For the last couple of years I have heard many of my friends that own the XBOX 360 eventually fall to the likes of the "RED RING OF DEATH." I myself went through the same issues when I owned my own 360 and traded the system in. I got myself a PS3 and have been really happy with the system thus far. However, this past weekend as I was playing Fallout 3 my PS3 crashed.
While I was in the middle of a mission the system turned off on me. I was a bit confused when it happened. I remember thinking to myself: "maybe it reset for some strange reason." I went to turn it back on and that's when the horror began...
My PS3 kept making that crazy beeping sound and the red light just kept flashing over an over again. It wouldn't turn back on. I immediately pulled out the support manual to see if this was normal for the system to do. It says in the manual that when the PS3 does this it is in a sort of "overheating" mode and would be on standby till the system cooled off. I felt a sense of relief at this point and went out to the movies with my friends as I had planned earlier in the day. Between the travel time and the movie this would give my PS3 enough time to cool down. I was wrong to think such a thing...
When I got back and tried to continue where I left off in the AWESOME Fallout 3, it did the same exact thing... BEEP, BEEP, BEEP... Flashing light...
I logged on to my Laptop to see if there were any videos on YouTube about this kind of thing with the PS3. Low and behold, there was a bunch of them posted up. All of the people I saw who put up videos had the same issue and had to send in their systems to SONY to have it repaired. I hung my head in shame... Being a big gamer this was a blow to the mid section.
The fallowing morning I called SONY and explained to them what had happened. Sure enough they asked me for my info so they could send me a specialized box to place my PS3 in. It will cost me 150$ because my warranty is expired. Everything that was on my hard drive will be lost. That's 2 years of destruction I have put in work all down the drain. Games like: OBLIVION, ASSASSINS CREED, METAL GEAR SOLID 4, FALLOUT 3, SOULCALIBUR IV, etc... All the movies, music, TV shows, and pics gone. I am going to have to download all of it again.
Basically, something overheated in my system and fried something vital inside. I am going to be out of commission for a month. This gives all of the goons I have been abusing on BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY and SOCOM a chance to practice while I am waiting to return. This gave me a chance to do some research on all of the next gen systems. They have all suffered from some heating issues or hard dive failure problems...Hopefully the models being put out now will be able to keep up with us hardcore gamer types.
In light of this tragedy, it has given me the opportunity to pull out the good old N64 and SNES. I will be on ZELDA for this month. Not too bad at all. Lets hope I don't burn this thing out for the second time...