Secondly, you will have to wait around 6 weeks to get the problem fixed, which is an awful lot of gaming downtime. Sony will fix those 3 beeps and the flashing red light on your PS3 for you, but there are a few strings attached! Firstly, if your warranty has expired (or you didn’t have a warranty to begin with, which will be the case if you bought your PS3 more than a year ago, or got it secondhand) you will have to pay $150 to get your PS3 fixed of the red light error. It is not caused by anything else, and although there are a lot of claims about the cause of this problem it is important that you understand that it is related to the hard drive. The blinking red light error on Sony’s PS3 platform is caused by hard drive (HDD) problems, often with the connection between the HDD and the motherboard of your PS3. In this article you are going to learn how to repair those 3 beeps and get rid of the flashing red light on your PS3 in next to no time.

One of the most common and frustrating errors on the PS3 platform is the flashing red light error that is accompanied by 3 beeps that sound ominously from within your console.

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