hi a have just been playing gt5 and my ps3 andiv just shut down its self and the red light was flashing so turned ps3 off by the wall and switched ps3 back on well tryed just keeps beeping any ideas plz

[Edited on 24/12/10 by daryl]

Perhaps some English lessons?

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Originally posted by carpmart
Perhaps some English lessons?

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Originally posted by 40inches

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Originally posted by carpmart
Perhaps some English lessons?

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Harsh!

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Let me translate, the poor lads PS3 is knackered!

Steve

i have 2 ps3's at the moment with the same problem, the main reason it does this is becuase the main board gets too hot and the solder to the chips of the main processor fatigues and cracks due to the heat cycles the ps3 goes through.

there is a couple of ways to fix it but the main that i have seen is to strip the ps3 down to the main board and the re-flow the chips with a heat gum and cleaning and re-applying thermal paste.

i think sony charge about £150 to have this done if the ps3 is out of warranty

Hope this helps.

Seems PS3 has just discovered it has the same crashing issue as the Xbox.

Return to Sender, it should be covered under a 3 year warranty, unless Sony only put a 1 year warranty on the console

Sounds like the old 'YOLD' or yellow light of death, loads of info on this around the internet and some decent Youtube clips on how to fix it. I fixed mine by wrapping it in and old jumper with a hair drier up the sleeve until it got incredibly hot and re-melted the offending solder. Been fine ever since!

Or stick it outside to let it cool then try again.

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Originally posted by Colnago_Man
Sounds like the old 'YOLD' or yellow light of death

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