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  • stupid people, the slim is smaller because they reduced the size of the fan. The ps3 original had a 10% fail rate vs the ps3 slim which has a 30% fail rate. xbox 360 original had 50% fail rate and xbox 360 elite 30% fail rate and xbox 360S no fail rate. PS3 original and xbox 360S are the best choices when looking for a console

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  • thats why you need to buy the PS3 160GB,I dont have no problem at all,I buy my PS3 on 2006,and it working fain...

  • i took the paste completely off and i haven't had a problem for months

  • @philliplong96 lol.... its funny coz it would blow it up XD

  • I understand why ppl prefer PC Gaming, cause consoles suck, with a good customizable PC u can add better cooling system, liquid or fan cooling and graphic cards :D

  • Replacing the thermal paste does nothing except let you play for 10 mins then yellow light again

  • @yfumes lasted 4 months for me =)

  • @yfumes I replaced thermal paste on both my CPU and GPU and it's been 6 months now and still playing games. Rarely it freezes up but it's not a heating issue. I know this cause the fan isn't high-spooled. I do get some weird red line artifacts in some of the games I play... weird, but still playable.

  • the ps3 slim isent faster xD

  • slims overheat to brah

  • @itzindeeznutsnigg77 yea not as easily as the fat ps3... i have both had a slim for 2 years doesnt even get loud my fat gets loud after like 30 min

  • @jlucman24 mine get's after 10 mins

  • @itzindeeznutsnigg77 Atleast its not a 360 :p

  • Please help me fix this!! it is very annoying!!

  • This happened to me, easiest solution send it to Sony.

  • try a new power board thay are very cheap on ebay now might work for you :)

  • hear friend if you restore the PS3 games are not deleted such that the program gave welcome back deleted? I have a 80 gb ps3 from fat and paralyzed me the image much like Midnight Club LA, and k tbn feels very hot but nesecito help ... regards

  • I fixed mine by replacing the thermal paste, then cutting a hole above the fan on the case then placing a fan grill over it with self-tapping screws.

    PS3 gets all the fresh air it needs now, directly from the right side of the case (while standing verticle). The air is cooler and a good 2x more volume of air is being pushed through the vent on the same fan speeds.

    The heatsink inside the PS3 is just horrible for air flow, I do not see why I haven't seen this solution AT ALL, it's so obvious.

  • @AntiStupidity I'm going to try that... my ps3 is loud as hell

  • @AntiStupidity gonna try that too, my ps3 is loud like a jet engine and it says system has become hot. I changed the termal paste but it didn't do shit. I is not even hot it just is loud but maybe it will work

  • what will happed or what can you see if the system overheat?

  • @bayandsl it pretty much shuts off u will know cause it shuts off itself and beeps 3 times

  • i heated with a stove in my kitchen and it works :) just dont get to close to the flame and keep it moving.

  • my ps3 overheats when i play black ops..

    sometimes it so fucking hard and sometimes its not overheating

    whats the problem

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  • @FlavorRoseDnB I have the same problem it freezez after 2 games of black ops and takes forever to turn off.

  • @samisawsome77 sometimes i can't play cuz its freezing when i click MULTIPLAYER..

    it sucks.

  • @FlavorRoseDnB bad fan auto controll, add a fan or two or more fans PULLING air out of the back and not pushing the air and it should reduce this problem(the ps3 fan barely changes speeds depending if it gets hot or it's being used harder and longer) so these fans should help :)

  • poor little ps3... :(

  • Oh i forgot to say that, after the ps3 fat has cleaned it self, it will get a red light with 3 beeps :) Don`t worry, just turn off and on the POWER!!!

  • Plug out the Power supply!!! Hold the Eject button, while plugging the Power supply in again!!! And than your ps3 will clean it self!!!

  • @az9076 OR!!! use a vacuum cleaner and suck the dust out of it.. :)

  • @az9076 Bad idea. Even Sony have said it's not recommended, and can damage the system.

  • Mine comes on but it docent appear on screen and then goes yellow and a flashing red. Mine is getting better because I put a hair dryer blowing hot sir into the back of it for 15 minutes and I let it cool 15 minutes.

  • Just put it near a fan or turn on the ac and leave for a day or so.

