Its a sad day

I bought my 60 gig PS3 in February 2007, I just froze and turned off a few minutes ago when I was playing Fallout.. Now it only turns on for a couple seconds and flashes yellow right before it turns off. I think it's dead, Sony wants about $200 to fix it, offered me a new slim for $30 less, but I love my original, and they don't make them anymore.

Thoughts?

I bought my 60 gig PS3 in February 2007, I just froze and turned off a few minutes ago when I was playing Fallout.. Now it only turns on for a couple seconds and flashes yellow right before it turns off. I think it's dead, Sony wants about $200 to fix it, offered me a new slim for $30 less, but I love my original, and they don't make them anymore.

Thoughts?

vegetattack15

Thanks, Ill check it out.

Thanks, Ill check it out.

vegetattack15

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Thanks, Ill check it out.

hardyfan8

I fix and maintain PS3s for my friends privately and independently.

What's your point?

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Thanks, Ill check it out.

hazelnutman

I fix and maintain PS3s for my friends privately and independently.

What's your point?

Sorry to hear that.

Anyway, what I'm doing if my 80GB BC dies is I'm going to do one of those temporary fixes and sell it. :P
Then I'll get one of the new ones, and also I will buy me a PS2 slim - for my PS2 collection. Besides, they are only $99.99. No more upscaling and smoothing, but whatever, at least I can still play my PS2 games.

Yeah, I think I might just save myself $30 and trade in for the slim. You can still swap the hard drive right?A while ago I bought a $500 gig. These new ones are not BC though huh?

I bought my 60 gig PS3 in February 2007, I just froze and turned off a few minutes ago when I was playing Fallout.. Now it only turns on for a couple seconds and flashes yellow right before it turns off. I think it's dead, Sony wants about $200 to fix it, offered me a new slim for $30 less, but I love my original, and they don't make them anymore.

Thoughts?

Yeah, I think I might just save myself $30 and trade in for the slim. You can still swap the hard drive right?A while ago I bought a $500 gig. These new ones are not BC though huh?

vegetattack15

Crap, i forgot about that. I'm going to have to redownload like 40 games now, not to mention my saved games.

Decided and paid for the newer model today, thank you to all who offered their insight.

Do slim Ps3's get the Ylod?

Do slim Ps3's get the Ylod?

BlueHarvest28

Happened to me too, I just bought a slim. I didn't want to go through the hassle of having it fixed