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YLOD!

YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH!!!
(Cue Evil "Dunn, dunn, dunn" sound)

In what can only be described as an ironic twist of events. My beloved piece of black plastic that people like to call the PS3 has given up the ghost and said "nah mate no more". When? What? Why? where? How? I hear. All of which a superb and well thought out questions in which I will try to answer in this blog.

So what exactly is the YLOD? Well lets just say if the RROD actually rooted anything, this YLOD would be its offspring. While about 29% less common then the RROD, the YLOD is just as much, and if not more a deadly creature. The YLOD has many traits that are prominent in the RROD. It effectively bricks your console to the point where the only thing to do is either...
A. Go for a walk down the road and chuck it of the bridge in hope that it will hit a train going under or...
B. The more favourable option in which involves a telephone,and a technician who probably couldn't even spell PS3.

Anyone remember this???
PS3 v Candle

Am I kidding, off course you don't. But while I was extremely lucky on that occasion it seems as if karma has come full circle and gave me a Chuck Norris like kick to my meat and two veg.

The day was... can't remember. But that is not the point. So after a hard days work on designing a children's book. Yeah don't ask that's a whole other topic for another blog, I decided to put my newly won NFS:undercover through its paces. So PS3 turned on. check. Disk in. check. TV on HDMI. Ummm....Nah. As I go to grab the remote to change the channel, and all of a sudden the PS3 starts having an orgasm, and like Misa Campo in bed it wouldn't stop. So I turn the darn thing off, turn it back on and, zero, zilch, love, nada, nothing appears on screen and starts beeping again and the power light turns YELLOW. (Cue that evil music again) At first I had no idea what this bastard of a prick was. So I did all the old school tricks to try and get it to work. You know the usual: Give it half an hour, take all cords out, then plug them back in, give the whole thing a wipe down, chuck in in the microwave, take it fishing, you know all that sort of sh*t. But this was about as useless as MR T not having a Mohawk.

Research time.

This was when my worse fears became more apparent. My PS3 was officially bricked. With the warranty over it appeared all doom and gloom. So I take my PS3 down to a technician to see if he was Jesus himself so he could fix it. But get a call the other day and it appeared one of the chips overheated and something was cracked. (candle v PS3 anyone) and while this was expected, nothing could have prepared me for the bill that came with fixing it. $400 (NZD) smackaroos.

So anyone with half a brain would know that the insurance company was getting called next. Please GOD forgive me for I have sinned. I told them a big fib and hopefully all going to plan this repair will only cost me a 100 smackaroos which is music to my ears compared to 400.

So now I believe my PS3 is on its way to Dorkland (Auckland) for plastic surgery and fingers crossed the dudes up there can fix my baby. I own the much fort after model, the 60gb. With 50gb of movie films, music songs, game saves, and demo's it would suck almost as much as that day in Cardiff.

But as always I'm looking on the bright side. Since the PS3 has gone I've been allot more productive with projects and what not and how bout the weather lads. Well in sunny Wellywood anyway. Not sure how it is in Yankie land. Plus I now know what it feels like to be stuck in last gen. I've still got my trustee PS2. So the likes of Tiger Wood 05 and Rugby 06 have been getting a work over.

But let this just be a lesson to you all. Never mix candles and PS3's together and always back up as much crap from your console in case there is a major "hows ya father" along the bumpy road of repairing.


Peace.
And Happy Gaming!

GA22A


The RROD's ugly little offspring.

Google "Yellow Light of Death" and this guy comes up.

Tempist6317d ago

Good luck with this. I had my drive crap out (only after I removed the game from it). But Sony's turn around was good, altought I got a new console instead of mine being repaired.

jadenkorri6317d ago

totally different situation thou, mine just wouldn't stay on for more than 2-3 mins, on for 10 if i left it off for a day or too, so heres what happened
while playing GTA 4 again, im gonna finish it this time, turned off mid play on dec 28th, sunday.. so turned off then back on did not work, well it did, just for 2 mins, so figuring it was overheated, since it was on all day, i shut it down, turned my 360 on and played that for the rest of the day and forgot my problem. Monday after work, oh god same thing, googled problems, checked sonys site etc etc, gave those all a try, still no good, back to my 360 as it was really late and didn't want to call sony.. Went to GS to see about the new 160 Gb ps3, as my 60 gig launch was oow, to my surprise and lack of knowlege found out new ps3 don't have backward combatibility, oh great, i have 80+ ps2 games and no ps2, gave to my nephew, and not asking for it back, so rushed home and called sony, after explaining everything, not much ts as she agreed it was the fan, it was the quietest ps3 ever...Took my information and sending me my box, today is the 30th, on friday the 2nd i recieved my box, i get off work at 7:30 so all mail would be closed, i wake up sat after 1 pm since im off sat and sun, package it up and drive to mail it away, found out purolator is closed at 12 on saturday, and not open sunday...so more waiting, my fault really but oh well, anyways, so out it goes monday, and by my surprise i get it tuesday, 8 days later, damn that was fast, despite my lack of a few days of not mailing, total cost was $177 dollars... an expensive repair, my power supply and blu ray drive were the only things replaced, so i guess my fan is ok, i hope...Hey im happy back to playing COD4...

Gue16317d ago

I have friends that their Wii's stopped working. What's the problem with that? Every electronic equipment has a percentage of failure. This is not a problem like the X360. All my friends X360 died at least twice. That's something to be pretty angry about.

Alymon6313d ago

"So anyone with half a brain would know that the insurance company was getting called next. Please GOD forgive me for I have sinned. I told them a big fib and hopefully all going to plan this repair will only cost me a 100 smackaroos which is music to my ears compared to 400."

Probably not a good idea to admit to insurance fraud on a public forum. Sure, chances are nobody who cares is going to notice.... but you never know who is reading!

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

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Jin_Sakai4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio3d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing3d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster923d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit3d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing3d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster923d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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