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placidcasual on 10 October 2009

Thanks for the replies again. 



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bluthunder on 10 October 2009
placidcasual said:

Thanks for the replies.

Sony are not budging so I'll scrap it I think. Would need to get the warranty with a refurbished one so for one year that would bring it up to £188. Was going to get uncharted 2 so might go for the 250gb option with uncharted on play.com for £269 and put it down to bad luck. Took really good care of the machine and dusted it regularly. Wasn't even on for that long - 30 mins maybe. No technical issues before and it was very quiet.

Does anyone know if the old 60gb hard drive would fit into a slim to retrieve saved files. Also I was playing infamous at the time. Is there any way of rescuing the disk from the broken machine?

Thanks again.

Don't scrap it, BC PS3s are worth a bit. Pay the £128 then sell it, they go for £250 or more on ebay. Then use the money to buy a slim.



Xoj on 10 October 2009
bluthunder said:
placidcasual said:

Thanks for the replies.

Sony are not budging so I'll scrap it I think. Would need to get the warranty with a refurbished one so for one year that would bring it up to £188. Was going to get uncharted 2 so might go for the 250gb option with uncharted on play.com for £269 and put it down to bad luck. Took really good care of the machine and dusted it regularly. Wasn't even on for that long - 30 mins maybe. No technical issues before and it was very quiet.

Does anyone know if the old 60gb hard drive would fit into a slim to retrieve saved files. Also I was playing infamous at the time. Is there any way of rescuing the disk from the broken machine?

Thanks again.

Don't scrap it, BC PS3s are worth a bit. Pay the £128 then sell it, they go for £250 or more on ebay. Then use the money to buy a slim.

if u can do this, do it.

 



gamelover2000 on 10 October 2009

place, did you get the disc out yet?



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jneul on 10 October 2009

ignore the people telling you to get a xbox 360, their failure rate is so bad it is un-believeable...

the ps3 failure rate is a lot lower (below 1%) so you got really unlucky, as for advice i say fix it and sell it to someone else,  as backward compatible ps3 sell for a lot of money on ebay, then wityh your money buy a ps3 slim, the YLOD problem seems to only happen to release consoles, so the slim should be fine ok



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The Anarchyz on 10 October 2009
WessleWoggle said:
Chuck the hunk of crap and get a reliable machine like the xbox 360.

Make sure to get an earlier build too!

XD XD



Dgc1808 on 10 October 2009
bluthunder said:
placidcasual said:

Thanks for the replies.

Sony are not budging so I'll scrap it I think. Would need to get the warranty with a refurbished one so for one year that would bring it up to £188. Was going to get uncharted 2 so might go for the 250gb option with uncharted on play.com for £269 and put it down to bad luck. Took really good care of the machine and dusted it regularly. Wasn't even on for that long - 30 mins maybe. No technical issues before and it was very quiet.

Does anyone know if the old 60gb hard drive would fit into a slim to retrieve saved files. Also I was playing infamous at the time. Is there any way of rescuing the disk from the broken machine?

Thanks again.

Don't scrap it, BC PS3s are worth a bit. Pay the £128 then sell it, they go for £250 or more on ebay. Then use the money to buy a slim.

Do this. You'll be happy you did it.



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placidcasual on 11 October 2009

Don't worry jneul - I'm definitely not going down the XBox route. Going to arrange an exchange and sell on ebay and then get the slim.

Looks like the disc is not coming out gamelover! Only got infamous the day before too.



Cypher1980 on 11 October 2009

If its out of warranty id go for the open the thing up reseat the heat sinks with some good thermal paste give it a blast with a heatgun and fire her up.

The original PS3's do seem to be failing with a worrying regularity but the rest of the SKU's seem to be holding up really well.

Paying to get it fixed then flogging it is a little bit naughty IMHO. Once a machine has YLOD'd it seems to be destined to repeat the problem. You are just condeming your purchaser to the same issue.



placidcasual on 11 October 2009

it won't be the same machine cypher - they will exchange it for another 60gb which may not have previously had the yellow light. If I knew it had a yellow light I'd not sell it on Ebay.