  • help my ps3 is over heated

  • i have a PS3 and mine has does the exact same light thing as urs :(

  • i had this yesterday! , the fan doesnt start at my ps3, but i turned my ps3 off for 1 hour and then the fan restarted and my ps3 is repairede ;)

  • Bull shit my ps3 slim is overheating right fucking now

  • @TheCobraism i know same!!!! :@

  • HOW TO FIX PS3 OVER HEATING PROBLEMS u ask? well first off sony sometime sucks the blackest ass hole of the world. 2 for some reason sony does'nt seem to be fixing the ps3 problems that the people are having. 3 you just have to get lucky and some how get a playstation that by a miricle works good. 4 complaim to sony that yours and many other people's ps3 fuck up alot. 5 be heard make sony hear your anguish cries of sorrow!!! 6 the last step i do not know how to achieve sorry!

  • I got a new ps3 and the connecting sucks now, i think its becasue it over heated what should i do?

  • dam my ps3s fucked it over heats . trade in to e.b games asap!!

  • I got a yellow light

  • I have had my ps3 since it was brand new in 2006 and never had any problems with it until this morning when it turned off flashed a yellow light and wont turn back on. what do I do now

  • it looks red not yellow

  • involving opening it up because i will do somthing wrong and break it. will it fix if i leave it unplugged for a long enough while? please message me

  • @DTLELDAR no because you need to reheat the cpu and gpu... i didnt think that i could fix it last year but i did and it is really easy and didnt break anything haha... if you want to try it u need a heat gun and thermal compound and go to PS3 YLOD Fix part 1 and 2.. but if you have the ps3 fat... i would spend the $299 to get a slim because it never overheats...

  • ive had my ps3 since christmas of '07. its worked fine but sometimes ive left it on for up to 48 hours before hosting servers on warhawk and stuff but i never had a problem. i just got my copy of littlebigplanet 2 today and id only been playing it for 2-3 hours when my screen went black. it beeped and turned off. i tried to turn it on but when it sounded like it was starting u and the green light turned on it beeped some more and a flashing red light came on. im not looking for any solutions

  • @DTLELDAR thats the ylod if u have the ps3 fat ull notice there not selling it anymore becuase of overheat problems... i would get the slim because even if you fix yours. it only lasts about 2 months..

  • @jlucman24 i just bought a brand new ps3 slim yesterday n when i play lbp2 after an hour the ps3 hisses and switches its self off is this ylod?

  • @StantonT62 hisses? uh... no i dont think so i would return it as soon as possible

  • this just happened to my ps3. how can i fix it?

  • For anyone whos interested, a ps3 fat without a fan turns itself off after about 7, i forgot to plug the fan in when i fixed my ylod xD

  • i got my ps3 for christmas, it overheated and wont work again. fat ones are shit.

  • @samjohnsonx if you only gotyour ps3 for xas why would it be a fat one? you might have bought a preowned one that was repaired poorly by the previous owner. 

  • @samjohnsonx I've had my PS3 fat for more than 2 years now, the only problem I've had is the Blu-Ray drive which got replaced and there's been no problem since. I think the drive got broken when someone shoved a disc in the drive when there was already in, I blame my brother lol...

  • I bet it's a xbox 360 but a ps3 box . I mean ps3 overheat? ''sigh''

  • this happend to me the graffic car fried

  • call sony

  • This happend to me i was really worried my ps3 would not work so i just plugged it out put it under somewhere cool then the nxt day it worked

  • my ps3 fat is turned on all the night but it never overheates!!!

  • i had my ps3 since 2005 and it barely got overheated! That SuckS!

  • ever heard of a F.A.N

  • my uncle's PS3 fat... damn...never seen such a machine... we started playing cod6 from 10:00 in the morning... and starting playing for seriously 18 hours!! ofcourse we took some breaks but the ps3 was still in game... ( paused the game )

    not a freaking problem.... but now seeing all you peoples ps3's get overheated after like 2 hours max... i'm scared to buy a phat....

    should i get the ps3 fat or the slim one??

  • @weetnietgeen i would get the slim. More ppl have it now and not as many overheating problems as the fat.

  • @jlucman24 hmm... okay, but do you know anything about the shiny vinyls?:P i've heard somewhere that you can buy a pianoblack shiny vinyl sticker that you can stick over the matt color of the slim to make it look like a slim piano black PS3... i just dont know where i could get one of those

  • @weetnietgeen slim mah boy -_- i make a wrong mistake and bought a fat ps3 and now it heats every 3 hours, even i let it cool down for like 25/30 mins and in 15 mins of gameplay it starts saying "System is hot bla bla bla" it's so dam annoying...

