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  • why the hell did you not get an extended warranty from where u purchased the system

  • 228 people like Sony's Gaystation 3

  • Do Not Auto Clean Your PS3!!!!!!!

  • Ps3: Yellow light of death.

    Xbox: Red ring of death

    Wii: Automatic Fail

    JK i love all systems!

  • Microsoft fixed my 360 even after my warranty had expired almost over a year ago.

  • sorry dude but there are ways to fix it now

  • @shadow7945 how

  • @Neo0t its hard to explain but u have to solder wires up and stuff its real risky but the best way, which i'd advise taking the hard drive out before u send it because it will come back with all of your data deleted so ya but u could also send it to sony, there is another way which is the blow drier trick which is only temporary

  • Mine died today

  • @bradfire98 same here but hey u can easily have them fixed now days cuz this vid is old so now people at home are even permanatly fixing them so i would go to gamestop and or contact sony or a really trusted friend or just do it alone

  • you should have tried to fix it in a non authorized specialist guy

  • After posting a comment about putting the Ps in the oven... Well it did work !! but after 4 hrs of play IT'S BACK to the YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH.. So this solution is only short term... FKN Ragin liiiiike.

  • Yeah mine just got the yellow light today plus one games still inside it!! Sending it out in 3 days had my ps3 since 2010 ... But good thing I got a Xbox 360 Slim !! They said to fix my ps3 it will cost $107.00 with a 90 day warranty. It kinda sucks cause I won't get it back until 2 weeks & I have a lot of games on the ps3 unlike my xbox360 which has only 3 games..... FYI I have the 40 gb model yeah the fatt one ughh looking into getting a ps3 slim !!!!

  • I didn't back up any of my save files when mine died on me. 100 hours of Skyrim down the drain. I picked up a refurbished model cause the guy at eb said I could just swap the hard drives. He took me for a ride. Each hard drive is recognized by its original PS3 and ONLY it's original ps3, so I'm bringing it back and getting a new one, fuck it.

  • I had the same problem with my playstion3, ""YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH"".

    I fixed this problem....No joke this is how i did it...

    With the rear of the Playstation facing the back of a conventional FAN oven i left it there for 15 mins making sure the door was open( if not you might need your oven gloves)

    In Scotland the weather is freezing so after carefully taking it out the oven, i left it outside to cool down for ten minutes,if living in a hotter climax use a fan this will cool it down.Now try it

  • and this is why i will NEVER get a ps3

  • @TheSportsnetwork101 Because %00.3 of the 1st gen models have died. Great logic.

  • @NotAnUndercoverCop whatever ps3 sucks!!!

  • damn...state of the art my ass. And this year they plan to come out with PS4. Whats the point of paying all that money if the thing dies not even a year after purchase? Hell, PS2 has better longevity.

  • happened to me yesterday sony where no help at all so took a hammer to the ps3!!

  • Does any 1 know if this is fixable and if so how?

  • @SovietChikun You can sent it into a repair shop that will be able to fix it for you. Just google PS Pros. They should be able to get it working again. Once you get it back (if they're successful) do a backup of your data right away because it may die again for good shortly after it's been repaired.

  • You need to wait for it to boot up!!! It happened to me. You need to let it boot!

  • Buy One Piece Kaizoku Musou PS3 is better

  • Thanks to YLOD, my Dead Island save data with 250 Deo-Bombs and 16 mindblowing knives

    are GONE, and I can't save the data into USB... damn YLOD...

  • I dont like how people say ps3 is better JUST because xbox's red ring of death

  • ha ha the playstation does have prblems so stupid fanboys can stfu

  • if evidence can be found to , which seems likely that it was already shown, that SONY went forward with selling a defectively designed PS3 to consumers while knowing full about the design flaws, and knowing that millions of ps3's would break not because of consumers faults. but due to their own design flaws, so they said we'll sell it anyway and force the consumers to have to pay when it breaks. Don't you see guys, this is grounds for a serious class action lawsuit of all ps3 owners against sony

  • the point being this, I spent close to $200 on a electronic product that supposed to be designed not to just die? jesus christ, my genesis still works!!!! my n64 still works!!! god, i will never ever buy a sony product ever again!!! and i hear there are people out there who have lost hundreds of dollars on two or more ps3's , all to break for the one of the popularly cited fundamental design flaws, flaws Sony knew full well about before launch, and let the unit to ship with now millions dead.

  • Doesn't it seem strange to anyone that a playstation 3, just like any other video game system before it, should be engineered and designed properly to not have a significant portion of the products made just "die" for no reason apparently? I'm 28 years old, I've had an NES, an SNES, and N64, Genesis, Dreamcast, Playstation, Gamecube, Wii, Xbox, and most recently bought a PS3 in September. While using it, the thing just DIES with the YLOD. my other systems all STILL WORK?!!

