PS3 Yellow Light Of Death.

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Does anyone have a quick fix for that? Even a temporary cure will do, so I can retrieve all the data just in case something's not copied on a memory stick. I also need to know how one can get a disc out of the console with it in this broken state.
 
Look up Gilksy (I think?) on YouTube, his YLOD guide helped me for about 10 minutes, twice (on my PS3 and my brother's), which was enough to copy data off. You can manipulate the disc drive to eject the disc when you take it apart, I seem to recall there being a small white disc you pull off (as its magnetised) and then just move the bits you can see around until you get it to spit the disc out. That's what I did, no harm done to my less than one day old copy of GT5.

Yes, my PS3 which I'd bought at launch in anticipation of GT5 YLOD'd the very same day as the game came out almost six years later!

Edit: no quick fixes, unlike the 360 the PS3 has a thermal shut-off so you can't get the console to bake the chips back on. You have to strip it down, heat the BGAs (CPU and GPU) to get the solder flowing, reapply thermal paste and reassemble the entire thing.
 
Why not remove the hard drive itself?

You could possibly open it up and see if the Blu-Ray drive has one of those paperclip holes that you can push which spits the CD out.
 
NissanSkylineN1
Why not remove the hard drive itself?
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The hard drives (for PS3) are encrypted. No data can be retrieved from them, and what ever you do DO NOT put the hard drive in another console (unless you want to lose everything).
 
So let me get this straight, in order to keep everything I have bought from Store, I would need to have this console right here fixed to access the hard drive?
 
Carbonox
So let me get this straight, in order to keep everything I have bought from Store, I would need to have this console right here fixed to access the hard drive?
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Anything you bought in the PS store will still be there and you won't need to repurchase anything. You'll only have to redownload it.

Gamesaves, unless saved to the cloud, are gone though.
Same with game data and such.
 
If you can get it back on, make sure you have a Thumb Drive or even a Cell phone with disc use enabled to back up those saves. DRM protected saves like Skyrim, or BF3 can only be kept if uploaded to the PSN+ cloud. And any DL'd content can be re downloaded onto your next console once you authorize your account to it.

The only way to get those saves is if you get the broken one fixed, or even temporarily running.
 
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Carbonox
Does anyone have a quick fix for that? Even a temporary cure will do, so I can retrieve all the data just in case something's not copied on a memory stick. I also need to know how one can get a disc out of the console with it in this broken state.
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Quickfix? Hairdryer trick, theres a video or two on youtube.

Theres another trick to get the disc out keeps switching the on/off switch at the back holding down the eject button, after a couple minutes it switches into test fan mode, fan will go nuts but it will eject the disc.

Both worked for me. Make sure to de-authorise the accounts on it. It will YLOD again, mine lasted 5-6 hours.
 
chug-a-bug
Quickfix? Hairdryer trick, theres a video or two on youtube.

Theres another trick to get the disc out keeps switching the on/off switch at the back holding down the eject button, after a couple minutes it switches into test fan mode, fan will go nuts but it will eject the disc.

Both worked for me. Make sure to de-authorise the accounts on it. It will YLOD again, mine lasted 5-6 hours.
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I can confirm this, the "fan test" always spits the disk out. Although it does depend on your PS3 model. I have a 80GB fatty, and the fan test works, but it may not work on the slim, or the super slim.
 
nealcropper
Although it does depend on your PS3 model. I have a 80GB fatty, and the fan test works, but it may not work on the slim, or the super slim.
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Apparently it works on the slim too, but without an on/off switch on the back you have to keep pulling out the cord/put it back in. I guess you could switch on/off at the wall instead.
 

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