{"id":2618,"date":"2010-05-29T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2010-05-29T06:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T11:02:20","slug":"ylod-repair-%e2%80%93-part-iii-sumbitch-actually-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/05\/29\/ylod-repair-%e2%80%93-part-iii-sumbitch-actually-works\/","title":{"rendered":"YLoD Repair \u2013 Part III (Sumbitch Actually Works)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the tag line pretty much is a dead giveaway that my PS3 has recovered from my \u201c<em>Yellow Light of Death<\/em>\u201d (YLoD) operation \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I plugged in the power supply, hooked up the HDMI cable, and then powered on the sumbitch.  Much to my surprise, after a couple of seconds I was greeted with the date\/time setup screen.  After putting in the correct date and time, the PS3 presents yours truly with a message along the following lines:  \u201cYou did not properly turn off your PS3 system.  Next time please [blah, blah, jerk off, blah, blah]\u201d.  No shit?  Thanks Bob.  I really thought that having no control over powering off my PS3 due to YLoD was considered part of Sony\u2019s standard educational material for those of us with an original PS3.<\/p>\n<p>The PS3 informed me that a new firmware update was available (maybe required), so I decided to do the needful.  After applying the \u201cyou cannot use another OS\u201d update, I quickly backed up my saved data.<\/p>\n<p>Everything seems to be working correctly.  The one thing I did notice was that the fan seemed to always be engaged on a high setting; loud as pile of monkey nuts.  I normally have the PS3 sitting in a horizontal position, but decided to stand it up vertically.  After a while I put it back in a horizontal position, and the fan immediately went back to low.  I\u2019ll have to experiment some and see if I can figure out a pattern.<\/p>\n<p>I will probably do a full back up today, although I really do not know what the hell for because if something catastrophic happens to this PS3, transferring data to a new PS3 is somewhat of a tempest in a teapot.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t checked out all possible media yet \u2013 PS2, PSX, and DVDs need to be tested.  Same for the various media input slots on the front left control panel.  I have confirmed that the Blu-ray drive, at least one USB port, and Bluetooh board all work correctly.  Color me surprised; I really did not feel confident going into this project that I could get some additional life out of my PS3.<\/p>\n<p>I am not about to quit my day job.  JC \u2013 PS3 repairman, and all around YLoD fix-it-up-chappie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the tag line pretty much is a dead giveaway that my PS3 has recovered from my \u201cYellow Light of Death\u201d (YLoD) operation \u2026 I plugged in the power supply, hooked up the HDMI cable, and then powered on the sumbitch. Much to my surprise, after a couple of seconds I was greeted with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/05\/29\/ylod-repair-%e2%80%93-part-iii-sumbitch-actually-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">YLoD Repair \u2013 Part III (Sumbitch Actually Works)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}