  • whoah i bought my slim for about 340$ brand new and re-sold it about 20 months later for a couple hundred bucks. it's really best to wait for these systems to decrease in price.

    overpaying for an unproven console at launch date is really shooting in the dark.

  • I just got the yellow light of crap.

  • Sounds like they operate like Dell.

    I spoke with them about computers being purchased on a certain date getting a free Windows 7 upgrade. I bought mine 2 days before that date and asked if I would be eligible, since I just had called with a ton of problems they couldn't fix, and they said no. I asked to speak with a supervisor -- a supervisor, mind you -- and they said the reason they couldn't do it is because computers purchased on that date aren't compatible with Windows 7. 2 days before...

  • I feel you it happened to me too, fortunately Sony allowed me to get a new ps3 slim for $ 150 with shipping and handling. Still got my slim and totally worth it.

  • Shit happens ¯\(o_0)/¯

  • Oh, you bought the PS3 with 599$ U.S. Dollars back then. :3

  • XBOX 360 is cheaper than PS3. With RROD, you can actually fix it, and request it for service either via the Microsoft website or XBOX.com .

  • At least with Xbox 360 you can actually request service online without ringing up 0845 / 0800 numbers that cost and Microsoft actually fix it.

  • Eurgh. Exact problem I have. Kinda wanted a solution. Spose title doesnt specify that...

  • that's why you may not buy a new console in the first year.

  • dat sux ballz

  • looks like your ps3 hates you

  • happend to me today, after 5 years .. :(

    well done sony, well done

  • It happend to me today :cccccc

  • @1112awesome i just got Saint's row the third and UN3 and batman arkam city and then after a few day´s i get yellow light of death this sucks :C

  • @GrayGecko22 D:

  • Lol really?? No xbox ppl. Saying that's why I have a xbox.. Thank GOD.

  • does it happens on 160 gbs ps3 silm?

  • if and when the ps4 comes out,I really do hope sony can overcome this problem,i have got to take my ps3 back to the repairs merchants for the 3rd time in as many months cause of the ylod,(basically im biting the bullet and getting a new ps3 the only reason im getting this fixed is so i can swap my files to the new ps3 with an ethernit cable)which is something else bring back memory cards sony,so we can save everything to them instead of fucking about with ethernit cables and we lose nothing

  • N00b, hahahaha

  • ok so ive the origial 40gb ps3 and i had just got mw3 yesterday for christmas, went out a few hours ago to get dxp mt dew and deritos to come home to find out my ps3 gets yellow ring of death, came here to find out how to fix, found a few options but i tried turning it on once and once yelow pops up turn off right away and back on just as fast, and right after secend turn on, repeatedly tapped eject to get back mw3 and save my ps3, at least for now, let me know if helps

  • The YLOD thing happened to my ps3 yesterday and I fortunetaly saved my bf3 which was stuck inside the system, ps should have a button or something that u could push so the disc flips out even when the system is down. I had to smash it to get out the game but hey now I have a new one:)

  • I find that when it starts to blink, very quickly turning it off and on well solve the problem. Keep on press the until it starts a second time. But i have to do it every time i turn it on. It never showed when I play games only when I start it.

  • just happens 2 me. took out mw3  put in black ops joind a natch Andra it shut down. at least mw3 isnt init i got a 40gb ps3 does this happen a lot?

  • don't play too much so you can avoid getting the YLOD.

  • Happened to me right now. I've had mine since 2006

  • Just happened to me I have it since mar 2008 damn

  • My PS3 had the same problem but mine after about 2-3 months came back then it was playable! I just got lucky...

  • My ps3 fat 40 gb from 2006 have the yellow light problem, it happened to me in 2011 may be in july, the thing is that it still working just you have to turn it over and over again it will take time but qhen it starts you have to leave it in stand by for 2 min , if you dont do that it will turn off. Well if yo do that you must have a cooller. It works!!

  • When I brought my 320 gb slim, they said it happens from over heating

  • @PrivateJoker212 rue, the same happens when you have a red ring of death, make sure that when you have your console plugged on, that there is enough space because he will heat up too mch, hope you understand my poor english

  • RED RINGS OF DEATH VS YELLOW LIGHT/EYE

  • this only happens with 60 gb

  • I left my ps3 on for 1 full week and it still worked! :D (It was a slim 120 gb)

  • @rafidisccol xbox's red ring of death is worst then this

  • really mad my ps3 got this after 5 years...then i fixed it myself...then i got it again

  • U had done something I had my for 3 yrs

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  • My old Playstation 3 got the yellow light of death last April because of a virus. 4 months later my dad told me the PS3 repair people couldn't fix it because the hard drive was severely damaged. But luckily I got a new PS3 160 GB Slim model.

