PS3 Yellow Light of Death Got Me
Maybe I made one two many comments about the Xbox 360 and its reliability issues. Maybe I made one two many anti-Xbox wallpapers. Or maybe I was just one of the very fortunate few who got to experience the Yellow Light of Death.
So my roommate was on my PS3 playing the Wet demo, when suddenly my system randomly decides to turn off. I go to turn it back on, it beeps at me, and then displays a yellow light. I had not seen this before, so I decided I would leave the system off for a while to let it cool down (although I have never had any overheating issues previously). I tried it again about 30 minutes later, and the stubborn yellow light returned. After spending hours researching the issue, all I was able to find was that it was a “hardware failure”. Some websites said to try removing the hard drive; so I took my drive out, and turned on my PS3 again. Yellow Light graced me with its presence again, what a surprise. Knowing that I likely would not be hearing any good news, I decided to call Sony. Sony declared the unit broken, and the only was forme to send it to them for the low price of 200 bucks (I have had my 60 gig PS3 since launch, so it was out of warranty). Not only would I have to pay this 200 dollars, it would take a few weeks for the it to be fixed and sent back to me. I decided for $299 I could just go out and buy a new 120gig PS3 slim, and have a full year warranty on it. This seemed like the smarter investment. However, I still had a game stuck in my now useless PS3. I was told there was no way to manually eject it, and that it could also only be removed if I sent it to them. At this moment, I hung up on Sony, and took matters into my own hands.
RIP my 60 gig PS3. It had to be done. At least I was successful at removing the disc without damaging it.
I am now an owner of a 120 gig PS3 slim.
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you could have fixed the YLOD with about an hour of your time instead of buying a new unit. Then you could have spent that $299 on a new 2.5 inch drive that is vastly superior to your now 120 gig.