PS3 Yellow Light of Death

Turns out the disc isn't lost, just my Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime of a brother forgot to ask for it, probably so delighted to be getting out of there with a new PS3.

Just got to go to the store and collect it tomorrow, and they even said on the phone that if they couldn't get it out, I could get a new copy.


Top marks to Gamestation to be fair, they're on my good customer service list, along with Dell
 
ok mine has bricked it for the second time! First time they replaced for free. Now they want 130 quid. Sale of goods act isnt working whatsoever.

I think i might claim it off house insurance.
 
Just read this post now and for anyone who has a lot of data on their HD they want to keep you can buy something like this USB IDE & Sata back up system through USB 2.0 basically it allows you to connect a HD through a USB port to your pc so you can back data up. I have got one and used it to transfer data from a few spare HDs i had lying about from previous dead computers. As the HD is basically a PC one in the PS3 the power supply should be the same so this cable setup will power it up, just unsure if you can just do a full back up to a folder on the PC then get it off again to DVD. If someone with more PS3 knowledge knows this answer this cable setup might be able to save all the trapped data due to the PS3 dying.
 
The problem is, the PS3 doesn't use a standard format for its internal drive, it's totally propitiatory. Even another PS3 can't read the drive used in your PS3, it will insist on formatting it. The best thing to do is simply make regular backups.
 
WeasteDevil said:
The problem is, the PS3 doesn't use a standard format for its internal drive, it's totally propitiatory. Even another PS3 can't read the drive used in your PS3, it will insist on formatting it. The best thing to do is simply make regular backups.
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Good advice....i know it isnt an overheating problem either as the PS3 hadnt been played in 4 days. The screen freezes at the load up screen then a few bleeps and yellow light then dies.

Ive kept it ventilated, kept it dust free. Managed to rescue the game that was inside it though. Think if i can get a temporary fix then im taking it to trade it in quickly for a slimline :nervous:

60gb 2007 model
 
Weaste good sir, the fan on my PS3 just got really loud whilst playing MW2, I'd only been on it for about 30 minutes or so and all of a sudden it just cranked up really loud. Now it's pretty bloody warm in my room but it doesn't normally get anywhere near as loud as this, you reckon vacuuming the vent will do anything or is it unavoidable due to the high temp?
 
It depends if it does it on a regular basis or not. In the summer, even with the aircon on, it sometimes will throw a fit for 30 minutes or so, but then calm down again. The ambient temperature can effect it a lot. It's nothing to worry about, even though it can sometimes be very annoying when it does it, it means that it's doing its job and getting the heat out.

Vacuuming the vents every so often is a good idea, use one of those attachments with soft bristles if you have one. If it's a slim, when it goes past its warranty period, I'd suggest that you open it up and clean the fan with compressed air. If it's an older model, that gets very complicated. Even still, with an older model, there is no harm in opening it up and giving the innards a vac without removing or disassembling anything - you need a special type of screwdriver though.
 
It's an fatty, not sure if I fancy opening it up but I'll have a gander and see how tricky it looks. You've stopped me panicing at least, cheers.

You can cook your olive branch now :D
 
Taking the top of the case off isn't complicated, there is just a security screw that needs a special screwdriver head. Cleaning the fan on the fatty is not simple, you have to take the whole thing to bits - the slim it's very easy as it's on the top.

Give it a good vac first - but turn it off when doing so.
 
Weaste I am a tad concerned about my new Ps3. Had an issue with all 3 games thus far and only had it about a month

Unchartered 2, I have got stuck in a wall twice and unable to continue so had to reset

GOW 3 going up a spiral stair and the loading sign came up and then game froze, never to return. The loading symbol continued to rotate but the game would not continue, so had to reset.

Killzone 2- everytime the game loads mid game, it freezes sometimes for about 5 seconds

I realise the odd game gets a glitch, but I can count on one hand how many times this has happened on my xbox over the course of 3-4 years

Oh and Most worrying of all, occasionally when I turn it off the whole fecking machine literally sounds likes it’s cracking. It’s a really unhealthy sounding noise.

I think my machine is fecked.

One last thing, I cannot seem to get my external hard drive to work on the Ps3. With the xbox I just plug it in and watch movies etc.. But although it is recognising it, I can not view any files.
 
When you see the drive press triangle and it should explore the drive, showing all the files on there. First time I put an external drive on with mine I tried to do it wrong.