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  • i fixed mine three times but know out of thermal paste if u need help buy a $20 fan that clips on the back or side of your PS3 and that could fix it and if not change the thermal paste ive been usin arctic silver but im thinkin about buyin a different kind because whatever thermal paste gets colder is the 1 yo wanna buy =O)

  • i got a gaming pc now so i dont have a ps3 and its problems anymore :D

  • @scar1343 i did the same.. 3 ylods on the same machine.. I went to pc gaming and have never looked back ! At least now i know i can fix my pc properly if anything goes wrong. I'm never buying a console from sony again !

  • yea this happened to me about a year ago and i ended up having to buy the slim ps3 but now the messed up one is just sitting in my room and it killed me when it stopped working but how did you fix yours and what caused your ps3 to overheat?

  • My ps3 Beeps 3 times, the red light flashes a few times, a msg pops up on the screen saying 'the ps3 has overheated, let it cool down for a while' (something like that) and than goes yellow light... and it always happens when i turn it on for a minute, its the YLOD but in a different version :S 1st time i fixed the ps3, the YLOD was like on this video, but after i fixed it a few times the YLOD comes up in a different way...

  • Need advice, my ps3 works fine for about 10 min i manage to sign on the psn and even get a chance to play a few games on mw2 then it just shuts off and the red light blinks continuously can i fix this on my own without paying $170 to sony???

  • @RetireMyJersey1 I've got the same problem. the fans kick in about 2 minutes (MAXIMUM THEY STAY SILENT FOR), then i get couple of minutes before overheating message is displayed and then it turns off. There is no dust in my ps3 and tried to replace the thermal paste and didn't help. also my ps3 is out of warranty so im out of luck and my parents wont let me pay 131Pounds...

  • @Retire My Jersey 1 youtube gilksy , sounds like your may just need thermal compound and a good clean out . you will be amazed how much crap gets in them especialy if they left sitting on a carpet . i recommend changing thermal compound every 12 months as it looses its efficiency to cool any longer . i also have extra vent in my base so the fan can suck in air better . they only suck air through the little slits near hdd . be like trying to breathe through a straw .

  • if it flashes u trade it it i were on lbp then it flashed red and on sony website it said like trade it in because you will usally find it wont turn back on

  • if you get the the yellow light turn off the ps3 unplug the power cord and let the system cooled down for about 30 mins to an hour and your fine, unless you dont have it plugged to a surge protector, because then you might have something internally wrong this can happen to any system doesn't if its an xbox or ps3 i have the original ps3 an never had a problem

  • you are only showing the problem,yet not the solution...dear god just put a link of a video with the solution because this is only showing the problem which is totally pointless!!!!!!!

  • Can someone help? My ps3 freezes after about 45- 1hr. The bottom of the ps3 is very hot. Is the fan bad or is the HDD corrupted? HELP!

  • @ez2ciwin I wouldn't recommend buy a fan that connects to the ps3 the cooler or whatever its called it takes energy from the ps3 and makes it works 2x as much. Not good =/

  • @ez2ciwin lol that was bad wording... dont buy a ps3 fan cooler it makes your ps3 overheat 2x as fast

  • @ez2ciwin could buy a fan but instead of conecting to ps3... connect to ur laptop or whateva u hav

  • @ez2ciwin

    Get a vacuum cleaner and try to clean the vents with it, canned air is the best though.

  • @ez2ciwin Just set it on top of something [ I use 2 small blocks of wood on both sides of the ps3 ] to reduce contact, and then put some fan to blow under and over it. I can run it like that for 2+ hours no YLOD. Without that, its 15-30 mins.

  • My ps3 started to overheat and it was really pissing me off because the room was getting so hot from all of the hot air comming out of it. So out of frustration I kicked it. Since I kicked it, its never overheated. Be sure to kick it more towards the left side of it as the right side is more solid and you can hurt your foot. If the kick doesnt work, try spitting on it for a week.

  • heres the problem. i have a 40 gig ps3 but when i play a game like resistance it runs nice and smooth. but when i try and play cod after 2 mins of it being played it turns off and beeps 3 times. i figured an overheating problem but replaced the thermal. didnt help at all. Any idea whats wrong?

  • @scar1343 well if you can play a game then it isn't the YLOD... no idea that has neer happened to me =/

  • The same thing is happeneing to me, one day im playing COD2 and the PS3 just turned off on me so l figured it overheated and just let it cool off then when l turned it back on it work smooth and fine and as soon as l logged on to COD2 for about 2 mins it shut off on me again and when l put on GTA4 and play, it works perfectly

  • @scar1343 happened to me, looking for a fix 2 :(

  • @scar1343 EXACTLY THE SAME! not just cod, all games and sometimes just in the xmb. it srops the framerate massibely and it's like the graphics card overheats or the sound card? sometimes it takes an hour or more sometimes a minute. check out my video on my channel. i can play games still but some longer than others.

