| If you're a serious PlayStation 3 game enthusiast, | | | | $150 for repairs, if your system is out of |
| you've heard about the Xbox 360's "red ring of | | | | warranty, and you can expect to wait for as long |
| death." PlayStation 3 owners are also known to | | | | as two months for the repaired system to be |
| suffer from a similar and equally frightening error | | | | returned. Sony repair is usually a high quality |
| known as either the "yellow light blunder," "PS3 | | | | service, but there are persistent rumors of lost |
| blinking lights," or the "PS3 yellow light of death | | | | PS3s, getting back different units, and never |
| (YLOD)." The YLOD error in PlayStation 3 is a | | | | seeing the units again, but that may be simple |
| general error indication and can mean many | | | | urban legend. There is another option, however, |
| things, the most common being: | | | | do it yourself. |
| * A hard drive failure when trying to install a | | | | If you get yourself a copy of a good PS3 repair |
| game. | | | | guide, there are several offered online, you can |
| * The occurrence of a power surge. | | | | learn how to fix the yellow light of death by |
| * Malfunctioning of PS3 due to a buildup of dust | | | | yourself in only a short time. With a few simple |
| inside the PS3 console. | | | | tools and a little patience you can have your |
| If you've experienced this yellow light of death | | | | system up and running in hours, in many cases |
| error, you undoubtedly want to get rid of it. It | | | | the time spent fixing problems yourself will be less |
| has been the source of much grief for many PS3 | | | | than the time that would have been spent |
| gamers. There are basically only two options for | | | | packaging the system for shipping to a repair |
| fixing this problem: send the system back to a | | | | center. Some common repairs take only a few |
| Sony service center for repairs or learn how fix it | | | | minutes to complete. Making repairs on your own |
| yourself. | | | | give you a self satisfying feeling of control, and |
| The simplest and most straightforward yellow | | | | saves you the annoyance of packaging, shipping, |
| light of death fix option is to package up your | | | | waiting, and paying for Sony repairs. Not only |
| PS3 system and send it off to a Sony service | | | | would you be able to fix the PS3 yellow light of |
| center. Simple in terms of your level of | | | | death, you'd be in a position to fix all of your |
| involvement, but costly. You could spend up to | | | | common PS3 error problems. |