How do you get the yellow light of death on ur ps3?

May be...

just wondering cause gta 4 is out on the 29th and i dont want it to happen.i have a 60g ps3 and i heard it happens with them 1s.

If the hard-drive fails on the PS3 you may get a solid yellow led, this is referred to as the yellow light of death in response to the infamous red ring of death.



The yellow light will show if the console is overheating as well, but the console shuts down so you don't it for long.



The PS3's overall failure rate is about 1% and hard drives, although mechanical, have a very low failure rate (over million hours mean time between failure, so on average your hard drive would fail every 114years) which means you are very unlikely to see a YLOD, however one in three XB360 owners are unfortunate enough to see the RROD first hand.



I have a 60GB PS3, and it has been running for seven months now 24x7 (either games, or folding@home).

I never heard of such a thing! Well it may not be common. The ps3 has a .5 chance of breaking.

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No such thing.



Nice try.

That isnt whats it's called. It's called overheating of the PS3. You leave it in a tight space with absolutely no breathing room and let it collect dust. Let it have atleast 3-4cm on all sides of the PS3 including front and back. Dust it off weekly. Do those procedures and you will be fine. The PS3 does not usually overheat but when it does is easily replaced for free. Always remember...IT'S NOT A XBOX 360.

The yellow light only happens if you overheat your console. It is definitley not called the "yellow light of death" since in most cases its just a warning that the PS3 had to turn itself off in order to prevent damage.



To prevent it from happening give your console plenty of room to breath and don't cover it with anything. Also do not lay it flat on a rug. Just take care of it and don't block the air vents.

Dont listen to the people who said there is no such thing. THERE IS such a thing for the PS3. What it is; its like the Xbox 360 RROD (red ring of death) but for the PS3, it turns yellow.



But dont worry because the PS3 (all models) have a .3% failure rate, unlike the 360 33% rate. So maybe it will be a 1:100000 chance that this will happen to our PS3's.



How do you get it? Well the PS3 is designed to NOT overheat. If it does overheat, and you press the on button, it turns yellow to turn off, to prevent it from over-overheating if you get my drift. Also, it could be a problem with the HDD.

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