivers I believe a torx 9 and two phillips screw drivers one thats pretty small can't exactly think of the size, and the only other thing you need is some thermal compound which usually runs about 5 bucks depending on where you get it.
