then no worries ur ps3 is working fine. Anyway seriously take good care of it...

LOL FYI....the orange light is the HDD access light.the green is the WIFI connection light

i thought only got 2 lights? power and disc?

those are located near the power button.he says it's under the usb ports.so,have a look
at ur ps3 dude.can you see the lights im talking about??

oO i noe wat u mean adi. I recalled it.... hahaha...

if the console is having a semi ylod.. meaning will overheat after an hours play... the only way to prolong the life span is to not play games that puts the RSX GPU to work at max... usually games like uncharted & GOW will instantly shorten the lifespan if the ps3 is struck by ylod symtoms...

other long term alternatives is to reball it..

my ps3 played 2 of tat games and found out it is quite hot during the gameplay, i hang my ps3 twice while playing uncharted 2...

anyway i tried reballing my ps3 and it spoil after few weeks...

i heard to avoid YLOD, need to put PS3 in horizontal position.

Slim got YLOD?

yes u c at the poll there is 10 unit affect YLOD anyway i saw there is 1 at the repair shop that unable to repair it, so i juz assume it is 11... LOL~

hmm i not sure about tat... some said verticle while some said horizontal anyway my best assumption is giv the PS3 release heat as much as possible is the best solution to avoid YLOD. Will do so for my nxt PS3...

some people tell me to blow the fan into the vent. If like that, its even worst. You're blowing the heat inside the PS3. LOL.
Heat has no where to escape.

The reason people said horizontal because they said due to gravity, when the paste between the RSX and PS3 is melted,
then vertical console will have the RSX or the paste moving down or something like that.

for those who got/know-a-person who got ylod problem, how many hours do you normally play during a session before giving it a break to cool down? just want to do a survey, maybe can help new owner like me

weekdays 3 hours, weekends 6 hours
when got symptom only play like 2-3 hours only...

6 hours? whoa i dont have that much time i took 2 hours is the sweet spot to be safe.

just a theory here after some good time with logical thinking..

when you play games, it heats up the mobo but uneven distribution of heat made the some part of the mobo to flex/expand and causing the solder joint to crack. what if we pre heat the other part instead of cooling it so the heat is evenly distributed and the expansion of the cpu/gpu can be keep up with additional heat to other part on the mobo/pcb, i dont think the chip itself is so easy to be damage from extra heat, it just the matter of solder connection. but if you do it just pray that the heat won't melt the solder joint.

i've been using my ps3 phat 40gb(afraid to upgrade HDD coz most of my fren upgrade then kena YLOD) for 4 years n still running in good condition.. i've been using this ps3 day and night sometime never switch off also..but lucly it didn't YLOD.

now i'm using slim n put aside my phat just want to be my collection item.

so wut can i say is : YLOD will happen but it matter of ur luck.. if it want to happen the next day u buy also can be YLOD right.. so just pray hard don't let it happen..

just my 2 cents

This post has been edited by pippolan: Mar 21 2011, 02:16 PM

usually ylod will occur after 2-3 yrs imho (esp phat ps3)

new ps3, no need to worry... u can try 12hr marathon... ps3 still in good shape

slim pun ada gak..my fren using his 8 months ps3 slim..suddenly got a YLOD simpton..

then few days later jeng jeng jeng!!

i might be lucky as my phat can still going on after 4year servicing day and night..Hoping u guys nye ps3 also don't kena YLOD.. not fun to have YLOD!!

sorry to ask this stupid question. Is your PS3 normally put vertical or horizontal one?

nice ps3 you have there congrats

i just bought a refurb one and i felt like being cheated now. i'm sure mine used to be ylod-repaired unit. no way people are going to sell the console if its in good condition like you right?. if that thing ylod within a month i'm going to "sunat" him for selling me this.

ps3 slim however have other probs too... rare occasion red light blinking, power supply failure, certain hdd models not functioning properly (hence to data corruption) etc

at least is not YLOD... which is a major prob

its all abt luck too


either one.... it doesn't matter

Is not stupid question..u can ask anything bro.. if i can help i will answer it.

so..

Phat : horizontal (horizontal yg baring kan??)
Slim : vertical