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More recently now, PS3s are dropping out of their lives from GT5, the culprit; the not-so-infamous-as-the-RROD, the Yellow Light of Death/Doom (YLOD). Maybe this thread will be common sense to some of you, but in case you need a refresher, a laugh, or actual info, read on!
THE Yellow Light of DEATH!
What the hell is a YLOD?
For those of you living in a cave (presumably with a PS3 and internet since you're reading this), the YLOD is a yellow light that appears where the normal green light is. So what does that mean? It means you're PS3 just got wasted. It's similar to the laughable failure pitiful XBox 360 players get every sabbath, the Red Rings of Death (RROD).
You're still not telling me what it means.
No one really knows for sure what the hell it means anyway, Sony has never told the exact way it happens. We do however have a few guesses.
A. Hardware malfunction from overheating
B. Power supply screw ups
Mainly though, it is an overheating issue, so if you're playing your PS3 in the back of your F-150 outside your home in Albuquerque, New Mexico when it's 120 F, you're asking for three beeps and a yellow DING! Also because GT5 is just about the most hardware hogging and insanely power hoggish game on the PS3 to date, you're chances are gonna go up.
What are the chances of getting it, and how do I not get it?!
This isn't the XBox, so chances are very slim, ranging from 0.7% to 2%. The most susceptible of PS3s getting it are the fat ones, yup, mainly the original launch 60GB PS3. 20GB never really had this issue, so the next one in line for a heart attack is the 80GB (and I own one, so I'm doing this out of all our fattie's goods). Another reason why they could fail is because of the fact they play PS2 games, adding to the hardware, unlike the Slims which do not, thus having a lower to no chance at all getting a YLOD.
So if you want to get all techie and look on the back of your PS3 and if you have one of these models:
CECHA
CECHC
CECHE
CECHB
Congratulations, your PS3 has type-2 diabetes which is not good at all!
UPDATE: User Toronado says it has more to do with the age of the PS3 model, and nothing to do with backwards compatibility. User Ubiquitous has also brought up the fact that the components in the PS3 are soldered with crappy-@$$ tin instead of ol' reliable lead which due to regulations *cough*California*cough*, and processing down in Taiwan (which is just about ruled by China), it has a much lower melting point by about 100 degrees Celsius (look at that, I learned something in Chem), causing it to crack when it cools up again and messing up the hardware badly. Apart from that I guess it's safe to eat your PS3 and not get cancer in a state called California, cause that's where it's known to cause cancer, right?
Luckily, there are a couple ways not to get the YLOD, and will save you the time and money (lots o' muneh!) later.
1. Don't play GT5 (or any other game for that matter) long period of time, you should leave the MAX to 2 or 3 hours. After that, let it cool for a while, bout 20 minutes while you can go do things like
-EAT
-EXERCISE
-PERFORM BOWEL MOVEMENTS
-WORK ON YOUR REAL CAR
-HOMEWORK
-PUT THE KIDS TO BED
-TALK TO CREATURES ON TWO LEGS WITH TWO ARMS AND A HEAD, WHICH COULD BE OTHER HUMAN BEINGS
But of course, I doubt that you'll remember that. I don't either. That brings us to number 2.
2. Invest in a cooling fan for your PS3. This is a very easy way to cool your PS3 down and play longer. They run at around $20 at a GameStop, but if you trust the internet, you could find them cheaper.
It's a wonderful a mystical place where you could find them; it's called Google.com.
Or if you want to be ghetto like me, get some ice cubes in a baggie, cover it with a thin towel, and rub your PS3. It's not the best of ideas, but it's been working, without any screw ups (I did mention to close the bag too, right?)
UPDATE: The knowledgeable user Toronado found a thread on tips to cooling your PS3. Here's the link:
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/...eener-PS3-system-Models/m-p/45650070#M4356066.
Another very easy way to cool your PS3 is how you position it. Let's say we have it longitudinal.
The heat doesn't escape very well, the exhaust vents are in the back and on the right. Now it's not a car so it's not moving away from that heat, which rises up, but the heat has trouble doing so because you put it "sideways". And if you have the back vents toward the wall, that's a bad idea too, keep it about 3" inches away so it not only vents well, so it can still hide the ugly wires you were probably trying to hide in the first place. Of course, don't take it away from the wall so much that it falls off whatever it's resting on, funny for us, a call to Sony for you.