  • ever notice that nintendo systems almost never malfunction?? This is why I prefer nintendo, damn sony, sucking the money out of our wallets!!

  • its a dam shame how sony cheat people out thier money the game has no over heating protection it should have a warning shut down befor you blow the power supply box witch it dont!!! no prtection cover for dust no built in cooling system to prevent overheating instead they sell a cooling fan seperatly thats more money they rip you for..if you buy a new one thats 300 you buy a used one 200 send it to sony to fix 150...FUCK YOU SONY!!!

  • My PS3 wont turn on!! please help! im not sure if it was overheated or had the YLOD it wont turn on! when you plug it in and turn the power switch on..nothing happens.. :( please help!!!

  • wat was the point of putting a vidio up if you dont tell me how to fix my ps3

  • when i turn my ps3 on its quiet but when i start up a game it makes a little ticking sound and then it about 30 seconds its fan noise islike a vacuum and after 5 mins the overheating message comes up

  • hmm i just got this ps3 from a lady at my job and so far its overheating but its not giving me the yellow lights. it stays on for lets say 5mins and then a bleep goes off and a message on the screen says that the ps3 is overheating and that its going to shut off and then and shuts off. what can i do to repair that?

  • @MoK86 nothing you have the blinking light of death bro you have to get a new one or send it back to sony for 150 or give it back to the lady

  • @buggeazy102

    haha no buddy sorry but that wasnt the case and your lazy because your giving out bad advise. but i did repair the problem and it was a small plastic that was blocking the fan and now it works. you shouldnt be giving advise i would of lost money for something that small and easy to repair.

  • @buggeazy102 im not lazy an i didnt give bad advice everyone dont have the same problem dude if you go into it thinking i have the problem as u have an its somthing else you could srew it up people have told me...just cus somthing was blocking your fan? lol dont mean you wont get the blinking light in the future dont say i didnt tell you so

  • @buggeazy102 this video is 2 years old... like now i have 3 ps3 idc if it happens again

  • @jlucman24 you got money son i am poor i gotta wait to buy another

  • i dont but when i put a game in my ps3 it makes this sound is tth sopoused 2 happen

  • give it a blow job n it'll be back to normal.

  • Make sure u use flux also. That is VERY important or you'll just have to fix it again and again. The flux is burning out of the solder that connects the GP and CPU on the PCB board. Solder without flux is brittle and doesn't make solid connections. This is the reason for YLOD and of course the over heating issue. Mod ur case or buy a small fan to stick by the vents (In back). If ur warrenty has expired fix it urself. Its the same shit Sonys gonna do, or send u another that eventually might YLOD.

  • @mikah420 sony is full of shit they know the life spand of the game but they wont tell you they want you to buy a new one quit funny most people i know they systems breaks down around the time the new one comes out if you buy a used one thats 250 if you send it to sony thats 150 its a trap you gonna pay one way or another but not me my wife knows how much i love games if she one day offers to buy me one im say naw al take some new sneakes an a hot leather jacket instead ps3 is a rip off!!!!

  • for one... take it off the fucking carpet. Your getting dust in shit in it by doing that.

  • @MrKemasabi dosent matter were you put it its still gonna collect dust

  • its not supposed to stand like that air cant come in to the machine i think thats why

  • i have the oldest ps3 and it overheated :( how to fix?

  • why is there a war over whether the ps3 or xbox 360 is better?

  • Yep that ps3..... Ps3 is so much better but i still like my 360 10 times more

  • Can i send you my ps3 that has YLOD and you fix it for me?????

  • the same thing happened to me like 1min ago i need help.. how do i fix it?

  • green steady light on my...it froozes when i turn it on

  • only steady green light on my..and when i turn it on it freezes

  • this is what i do and it helps from any problem after i am done playing i take out the plug from the outlet right and when you want to play again just put it back in trust it

  • fuck ps3 xbox 360 the best

  • WTF do u think u do retard?

  • what do you do if you dont have a fan?

  • dude, i was playing cod mw2 then it randomly turned off, then everytime i try to turn it on, it does that! wtf do i do? plz help.

  • @Surette22 k so there is a way to fix it but you need a heat gun and thermal paste and open up the ps3 and take every little thing apart the best to fix it and no what your doing is to go search FIX YLOD Part1 and 2 youll find everything you need to fix it.

  • fix ylod

  • Yep that's happening to me

  • I took mine apart because warranty is done so I'm taking it into my own hands so I was wanting to know what needs to be cleaned or fixed in there to make it work again.