Re the games that sounds dodgy, I'd take it back.
 
Randall Flagg said:
Unchartered 2, I have got stuck in a wall twice and unable to continue so had to reset
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Game bug.

Randall Flagg said:
GOW 3 going up a spiral stair and the loading sign came up and then game froze, never to return. The loading symbol continued to rotate but the game would not continue, so had to reset.
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Game bug.

Randall Flagg said:
Killzone 2- everytime the game loads mid game, it freezes sometimes for about 5 seconds
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It's streaming game objects in, it's not a freeze as such, just a poor implementation that they should have really fixed. This could get worse if your HDD is getting full.

Randall Flagg said:
I realise the odd game gets a glitch, but I can count on one hand how many times this has happened on my xbox over the course of 3-4 years
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Uncharted DF is one of the worse for getting stuck in places, just lack of quality control really. As for the Killzone issue, it does what Uncharted does but nowhere near as well, in that it moves data of the BD disc and onto the HDD using it as a cache, then the game reads stuff off the HDD as it's much faster than reading off the BD. This will never happen on the XB360 as they never try to do this, as HDD is not standard.

Randall Flagg said:
Oh and Most worrying of all, occasionally when I turn it off the whole fecking machine literally sounds likes it’s cracking. It’s a really unhealthy sounding noise.
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They cut costs with the slim, the plastic case is nowhere near as well made as it is on the original model. Don't worry about it, it's just heat expansion of the case, not of the mobo. However, I would suggest everyone that has a PS3, original or slim, does not go from game or movie to direct power down. Go back to the XMB and let it cool down for ten minutes before you power off. Powering off shuts off the fan, which is something not good if there is still a lot of heat inside the box.

Randall Flagg said:
I think my machine is fecked.
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Nah!

Randall Flagg said:
One last thing, I cannot seem to get my external hard drive to work on the Ps3. With the xbox I just plug it in and watch movies etc.. But although it is recognising it, I can not view any files.
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The files on the PS3 have to be in a specific folder. Go to the drive in question and click the triangle button. I can't remember exactly, but then there should be an option to "view all" or something like that. The drive has to be FAT32, it's not going to accept NTFS.
 
This is my bitch, and she's almost three years old and never exhibited a hardware problem.

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What will happen now is that it will YLOD in the next two weeks for me tempting fate.

All I can really suggest is that you keep it clean, well ventilated, and do the power down thing I already talked about.
 
WeasteDevil said:
This is my bitch, and she's almost three years old and never exhibited a hardware problem.

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What will happen now is that it will YLOD in the next two weeks for me tempting fate.

All I can really suggest is that you keep it clean, well ventilated, and do the power down thing I already talked about.
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i opened mine up on saturday....
Jesus i vaccumed the vents once a week.... i reckon i'll do my next one daily with a portable vacuum cos i honestly couldnt believe what i saw. The guy will grease the bits and attack it with the heatgun tomorrow. Im sure it will work again...but feck that im trading it in and getting a slimline!
 
Seems to be the place to go for PS3 help at the cafe :lol:

So on Saturday my PS3 started playing up during FIFA10 with some funny looking blocky graphics appearing now and again! This started off slightly and got worse the more I played. I left the PS3 to cool, thinking it could be over heating with the added warmth we've had, come Sunday I booted it back up to give it another go, worked fine - until the second game in the problem started again, this time slightly worse! This reminded me of my first PS3 error a while back which resulted with me performing a complete system restore on it and losing all my saves. Worried, I got out of it straight away but managed to shut down the system in the process! :rolleyes:

After preparing my backup device for the worst, I've booted up the PS3 to find it stalling once it reached the XMB screen, and with each other attempt it stalled quicker! The funny thing is the system seems to be running still as the audio can still be heard and when I move the controller the XMB noises are still being made, so it's a video fault.

I've tried the options 'Restore Default Settings', 'Restore File System' and 'System Update' on the "Safe Mode" PS3 section to no prevail. My last option was the 'Rebuild Database' but was worried about doing this in case of saved games being deleted, but after reading on the Sony site it seems they won't be so I may give that a whirl.