This is the "correct", "right side up", way to put it. Exhaust now rises out of the side vents, and the back still has as much space as it did in the first place. Now I know what you could be saying "But Flare, I don't have space to do that." Then that is very unfortunate because not even Google is going to tell you the common sense way how to make more space...go find some. But if you can't, you can't; that's just the way it is, things'll never be the same.
3. Dust off your PS3 in a couple different methods. I use a can of compressed air that's $10 to get the dust off from the inside, you gotta be careful though, or you'll blow one of the components out of place. I hear some people use a vacuum
which I really don't recommend (a friend called static hides in the hose and jumps in screwing up your PS3 like a blind kid having a hissy fit over dominoes), and some use car wax on a PS3, which only works on the outside of the PS3 if you have a glossy fat one, don't frieking put wax on the motherboard.
4. DO NOT put fire on your PS3, douse it with water, honor it in a tribal Hawaiian fire dance, play hot potato with it, use it as a grill (it's happened, Google it), smash it and try to revive it with a Phoenix Down, slap it around because your B-Spec driver's an idiot, give it blunts, dress it up in a sweater for the season, drop it to see if even gravity can affect the mighty awesomeness of the PS3, take it to a KISS concert, or do any other stupid 🤬 that's common sense not to do, and probably on the pages of the Japanese instruction book for the PS3.
5. Last but not least, don't be the guy who spends entire weekends playing Call of without stop, drinking Red Bulls, and missing mortgage payments. Number one you'll end up like this:
Number two, you should be going out with one of these two
or
Maybe both if you're that lucky
(one of them will have to go in the trunk, but their both coming with you)
...I got a YLOD...
Either you're unlucky or you weren't paying attention. You have two options.
-One, you can take the red pill and send it to Sony, of course that'll cost you $150 and you're memory is gone for good (unless you were smart enough to transfer it to another HDD before it blew over, or switch it with another HDD before you send it 💡)
-Two, there are people on eBay and a couple of stores around your area who fix it (found none in Antartica, but Google is again your friend). Again, that's if you trust the internet and a person in a shady smoke filled shop with a couple missing teeth. You do it at your own risk.
- The blue pill; buy a new one, it's the most arrogant and un-helping answer I can give.
For anymore questions visit Google.com
or
visit this thread here
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/...-YLOD-Informative-Still-Thread-R/m-p/40726489
Happy GT-ing and watch that YLOD
THE Yellow Light of DEATH!
What the hell is a YLOD?
For those of you living in a cave (presumably with a PS3 and internet since you're reading this), the YLOD is a yellow light that appears where the normal green light is. So what does that mean? It means you're PS3 just got wasted. It's similar to the laughable failure pitiful XBox 360 players get every sabbath, the Red Rings of Death (RROD).
You're still not telling me what it means.
No one really knows for sure what the hell it means anyway, Sony has never told the exact way it happens. We do however have a few guesses.
A. Hardware malfunction from overheating
B. Power supply screw ups
Mainly though, it is an overheating issue, so if you're playing your PS3 in the back of your F-150 outside your home in Albuquerque, New Mexico when it's 120 F, you're asking for three beeps and a yellow DING! Also because GT5 is just about the most hardware hogging and insanely power hoggish game on the PS3 to date, you're chances are gonna go up.
What are the chances of getting it, and how do I not get it?!
This isn't the XBox, so chances are very slim, ranging from 0.7% to 2%. The most susceptible of PS3s getting it are the fat ones, yup, mainly the original launch 60GB PS3. 20GB never really had this issue, so the next one in line for a heart attack is the 80GB (and I own one, so I'm doing this out of all our fattie's goods). Another reason why they could fail is because of the fact they play PS2 games, adding to the hardware, unlike the Slims which do not, thus having a lower to no chance at all getting a YLOD.
So if you want to get all techie and look on the back of your PS3 and if you have one of these models:
CECHA
CECHC
CECHE
CECHB
Congratulations, your PS3 has type-2 diabetes which is not good at all!
UPDATE: User Toronado says it has more to do with the age of the PS3 model, and nothing to do with backwards compatibility. User Ubiquitous has also brought up the fact that the components in the PS3 are soldered with crappy-@$$ tin instead of ol' reliable lead which due to regulations *cough*California*cough*, and processing down in Taiwan (which is just about ruled by China), it has a much lower melting point by about 100 degrees Celsius (look at that, I learned something in Chem), causing it to crack when it cools up again and messing up the hardware badly. Apart from that I guess it's safe to eat your PS3 and not get cancer in a state called California, cause that's where it's known to cause cancer, right?
