Sony Yellow Light Of Death Hits

[FKNetwork]

nordlead said:

FKNetwork said:

What is the actual cause of the "yellow light of death"? the cell, gpu etc?

 

And to the people that lost game saves etc, couldn't you just remove the hard drive before getting it repaired?

I don't think the YLoD is related to any one specific item. Microsoft used the lights on the front of the system as debug lights. As far as I can tell, Sony didn't do the same other than yellow=broken.

As for harddrive. I believe you can take it out, but it won't work unless you use it on the same system. I'm not sure though.

Ahh ok, so yellow light just means not all is well with the system? and there isn't anyway of knowing the actual cause without sending it in to Sony? isn't there repair kits for ps3's like there are on 360's?

Oh, that's a pain, I only have the standard hard drive in my ps3 and never tried taking it out but I thought it would let you put it in another ps3 and it would work with all your content?