My PS3's broken...

[immahippie]

Just yesterday when I was playing some Saint's Row 2 my PS3 decided to shut off on it's own. I was sat there, puzzled and confused, and then turned it back on. After about 5 or 10 minutes of having my PS3 on again, it again decided to turn off on it's own. I turned it off completely and unplugged everything, gave it a really good cleaning, and then just left it alone until the following morning. When morning came around, I plugged in my PS3 and turned it on. Unfortunately, now instead of a good 5 to 10 minutes of play time it now only have about 1 to 2 seconds and then it turns off again. I called Sony and I described my situation, and thankfully this is a problem that has happened to many others before so they can indeed fix my system. Unfortunately I do have to send it in to Sony and they'll have to fix it for a fee, which my parents have already told me they'd pay (thank god!) so now I'll just have to wait for the box and then send the sucker in and hope it gets back before I move, and if not it'll get sent to my new address in Texas. So until then hope you guys get rolling along with Regulators and I will be back as soon as I can!

Oh and one more thing, stupid Hippie never bought an external harddrive to back up my system so when I do get it back I will have to start over completely with all of my games. Only thing that will stay are my close to 1,000 trophies (glad those don't wipe!).

Until then, fare well fellow Regulators!

[kohitsuji]

Wow!!! I know exactly how you feel. It sounds like YLOD and that just happened to me about a month ago. I had to buy a new PS3 slim because of it. My warranty was up too and I didn't want to pay to fix it and still have the chance of it happening again. So I just bought a new one. I described it in this thread.reddeadposse.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=regps3&action=display&thread=249
Did you have the older model PS3? Not Slim. It seems to be happening to a lot of the older ones. And I lost all my saves as well. But the bright side is every game you own is brand new again. LOL. But all your trophies are safe. And anything you downloaded over PSN you can re-download.

Well good luck sir. I hope they can fix it. Just make sure you give it a lot of ventilation and maybe get a small fan to keep the cool air moving around it. Don't worry a few of us should still be riding around when you're ready. Just keep us updated.