Question about PS3 returns

[SillyMammo]

Well, my 40gb PS3 got the YLoD yesterday. I called Sony and they told me up to 5 business days to get the return box and 10-12 business days to fix and return. I wanted to know how accurate is this turnaround estimate? I have a $50 BB gift card and I'm thinking of just buying a slim for a $100 more, and getting the Fat fixed at a later date.

I was also wondering how many of our blu-ray.com members have had their PS3 brick? I'd post a poll but don't know how to do it.

[stargazeruk]

Originally Posted by SillyMammo

Well, my 40gb PS3 got the YLoD yesterday. I called Sony and they told me up to 5 business days to get the return box and 10-12 business days to fix and return. I wanted to know how accurate is this turnaround estimate? I have a $50 BB gift card and I'm thinking of just buying a slim for a $100 more, and getting the Fat fixed at a later date.

I was also wondering how many of our blu-ray.com members have had their PS3 brick? I'd post a poll but don't know how to do it.

I not had the YLod but I had mine bricked from a firmware update V3.

I don't know about US laws and companies with returns but in the UK I had mine for a year and a half and I returned mine to the online retailer.

I called sony first told them what happened and tried to fix it and when we could not get it working they wanted £150 despite the person from sony agreeing it was the firmware that caused it.

I was not going to give them £150 to fix the console I would not get back. They wanted to give me a refurbed console with 3 months warranty but the slim was out by then and I thought for an extra £100 I just get the slim.

I then called the online retailer and told them what happened, that I called sony to try and resolve it but the end result was sony wanting £150 and them give me a refurbed. They said the 40Gb was no longer in stock so send it back and they gave me a full refund. I brought the slim out the money I got back.

[tilallr1]

My brother-in-law's just had the YLoD as well yesterday. His had the original 60GB model. Weird that you and him both had their PS3 die on the same day. He tried all the suggestions to fix it online, but they all failed to fix the problem. I think it costs something like $150-200 to repair. I told him, save your money and spend it on the slim PS3. Which is a better model anyway. Saves power and significantly reduced overheating problems. Heat was probably the reason why the unit died, so why fix something that's inherently defective. Do you regularly dust the unit, inside and out?

[tilallr1]

Also, you might want to try whats suggested here first:

http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Fix...ath&id=2583044

Or here (This WILL fix your problem - But a lot of work):

http://internet.summerkiz.com/2009/0...-fix-tutorial/

[plee]

Originally Posted by SillyMammo

Well, my 40gb PS3 got the YLoD yesterday. I called Sony and they told me up to 5 business days to get the return box and 10-12 business days to fix and return. I wanted to know how accurate is this turnaround estimate? I have a $50 BB gift card and I'm thinking of just buying a slim for a $100 more, and getting the Fat fixed at a later date.

I was also wondering how many of our blu-ray.com members have had their PS3 brick? I'd post a poll but don't know how to do it.

Haven't bricked any but I would go ahead and get the slim. As long as you don't open your Fat PS3, you can get it fixed (usually they just give you a refurbed one) later....

[tilallr1]

By any chance were you playing MW2 or AC2 when this happened? I am hearing alot of people who are playing this game getting this problem. Something wrong with the games and older PS3's maybe?

[SillyMammo]

Originally Posted by tilallr1

By any chance were you playing MW2 or AC2 when this happened? I am hearing alot of people who are playing this game getting this problem. Something wrong with the games and older PS3's maybe?

Well I did play AC2 that day, but it died while watching a BR. I paused the movie to help my child and came back it had shut down. YLoD! Weird?

Anyways, I just bought a Slim at BB(with extended warrenty) and I am loading all my PSN games right now. I guess I'll have to find a good save for AC2 on the internet.

[Q?]

Why am I reading about so many YLODs now?

[tilallr1]

Originally Posted by Q!

Why am I reading about so many YLODs now?

I think whats been reported is that the newer games are overheating the older fat PS3 systems and putting the system in YLOD mode. The ONLY way to fix (temporarily 1 - 4 months), is to following these online instructions:

Part 1 of 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70SgRDVcBo

and so on ...

But unfortunately if you use your system at all for gaming this can happen to you with the older models. The slims seem to be much more resistant to this problem. Due to it being designed to particularly fix this problem.