Luckily, there are a couple ways not to get the YLOD, and will save you the time and money (lots o' muneh!) later.
1. Don't play GT5 (or any other game for that matter) long period of time, you should leave the MAX to 2 or 3 hours. After that, let it cool for a while, bout 20 minutes while you can go do things like
-EAT
-EXERCISE
-PERFORM BOWEL MOVEMENTS
-WORK ON YOUR REAL CAR
-HOMEWORK
-PUT THE KIDS TO BED
-TALK TO CREATURES ON TWO LEGS WITH TWO ARMS AND A HEAD, WHICH COULD BE OTHER HUMAN BEINGS
But of course, I doubt that you'll remember that. I don't either. That brings us to number 2.
2. Invest in a cooling fan for your PS3. This is a very easy way to cool your PS3 down and play longer. They run at around $20 at a GameStop, but if you trust the internet, you could find them cheaper.
It's a wonderful a mystical place where you could find them; it's called Google.com.
Or if you want to be ghetto like me, get some ice cubes in a baggie, cover it with a thin towel, and rub your PS3. It's not the best of ideas, but it's been working, without any screw ups (I did mention to close the bag too, right?)
UPDATE: The knowledgeable user Toronado found a thread on tips to cooling your PS3. Here's the link:
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/...eener-PS3-system-Models/m-p/45650070#M4356066.
Another very easy way to cool your PS3 is how you position it. Let's say we have it longitudinal.
The heat doesn't escape very well, the exhaust vents are in the back and on the right. Now it's not a car so it's not moving away from that heat, which rises up, but the heat has trouble doing so because you put it "sideways". And if you have the back vents toward the wall, that's a bad idea too, keep it about 3" inches away so it not only vents well, so it can still hide the ugly wires you were probably trying to hide in the first place. Of course, don't take it away from the wall so much that it falls off whatever it's resting on, funny for us, a call to Sony for you.
This is the "correct", "right side up", way to put it. Exhaust now rises out of the side vents, and the back still has as much space as it did in the first place. Now I know what you could be saying "But Flare, I don't have space to do that." Then that is very unfortunate because not even Google is going to tell you the common sense way how to make more space...go find some. But if you can't, you can't; that's just the way it is, things'll never be the same.
3. Dust off your PS3 in a couple different methods. I use a can of compressed air that's $10 to get the dust off from the inside, you gotta be careful though, or you'll blow one of the components out of place. I hear some people use a vacuum
which I really don't recommend (a friend called static hides in the hose and jumps in screwing up your PS3 like a blind kid having a hissy fit over dominoes), and some use car wax on a PS3, which only works on the outside of the PS3 if you have a glossy fat one, don't frieking put wax on the motherboard.4. DO NOT put fire on your PS3, douse it with water, honor it in a tribal Hawaiian fire dance, play hot potato with it, use it as a grill (it's happened, Google it), smash it and try to revive it with a Phoenix Down, slap it around because your B-Spec driver's an idiot, give it blunts, dress it up in a sweater for the season, drop it to see if even gravity can affect the mighty awesomeness of the PS3, take it to a KISS concert, or do any other stupid 🤬 that's common sense not to do, and probably on the pages of the Japanese instruction book for the PS3.
5. Last but not least, don't be the guy who spends entire weekends playing Call of
without stop, drinking Red Bulls, and missing mortgage payments. Number one you'll end up like this:
Number two, you should be going out with one of these two
or
Maybe both if you're that lucky
...I got a YLOD...
Either you're unlucky or you weren't paying attention. You have two options.
-One, you can take the red pill and send it to Sony, of course that'll cost you $150 and you're memory is gone for good (unless you were smart enough to transfer it to another HDD before it blew over, or switch it with another HDD before you send it 💡)
-Two, there are people on eBay and a couple of stores around your area who fix it (found none in Antartica, but Google is again your friend). Again, that's if you trust the internet and a person in a shady smoke filled shop with a couple missing teeth. You do it at your own risk.
- The blue pill; buy a new one, it's the most arrogant and un-helping answer I can give.
For anymore questions visit Google.com
or
visit this thread here
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/...-YLOD-Informative-Still-Thread-R/m-p/40726489
Happy GT-ing and watch that YLOD
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and I do not fear the YLOD! Bring it on!
