I was playing, “Elder Scrolls: Oblivion” most of the week. About once or twice, my system would shut down by itself. I kept thinking it was the game that was making my system crash since the game was a pre-owned copy. Then my PS3 shut down for good. When I try to turn it on, a yellow light will come on for a second. Means it’s the “Yellow Light of Death”. You know with the Xbox360, sometimes you get the Red Ring of Death? Well the PS3 will sometimes either get the “Red Light of Death” or the “Yellow Light of Death”. Well, I finally got the yellow.

I’ve done some research on how to repair but you have to either mail the system to Sony, but it’ll cost me some big money to get it repaired from SONY since my 1 year warranty is up, or you can take it apart and fix it yourself with a heat gun. The system is either overheated or something wrong with the motherboard or power supply.

This really blows, and a pain in the ass, but I’ve had my PS3 system for a good 3 or 4 years now. The older the system gets, the more it will have problems. Sony did this on purpose for everyone, so people can either pay money to get it repaired or go buy a new one. Just the company’s sneaky little way of making more money.

Instead of going through all that repairing, for fear of making the PS3 system much worse, I’ll probably just give it up and buy a new PS3 system sometime this Spring/Summer. The system I own is not the new PS3 Slim, it’s the original model.

That’s okay though, there’s no really important data on the Ps3 that I need. I just use it for gaming and watching Netflix streams, that’s pretty much it.

I could probably take it to a video game store and have it looked at but getting it repaired would probably cost more cash. So buying a whole new PS3 console is my best bet. No other choice really.

At first, I thought it the game doing it, but it was the system itself. I’ll see what I can do. I was going to watch “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” on Blu Ray through the PS3 system but won’t be able to. At least the Blu Ray set of “Dragon Tattoo”, has a DVD version included, so I’ll watch the DVD version tonight instead.

Kev