Blinking red light on PS3

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Checked if your vents are clogged with dust, you may need to take it apart and clean it. That may also be the cause of your fan not being able to circulate and keeping the system cool.

Besides that Playstations never have any issues, those japanese bastards are crafty man...
 

MysticOracle

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remove your hard drive...clean the connection....if that doesnt work...your hard drive is probably already gone

Try 1. Take your hard disk out and boot the PS3, 2. Then turn it off and put the hard disk back, 3. Re-boot again. If it doesn’t fix the red light try an extra step: 1. Take your hard disk out, 2. Turn it on to get the game out, 3. Put the hard disk back into PS3, 4. Turn on. DO IT A FEW TIMES.
 
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must..... resist.... urge to say.... beach.... sand....

naw but I've had a shitload of issues with my PS3, biggest was when the bluray lens burned out because I've got a shitty 40 gb - ONE MONTH past the end of my warranty. They told me 'it'll be $150' I told them 'fuck your mother' & put a new one in myself.

But yea... don't be afraid to take that fucker apart, clean everything really good, & put it all back together.
 

mrtonguetwista

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Only reason I care is because it's a launch 60GB otherwise I would've gone out today and bought a new one.

Local place is charging $90 to fix RLOD, might wait til after new year to get it fixxed since I'm not on it too much anyways..but Imma try the air first..just got home with it.
 

MysticOracle

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these machines 360/ps3 are really standard as far as the insides go...the most intimidating part about it is getting passed the shell

i dont bother with MS or SCEA for warranty stuff...whats the point so they can fuck me on my Hard drive and then charge me possibly too...no thanks

i fixed my 360 myself cost me 20 dollars in parts....i had a friends ps3 go red light and that was hard drive connection...he failed to tell me he dropped the console until after....

anything can be fixed by yourself....question is how confident are you when it comes to repairing electronics?

i fixed my laptop today ...the DC jack was loose, screen would flicker constantly and battery wouldnt charge because of a bad contact...took the laptop apart soldered the new DC jack on the motherboard and put back together...works like new..saved me 200 on that repair
 
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I cleaned my desktop the other day, it had like 2-3 inches of dust in it and it was completely blocking the fans causing it to overheat and shut down on its own. When you go inside the PS3 make sure to check the fans ventilation airway. You might also need a flash light to see inside it.
 
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what that gif in your sig retribution? link to video?
Its the last match up between two legendary mixed martial artists Bas Rutten and Frank Shamrock. They fought in Pancrase which is very limited in rules, your not allowed to hit people with closed fists so Frank Shamrock was pissing off Bas Rutten so that he would get aggravated enough to hit him with a closed fist and get deducted points seen at 3:00 in the video..

 
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Mine was fucked up because I played out for like 6 hours straight in the summer when my room wouldn't get cool. It overheated and broke the solder on the graphics card. I didn't want to pay sony so I sent it to gophermods.com my shit works again now.
 

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i regulary hoover the fan intakes and outlets on my ps3, stops dust from building up and causing it to overheat

try vacuuming it first and see if it works then
 

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Got it back from the shop today, $90 with 90 day warranty. That gives me enough time to learn how to back my shit up on a stick in case it conks out again. Even though I dont use the bw compalibility I still want to have it lol