PS3 Issue - Yellow Light of Death

[Janke 1st MRB]

The yellow light of death, or YLOD, is apparently the equivalent of the RROD for XBox on the PS3. It was an issue that only appeared in the original 60GB and 20GB launch models. It can be caused by a myriad of things, the main ones being overheating and hard drive corruption.

I have never met someone with this issue, until today. I was playing CoD6, and my PS3 freezes, then crashes with a flashing red light and 3 beeps. I try re-booting it, it crashes again, this time the green light turned yellow before doing the same flashing red light with 3 beeps. I am the first person I know to have gotten the YLOD. I know it's not the corrupted hard drive problem, as I wasn't installing anything at the time. I tried leaving it for a while, but it still won't start. I've left it for about half an hour now, and intend to try it again. However, if it doesn't work, does anybody know a fix that doesn't involve opening it or sending it in to be fixed (as I'm not under warranty anymore, and don't want to dish out $150)?

[Zachow 1st MRB]

It's Karma for making fun of the 360.

[Le 1st MRB]

Unfortunately, I know that a Yellow light means that there is a ' non-specific hardware failure' so there is little you can do to identify the problem. Unless you were saving, i.e checkpoint and something went haywire with your HDD. Otherwise, I'm stumped.

[Jasko]

all you can do is try and pop it open (carefully) and check things out, i mean you don't have a warranty to void anyways

[Costa 1st MRB]

If it is the equivalent of a 360's RRoD then the soldering connecting everything has become hot enough to melt a bit making connections very weak or flat out having them no longer connect.

Of course that's only if the yellow light = RRoD problem wise and not just at the fact that the game console no longer works.

Again assuming it's the same you can try two things.

1. Open her up and re-solder everything and to help prevent it from happening again, put pencil erasers in it to make sure everything is snug as all fuck.

2. Put it on it's side and wrap it in a blanket and hope the heat that caused it to fuck its own solderings will re-solder the connections and shit.

Or my personal favorite.

3. Put it in the oven for 100-130 degrees for about 2-3 minutes intervals allowing it to cool down for at least 5 minutes. I mean hey, the warranty is gone and you might have to fork out money anyway so you might as well have some fun with it.

(Bonus points if you make a video of it just to piss off sonyfanboys on youtube.)

[Ford 1st MRB]

You could always sell it on eBay and once some poor sucker buys it, cancel your eBay account and disappear.

[Marsden 1st MRB]

rofl i like the oven plan

[Janke 1st MRB]

My dad took it down to Sony, they fixed it in a day for $196. They say there's no fix, and by that they mean there's no easy or warranty-covered fix. I got it back now, have to re-do all my games, but my rank in CoD stayed the same, and I can re-download all the games I bought on the PS store (all 3 of them...)

Edited January 27, 2010 by Janke 1st MRB

[Jasko]

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