PS3 Help.. :(

[Peter.Cort]

Ok, so my PS3 YLOD'd on me recently, I sent it into Sony to get it fixed but found out it was out of warranty (gtfo sony). So I didn't wanna pay 150 to fix it so I figured I'd figure something out. Turns out it's not the hdd or anything, so I got a heat gun from school and did that whole fun deal. Much to my surprise, it worked! After I got that working, the blu-ray drive didn't wanna work... I then got that working somehow, and it wouldn't wanna read the games. Oh well, I figure I'll do a firmware upgrade to make sure things are up to date before I yell at sony. Downloaded the newest firmware and gets to 72% and gives me 8002F14E error code. I can't figure out how to like reset it.. I got it into what seems like 'safe mode' because the res is all wacky but it still doesn't work. I pulled the HDD and it still updated which leads me to believe that it's a system issue. I don't have access to a computer to format the hdd so I need other options...

HELP ME FELLOW PS3 GAMERS!!! PL0XXX!!!!

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Just to be a complete pain.... Buy a Jasper xbox 360

 

[Peter.Cort]

if i had the free money to buy a 360, i'd spend 150 to get the ps3 fixed... then sell the ps3 on ebay and pick up a jasper 360.

 

[Mobius]

YLOD'd what's that???? something something of death? my ps3 is behaving so far for the past 2 years, with a few crashes that is....

 

[Baez]

It's the Yellow Light of Death. It doesn't happen to all PS3's so that's why you don't really hear about it.