PS3 Blinking Red Light of Death

Alright, I recently got the PS3 blinking red light of death and was hoping someone could help me out a bit. I already called Sony and am saving up the cash for the repair/replacement of my bricked PS3, and had a few questions for anyone who had experienced the same thing. Also, I've tried everything I could from removing the hard drive to leaving it untouched and cleaning out the dust. My questions pertain to this specific problem, where the PS3 is green, then yellow, green a bit more, than blinking red and three beeps. No I cnnot even reach the debug.

1) Is there any way to get a good deal, or anyway to get it fixed other than sending it to Sony?

2) Will the data on my hard drive be erased, if so how do I transfer the data out, since I can't do it from my PS3.

3) How long does it take for the repairs to finish?

I've never heard of this problem before.siLVURcross

Are these PS3 hardware problems getting worse? I just ordered a PS3 as my first 'next-gen' console mostly because the 360 has such bad hardware. Are these ps3 hardware malfunctions getting more prevalent?Hot-Tamale

Just got mine back from being repaired because of this problem. Its a hardware problem and mine ended up needing a motherboard replacement and I got mine back with a reformatted hard drive but I already switched out my 500gb hdd with the stock 60gb so that didnt bother me. Luckily I got my ps3 at Target and bought their 3 year warranty for $30 and plan on extending the the warranty for another 3 years after it expires, cant beat $30 dollars for 3yrs. Not sure what sony will do but they will probly reformat your hdd,you should call and ask if they really need to reformatt your hdd. If so you could buy a cheap external enclosure for the hdd and plug it in your computer to copy all the files or buy a replacement hdd rather it be a cheap 20gb maybe $10-$20 or go for a 500gb about $120 and put that one in before you send it in. Thats my opinion anyways if keeping your files are that important. Curious which ps3 system do you have and how long have you had it? Seems like the 60gb ps3 are dieing after a couple years. My 60gb died after a year and 3 months but I have it on almost 15 hrs a day rather Im playing it or family or watching movies on it off my 120gb externall hdd so I really put it to use.

yellow light of death = blinking red light of death.Fir17

if you ask me it seems like at least once a week there is one of these post of a death light. i say BS and you people must be really dumb..... i would guess that you have ur system in a closet while you play and the system just burnt out cause it was just to hot... untouchables111

Wow, really? I love my PS3 and take great care of it, so you should go somewhere else with your accusations and don't be troll please.

Yeah, my files do matter quite a bit, so I think I'll head over to Best Buy or whatever and get something to transfer my data, and teh Yellow light of death is different as I said before.

Are these PS3 hardware problems getting worse? I just ordered a PS3 as my first 'next-gen' console mostly because the 360 has such bad hardware. Are these ps3 hardware malfunctions getting more prevalent?Hot-Tamale

What sku do you have?one_on_one

It should be the blinking/beeping light of death

Yellow?? This happened to me 2 months ago and when it does you barley see a yellow light, it blinks once for a second.

I think your saves are gone unless you can somehow hook up the hardrive to another if its not shot

Once you get in touch with Sony and pay the 160 or so, they send you a box within a week and then you get a brand new one back or a refurbished model I guess depending on your system type within another week.

After my system went, it took about 2 weeks to get 1 back.

Funny enough, up the road for me is a store that fixes 360's while you wait there playing games in the lobby. The lines are always long

When I dropped my ps3 off at the UPS store, the employee said it was his first ps3 he was shipping but gets x-boxes atleast 2x a week

[QUOTE="Hot-Tamale"]Are these PS3 hardware problems getting worse? I just ordered a PS3 as my first 'next-gen' console mostly because the 360 has such bad hardware. Are these ps3 hardware malfunctions getting more prevalent?Myzz617

First off the yellow light 'of death' happens to less than 1% of ps3 owners and I've never even heard of this problem. Sorry for posting when I have no idea how to help but I wanted to clear that up :)

First off the yellow light 'of death' happens to less than 1% of ps3 owners and I've never even heard of this problem. Sorry for posting when I have no idea how to help but I wanted to clear that up :)

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if you ask me it seems like at least once a week there is one of these post of a death light. i say BS and you people must be really dumb..... i would guess that you have ur system in a closet while you play and the system just burnt out cause it was just to hot... untouchables111