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« on: 2010-11-29 23:43:01 »
I am gonna start off topic just to say that I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving + weekend. Oh, and I only have one more day until my warning is gone! I realize I havent been on as much now as I have previously, but I have just had the worst luck, first my desktop went (ugh and I just finished it, I let it run for 10 mins to make sure it was working, I had yet to install the liquid cooling, shut it down, and my girl turned it on while I was out, and didnt turn it off, it ran with no cooling for god know how long) , then the laptop burned up. And now the ps3, I feel like I was married to lady luck, then she caught me cheating on her and now its revenge time.
I was very happy that i still owned the original 60 gig ps3 from when it first came out. YES, I spent $500 for it (at least I didnt go on eBay and spend over a thousand, and i know some people who did). Oh yes back on topic, well I was very happy that I had it for so long and did not receive the dreaded 'Yellow Light of Death' as so many others who have the original have been. And alas I am at a dilemma, I am out of warranty, and Sony wants to charge me almost 200 bucks to 'fix' it. When all reality all the do is give you a refurbished version with a new pretty case. Which basically almost guarantees I am just going to get the YLoD again later on down the road. So i guess this is just a question of opinion, but here goes anyway. As I see it I have three options to be able to have a ps3 and be able to play older games, I can, one: send it in and pay the money grubbing assholes when they should cover it like microsoft did, two: I can buy a new ps3 to be assured that i wont receive the light, but then I would be forced to buy a ps2, considering I sold it when I got the ps3. My third and final option would be to try out the playstation version of the 'towel method' that was for the 360. If you dont know what it is, I will explain, but for time purposes right this moment, I will continue. If that were to work, I would love to do it, not only is my warranty already up, but I have already had it apart before just out of curiosity. My fear is that I would just mess it up more, I know I cant play it and people will argue that I will not be losing anything if something were to go wrong, but as of right now it is a hardware malfuntion and I can blame it on Sony, I would hate myself if I added to it and took some blame. Any opinions will be greatly appreciated, and anybody who has had the YLoD, and suffered through it, it would be great if you could let me know how you went about fixing it.