About 20 days ago my ps3 suddenly turned off mid-game and refused to turn back on(YLD). I found a place local that fixes it be re-fluxing for 50 bucks and offered a 30 day warranty. Well it just died again after playing for 30 minutes, luckily still in warranty(I hope but who knows with these companies). I am going to go in first thing tomorrow so I hope they can fix it again. I've been backing up my game saves but of course got lazy the past few days so I am not totally current. I also can't believe sony has it setup that if you have a ps3 failure you can not recover game save data off the intact HD. Also, if you send the ps3 to sony for "repair" they just send you back a different refurb with none of your data.
I read the YLD is caused by heat issues. My ps3 sits on a glass open air entertainment center with at least 16" of open space on all sides. I vacuum and hit it with compressed air once a month and rarely do any marathon gaming sessions. I would typically play for 3 hours at the max in one sitting. So how this thing is considered to be over heating is beyond me.
Now I have to decide what to do next if they can fix it I am not going to trust it again. I don't want to sell it to someone knowing it's got these issues. I really hate to just kick it to the side and not use it though since it cost 400 bucks or whatever it was when I got it in 07.
/venting
I read the YLD is caused by heat issues. My ps3 sits on a glass open air entertainment center with at least 16" of open space on all sides. I vacuum and hit it with compressed air once a month and rarely do any marathon gaming sessions. I would typically play for 3 hours at the max in one sitting. So how this thing is considered to be over heating is beyond me.
Now I have to decide what to do next if they can fix it I am not going to trust it again. I don't want to sell it to someone knowing it's got these issues. I really hate to just kick it to the side and not use it though since it cost 400 bucks or whatever it was when I got it in 07.
/venting
