Poll: Hardware failure!

[demoman_chaos]

My desktop PC luck has been bad. I've had a few that died from viruses, and others that died due to my dad getting irate about something it was doing and deciding best thing to do is to smash it.
But my laptop has had no trouble. I dual-booted Linux and XP, and XP never goes online. With Linux being immune to viruses, I just gotta make sure I don't screw it up myself.

I haven't had any console problems. Even my old Genesis still works fine. Only the ones I let my bro have went kaputz.

My PC died on me a couple of weeks ago, a nasty virus killed my hard drive, and then killed my mobo, vid card, and processor. Nasty virus.

You do realize viruses are just software, meaning they cannot do damage to anything besides software. They can oonly cause physical damage to a hard drive via forcing a shutdown that causes a headcrash. Even that is only a small chance.
The processor and video card would be uneffected, so it was most likley somethign else that killed those. Probably a power surge or a faulty power supply.

 

[dududf]

My desktop PC luck has been bad. I've had a few that died from viruses, and others that died due to my dad getting irate about something it was doing and deciding best thing to do is to smash it.
But my laptop has had no trouble. I dual-booted Linux and XP, and XP never goes online. With Linux being immune to viruses, I just gotta make sure I don't screw it up myself.

I haven't had any console problems. Even my old Genesis still works fine. Only the ones I let my bro have went kaputz.

My PC died on me a couple of weeks ago, a nasty virus killed my hard drive, and then killed my mobo, vid card, and processor. Nasty virus.

You do realize viruses are just software, meaning they cannot do damage to anything besides software. They can oonly cause physical damage to a hard drive via forcing a shutdown that causes a headcrash. Even that is only a small chance.
The processor and video card would be uneffected, so it was most likley somethign else that killed those. Probably a power surge or a faulty power supply.

See post 42 on this same page.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

The only thing that's happened to me as far as a system failure is the RROD on my 360..but after a sound beating and letting it rest for a day it quickly came back to life.

 

[Aerodynamic]

PS3 and PC died on me once.

 

[Xiorell]

So far no problems

360 going strong
PS3 never gets enough use to kill it
PC is always maintained to an excellent standard.

 

[Con Carne]

If you're going to send your PS3 into Sony, and you need to back up your files. Instead of using another PS3, you might wanna know that you can back up a good amount of save files on a flash drive. And the only thing you will lose are the games that can't be copied. So in the process, you won't be losing everything.

 

[Con Carne]

It happened. After 2 years and 8 months, my PS3 got the YLOD. I have found a fix that requires me to open the machine up and use a technique called reflowing on the motherboard which is supposed to resuscitate the processors and then replace the thermal paste and put it all back together. I wish I saw this coming. Driving home from work today I remembered a comment I made to myself while playing a game. I said, "The PS3 has gotten a bit louder than I remember." DUR ITS OVERHEATING YOU ASSHOLE! If it was a PC I would have figured it out and took the preemptive measures but for some reason, I though my PS3 was invincible. So now I have 3 options.

Fix it myself. Totally doable, just need to get a hold of a Heat Gun.

Send it to Sony. 150 bucks, the probably just send me a refurbished system. This worries me because I want the 60gb version and I don't know if they will send me that. I like my backwards compatibility. Also I hear they don't back up your saved data which I would have to do myself using someone's PS3.

Send it to another repair facility. I found www.videogame911.com. They seem pretty good and I will probably go with them over sending it to Sony. They will be cheaper, back up my saves for me and send me back MY system with the new parts it needs. Hopefully with better thermal paste.

Last whine: of all the things Sony went cheap on to make the system cheaper, they made em with shitty thermal paste. All I have read on other YLOD threads is how bad the original systems thermal paste was and how it would dry out way to soon and cause the overheating. The choice to chose shitty thermal paste instead of higher quality stuff is causing the YLOD. Otherwise, the system would probably have practically no hardware failures.

So I just want to hear your guys' YLOD stories. RROD stories are alright too but I care more about PS3 stuff cause that is the situation I am dealing with now.

If you're going to send your PS3 into Sony, and you need to back up your files. Instead of using another PS3, you might wanna know that you can back up a good amount of save files on a flash drive. And the only thing you will lose are the games that can't be copied. So in the process, you won't be losing everything.