My PS3 died today! Yellow Light of Death

[rmmil978]

Originally Posted by Arturo Lugo

But the point is, why would he have to spend $300 out of the blue for something he should have gotten for free, right?

Microsoft may have the worst hardware on the market, but at least their Customer Service is top notch. As of now, it calms me more to KNOW my machine is going to break, but I will get another one when that moment comes (along a new 1 year warranty for that refurb. unit), that NOT KNOWING if my PS3 will break after a year... or not.



I mean how can you enjoy anything with that in your mind?

I do not agree about Microsoft customer support. Every time I have ever had to call them I got someone who was talking out of their ass. Total nightmare. I will never call their CS again. If a problem occurs I go to message boards, if my unit fails I get it replaced at Gamestop, I truly hate MS CS with a passion.

[Detroit Tigers Fan]

I got RROD twice and both times Microsoft fixed it for free and I both times got my xbox 360 back within two weeks. The first time I got RROD was one year and two months after owning it. The second time was one year and nine months. Again got it fixed for free. After that I bought an Elite and have had no problems with it. So now I have three year warrienty on the Elite...so that's a total of six years between the two console's of FREE repairs I will get on RROD. So I could care less if it RRODS...I will get it fixed for free!!!

Now my 80GIG ps3 has only about four more months left on it's warranty. If it dies after that I will just trash it and get a Panasonic BD50. Doesn't really matter because I own ZERO games for my ps3. I even sold the motorstorm game that came with it.

[bettzysdaddy]

Originally Posted by SungofSam

Get an 80GB. Problem solved.

LOL

My brother's 80GB got the YLOD this morning playing COD4. It also happened to my cousin's PS3 (don't remember which model but it still had the Emotion Engine). Proving that this is not limited to certain models. It looks like the Wii is the winner in hardware reliability this gen.

[aaronwt]

Originally Posted by bettzysdaddy

My brother's 80GB got the YLOD this morning playing COD4. It also happened to my cousin's PS3 (don't remember which model but it still had the Emotion Engine). Proving that this is not limited to certain models. It looks like the Wii is the winner in hardware reliability this gen.

Wii consoles have died too. Every console ever produced has had failures.

[MSX2]

Originally Posted by aaronwt

Wii consoles have died too. Every console ever produced has had failures.

The Wii's optical drive issue was well publicized when SSBB was released, particularly in Japan when Nintendo was taking back consoles for cleaning free for charge.

[Pyrelis]

lol, I love the posts in this thread that make out the 360 defect rate to be a good thing.

"I feel comforted I know my 360 will break"

yeah, uhh, ok.

[bettzysdaddy]

Originally Posted by MSX2

The Wii's optical drive issue was well publicized when SSBB was released, particularly in Japan when Nintendo was taking back consoles for cleaning free for charge.

While this is true, it didn't brick the system like Xbox and PS3. I would see it as the lesser of two evils. I'd rather have my lens cleaned than my system and data gone and/or unusable.

[MSX2]

Originally Posted by bettzysdaddy

. I would see it as the lesser of two evils. I'd rather have my lens cleaned than my system and data gone and/or unusable.

That's one of the known failures, the fatal one is GPU failure. It can be instantaneous or gradual by showing a number of artifacts on screen first.

As aaron said, every product has an issue even if the overall defect rate is acceptable. The PS3 and Wii are generally equally reliable on the whole.

[Reverend Blu]

Originally Posted by BluRayistheWay

I have a friend and I was going to do this and I got the first screw out but then trying to get the next two out the screws thread broke apart?!?!? They are the cheapest screws I've ever tried to unscrew!! This is crazy

Sorry but gotta call you on this.

Its un screw ONE screw and SLIDE the hard drive to the right! and give a very gentle pull on the metal wire handle and out comes the hard drive.

Sorry but the three screws sounds well kinda fishy.
You sure its a 60GB PS3 and not something else............





Off topic>
Tessla coils are great when dealing with busybody nearby homeowners in Quebec.
I.e. one am and lights out at those jerks homes, right, right, right!

Cue the Tessla coil at 88 thousand volts and its unseen broadcast energy lights up all the lightbulbs in every home for blocks and blocks and those fools mess with the light switches and the lights turn on with regular power and press light switch again and the lights stay on with tessla coil power!

Sacre blu the lights stay on no matter what switch we press............idiots thinking its ghosts

Great fun makeing folks think the house is haunted.

When this tesslacoil hits 88 thousand volts youre going to see some serious shit.

[Reverend Blu]

Originally Posted by bettzysdaddy

My brother's 80GB got the YLOD this morning playing COD4. It also happened to my cousin's PS3 (don't remember which model but it still had the Emotion Engine). Proving that this is not limited to certain models. It looks like the Wii is the winner in hardware reliability this gen.

Wii GPU failures there are various kinds of GPU failures, but the most common by far is the SPARKLIES OF DOOM!