  • I have that problem a year ago with a 80 GB and it fixed it self after 2 days. And now it is working just fine.

  • I have a good advicee...

    geet an XBOX

  • @rafidiscool Red ring of death

  • @043Steelersfan betta den yellow light of death

  • Lol xbox isn't g

  • my ps3 has this, after 3 years of playing....

  • @wwwspelenlsucks sad for youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! ;)

  • hey, it's still better than xbox

  • @MrLeggette not. ps4 will pay each month like xbox 360 live. and xbox 720 will be free online bc we pay him every play and more play...

  • dam it my ps3 does that to mother fu****

  • Same This Happened To Me 2 Times In A Row. Sony's A Douche.

  • i had the warranty it was still good to use but sony still said no now i have the 360 slim ps3 and sony suck

  • MINES DONE THIS TODAY :(

  • @MichaelGareth2008 YOU TOO!!! O.O WE ARE 2 .. i just started my ps3 to get ( if possible ) demo of assassins creed revelation and doesnt work

  • same happened me yesterday, someone know something about the price of the repair?

  • I got new 360 not ONE problem

    like if you got a xbox 360 :)

  • @redkillerhalo did you not say that it was 13 monthss old dumbas, that thing will probably be fried in 3 months anyways

  • Xbox ftw

  • Buy a xbox if it dies it's only 300 dollars for 250 gs and the new xbox fixed the red ring problem

  • @ULGxMcLOVINx thats true

  • yup just happened to me too

  • noooooooooo same happend for me :(((( im just lvl16 in bf3 wanna play that :((( bought my ps3 about 4 years ago idk what to do now :((

  • Fuck Sony....all they do is rob people....I have the same problem, well had the same problem, I'm now playing my XBOX. I called Sony customer service and they stated my system is out of warranty and its not as reliable as the newer versions. I talk to Tony #47774 and he wanted me to pay to get it repair and I will then have 3 months warranty on it. He basically told me to go get the new PS3 and forget about it. Sony Sucks...My system was in a cool area, never fall or water damage and its dead.

  • @platinumbenz they fuckin keep the disk stuckin in the ps3 and your fuckin data i still have my mine and it doesn't fukin have the ylod and xbox 360 is a good console i like both ps3 and 360 

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  • This just happened to me now. Had it since it came out. man it had a good run. Was playing some mw3 and then this. Damn man lol

  • Black ops killed my PS3... FUCK.

  • pshome and lbp2 gave me this -_-

  • skyrim fucked my ps3.....

  • @jackafa92 U SRS BRO?

  • @livinindubai ya i swear. in the middle of killing a dragon and boom, it crashed. now i have this shit.

  • just happened to me, it worked last night and now it simply won't start anymore. and i just bought assanins creed revalations and uncharted 3 sigh :(

  • My ps3 keeps getting over heated very quickly, is that a sign that my ps3 is on the verge of breaking down?

  • Happened to me, find a place to fix it. Only like 60 bucks. Maybe it was less. I forget.

  • i havent heard this before but it doesnt happened to me even i dont have a slim

  • Sony is retarded!!!!

  • mw3 just killed my ps3

  • @anthonybbb18 yeah, it happened to me 5 minutes ago playing MW3 haha

  • JESUS

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    WTF

  • fuck ps3

    

  • i've had the ps3 from when it came out, and last Thursday was when this started happening, and my fuckin $60 Battlefield 3 is stuck in there, the ps3 started overheating over the summer, all you gotta do is just keep a can of compressed air nearby and as soon as u hear a beat you'll here it three times, and see the green light flashing, use the compressed air to spray the vents for a good 30 seconds, eventually the light will stop flash, and your good to go, until it happens again, so keep it w

  • PS2 NEVER HAD A FUCKING PROBLEM LIKE THIS

  • replaced the HDD wont that fix it? lol

  • @demonsparkx thats true because other tried this

  • i believe that what the teenagers call" more then a fail but someones got a thumb up there ass and eatting shit and greedy as one self prick who loves to eat babies, sweet lobster babies yummie"........damn corporate people, hell if i was in charge id say you know what? i feel you, free ps3 and upgrade :D, i dont give a shit if i lose money you know why? cus gaming is a passion if you take that out of a person then well......you killed that person

  • its the virus YLOD i have it 2 dont play so much after you repaired

  • this happened to me but I still manage to keep my ps3 working.... when I turn it on the first time the red light goes green then yellow then it starts blinking red... I press the on button so the red light goes steady.... then I press it again and it turns on normal.... the only difference is that in the video the guy presses the on button again and then the eject button what I normally do is press the on button and it does work... my ps3 is having this yellow light thing for about 4 moths now..

