Slim or phat?  That sounds an awful lot like the blinking red light that follows the YLOD, but I assume you'd have recognized that.

@Arcturus thanks for d confirmation

No problem.

Totally doable. I took Ail's great advice, got some guy to fix it for $45, backed up my saves, and bought a slim. I dont know what the rates are for you in the UK, or if you're gonna do it yourself, but your saves are totally retrievable.

it's not worth fixing it yourself, the tools and the paste by themselves will cost you half of what you would pay someone else and it is not that trivial.

Sorry to hear that KylieDog, as I said in this thread mine did something similar (my MGS 4 bundle) a few weeks ago. It sucks, but, on the bright side, I have a much quieter slim now and my sister in law gets my old PS3 for cheap.

False.  Costs around $10 or less for the paste and that's it if you can find someone with a heat gun you can borrow.

I'll give you the 'not that trivial' part though.  It's not bad if you at least somewhat know your way around messing with electronics and watch one of the decent videos out there.

And how many people do you know that have a heat gun lying around ?

And the repair sucks because if it's an old PS3 you have to take out everything to do the repair...( fixing similar issue on 360 is actually easier)

Myself I was lucky the guy that fixed mine used to do that for a living( as a job ofr one of the console makers) and I could see he was serious by the number of 360 he had in his room waiting to be repaired...

Oh Kylie, I should also mention, don't expect your repaired PS3 to stick around for too long. My old one died again a week ago.

Well I just preordered pretty much every game I was planning to buy in September-December period.

Best Buy has an offer where if you preorder 5 titles you get 100$ in reward zone rewards so I preordered the following :

- Skyrim
- Resistance 3
- Assassin's Creed Revelations
- Batman : Arkham's city
- Uncharted 3