My B/C PS3 YLOD'ed; Questions for people who had YLOD.

My situation =

My 80GB B/C PS3 YLOD'ed this morning.

FIFA 2011 is stuck in the disk drive.

I have a 500GB hard drive in the PS3.

Solutions??? =

* Should I send it in to Sony ?? Will Sony give me back my FIFA 2011 and 500GB Hard Drive ??

* Should I open the PS3 up and take out the HDD and FIFA 2011, then buy a PS3 Slim ??

What would you do ?

Contact them first, explain the situation.

I'm guessing you're out of warranty, it will cost around 170$. As far from my experience here in Canada, shipping and handling is taken care of by Sony.

My old 60GB had Uncharted stuck in it and 320 GB HDD. All returned upon console fix.

I don't see a reason to buy new console but it's ultimately up to you.

They will send the disc back and advise you to take the HDD out before sending it. If you didn't back up your saves find a way to revive the PS3 temporarily (ie, the hairdryer trick, I can go into more detail). That's if you do choose to send it, I would personally buy a slim in this situation. In fact that's exactly what I did.

There is a way to get your disc out. Search on google i forget how you do it but its easy. Also fixing ps3 is easy if your smart enough to follow the guides on youtube and not mess it up.

Contact them first, explain the situation.

I'm guessing you're out of warranty, it will cost around 170$. As far from my experience here in Canada, shipping and handling is taken care of by Sony.

My old 60GB had Uncharted stuck in it and 320 GB HDD. All returned upon console fix.

I don't see a reason to buy new console but it's ultimately up to you.

Sokol4ever

I've been in a similar situation (except i had a 250gb hdd). Heres what I did. I called sony, told'em my ps3 broke. I told them I'm going to send the unit without the hdd in it, and be sure to let them know that the game is stuck inside. when you get the box, there will be a peice of paper inside, where you can write what you are sending/not sending with the ps3. Here you can note that you aren't sending it with the hdd, there is a game stuck inside, etc. etc.

My situation =

My 80GB B/C PS3 YLOD'ed this morning.

FIFA 2011 is stuck in the disk drive.

I have a 500GB hard drive in the PS3.

Solutions??? =

* Should I send it in to Sony ?? Will Sony give me back my FIFA 2011 and 500GB Hard Drive ??

* Should I open the PS3 up and take out the HDD and FIFA 2011, then buy a PS3 Slim ??

What would you do ?

Nonstop-Madness

I been there... My old 60 GB PS3 gave up a couple of months back with BF BC2 in it.

But since I live in an area where sony's customer service is scarce, at best, I figured that I could try to fix the YLOD myself by following this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Ic1_TY-GU

But, once I had split my PS3 into million pieces (and retrieved the disk within it) I sorta stopped caring... Turns out that ripping it apart is much easier than putting it back together.

It easy enough to open the PS3 and take the disk out yourself, if thats what you want, all you need is a reasonable set of screwdrivers.

You can't really trust Sony with fully fixing your console. My 80 gig BC PS3 died within 2 months of me getting it back from Sony.

What I suggest, and this is what I did, is to take out FIFA (easier said than done, but it's possible), take out the HDD, and buy a slim. You'll most likely save more money this way.