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greenmedic88 on 27 June 2011
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Final-Fan said:

The poll may be simple, but it was TOO simple for my tale.

I had a launch PS3, but it got knocked over and fell 3 feet onto a tile floor. Thereafter the HDMI connection had audio issues (extremely quiet as I recall). There were apparently no other problems, aside from the piece holding the warranty screw to the front panel getting broken, so I could have lived with that -- but I decided to get it repaired, only they sent out a different unit, so the one I've had the last few years isn't the one I started with, although it's still a 60GB fat.

I put Yes.  The PS3 I have now works perfectly, aside from I think the fan spins up more than it used to, and I'm sure my original is leading an equally happy existence somewhere, unless the motherboard was deemed not worth fixing. 

My CECH-H01 got knocked over (more like I knocked it over when I pulled on a controller that was still attached to the console) onto a carpet floor, less than 2 feet off the floor, while it was on naturally, but it still worked. Bullet dodged, or so I thought.

Maybe 6 months later (don't remember other than that it was less than a year) it went YLoD without the typical overheating warnings (high fan mode at idle) and when I disassembled it, the TIM was still wet, meaning the soldering break was probably from the impact rather than prolonged overheating from heavy use. 

It was my main PS3 for almost two years and it's been sitting in the original PS3 coffin that my refurbed CECH-A01 was delivered in for about a year now. Fixed it long enough to get my data and deactivate it but can't bring myself to part it out or dump it since it was one of the MGS4 Limited Edition gun metal grey consoles.