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Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Fix PS3 Red / Yellow Light Problem
This is without doubt the safest, easiest and quickest way to fix your PS3 yellow light of death, red light of death, red screen and a range of other problems - without the need to fork out over $200 in repairs to Sony, or wait six whole weeks for your PS3 to return.
Monday, 14 February 2011
What is the YLOD or yellow light of death exactly?
Fix PS3 explains what the YLOD is...
YLOD is an annoying Playstation 3 experience where you are happily sat there gaming on your working PS3 and suddenly, nothing, a black screen. So you compose yourself after having to stop a race at 98% and go to look at your PS3, yep - it has a yellow light on the front, it is fix PS3 time unfortunately. Sometimes this yellow light just stays there indefinitely, at which point most people opt to send the console to Sony for repairs. That costs something like $200 and worst of all, you will have to wait six weeks to get it back - I don't know about you but going without my PS3 for six weeks doesn't sound like much fun. It is far easier and quicker to just fix PS3 yourself with the available tools in the above article.
I remember back in the PSX days having to turn the console actually upside down - the lesser serious version of that was to lean it up against a wall standing up, or variations of the two to try to kick start it into action. Maybe it was because the console was on a thick carpet, after all it often tended to be too hot the times it failed like that.
The PS3 light problem is so common that it was even featured on a well known consumer review TV program...
They said there were "thousands" of cases and that is only the cases they know about. They also highlighted the fact that the PS3 is a lot of things but one of them is not cheap! To fix PS3 alone is also not cheap.
The President of Sony Entertainment himself said the PS3 platform will still be "relevant in five years time". That is of course, as long as it keeps working.
Why are so many of these first generation PS3's biting the dust? One man in the TV audience with a problematic console said that you first get a green light when you switch the console on, but then you get a yellow light and it stays like that. Once the yellow light comes on - game over.
Sony just tells customers the problem could happen for a whole host of reasons and get the usual fob offs associated with a huge company. Sony says they cannot possibly tell you any fix without them taking the console apart - hence the huge upsurge in popularity of software detailed above, where you can skip sending the console away to Sony and just "fix" it yourself in under ten minutes. Yes it does cost something to do it that way - 4 times less than Sony and you don't even need to open the console or mess about with the circuit board at all.
What really annoys people even more than the yellow light being there, is the fact that Sony expects YOU to pay for this problem! Well, that is precisely why the PS3 was featured on the TV programme I mentioned, it is not fair for a company as massive as Sony is to just expect consumers to pay $200 or in some cases even more, to fix a problem that is not even the consumer's problem.
Seriously... some people even threw their console away because of this, that is a great shame because there are ways to fix this, as shown in the article at the top of this page.
YLOD is an annoying Playstation 3 experience where you are happily sat there gaming on your working PS3 and suddenly, nothing, a black screen. So you compose yourself after having to stop a race at 98% and go to look at your PS3, yep - it has a yellow light on the front, it is fix PS3 time unfortunately. Sometimes this yellow light just stays there indefinitely, at which point most people opt to send the console to Sony for repairs. That costs something like $200 and worst of all, you will have to wait six weeks to get it back - I don't know about you but going without my PS3 for six weeks doesn't sound like much fun. It is far easier and quicker to just fix PS3 yourself with the available tools in the above article.
I remember back in the PSX days having to turn the console actually upside down - the lesser serious version of that was to lean it up against a wall standing up, or variations of the two to try to kick start it into action. Maybe it was because the console was on a thick carpet, after all it often tended to be too hot the times it failed like that.
The PS3 light problem is so common that it was even featured on a well known consumer review TV program...
They said there were "thousands" of cases and that is only the cases they know about. They also highlighted the fact that the PS3 is a lot of things but one of them is not cheap! To fix PS3 alone is also not cheap.
The President of Sony Entertainment himself said the PS3 platform will still be "relevant in five years time". That is of course, as long as it keeps working.
Why are so many of these first generation PS3's biting the dust? One man in the TV audience with a problematic console said that you first get a green light when you switch the console on, but then you get a yellow light and it stays like that. Once the yellow light comes on - game over.
Sony just tells customers the problem could happen for a whole host of reasons and get the usual fob offs associated with a huge company. Sony says they cannot possibly tell you any fix without them taking the console apart - hence the huge upsurge in popularity of software detailed above, where you can skip sending the console away to Sony and just "fix" it yourself in under ten minutes. Yes it does cost something to do it that way - 4 times less than Sony and you don't even need to open the console or mess about with the circuit board at all.
What really annoys people even more than the yellow light being there, is the fact that Sony expects YOU to pay for this problem! Well, that is precisely why the PS3 was featured on the TV programme I mentioned, it is not fair for a company as massive as Sony is to just expect consumers to pay $200 or in some cases even more, to fix a problem that is not even the consumer's problem.
Seriously... some people even threw their console away because of this, that is a great shame because there are ways to fix this, as shown in the article at the top of this page.
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