yellow light of death

noun

A general hardware failure in the PlayStation 3 video game console and related to an issue on the motherboard, the power supply, commonly caused by a degraded capacitor.

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Meanings

nounyellow light of death (plural yellow lights of death)

plural yellow lights of death

  1. video gamesA general hardware failure in the PlayStation 3 video game console and related to an issue on the motherboard, the power supply, commonly caused by a degraded capacitor.
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