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

did it freeze then reboot?

or just turn off ?

if the latter may have over heated, let it cool and try again, if the light goes yellow/orange its had it
check the warranty sony are pretty good at fixing them.

if no blue light and just green then the blueray laser has gone and it won't read disc (had two do this currently on my 3rd PS3) which has been fine

yer the screen just went blank think there was a orange yellow light on thanks dam thing thanks for the help

Yep it's either overheated or died. If the latter they will replace it or repair it. But you won't get your disc out if it's died.

If it has died and it's out of warranty, there's a great set of YouTube videos that show you how to fix it yourself. Just search for YLOD - yellow light of death! Gilksy1 seems to know what he's doing.

[Edited on 24/12/10 by alexg1965]

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.

thanks for the help lads and as some had said about my spelling sorry a have never been any good at spelling but thanks and all the best for the new year