PS3

[Killa-Eyez]

Bought it in 2008.

At this moment I don't care about the console... I just want my save files so I can import them to a new one. Ugh.

If you have the Phat version: well good news then, as opposed to the bad.. A YLOD is pretty easy to fix (read temporarily) so getting your save games is highly possible.

Whether it's permanently fixable is still a question mark as I'm still experimenting on that. I'm going to fix my friend's YLOD PS3 for the 3rd time now so it seems the issue persists. I was thinking of ordering a different heat sink from the same model to see if that will help.

I don't know if you're a little tech-savvy and willing to try and fix it yourself. The things you'd need to do that are a philips screw driver, a torx, a heat gun, some isopropyl alcohol, some thermal paste, possibly some no-clean lead-free solder flux (pen form) and finally gilksy's guide to fixing YLOD.

The alternative would be finding someone near you experienced in fixing this against payment.

Good luck!