My PS3 shuts off after I turn it on

[Sadaiyappan]

It goes from green light to flashing blue light to blinking red lights. How do I fix this?

 

[Sadaiyappan]

I think my laptop webcam hears everything. And so does my ipod touch webcam.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Are you out of the warranty period?

If so, you can try cleaning out the dust, and reapplying thermal paste on the two heatsinks. There are youtube videos showing how to take it apart and put it back together as well as how to clean out the heatsinks/fans/vents and reapply thermal paste. I highly recommend using Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste or similar non-conductive, low thermal point required paste.

If that doesn't work, you might need to re-flow the board/CPU/GPU. If you have never done it before, I would say you might be better off paying a place to do it. You can do it yourself in an oven, but again, it is a little tricky and you need to use the proper temps and length of time, otherwise you risk having components completely detach themselves from the board, or you cause permanent heat damage.

The final possibility is that you need a new power-supply, but the blinking red light is almost always an issue due to heat and/or heat damage that has occurred causing the solder joints to fail.

 

[Tristicus]

You have very little time until you probably get the YLOD...cool it down as well you can, try to salvage any save games you want. Otherwise...

 

[bolomite]

Actually it sounds like you already have the 'yellow light of death' I'm afraid. Same thing happened to my launch 60 GB PS3 about two weeks ago, it just shut itself off in the middle of a game. When I went to turn it on again, it would just beep and flash red. I had to partially disassemble it and open up the Blu-Ray drive just to retrieve my game disc.

 

[mmntech]

Blue lights is the BD read light. Aways checks the drive on boot. Sure the power light didn't quickly blink yellow?

Sadly, a lot of the older PS3s are starting to die out. Sony's repair job doesn't always seem to hold either. You could send it to them for repairs but with slims at $250 now, I'm not sure it's worth it anymore.

 

[Sadaiyappan]

I think people are scrambling internet, video, audio, evidence, deleting evidence, photos etc.

 

[Tristicus]

I think my laptop webcam hears everything. And so does my ipod touch webcam.

I think people are scrambling internet, video, audio, evidence, deleting evidence, photos etc.

wat

 

[Sadaiyappan]

You have a ps3?

 

[Tristicus]

I think I am hearing certain conversations, I react a certain way and others are hearing other conversations... hint hint

 

[Joseph F]

ROFL

 

[tmc]

my 60gb launch ps3 yloded last week. fixed it for now - by applying thermal paste and baking in oven . no idea how long it will last.

 

[Sadaiyappan]

Hello!

 

[Chaosblade02]

Its probably YLOD, I had a PS3 do that to me after about 2 years. Not only that but I have had several HDDs go bad in PS3s and then I would lose all my data. The average life for an HDD in a PS3 for me is about one year. If your PS3 gives you a beeping noise when you shut it down, it is telling you the time on your HDD is limited. The new HDD I put in my PS3 slim is a 500GB 5200 RPM western digital, if that goes bad in one year, then I know it is due to the way PS3s handle HDDs. I'm not doing anything to hurt these HDDs like shutting the system down incorrectly.

 

[Sadaiyappan]

Hello.

 

[Sadaiyappan]

I want a used ps3.

 

[zebrax2]

+1

 

[Tristicus]

Dude seriously what the shit.