PS3 YLOD options

Eddieken

My sons PS3 just gave up with YLOD (original fat 40g unit) . He has over €140 worth of little big planet costumes and other games and game saves on the hard drive, can these be copied to a new PS3 easily or should i look at getting the PS3 repaired (it already had the blu ray drive replaced last year)?
What are my best options? Any help would be great.

Eddie

RangeR

Eddieken wrote: »

My sons PS3 just gave up with YLOD (original fat 40g unit) . He has over €140 worth of little big planet costumes and other games and game saves on the hard drive, can these be copied to a new PS3 easily or should i look at getting the PS3 repaired (it already had the blu ray drive replaced last year)?
What are my best options? Any help would be great.

Eddie

You've already forked out for a replacement blue ray drive. You are going to pay around €100 to get YLOD short term fixed.

Buy a new one. Get a small HDD slim. Purchase a new 1TB [or 700GB~ is cheaper] HDD to go in it.

You can then download all of your games to the new PS3 if you login as the same PSN account.

Your game saves are gone. You can get them back if and only you fix the YLOD. Not worth the money, IMHO.

pah

Eddieken wrote: »

My sons PS3 just gave up with YLOD (original fat 40g unit) . He has over €140 worth of little big planet costumes and other games and game saves on the hard drive, can these be copied to a new PS3 easily or should i look at getting the PS3 repaired (it already had the blu ray drive replaced last year)?
What are my best options? Any help would be great.

Eddie

If you have a playstation plus subscription your saves should be good, in the cloud. If not agree with previous post.

Getting my 60gb reballed but only because of bc for ps2, would have bought new slim otherwise.

smooch71

Eddieken wrote: »

My sons PS3 just gave up with YLOD (original fat 40g unit) . He has over €140 worth of little big planet costumes and other games and game saves on the hard drive, can these be copied to a new PS3 easily or should i look at getting the PS3 repaired (it already had the blu ray drive replaced last year)?
What are my best options? Any help would be great.

Eddie

Had this problem myself recently. Console Repairs in Bray fixed it for €50.

They don't go near the hard drive so all the saved stuff was still on it when I got it back. Along with the copy of GT5 that was stuck in it when it crashed.

They guarantee it for a year but did point out that there's fair chance that it will happen again.

pah

Ielectron couldn't fix ps3. They said the recall "just didn't take" whatever that means, so gonna wait and see what happens with prices towards smash with the new superslim. In the meantime I've got a psvita

RangeR

pah wrote: »

Ielectron couldn't fix ps3. They said the recall "just didn't take" whatever that means, so gonna wait and see what happens with prices towards smash with the new superslim. In the meantime I've got a psvita

Reball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7asS4NmHUw

Reamer Fanny

RangeR wrote: »

pah wrote: »

Ielectron couldn't fix ps3. They said the recall "just didn't take" whatever that means, so gonna wait and see what happens with prices towards smash with the new superslim. In the meantime I've got a psvita

Reball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7asS4NmHUw

This is what you need, as far as I know console repairs in Bray don't do this kind of repair

pah

What do you mean? This is what i had done. Didn't work. I am not in bray

KeithTS

Do not put your HDD into another PS3, it will be formatted and everything will be lost.

Where are you based?
If you're in Dublin and fancy dropping out to me I'll have a look at it for you, I've fixed a few YLOD's with good results, however, its not a permanent fix, it'll allow you to get your info off the system and maybe a couple of months out of it but won't last forever.

PM me if interested

Keith