OT: Help rescuing a game from a dead PS3
Hi MGoBoard! My friend's 60gb PS3 died tonight--I think he called it the "Yellow Light of Death"--and he's tried everything he could find online re: saving it. He's kind of come to terms with the reality that he'll probably have to buy a new PS3, but there's only one problem: his MW2 is stuck inside!
He tried a bunch of things including all of these suggestions: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&… but nothing's worked.
Do any of you have any experience with this or have any suggestions on 1) safely removing the disc and/or 2) reviving a 60gb PS3 from Yellow Light of Death syndrome?
Thanks in advance! 3
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:20 AM ^
Are you flirting......?
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:23 AM ^
If he is just going to buy a new one, smash the old one! Or he could just take it apart. Seriously, I haven't tried, but I would say that the cover would come off pretty easily.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:29 AM ^
Yeah, not so much.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:30 AM ^
that bitch needs to get Snookied.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:31 AM ^
Looks like Tiger needs to go over there and show her how to swing the wood.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:49 AM ^
What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP. It would take everything in me not to chuck it at her, especially when she stated laughing.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:49 AM ^
And more entertaining to watch...
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:57 AM ^
...this is always an option:
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:46 AM ^
It looked like he was going to rip her apart.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 PM ^
But why is it the hottest ones always pick the biggest douches as boyfriends...?
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:45 AM ^
As someone who has worked in electronics...that laptop ain't worth 2000.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:46 AM ^
it's not worth 2000, it still cost more than his XBox360.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:47 AM ^
That is true my friend.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:04 AM ^
1) I don't condone what he did, but that's a pretty sweet golf swing he has there.
2) She must be unbelievable in the sack, because she's crazy and all, but it is rather telling that he spent so much time playing video games. Maybe he was just so drained from having to fulfill her physical needs. Or maybe it just seemed like such excessive playing because she's crazy.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:01 AM ^
THAT'S ONE SHOT BRO.....THAT'S ONE SHOT
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:45 AM ^
Whoops double post
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:24 AM ^
I am sure crazy ass girlfriend is covered under warranty.
For it's worth that thing was going to die anyways due to RRoD. He should have bought a ps3.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:56 AM ^
First, this chick is a shining example of the old adage "no matter how hot she is, if she is available, someone got sick of her shit."
Second, I have to recognize her uncanny ability to avoid "looking at the camera while working". Clearly she has done some porn with some good directors.
Lastly, how much money does this guys parent's have for him to land her? They must be loaded.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:57 PM ^
if elin woods swung a club like that, we would never know how much he got around.
too soon?
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:28 AM ^
but my game system, i have to blow in the game cartridge and hit the reset button everytime to get it to work. so close to finally beating zelda.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:31 AM ^
My PS3 stopped reading discs a couple of months ago and I repaired it myself. Though the problem isn't exactly the same as the yellow light problem, you can open your PS3 by yourself to retrieve the game. All you is a torx screwdriver, a regular philips, and a set of small eyeglass screwdrivers. There are plenty of tutorials on youtube. Open the case, unplug the drive, and unscrew the drive. Open the drive and there is your disc!
The yellow light problem can be fixed too, just find someone with a reflow station on craigslist to fix it. Maybe this person will even get your disc back for too because you need to open the PS3 to get to the motherboard.
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:06 PM ^
my Xbox stopped reading discs - any suggestions? i have no problem breaking the thing open and it appears to work fine otherwise
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:32 AM ^
The bitch fucked up a perfectly good golf club.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:49 AM ^
The PS3 in question in this thread is mine. I wasn't going to post about it, because, well, I dunno, I had read a ton of forums already and whatnot. But anyways...
On the repair route, my only concern with is that some of the tutorials I have read noted that their repaired PS3 failed again a few months after. I guess that could be an outlier, but I'd rather not go through the hassle of doing the repair/reflow and have it die on me again 6 months down the road, because at that point I'd have no choice but to get a new one.
In hindsight, I should have kept it in a much more well-ventilated area (AKA not in a cubbyhole in an entertainment center) or at the very least cleaned it out more often.
Also, at least 1/3 of the scenarios I've read from people whose PS3's have died mentioned that they played a lot of MW2 (or COD4) and most of them mentioned that their game was also stuck in their dead system. Apparently MW2 is the PS3 killer.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:51 AM ^
Thats not cool, thats pretty much all I play along with NHL 2010.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:00 AM ^
That's pretty much the only game I've played for the past 3 months. And I play* the hell out of my PS3.
*played
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:34 AM ^
Glorious game. Currently cannot stop playing.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:35 AM ^
Me too...I have a pretty good season going with the wings...31-0-0-1 (Freaking turco was a complete brick wall...)
What is your PSN ID? Mine is Wolverine3190.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:49 PM ^
NHL 10 is great but lately whenever I feel like getting my PS3 hockey fix I always end up playing NHL 09. Much easier to score = more fun, although everything else about '10 is better.
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:52 AM ^
idk...I have been playing all star and I keep winning games 7-0 and greater with the wings even with the recent slider update from EA. If you keep getting your wings in position for a one-timer from the circles while you driving to the net with your center, then you can usually score at high frequency. You can also try to position your right winger in the front of the net while your defensemen pass the puck to each and set up a one-timer slap shot from the center of the of the blue line. Nicky lidstrom is a beast with slap shots at the line.
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:31 AM ^
"Also, at least 1/3 of the scenarios I've read from people whose PS3's have died mentioned that they played a lot of MW2 (or COD4) and most of them mentioned that their game was also stuck in their dead system. Apparently MW2 is the PS3 killer."
