PS3 got the YLOD, i dont know what to do.

[dharh]

soulsamurai said:

Ail said:

dharh said:

Sicilian. said:

Well i was playing the mag beta when all of a sudden my ps3 shut off and started blinking. Then a yellow flash and red flashing lighting. Obviously it is dead. It is an original 20gb Ps3 phat. My baby that i got on the first day the ps3 was out and have played nearly every day since.  Will sony still repair this one? is it $150.00? Should i just buy a ps3 slim? I am also thinking i might have to sell my wii to fund my next ps3 purchase. I am just so confused.  

 

Yank the hard drive if you don't back up (unless you don't care about save files). Then get a Slim it will be worth it.

Can't do that.

The harddrive is encrypted and only works on that PS3.

If you insert it in another PS3 the first thing it will do is will reformat it...

 

not true, its encrypted to his user profile. As long as he has the ps3 setup on the new one to his old name it will still work. I had to do this when my 60 gig died.

Also I believe he only needs to put it in an enclosure that lets him turn it into a USB drive to plug into the PS3 and that will allow him to copy the saves/downloaded games over.