What is YLOD?
YLOD or Yellow Light of Death is the most feared LED signal from the PlayStation 3. The solid yellow light beneath the on-off button means that there is a hardware problem with the console’s motherboard. In contrast, a red blinking light means that there is a problem with your hard drive. Motherboard failure is more feared, since the board holds the processor and graphic cards of the PS3. The most common cause of motherboard damage is overheating. Continue reading »
The Yellow Light of Death (YLOD) indicates that there may be problems with the console motherboard. If you see it for the first time, don’t panic. The damage may not be permanent. Overheating of the console can cause the solders to loosen, resulting in broken or faulty connections in the board. The best first aid is to give your console a rest. Wait for twenty minutes to one hour before restarting your PS3.
Despite Sony’s best efforts to curb the yellow light problem with their new PS3 Slim console we are now receiving many reports of this fault even with the new slim consoles. Gamers can’t believe their luck!
Although the problem seems to be much less of an issue when compared to the failure rate of the older PS3 consoles I’m sure we are going to see quite a few of these slim consoles with the yellow light fault due to the sheer numbers of consoles sold at the new lower price point and better spec (bigger hard drive).
A PS3 Slim yellow light repair is available here Continue reading »
One of the biggest complaints about the yellow light fault is that it’s bad enough that your console has failed and you can no longer play your favourite games or anything else for that matter but an extra depressing fact is that all your saves games are stuck on your hard drive and unless you go to a quality repair centre you may never get them back, all those hours of game play for nothing. Continue reading »
Nobody knows for sure where exactly the term “yellow light of death” but it appears to stem from symptom on windows computers that crashed leaving the user with a blue screen and ominous error code, the blue screen somehow coined the term BSOD or “blue screen of death” since then many electronic items that display some kind of Continue reading »
The first reports of the yellow light of death appeared on popular gaming forums in December 2007 and quickly escalated into a full blown crisis for gamers worldwide but particularly in the United Kingdom and United States where the problem hit a all time high in September 2009 when the BBC’s watchdog program high lighted the topic and the problem has been floating around this highly reported level ever since, Sony admitted their was a problem with some of the consoles and stated that 12,500 out of 2.5 million had failed due to the yellow light of death but my personal estimate is probably closer to 500,00 failures or maybe even more that have failed in less than 24 months since purchase.
DIY Yellow Light Repair Guide helps you fix your own PS3 in minimal time and cost. Continue reading »
Okay, so you have a PS3 and the last thing you want to see in the dreaded yellow light of death. Here are a few basic things you can do to help keep your PS3 in tip top condition.
All these tips and many more can be found in the PS3 Repair Manual
1) Keep your console in a vertical position (standing up), this helps dust & dirt stay in the bottom of your console. The only slight problem here is that the PS3 can be easily knocked over so it’s not ideal if you have small kids or pets. Continue reading »
Many things contribute to a severe failure of the PlayStation 3 with the symptoms often being described as the yellow light of death or YLOD.
If you want to know why your console has died you really should be pointing the finger at the environmental science boffins who decided it would be a really good idea to remove lead from solder (it probably is a good idea in the long run) and so other alternatives to lead had to be found as additives for the solder, then end result is a new lead free solder that doesn’t stick as good as the old lead based solder. Continue reading »
Many things contribute to a severe failure of the PlayStation 3 with the symptoms
often being described as the yellow light of death or YLOD. People are describing
what they are actually seeing when trying to start up the PS3 console.
These are the symptoms:-
When pressing the power button on the front of the console, the console will start to power up and the consoles power light will change from red (standby) to green (power on) but a second later the light changes to a flashing yellow colour followed by a few audible beeps from the console, at this point the console shuts down. The yellow light continues to flash and the console cannot be powered up unless you turn off the console at the back, the resets the console so you can try to power up the console a second time.
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