PS3 Yellow Light of Death

So I'm guessing if I put it on the box, even if it is laying horizontally instead of vertically it will be fine??
 
Yes. You shouldn't stand the slim up without a stand in any case. Don't worry about the cooling of the PS3, the fan in there is larger than your hand. Just keep it dust free, on a flat solid surface with plenty of room to breathe and it will be fine.
 
WeasteDevil said:
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.
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How come that company that was featured on Watchdog manages to fix over 90% by sticking them in a microwave for 20 mins?
 
WeasteDevil said:
Yes. You shouldn't stand the slim up without a stand in any case. Don't worry about the cooling of the PS3, the fan in there is larger than your hand. Just keep it dust free, on a flat solid surface with plenty of room to breathe and it will be fine.
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I bought a stand for my slim. They dont stand up very well on their own.
 
gaffs said:
How come that company that was featured on Watchdog manages to fix over 90% by sticking them in a microwave for 20 mins?
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To be fair that proves Weaste's point that it isn't always that thermal paste issue

And also, of those 90% some of them broke pretty quickly again
 
WeasteDevil said:
What's wrong with it then? Power supply?
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Still the same problem. Its going to login screen, stutters, freezes, beep beep yellow light and crashes. The guys i know that fix them up,checked all solders and everything and reckon is one of 4 out of nearly 50 odd that they havent resurrected...All of which having the same freeze at login screen and crash.

Sony offered me the option of paying £130 for a refurbished one while i returned my broken one. I told them, how about i pay the 130 and they said they would need mine in return.
I then spouted how that was not a fair deal as, broken ones were selling on ebay for 80-90 pounds, and that on top of 130 would get me a nice new slimline.

He said 130 pounds of my money and a broken playstation is a better deal as at least my ps3 would be taken out of my hands and not collect dust. To which i started to get irate about them making £260 quid out of each broken playstation.(130 for a refurbishment and then 130 for when they sell your old one)
 
This is the problem, it could be anything. Cell or RSX could have fried internally, the power supply could be behaving erratically. One of my desktop computers kept resetting itself, and that was a dodgy power supply. Another one kept freezing for some strange reason, and stopped after I removed the battery from the motherboard. It would be nice I think that when Sony do fix these things, they would provide you a note with exactly what was wrong with it.
 
WeasteDevil said:
This is the problem, it could be anything. Cell or RSX could have fried internally, the power supply could be behaving erratically. One of my desktop computers kept resetting itself, and that was a dodgy power supply. Another one kept freezing for some strange reason, and stopped after I removed the battery from the motherboard. It would be nice I think that when Sony do fix these things, they would provide you a note with exactly what was wrong with it.
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they also screwed the case off wrong and broke a piece off it when i first sent it to them for a free fix as the lazer was not reading the disc. Caused by "sooo much impressive technology put in a small space, which caused the lazer to move off a bit"

They are shit when it comes to customer service. Though i think next time i will take the insurance cover on it. Our house insurance said if we claim it, our house house insurance goes up 10quid per month for the next 3 years. Really defeats the purpose of claiming back unless you lose all contents in some accident.
 
i have a friend who has had 3 faulty ps3s and just takes them to the store for a new one on the day. However since he has went slimline, he has not had a problem.

I am dying to play Red Dead! I had Red Dead Revolver on the ps2 and it had me engrossed for hours!!!
 
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