But all in all I don't want to perform a system restore and lose everything, so I've looked into getting it repaired, a company near mine will do it for £40 and can hopefully salvage my saves - but are there any other options I could try before I take it in to them??
 
gaz1185 said:
Seems to be the place to go for PS3 help at the cafe :lol:

So on Saturday my PS3 started playing up during FIFA10 with some funny looking blocky graphics appearing now and again! This started off slightly and got worse the more I played. I left the PS3 to cool, thinking it could be over heating with the added warmth we've had, come Sunday I booted it back up to give it another go, worked fine - until the second game in the problem started again, this time slightly worse! This reminded me of my first PS3 error a while back which resulted with me performing a complete system restore on it and losing all my saves. Worried, I got out of it straight away but managed to shut down the system in the process! :rolleyes:

After preparing my backup device for the worst, I've booted up the PS3 to find it stalling once it reached the XMB screen, and with each other attempt it stalled quicker! The funny thing is the system seems to be running still as the audio can still be heard and when I move the controller the XMB noises are still being made, so it's a video fault.

I've tried the options 'Restore Default Settings', 'Restore File System' and 'System Update' on the "Safe Mode" PS3 section to no prevail. My last option was the 'Rebuild Database' but was worried about doing this in case of saved games being deleted, but after reading on the Sony site it seems they won't be so I may give that a whirl.

But all in all I don't want to perform a system restore and lose everything, so I've looked into getting it repaired, a company near mine will do it for £40 and can hopefully salvage my saves - but are there any other options I could try before I take it in to them??
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Dont mean to scare you.. but it was at the xmb mine started to stall before i got YLOD...im pretty sure the main problem in mine was probably dust.
 
I thought the PS3 was the perfect console, Weastie?! ;)

My one is fine, it was one of the release day consoles too. I've only turned it on a handful of times though so that's probably why there's nothing wrong with it!
 
EdWeatherall said:
Gamestation

I don't think it was the exact article, but he had printed something off in case they questioned it

But to be honest, it's the law, it's 6yrs and the thing was only 2 and a half years old. I thought they'd send him up the chain to their head office or if he was lucky give him a refurbished one. So, was definitely surprised they gave him a brand new 250gb one

He said the first guy he spoke to told him that it was Sony's problem so contact them, but we'd looked around online and knew it was the retailers responsibility, so the next person he spoke to there just accepted it, I'm sure they get a lot of these problems, and she said my brother was right but they didn't have any at that shop, so they had to go to Hyde instead.

He says they didn't even check the PS3 or the box or anything, just took his word that it was knackered
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You have done well there.

I was going to go down that route. I contacted Game (part of Gamestation), and they offered to fix it for free.

I fixed it myself with a hairdryer in the end, then traded it in with Gamestation.
 
Andersonsonson said:
Good advice....i know it isnt an overheating problem either as the PS3 hadnt been played in 4 days. The screen freezes at the load up screen then a few bleeps and yellow light then dies.

Ive kept it ventilated, kept it dust free. Managed to rescue the game that was inside it though. Think if i can get a temporary fix then im taking it to trade it in quickly for a slimline :nervous:

60gb 2007 model
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It may have been caused by hours of overheating over the years. Mine went after it had been on for about 10 mins.

The experts say its due to the thermal paste on the CPU.

Weaste disagrees.
 
gaffs said:
You have done well there.

I was going to go down that route. I contacted Game (part of Gamestation), and they offered to fix it for free.

I fixed it myself with a hairdryer in the end, then traded it in with Gamestation.
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We sure did, and as a result, Gamestation join Dell on my good customer service list
 
gaffs said:
It may have been caused by hours of overheating over the years. Mine went after it had been on for about 10 mins.

The experts say its due to the thermal paste on the CPU.

Weaste disagrees.
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I disagree because the yellow light does not indicate that there is a thermal problem with the Cell, it could be anything from a BD drive fault to a power supply fault to RSX popping out of its solder. Who are these experts? Companies that will basically shaft you over to clean the inside of your console for you?

I left mine on running GT5 for two weeks in the middle of summer without the aircon on, and you can find the thread where I did that.
 
Question for Weastey. I have my PS3 slim, horizontally on a carpeted surface. I'm told it's not good as the heat gathers on a carpeted surface. So, is it alright if say, I put it on the PS3 initial box instead and maybe hook it up with one of those laptop cooling pads?? Will those multi USB port thingy works by the way with a PS3 since the slim PS3 only has 2 ports.
 
Yeah, I'm thinking of putting it on the box with one of those laptop cooling pads under it. Will any cooling pad work or is there a particular one I should look for??
 
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