The Biannual-Out: Beware of Bill Aims! :O

[deadlegion]

Disc eject.

[deadlegion]

Turn off the PS3 at the back power switch.
Now put your finger on the power on button at the front panel, keep your finger there.
Switch on power at the back switch, still keeping your finger on the front switch.

[deadlegion]

The fan will sound loud doing this, it isn't just an emergency disc eject function it's also a fan test.

[Zaladane]

think my ps3 just died on me. was playing oblivion and suddenly it powers off on me with a beep try powering it back on it just goes red green red with a beep.
there wen't a lot of progress

Aw shit that sucks. Overheating most like. There are things you can do but probably only end up being a short term fix. You can leave it off for awhile and try again but probably end up getting the ylod.

[deadlegion]

After getting your disc out of the console you can see if it will turn on again.

If it doesn't then you could try pulling the HDD out and turning the console on.
Besides checking to see if the HDD is the issue I'm not sure what you can do in your situation
Are you sure it doesn't show green light, then yellow very briefly, then red light?

[Grouch]

Turn off the PS3 at the back power switch.
Now put your finger on the power on button at the front panel, keep your finger there.
Switch on power at the back switch, still keeping your finger on the front switch.

can't get that to work it just red green red off.

[Grouch]

Disc eject.

drive doesn't work and didn't when I got it. pushing the eject button just results in a beep.

[deadlegion]

Aw shit that sucks. Overheating most like. There are things you can do but probably only end up being a short term fix. You can leave it off for awhile and try again but probably end up getting the ylod.

It shouldn't be overheating if it isn't summer there, but then overheating is still possible as the fats have poor quality thermal adhesive between the chips and spreaders (I'm not talking about the thermal compound issue, which isn't difficult to replace yourself).

[deadlegion]

drive doesn't work and didn't when I got it. pushing the eject button just results in a beep.

Ah ok forgot about your setup for a minute
Do the fan test anyway it might blow some dust out.
If it still won't boot properly after that then try pulling the HDD.

[deadlegion]

can't get that to work it just red green red off.

Are you turning it off and on at the back switch?

[deadlegion]

Even if it's ylod it should still do the fan test. I have 2x fats here that are ylod and will still do a fan test before shutting off.

[deadlegion]

Maybe it's the psu that's the problem?

[Grouch]

Ah ok forgot about your setup for a minute
Do the fan test anyway it might blow some dust out.
If it still won't boot properly after that then try pulling the HDD.

I tried pulling the drive same result red green red beep than the red light just flashes till I push it again.

[deadlegion]

And it won't complete a fan test properly? The test doesn't last long but you know it's working because the fan sounds like a jet

[Grouch]

And it won't complete a fan test properly? The test doesn't last long but you know it's working because the fan sounds like a jet

fan doesn't turn on when trying to do the test the whole red green red only last about 1 sec.