It is becoming very prominent with the launch consoles in the last year due to age and heat on the board. The "fixes" are just temporary BS, eventually it's going to go tits up once again. The console will freeze/lock up. The light will blink red. Shutting off power and turning it back on, then hitting button on front will cause the green light and fans to come on for a second, followed by a series of beeps, a flash of the yellow light (same area as red/green light), and then it goes back to blinking red. If you have a disc in the drive, you either take the PS3 apart and manually remove it, or you send the unit to Sony to be fixed for $150 and they give you a new game disc. Either way though, all of your game saves, pics, music, video files, are toast. They do not swap them during the fix, and you cannot get it to reboot in any form.maybe you should finance a new PS3 from best buy :smug:
wtf is the yellow light of death?
I was lucky, I was able to get it to boot once after I knew WTF was going on. I got my saves and pics onto a USB drive. That was the last time it booted.
How are you sure it's the laser? Also, it is not the YLOD either so that's good.
Also, I am able to sometimes get a game of Madden in when I turn the ps3 off from the back, leave it off for a lil bit, then turn it back on. However both times when I went to play another game after finishing the first one it froze after loading for the coin toss.
If it only happens when you are attempting to, or actually are, running something from a disc....I'm 99% sure it is the laser.