YLOD - Yellow Light of Death - HELP

i've just gotten the YLOD on my ps3. was playing cod4, it froze and truned itself off, and now shows the yellow lights when i try to turn it back on. It was freezing and truning off before, but i never got the lights then. Is there anyway to fix this without taking it back to sony or buying a new one. Thanks.

Where does everyone get the misconception that these boards will offer them magical advice that can repair electronics on the fly?

coz its a board used to gain a advice, and try n find solutions mayb.

guess ill just have to get it repaired. Apparently all 60 GB and the old 20 GB models will eventually get the YLOD, because of a fualty chip, thats y sony supposedly took them off the market. Thats wat ive hear

i've just gotten the YLOD on my ps3. was playing cod4, it froze and truned itself off, and now shows the yellow lights when i try to turn it back on. It was freezing and truning off before, but i never got the lights then. Is there anyway to fix this without taking it back to sony or buying a new one. Thanks.

Chaz0303

Sorry mate theres no fix. I got it on thursday and Sony charged me £145 for a new ps3.

Sorry to hear that dude :(

Good luck though!

Call SONY a.s.a.p.

I had the dreaded YLoD a few days before xmas and by new years eve, i had a refurb 60gb ps3.

But guess what?.........I now have to send this refurb back as the blu-ray drive has stopped reading discs.

Good of SONY to give me a refurb even though my warranty had expired AND add three months warranty on the swap, but with 60gb ps3's seeming to be quite a problem now, i guess swapping another 60 gb for this refurb 60gb, wont make me feel any more secure.

COD5 was being played when the first ps3 brokedown and COD4 was the last game i played on the refurb until the blu-ray drive failed........very strange!

You see war....whats it good for?

It's a bummber I know... I had the YLOD happen to me this week too and SONY is already sending me another 60GB PS3. I've had mine since day one, and I don't regret it one bit. I used the hell out of it, movies, games, as a pc with linux and to top it all I just love backwards compatibility. Instead of having cluttered systems all over the place to get it all in one sexy package is priceless.

I also did some research during this down PS3-less time that YLOD is caused by a heat sensor malfunction. Now, that doesn't mean the PS3 overheated because after extensive hours of playing, mine remained quite cool to the touch. Took good care of it by cleaning out the dust from intake vents everyother week and gave it ample room for breathing.

I sincerely doubt the problem is in the hard drive. Although it is a mechanical device, it is not so subseptible to failures. If you think about it, these hard drives are also used in laptop computers. You would most definitely hear of failures across the board if indeed they were the source of the problem. In my honest opinion, it is safe to asume that this sensor is located in the power supply, and due to it's malfunctioning, sensing dangerous temperatures where none is existant, it shuts the PS3 down to prevent damage to components.

Now, repeatedly turning your PS3 on KNOWING you have the Yellow Light, may result in hard drive failure. I say this because when you power the PS3 on, it takes about 2 seconds or so for the Yellow Light to shut it off... Your hard disk spins, the hard drive attempts to boot, all of the sunden the power is out. Do this enough times and just like any computer, your hard drive will get messed up.

Most YLOD cases, myself included, happened while the person is playing a game. There should be no reason for the system to abruptly shut down... I've had instances where the system was unresponsive and it would restart automaticaly when there was a glitch or problem saving/loading a game. But notice what I said re-started. In my opinion, the hard drive only controlls data... something else is telling the PS3 to shut down and remain that way.

Just a thought... On a happier note I will be getting my PS3 back again this tuesday :)

Where does everyone get the misconception that these boards will offer them magical advice that can repair electronics on the fly?

coz its a board used to gain a advice, and try n find solutions mayb.

guess ill just have to get it repaired. Apparently all 60 GB and the old 20 GB models will eventually get the YLOD, because of a fualty chip, thats y sony supposedly took them off the market. Thats wat ive hear

Chaz0303

Mine will never break .. you can quote me on it ..