It's nothing exciting, just pure odds that people are likely to be playing the most popular game for long periods of time when the PS3 overheats.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:00 AM ^
No, I know, it's just pure coincidence. It was pretty funny to read post after post where the person mentioned that their PS3 was dead and their MW2 disc was stuck inside. It was a moment of comic relief during an otherwise traumatic time for me.
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:19 PM ^
THE PS3 KNOWS I'M SO CLOSE TO BEATING THAT ASSHOLE BLUEGRREAT3232 AND WANTS ME TO STAY DEFEATED! NO! IT KNOWS MAN! IT KNOWS!
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:43 PM ^
NOT killing the MGoJen/MH20 romance rumors with discolsures like this...LOL.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:10 AM ^
You can do what's called a "melt and reflow" of the solder. There are some guides online if you're interested. I chose not to do it on mine as I wanted to get a new slim model anyway and the long term chance of success is pretty low. Also, this is only for the most common problem - system overheating. The YLOD can be caused by a dead power supply or blu-ray drive as well.
To your original question, I had this happen to mine. NCAA 10 was stuck in the drive. I ended up opening up the console, removing the blu-ray drive, and taking the drive itself apart to get to the disc. Opening the console is a bit of a hassle, here is a guide that can help: http://www.llamma.com/PS3/repair/PS3_disassembly_tutorial.htm
Once you get the disc drive removed, there are a number of screws that have to be removed with a very small phillips screwdriver. The ones you want to remove are on the sides and on the part that covers the front of the drive and bends around to the bottom. Once you get them all out, you want to remove the piece of metal that covers the top, back, and front of the drive. You'll need to bed the front piece that wraps around to the bottom to be able to do this. Once that's all done the disc will be right there and ready for you to pop out.
As for certain games outright killing the system, I don't buy it. My theory is that certain Cell/GPU intensive games make it more likely for the system to overheat and die. My .02 anyway.
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:53 AM ^
Thanks for the info on removing the disc, I will probably give that a try sometime this week.
Also, I don't really think that MW2 kills PS3s, that was just tongue-in-cheek. It stands to reason that the most popular game like, ever, would be in someone's console when it went kaput. Basically same as what Shock said above.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:03 AM ^
Serves you right for killing all those innocent people at the airport, you cold-hearted sociopathic bastard.
I'm kidding. You and your PS3 are in my thoughts and prayers during this difficult time, especially since the 60gb version is the only one with full backwards compatibility.
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:45 AM ^
From what I hear, 90% of PS3 deaths are the result of a hard drive failure. This doesn't surprise me int he least, since its just a standard laptop hard drive inside and I know from swapping my own that at least some of them are made by Seagate (Which I am about to send a 3.5" back to them for a THIRD TIME due to failure).
I wouldn't know if that's your problem or not, but if you can get your hands on a 2.5" hard drive from someplace for a test, I'd recommend trying. Switching the hard drive is also completely sanctioned by Sony and won't void any kind of help from Sony.
Past that, even if its beyond warranty, you might consider shipping it into them anyway. They might repair or replace it cheaper than you can buy a new one for, and since you have one of the old 60GBs, that's definitely a good option (Since, you know, the 60GBs play and even upscale PS2 games).
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:58 AM ^
One of the "tricks" I read stated that it might be the HDD and to pop out the drive and then try to start up the console, apparently to some sort of diagnostic/system screen. Did not work. =[
I do work in IT, though, so I have a lot of laptop HDD's I could get my hands on. I was quite surprised to find out that the PS3 drive was a laptop drive, I figured it would be a standard 3.5".
My main concern on sending it in for replacement is that everything I have read says that the "new" system you receive back is actually a refurb, meaning it has failed once and probably will fail again sooner than a new one. I know that's a bit of a naive statement, because brand new electronics arrive DOA all the time, but my general feeling is that if something fails once, it will probably fail again (and fail sooner than a brand new one).
The backwards compatibility was big for me when I first got the system because I had a bunch of PS2 games I wanted to play on my new (at the time) HDTV. However, they have mostly fallen by the wayside as I accumulated PS3 games. Furthermore, I still have a fully functioning PS2 hooked up in my bedroom for when I get the urge to play Need For Speed Underground 2 or NCAA Football 2008. I always noticed the slightest lag in button-pressing or d-pad movement when I played my PS2 games on the PS3.
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:09 PM ^
I'm not sure if I should be amazed or proud that the guys on MGoBoard have yet to suggest the solution would be MGoJen showing up at their place with a bottle of wine, the PS3 and something sexy on. Are we slipping or are we maturing?
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:48 PM ^
How about absolutely disgusted that nearly every thread turns into something about MgoJen? The vast majority of guys(girls too) on MgoBlog want nothing to do with an attention whore that probably isn't attractive at all, based on said attention whoring from a bunch of nerds online. I don't know about you, but my fantasies don't involve internet fatties showing up to my place with a video game system and some cheap wine.
TL;DR - It would be nice if people would act like they've spoken with a girl before.
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:06 PM ^
That's a pretty good vintage of internet hate right there, but man you gotta avoid the cliche terms like "internet fatties". Claiming all the girls on the internet are fat was more of a 1990s kind of thing, back when the net really was the preserve of nerds.
I take pride in the fact my specific fantasies involve not just sex, but a horse's head in Jim Tressel's bed and the leveling of East Lansing. How about you?