  • happened at yesterday... R.I.P. Mindblowing Military Knives...

  • My Ps3 just died i got it a couple years ago and it just died it never showed problems and i have bearly used it can anyone tell me why it just randomly died

  • Shit happened to me not 5 minutes ago.

  • i had my ps3 five days and what happened Ylod

  • for 4 days i bought the PS3 60 gig and today bammm the mother fucking Ylod

  • ps3 slim 320 gb ^^

  • equivalent to rrod on xbox

  • The way you talking it sounds like you reading off a teleprompter

  • I have a slim sucks for you non-slimmers

  • @JBpaperstacks123 the ps3 slim still gets the ylod

  • @nfsprostre i have the ps3 slim sony refused to replace it because the warranty ran out 2 weeks ago, i have to pay £110 to get it fixed joke!

  • The only way you can back-up the hard drive is to buy a SATA case($40) and use your computer. You will also need to get the PS casing off of the hard drive so yo need a screw driver too.

  • how did you back-up your hard drive.. or did you. I had the same problem what happened was (sony wont admit it) your motherboard overheated or cracked due to the overheating of the PS2 chip on the board. If you would have gotten a PS3 without backwards compatibility this would not have happened. This is why the newer PS3s don't have backwards compatibility, it would cost too much to replace everyones PS3 after it breaks. Now they can fix it for about $120 but they wont back-up your hard drive!

  • Sony has some nasty customer service. I called them and the guy i spoke to was really nasty and sony will only fix it for over $100. and apparently there fix is the same thing you see on youtube and only lasts 3 months. That or you can trade your ps3 in to get a refurb for $99. I just fuckin did it myself. Plus i replaced the power supply with a cooler one and put some new hardware in it.. Sony has shitty customer service!

  • :((((((((

  • RIP ps3 :(

  • ps3 is the best it takes weeks to do the yellow thing ps3 is FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • atleast xbox isnt alone on this

  • SO. Mine died a sec ago. Same thing. It's a 2nd refurbish. I got the 40 GIG european launchmodel.

  • SHOULD I GET XBOX OR PS3

  • @murat1234ish ps3 its better and lives longer and its freeeeeeeee.

  • @murat1234ish I play on the Xbox 360 but I've used a Ps3 for awhile. I prefer the Xbox 360 because I love the party chat/private chat/ voice messaging. It's an awesome feature that the Ps3 SHOULD have. Why it doesn't? I have no clue. I've been considering getting a Ps3 because Final Fantasy Versus XIII Is something I'm really looking forward to playing. I guess you should have both consoles in any case if you're not a broke ass. Simply because of the different console exclusives. GoW3 ftw <3 Js.

  • @murat1234ish ps3

  • lol mine fixed itself :L

  • @jojojeno SHOULD I GET XBOX OR PS3

  • @murat1234ish PS3!!

  • thats a shit!!!

    i have 3 years with my wii and ive never had a problem like that

  • @elprimojorge SHOULD I GET XBOX OR PS3

  • I read that his is most common with the 60gb ps3, the original release version (backward compatible)

  • @markhorneyuk SHOULD I GET XBOX OR PS3

  • @murat1234ish, dude, with shit I've been reading up and hearing up, the xbox 360 is the worse console to get, you might want to look up some of complaints such as the RROD, 360 unusual account bans, CD ring scratchs, if you want a powerful gaming system on the market, get PS3, ideal a 80gb or a slim, not the 60gb if you want to avoid YLOD possiblity, anything PS3 3rd Generation or above, you may not be able to play backward compatiblity, but it's more stable than the 60GB.

  • Sony may make brilliant eletronics, but they have the most SHITTEST CUSTOMER SERVICES, AND THE WORLDS WORSE LEGAL BULLSHIT.

  • @markhorneyuk SHOULD I GET XBOX OR PS3

  • did you get it fix?

  • @KingManga358 SHOULD I GET XBOX OR PS3

  • Yea its pretty much a hardware error.You basically need to reflow the motherboard.Replacing Sony low grade thermal paste.Do a google search and there are plenty of videos on how to do it.Its not hard. I fixed a few PS3 in a matter of hours.You can get all the supplies cheap off ebay or go to radioshack.From my experience if your ps3 fails its either that or a failed part.Which you can easily fix.