Look at the happy wii owners

Yep it has so much reliability that there are threads on it

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366868

i.e.

from the thread>



Been through 2 Wiis, one had the GPU error, last one had a DVD drive mechanism problem.

My blue light around the disc drive doesn't light up when it's supposed to. And yes, I checked the settings to make sure it was on.

:'(

Copy and paste from another thread:
Oh god.. Dont remind me of my relationship with Nintendo. I sent my Wii four times to NOE. First time, I had this "system files corrupted" error. They sent it back and said to me, they could not find the problem. So I sent it a second time. Now they could find the error and gave me a new console. Great. Beside of the fact, that the disc drive was broken. So, after another try, Nintendo gave me a working console. Okay, the reset button was a little bit broken, but HEY nobodys perfect.Fast foward, one year later, the drive started to scratch my discs. This was the 4th time, right after the release of MK Wii. And this time, Nintendo gave me, finally, a perfect console. And some scratches on the surface of the Wii. Nice.Never ever before I had problems with my consoles. My NES is almost 16 years old but works like its 1992 again. But we know since the SSBB laser problems, that the Wii cant hold a candle to the quality of the old Nintendo systems, like the TankCube.

I've been through 5 Wiis. The only console I've ever owned that has broken down on me.

The unit I bought on launch day died roughly a month later. The red light would no longer come on when it was plugged in, but apparently it wasn't the power cord/brick that failed. Anyways, it was replaced by Nintendo, and the one they sent for replacement has been working just fine for the past two years.

I've had a drive failure (launch model, about a week after launch) and another failure where the Wii just stopped turning on.



my first wii died from NAND fuckup and the second one had a failing optical drive. i took it to a repair service to have the drive replaced but it took 1 and a half months.

this is the console that has given me the most problems since i became a gamer.

I had disc read errors when my system was vertical. After laying it down horizontal the problems went away.

It's crazy that we know have defective system threads for all three consoles now.

My nephew's Wii stopped accepting discs. I've read about the band coming loose on the motorized thingamajig. I need to by the tri wing screwdriver to see if I can fix it for him.

[Dr Kain]

Originally Posted by BluRayistheWay

I was playing call of duty 4 online when all of the sudden the PS3 made a few beeping sounds and then crashed to a flashing red light. I tried a soft reset but that didn't work so I tried turning it on normally and it turns on for 1 maybe 2 seconds then turns to a yellow light and then back to a flashing red light. It wont even stay on long enough for me to eject my COD4 from the disc drive. I would hate to lose all my game saves (GTAIV, MGS4, etc.) but it looks like I'm going to.

I feel you man. My PS3 did the EXACT SAME THING back in May, was a 60GB model, ALSO bought in Jan 2007.

My .hack//GU Volume 2 game is still stuck in the machine.

I have the box Sony shipped me, but I have yet to send it in, as I just haven't had the money to do so. I did get a new 80GB PS3 though, as my fourth 360 died (RROD again), so I did a PRP exchange at Best Buy and got myself the PS3, as I'm sick of hardly playing the damn system and it dies, whereas the PS3 I played for almost every day, sometimes 12 hours a day, and it took two and a half years to go bad.

EDIT: I just realized when the original post date was...

[bettzysdaddy]

I find that COD 4 is the X-factor in YLOD for the PS3. I wonder what causes the PS3 to go bananas while playing COD4?

And for the articles mentioned above on Wii failures, I could see where that can happen. I know not all hardware is 100%, but from what I've been reading PS3 and XBox have the most severe problems. Sure GPU failure and dirty lens are bad, but c'mon, putting my fanboyism aside, I'm sure the statistics on hardware failure favor the Wii. I'm gonna try and find some stats in my free time and post them here. Don't get me wrong, I want a PS3, but when I think of the mini disk, the UMD, and it's laptop batteries, I'm finding hard to consider purchasing a PS3. Maybe the PS3 slim will resolve the issues plaguing the current PS3. I know Toyota has had it's fair share of recalls, but more and more people still buy them because they have a track record of being reliable. That's why they topped the Big 3 on their home turf and the world.

[GodMother]

I had the yellow light of death a year ago . It first turned yellow, then green, then finally red . ( if I can remember well ) First time it turned on rather quickly, but the second time it was nasty . Sony wanted to charge me 150, despite the ps3 being under warranty because they couldn't find the F. confirmation serial ! After 1 day it turned on . Next day turned it off, went dead again . This pattern repeated a lot . So I decided not to turn it off, for up to 3 weeks it stayed on . Now ... It hasn't died on me since 5 months !

[Godstar]

Originally Posted by STR8UP&DOWN

I'm assuming you didn't get the extended (2 yr) store plan ... like at Best Buy, Circuit City.

I got one of those...with Circuit Shitty. Lot of good that does you after they go out of business.

[bettzysdaddy]

Originally Posted by Godstar

I got one of those...with Circuit Shitty. Lot of good that does you after they go out of business.

My brother got his at CC as well.