So I've only had my PS3 (60 GB "fat') for about a little over a year, and now out of nowhere, I've gotten the "red screen of death" (PSP version pictured below, but its the same as the PS3 RSOD) three times.

At this point I have no clue if this is just a countdown to the full death of my PS3, or if theres some error that keeps coming up that may be preventable. Anybody have any clue what the fuck is going on? I suppose I could give the support line a call, but my system is out of warranty and the complete oddity of all this makes me skeptical that I'll get anything helpful out of tech support before they just say I should send it in.

I've never heard of this but I wish you luck in fixing it.  This is uncharted territories here.

That's a PSP.

 
" Anybody have any clue what the fuck is going on?"
 

"A serious error has occurred. Contact the Sony Computer Entertainment technical support line for assistance"

" @sodiumCyclops: Yeah, well I'm aware of that, but if three different occurances have had 3 different fixes, who's to say anybody on the support line would know what's going on. It's my understanding most operators don't even know about the RSOD at all. "

" @ricetopher said:

" @sodiumCyclops: Yeah, well I'm aware of that, but if three different occurances have had 3 different fixes, who's to say anybody on the support line would know what's going on. It's my understanding most operators don't even know about the RSOD at all. "

In that case I would say your PS3 is on it's way out. Better just to write everything down and send it to a Sony repair store. Why wait for the seemingly inevitable? "