I apologize for bringing up this thread. My PS3 suffered the same fate as TS, today. Was downloading Dead Space demo this morning, and suddenly the system shuts down by itself. I turn it back on and the green light appeared briefly, followed by a very brief yellow light, and lastly a blinking red light. Took the hard disk out, turned it on again and still the same results. I guess I'm one of the unlucky ones because I'm aware that this is a rare problem. My warranty expired already.

My PS3 is a 60GB SG unit. Purchased on 16 August 2007. RIP today (29 November 2008).

ooohhh you guys scares me, i've just repair my ps3's lens about a month ago..

I guess I happen to be one of the few unlucky ones.
It's too bad that my warranty has expired. I guess it's time for me to get a new one, but not anytime soon. I don't want to miss GT5 next year!

Seems the problem is getting more rampant...

this thing so far only happened at 60GB set only.never heard of 20GB, 40GB or 80GB...
sorry bout ur PS3 bro Nizam...its time to save money and get a new one...

not TS can start list the person that already YLOD...

It's ok, bro Ed. Benda dah nak jadi.

My condolences to you bro nizam.....

so many ppl said the face is the cause.. i seriously think so too! When i had many pimples on my face, my console wont work. So i suggest u use Oxy to cleanse ur face. Hope ur console works. hahahah joking bro.

i believe there is no cure. Motherboard kong already.

got cure. send to sony, sure cure for you but you will have to pay them for cure.

one day we will find the remedy...

LOD for the PS3? What are the PS3 fanboys going to say about the XBox now?

Thanks, sifu Tot. Mungkin tahun depan baru leh beli PS3 baru kot.

@BlueLotus, Yes I believe there's is no cure too at the moment, but as bro Edvpc said: One day, hopefully there will be a cure! Muahaha

@nwk, I was thinking of sending too Sony SG too, but I'm not sure how much they will charge me as I'm out of warranty as this is a very old PS3. I'll have to make a few enquiries if I'm really interested for them to fix it for me. But, if it's too expensive (e.g RM600 above), then I'd better save up for a few months more to get a brand new MY unit.

The failure rate is very low. Like, less then 3%. Your very unlucky to get it. Unlike RROD which was close to 30%. Now RROD isn't so bad anymore from all the addons though.

ya, very low rate for the failure.. thats for the hardware faulty, dont forget bout the len's faulty..

Faulty lens is still par of a hardwre failure. Just that it's a more minor one.

ya still kinda shocked when i got the lens prob.. but the hardware problem is more into bleeding brain..

Bleeding Brain. Lol. That just sounds so painful.

ya lor, sakit otak lah, cuz everybody knows sony still dont have the cure..

Lol, atleast we know the fail rate is low.

nizam? ko pun kena cam nyet kena ker? aku dah kehilangan dua member ps3