XX Warning XX The Yellow Light can shine on you!!!!

Today my PS3 has decided to stop working and demanded i do my part to help stimulate the economy by giving an additional $150 to Sony. I don't think this was part of Obama's planned redistribution of wealth. I give Sony credit, so far the process to get it fixed has been fast and friendly, i just hope it stays that way.

The main point of this is a simple warning. I took great care, I mean GREAT care of my PS3. Surge suppressor at the breaker box, APU w/surge protector at the plug in. Nothing with in afoot of the unit, and nothing above the unit to obstruct air flow. I never did the folding at home, or let it run for long periods with nothing to do. Its never been dropped, kicked, slapped, or taken out of the house. Its been air can cleaned regularly. Yes, I have used it a lot over the last 27 months, 15-18 hrs a week,but that is what you do with a PS3. And still I fell victim the the Light. Now my 60 Gig gets to go back to Sony and it may not return. Was told it would be replaced with another 60 Gig if repairs could not be made. But even if repairs are successful they will have to format my drive, erasing all my info. For me a hard lesson learned is, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP, to safe guard my files. I know there are other ways to retrieve the data, but do you know how hard it is to convince a friend to let you swap out hard drives.

Same thing happened with my 60 Gb ps3 R.I.P but now I got a 40 Gb and I am happy.

this is happening to everybody these days

Thats total BS. You payed over $400+ for this system, it breaks on you and they charge you 150$ to fix it?!?!?

Thats total BS. You payed over $400+ for this system, it breaks on you and they charge you 150$ to fix it?!?!?theROOTS420

Today my PS3 has decided to stop working and demanded i do my part to help stimulate the economy by giving an additional $150 to Sony. I don't think this was part of Obama's planned redistribution of wealth. I give Sony credit, so far the process to get it fixed has been fast and friendly, i just hope it stays that way.

The main point of this is a simple warning. I took great care, I mean GREAT care of my PS3. Surge suppressor at the breaker box, APU w/surge protector at the plug in. Nothing with in afoot of the unit, and nothing above the unit to obstruct air flow. I never did the folding at home, or let it run for long periods with nothing to do. Its never been dropped, kicked, slapped, or taken out of the house. Its been air can cleaned regularly. Yes, I have used it a lot over the last 27 months, 15-18 hrs a week,but that is what you do with a PS3. And still I fell victim the the Light. Now my 60 Gig gets to go back to Sony and it may not return. Was told it would be replaced with another 60 Gig if repairs could not be made. But even if repairs are successful they will have to format my drive, erasing all my info. For me a hard lesson learned is, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP, to safe guard my files. I know there are other ways to retrieve the data, but do you know how hard it is to convince a friend to let you swap out hard drives.

MontanaJefe

Mine went out 2 months ago, Sony was fast and friendly . Still no reason why my 600 system should go out after 3 years

I own 3 PS3s and they've all run flawlessly since I bought them. 1st is a 20gb model since launch, the 2nd a 60 gb model since 4 months after launch, and the 3rd a 40gb model since 1 year ago. I've upgraded the HDDs to 500gb in each of them, put skins on them and their controllers, and have played and DL over 100 games and demos and photos, music, and themes over and over, used PS3 camera eyes on each of them, each connects to the web and they've all been played tons. I also own 4 controllers for each making 12 controllers and they have all worked flawlessly. Yellow ligh tshines on people that don't operate the PS3 correctly or they don't take good care of it.(ventilated well, dust free etc)