Nowhere To Hide
My PS3 is dead, and I am devastated. It happened without warning. It happened without provocation. And I have very few ideas, except to sit here and wait for it to magically work again. It could happen.
Most likely the PS3 overheated due to dust buildup, old age, and the general warm temperatures in my apartment. It is odd though. Usually overheating occurs when performing some intense graphics processing for a game, but I have not used it for anything but Netflix in several weeks. Netflix is not the most greedy program in the world, and the PS3 should barely break a sweat running it.
So I cleaned out as much dust as possible, re-seated the hard drive, and will leave the entire system unplugged for a few hours while I pray. Maybe, just maybe, it will function again tonight.
If any of you readers have any advice on how to fix it, or whether you think I should even try, I am all ears. I understand that if a solder connection failed, fixing the issue will be extremely difficult. Perhaps it’s not worth the time. We shall see.
So, YLOD? I assume you searched error messages if you’re getting any. My old fat 60gb PS3 died on me out of the blue as well. The venting on the playstations is ripe for gathering dust, it kills me. Sorry to hear it bud.
I got no error messages. It just flashes green, flashes yellow, crashes and blinks red. All this before I see anything on the screen.
Ugh I would be inconsolable if mine was a 60gb. At least I’m not losing the backwards compatibility. That dust really does get insane. I cleaned it before, but most of the dust is out of reach of canned air unless you open the thing up completely.
Oh man, that’s rough. Uhm, that sounds like a pretty serious hardware fault actually. Or it’s possible, though unlikely, that the cable is toast. I would imagine you maybe tried booting it up with no video connection or something? Could be a bad drive too but I would think you’d get an error for that if memory serves.
I usually try to thread the little hose for the air cans through the vents as best I can, to at least break up the dust inside.
I’m no expert but that does sound like a hardware fault. Do your fans spin up at all or no?