  • HAhahahaahahahah

  • hey how do you prevent the system reader from over heating? should i just buy a cooling fan that attaches to it?

  • @dejota013 keep your ps3 in a big room and give like 2 feet between the back and a wall or a dresser what ever you have it on

  • yo i say send it to sony because you need to take the whol ps3 apart to fix it.

  • I can fix this problem.. Your system is not broke msg me.

  • @relaxataxy k so there is a way to fix it but you need a heat gun and thermal paste and open up the ps3 and take every little thing apart the best to fix it and no what your doing is to go search FIX YLOD Part1 and 2 youll find everything you need to fix it.

  • how can you fix it?

  • @eglez2 search in youtube: PS3 FIX YLOD and make sure you have a heat gun. If you dont wanna fix it yourself send it to sony theyll fix it for 150$

  • @relaxataxy how can i fix my ps3 it does the same thing as wat it does on the video

  • @mexican1423

    Message me!

  • @relaxataxy y do you think i have thi video out it called HOW TO FIX !!!!! wow.

  • @relaxataxy thats tru .... the only reason it does that is because the are 2 many features to ps3 and xbox so it overheats if it just played games and dvd's it would never overheat but they had to make a web browser and like a games blu-ray and music player and a million things to it my ps2 never overheated i had it for 8 years. haha i have a wii no problems with it

  • does the ps3 work after a while when you get that blinking red light? cuz i got it too and i wanna know if u have to send it in or not, anyone wo knows just mesage me please

  • @LemmaLime, don't sent it to sony, they just rip you off, 200 bucks for nothing

  • Rip it appart and replace the thermal paste?

  • i had 4 yellow lights, find that crazy?

  • @1Rockyboxer1 same but the 4th time sony said they couldnt fix it so i got a slim lol

  • @ApocalypticSniper, same here, sony makes canada pay 224 bucks because of shipping

  • yeah it sucks so much dick

  • @ApocalypticSniper yep, got the slim for 80 bucks

  • how did you fix it?

  • i'm scared of my ps3.

  • I got it 2 days ago. RIP PS3 March 18th, 2008-February 9th 2010 :(

  • i have that problem so how could i fix it help plz thankz

  • i just fixed my ylod its not hard to do

  • try buying a cooling fan only costs around £20

  • @MrLankee, not really, intercoolers, and cooling fans take power from your ps3, meaning, ylod will still happen.

  • slim is better tho way better

  • HAHA, I wouldn't trust his fix, he even said His did it 3 Times, I think that his fix is not so good. BTW, xxOabzOxx, Not all, in fact, very few ps3 games are in 1080P, most in 720, making them look worse than on the 360

    Source: I have em both.

  • I have the exact same problem :(

    how do I fix it?

  • i got the ps3 slim and i played 24hrs a day and i nvr had that kind of problem.

  • dont put it by a fan fag it messes up faster

  • i can say ps3 graphics R better than 360 on sum games such as uncharted and killzone thats because the developers took time to use the full power of the ps3 to make them games second games R cumin out on both systems now,there not going to make the game look any better on the ps3 than 360

  • Killzone and uncharted and only on the ps3

  • man i wish SONY did not change the ORIG/FAT version of PS3.....slim is nice but the its look suck PS3 ORIG/FAT 4ever

  • only differences shiny not shiny ps2 no ps2 (games)

  • iv'e had a xbox 360 for 3 years then i got bored so i go a ps3 and so far it has not let me down i mean come on ree online blu-ray hdmi socket 1080p all you need is here !!! PS3 ALL THE WAY BITCHES!!!! oh yh add my psn :

    abzb8don

  • what games u got bro? mines Vindicatedxx

  • ive got a ps3 slim for christmas and i was playing for the first time in like 20 minutes and then it just shutted down and the "thing" or "button" on the ps3 started to light red/black/red/black (dont know how to say) and then i started the ps3 again and started to play and it shutted down after like 5 minutes. WTF!? so tomorrow im gonna ask for a new one from the shop, and i dont want they to repair it, cuz i dont want to spend my whole christmas "holiday" to wait on the ps3.new ps3 must work

  • @zizzy897 u prolly fried the power inside...did u unplug the power cord at all? cause if u did...even once it can fry it....that happened to me yesterday and i know how to get it fixed...il do a video if u want.

  • Hey was wondering if you knew why when i'm in the middle of games it freezes and i have to restart the game. Its kinda annoying. Is it over heating or hardware problems? I just bought as ps3 120 GB for Christmas and ya freezus up during games -__- thank you!!