Yellow Light of Death Solution

Good luck with your lawsuit. Hope it works out for you.

I agree that a 1 year warranty isn't long enough, but caveat emptor. I knew when I bought my PS3 that the warranty was for only one year. It will suck if it breaks since it is out of warranty. I had two PS2's get DRE's when they were just out of warranty. If my PS3 develops disc read errors I'm going to flip.

All of these broken PS3 threads lately are starting to make me nervous.

Screw sony out of money... yeah...

That's an awful plan.

You go to a lawyer and you'll pay well over $150...

Nerosage

Jesus, like I said before, read my full post before you criticise me. I already have a lawyer, who is doing it for FREE because she's a member of my family and as fed up about this issue as I am. Plus, even if I did hire a lawyer for cash, Sony would have to pay my legal fees if I won.

Doesn't YLOD mean to let you console cool down? If so, all you need to do is stay off it for a couple hours.StewieZim101

I wish it was that simple. I tried restarting it a million times, even hours and days later. It didn't even feel hot when it died, and it was only on for fifteen minutes, and it is in a very well ventilated area, has plenty of space and I keep most of the dust out.

hope you win it, could be interesting to see, just give us an update later onxDe-M-oNx

Thanks man. And that is an insane KDR.

hey man,

I respect your decision over suing Sony, because i just got the yellow light of death. I researched it and realized that only 20gb and 60gb are at risk because we have an older technology meaning that our system are at risk at every moment of getting this hardware failure compare to the 80gb and 40gb who have a new technology meaning CPU and ect... So everybody with a 60Gb and out of warranty eventually your time will come so it would be better to act together now rather than later. For everybody who says to send your playstation back to sony here are the other risks:

1) you lose all your hard drive so everything you worked for is gone.

2) you pay 150$ for the service and your guarantee only last 90days...

3) the risk of getting the yellow light is as high meaning that you may have to send it for a second time with another fee of 150$...

I am trying to get like everybody with a 60GB and 20GB to come together and get this sorted out, if you really care about your playstation and the amount of money you spent on it then feel free to reply and let me know how you are willing to help because i ain't going to spend no god damn money after having spent 600$ on this playstation 3!

Let the war on sony begin.

hey man,

I respect your decision over suing Sony, because i just got the yellow light of death. I researched it and realized that only 20gb and 60gb are at risk because we have an older technology meaning that our system are at risk at every moment of getting this hardware failure compare to the 80gb and 40gb who have a new technology meaning CPU and ect... So everybody with a 60Gb and out of warranty eventually your time will come so it would be better to act together now rather than later. For everybody who says to send your playstation back to sony here are the other risks:

1) you lose all your hard drive so everything you worked for is gone.

2) you pay 150$ for the service and your guarantee only last 90days...

3) the risk of getting the yellow light is as high meaning that you may have to send it for a second time with another fee of 150$...

I am trying to get like everybody with a 60GB and 20GB to come together and get this sorted out, if you really care about your playstation and the amount of money you spent on it then feel free to reply and let me know how you are willing to help because i ain't going to spend no god damn money after having spent 600$ on this playstation 3!

Let the war on sony begin.

Man, I get a chuckle ever time I read what lengths some people will go to just to save a little cash. Sometimes it's just worth sucking it up and shelling out the green.

It can happen to any of them but from what I've been reading the original 60gig models have been dropping like flies. Just got mine back a few weeks ago.

Yeah, it was a launch 60gig model. Got it in November of 2006 so it ended up costing me $162 (includes tax).

Umm...

Can we stop calling it "Yellow Light of Death" Sometime soon?

I mean, we didn't call the 9/11 Attacks the "Aeroplane of Death"

Its getting a bit stupid.

Umm...

Can we stop calling it "Yellow Light of Death" Sometime soon?

I mean, we didn't call the 9/11 Attacks the "Aeroplane of Death"

Its getting a bit stupid.

joelgargan

So you're going to do all that to save a 150 dollars?420Token420

wow....

he's saving 115 dollars AND trying to set an important precedent so lazy stoners like you and I will eventually be able to send our Ps3's back to sony should they break, because they will be sick of being sued to fix something they should be responsible for fixing.

Because microsoft repairs RROD for free? Because systems shouldn't crap out after a year? Because sony will look very bad by comparison to microsoft getting sued all the time if this works? Why WOULD you want to pay $150 is the real question?

[QUOTE="djfu"]what a waste of timetommykaaaaa

Its worth it because I'm sick of companies screwing with people with one year warranties that don't fully inform consumers of their rights.

You GO Girl!

I just got YLOD today never expected it to happen to me, I keep good care of my system, but I was playing KZ2 it froze so I thought it was an error, but no instread it was YLOD so i turned off my system for now I just pray that it works later because I really do not want to repair it.