After months of loud fans and worryingly hot components my launch fatty PS3 finally gave up the ghost today. It is exactly the second console to do this to me, after the Dreamcast. It appears to be suffering with the "yellow light of death" (froze suddenly, let out three quick beeps, turned off, red flashing light. When you try to turn it on now it goes green, flashes yellow, three quick beeps then flashing red).
I've seen various videos on youtube about how to fix this. It seems you can take the thing to bits, blast it with a hair drier or maybe, just maybe, bake the motherboard in the oven (!!). Has anyone ever tried any of these things (ok, not that last one so much). How much longer did you get out of your PS3? I'm not in a hurry to move from PS3 to PS4, but the PS3 is my main blu ray player. I don't know whether to admit defeat, get a 12gb slim PS3, replace the HDD and just use that, or have a go at fixing the fatty. It seems a bit of a waste of time to repair the thing if it is only really going to last for a couple of weeks.