Comments on: Fail: Yellow Flashing Light on PlayStation 3 (PS3)

By: John Lautner

John Lautner — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:09:24 +0000

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By: Davin Hawkins

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By: Kevin

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By: Ronald

Ronald — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:46:29 +0000

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It works !

By: emilio

emilio — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:41:02 +0000

hmmm, Tommy, what processes did your friend go through to get a new one for free? thanks.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:56:05 +0000

it happened to my brother today with MY GAME IN IT; UNCHARTED 2

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:08:48 +0000

I sent it to sony, asked what they offer they said £145. I said i’d ring back then i went surfing for a week on the net. I found a small company in central london who offer a repair for £85 in which they use thermal compound and a heatgun to repair the ps3. They also say that if it fails after that, then they will need another £85; what a waste of money. So off i went, back to sony who i then paid £145 for a refurbished model. Ironically;and quite a kick in the balls… a friend of mine went to the citizens advice bureau and got them to make sony give him a brand new 120gb model free of charge with a complementary game for the hassle. How this happened, i don’t know.

By: Aiden Whitehouse

Aiden Whitehouse — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:20:57 +0000

This happened to me at 11:00 this morning (September 19th). While playing the machine froze, reset itself and then refused to turn on, showing a yellow light that changed to a flashing, red, stand-by light. The game was stuck inside and admittedly I was at my wits end. Coincidentally this occurred only hours after watching the Watchdog report (on iplayer through my PS3 )!

Just before contacting Sony I turned the machine on and it operated normally, just long enough for me to reclaim the disk before it shut down again and repeated to display that dreaded yellow light.

I’m going to leave it for 24 hours in order to see if I can keep the PS3 on for long enough to back up my HDD then contact Sony to see what’s what. This is the second time the same machine has broke down yet now its longer in warranty. I don’t want to pay the £128 repair fee with no guarantee that I will even get my console back over a dodgy refurb.

I will post again when I have contacted Sony. If this happens to anyone else, all accounts point towards an expected six-week wait for the lost disk so keep trying and it may eject.