  • PS3 SLIM and Xbox 360 Slim dosent get Red ring og death or ylod :D

  • @TheGames55 Ps3 slim does get red ring or watever. mine just broke

  • @Jfromthehood100 Did it?? Okey buy an xbox 360 slim, its much better than xbox 360 Fat

  • @TheGames55 yeah because the 360 slim aren't supposed to red ring at all 

  • MIne just died D:

    

  • Thay charged me 110 pounds then when I got my new ps3 60g it broke down after 5mins and Sony are going to leave me with out a ps for up to one week that takes the ps

  • mine died 2 or 3 days ago. they chargeed me 130$ for a repair. it will take 10 to 14 days to repair.

  • good thing it doesnt do that on ps3 slim i had mine for almost 3 yrs.

  • @gonaruto27

    Yea they fixed the high temperatures and low grade thermal paste.

  • @jxsilicon9 SHOULD I GET XBOX OR PS3

  • @murat1234ish

    I have both. I pretty much got the ps3 for metal gear solid. The online service for xbox 360 is better but Ps3 has better graphics but it operates more like a computer. Installing and downloading is slow as hell.

  • @jxsilicon9 , Get a Solid State Drive upgrade then for your ps3, if you can afford it, installation game time is 10x faster, all ps3 are built with a SATA Notebook 2.5 hard drive inside, if you want fast installation and loading time, Solid State State is the future, the trouble is, it's pricy, rougly $1-$2 (£1) per a Gigabite on ebay, Platter = Metal Disk, SSD = Microchips build on the same technology as an USB Flash drive, it won't void your ps3 warrenty, unlike the 360.

  • @markhorneyuk

    Yea buy those expensive ass drives so ps3 can install faster. Yea right. Xbox 360 doesn't have that problem. And it uses SATA also.

  • @jxsilicon9, well 360 will also go 10x faster on a SSD, the prices are dropping and there are a lot of pc shops that are no longer selling platter anymore, platter is practually only good for network drives and desktop pc's, the troube is, most common problems with loading & game play errors are caused by the hard drive by static, vibration and just plain fails from being over heated, ssd don't overheat, no static, vibration is impossible, 2.5 HDD life is practually 6-12 months, SSD is for life.

  • @jxsilicon9 , i'm only telling you from my experience and others, I'm a computer a engineer and a game player, so I know the comparrestment of both the SSD and HDD, I too don't sell my laptops with platter anymore, due to carrying a laptop and overheating on laps can causes damage to the hard drive, resulting in constant repairs of customers computers, great thing about ssd, if you upgrade the console, or another SATA port model game console comes out, you can always switch over your SSD drive.

  • @jxsilicon9

    Maybe when the price of an SSD 1TB is around $100.Even the expensive drives are too small right now.

  • @jxsilicon9, Actually the largest SSD on the market is 256GB, and the largest Platter 2.5 HDD on the market is 3TB, that's because Platter is built by machines, like machines building cars, SSD however, is built by humans, that's why HDD is advance on storage and SSD is lacking, but as time goes on, SSD will catch up, Price for 256GB SSD is around £400 ($800), as for a Platter of that size is £30 ($60), so I can see why people angry on cost, but it's better saving buying a new HDD all the time.

  • @markhorneyuk

    Its funny you say that because OCZ just released a 1TB SSD.Crazy timing. It costs around $3k. Also the largest regular HDD is 4GB. Which Seagate first released.

  • @jxsilicon9, are you shitting me?, 4TB already? (i assume that's what you ment and not 4GB), they just release the 3TB 2.5 HD here in britain (though 3TB 3.5 has been out a little more while) and they never even reach a sale point for 500GB SSD, not even seen it on ebay, I would of expected something like this to come out in June 2012, fuck, I feel like a dinosaur, bad enough I still prefer xp and 98se :P

  • @markhorneyuk

    Yea 4tb just came out last month. And 1TB SSD just came out this month. I would get it if it wasn't around $3k. They make that shit in China anyway.So they should calm down on the price.

  • @jxsilicon9 Graphics depends on the game. Some games graphics are better on the Xbox 360 where as the graphics of some games are better on the Ps3.

  • mine havent died :) yay! and it is soon 3 yearssince i bought it :)

  • getta slim

  • @Hasdude96 Oldschool fatboxes ftw. My ps3 broke last night LOL it worked for 6 years!

  • Reageren op deze video... Oh btw i have a PS3 37GB and mine just fell off when i was playing sum dumb shit at CoD MW2 in FFA Highrise LOL. so seems not only the 20GB and 60GB occurs but also 37GB. btw idk why i have 37GB in the first place >.> 2006 starter package ftw