Goodbye PS3!

Its happened.The so called myth labelled 'The yellow light of death' has happened to me. I rang sony and they said tough luck after i spent £5 on the phone to them. Apparently it happens to 1% of Playstation 3 owners and 0.2% of them are 40gb models. I am that 0.2%. I can no longer own noobs on call of duty 5 or resistance 2. I can no longer watch bluray and surf the internet. I can no longer play LBP. The thing that gets me though is song believe that there PS3 are going to last longer than the PS2. My PS2 is still working fine and has been ages. But a year after i get my PS3 is breaks.. Pfft, thanks sony :( Well.. goodbye ps3!

Well if you not going to get it repaired try to sell it or trade it in for store credit somewhere. Put it towards the purchase of a new one.Dimb

You mean try to sell it to someone who will happily buy a broken PS3 and then spend £180 to get it fixed ..

then get a new one! :)

although with the price, its easier said than done...

Wait, they won't replace or repair it for free? I live in the UK and my PS3's disc drive recently failed just after owning it for 1 year. But Sony replaced it for free.Floppy_Jim

I still have warrenty, but no proof on when i bought it. Sometimes you can get away with it by not saying anything about the receipt if they dont talk about it. But the man did talk about it.. so :(

Quote from SONYS website:-

If you have attempted all troubleshootingand are still unable to resolve your query, you may have a non functional system. To reach us, pleasecall the PlayStation Careline on 08705 99 88 77 (National Rate) and a member of our team will be happy to help you.

Does anyone know what the nation rate cost is?

Where does this light appear on the PS3?SoNin360

this would be more suitable for a blog and if i was a mod id lock this.psn_Jaimzl

Its happened.The so called myth labelled 'The yellow light of death' has happened to me. I rang sony and they said tough luck after i spent £5 on the phone to them. Apparently it happens to 1% of Playstation 3 owners and 0.2% of them are 40gb models. I am that 0.2%. I can no longer own noobs on call of duty 5 or resistance 2. I can no longer watch bluray and surf the internet. I can no longer play LBP. The thing that gets me though is song believe that there PS3 are going to last longer than the PS2. My PS2 is still working fine and has been ages. But a year after i get my PS3 is breaks.. Pfft, thanks sony :( Well.. goodbye ps3!

JOE_PS3

Sorry to here that dude "but" it's a well known fact that the 40g models have the highest failer-rate out of all the PS3 models. My 60g is still working fine...I'm a U.S launch day owner.Why don't you get one of the new model PS3, I haven't heard to many horror stories about them.??

just get it repaired.Sk8ter_213

.....or you could do what SK8ter said!!! lol

I got a 20gig PS3 at launch and it's been working fine since. What is the yellow indicating failed? My first time hearing about it, mainly a PC Gamer.

[QUOTE="JOE_PS3"]

Its happened.The so called myth labelled 'The yellow light of death' has happened to me. I rang sony and they said tough luck after i spent £5 on the phone to them. Apparently it happens to 1% of Playstation 3 owners and 0.2% of them are 40gb models. I am that 0.2%. I can no longer own noobs on call of duty 5 or resistance 2. I can no longer watch bluray and surf the internet. I can no longer play LBP. The thing that gets me though is song believe that there PS3 are going to last longer than the PS2. My PS2 is still working fine and has been ages. But a year after i get my PS3 is breaks.. Pfft, thanks sony :( Well.. goodbye ps3!

MERC_RECONN

Sorry to here that dude "but" it's a well known fact that the 40g models have the highest failer-rate out of all the PS3 models. My 60g is still working fine...I'm a U.S launch day owner.Why don't you get one of the new model PS3, I haven't heard to many horror stories about them.??

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]Wait, they won't replace or repair it for free? I live in the UK and my PS3's disc drive recently failed just after owning it for 1 year. But Sony replaced it for free.JOE_PS3

I still have warrenty, but no proof on when i bought it. Sometimes you can get away with it by not saying anything about the receipt if they dont talk about it. But the man did talk about it.. so :(

[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]Wait, they won't replace or repair it for free? I live in the UK and my PS3's disc drive recently failed just after owning it for 1 year. But Sony replaced it for free.JOE_PS3

I still have warrenty, but no proof on when i bought it. Sometimes you can get away with it by not saying anything about the receipt if they dont talk about it. But the man did talk about it.. so :(

My PS3 disc drive broke back in the summer of 07 and I called for a repair but had no receipt. I went to my local gamecrazy where I bought it and the manager gave me a written note signed by him that said I purchased it (it was in my account records, and the manager there is pretty cool). Sony didn't fuss about it because I got it replaced no problem. So try to see if you could go to the store where it was purchased and ask the manager. Of course it also depends on where you bought it, what the manager is like, and the if the Sony employee is nice or a jackass. . 

if you paid for it by check just use your carbon copy as a reciept if you paid by credit or debit get a copy of the statement and use that as a receipt.........hope that helps