Anybody get the Black Screen of Death?

[twinace]

While I was racin' and trying to achieve S license on one of the tracks, the 3rd race of A right after I press the green button to start the race, the PSP goes black. Nothing moves. Press the home button and you can see how much battery left....3/4 full. But there is nothing until you reboot your PSP

This happen to anyone?

 

[Shigegaki]

interesting, never seen this before.

 

[twinace]

yeah, me neither and its the first time on ANY game. I'm not on CFW anymore. I went from CFW to Sony 6.1

 

[Fruitcake]

Got it yesterday when i pressed the green button too 👎

My PSP3004 with FW 6.1 from the GT bundle was plugged into the wall.

 

[Shigegaki]

you know twin, that could be the problem right there. you went from CFW to official FW.

 

[Aldo]

Well that depends if Fruitcake used to run CFW does it not? So, did you change from CFW to OFW Fruitcake?

 

[Fruitcake]

Nope, it came with 5.70 or something and i updated it the same day to 6.1

And it wasn't on for more than 1 hour.

 

[demon of speed]

I've experienced the screen of death aswell. It's happened twice now, both times after long sessions of achieveing golds and silvers. So annoying grrrrr!

 

[Aldo]

Out of those that had the Black screen of death (BSOD...?), was it the UMD or the download.
I'm jsut trying to see a pattern of some sort.

 

[Fruitcake]

UMD that's installed on a memorystick

 

[Cottees]

I have a PSP 1002, that has been between OFW and CFW so many time, it is now on OFW 6.10. I am using an aussie/euro UMD with it installed to the MS and not, and I am yet to get the black screen of death.

For people that it is crashing for, what PSP version and FW are you running. From what I can see so far above, it could be a 300x problem.

 

[CirclesCenter]

Old Fat PSP, 6.10 OFW I've had it happen once with a 3/4ths battery too.

 

[twinace]

you know twin, that could be the problem right there. you went from CFW to official FW.

Good theroy there but I highly doubt it myself. CFW and official firmware don't change hardware configs. It's purely a software "hack"....kinda like jailbreaking iPhones/iPods. So now that I'm on 6.1 official, the system acts no different than a PSP Go on 6.1

I wasn't plugged into the wall. and FYI, I use a PSP 1000.

What REALLY chapped me up: grinding 4M on the oval and hitting the Home buttom accidentily loosing all the credits....and then making another 4M after that reboot and then loosing it to the black screen-o-death. D'Oh!

Out of those that had the Black screen of death (BSOD...?), was it the UMD or the download.
I'm jsut trying to see a pattern of some sort.

Region 1 UMD
Game installed to a 2GB Sandisc stick
PSP 1000
running OFW 6.1

 

[CirclesCenter]

It's always seemed easier to me to do an open track drift at Chamonix. I average about 22,000 - 30,000 points per lap, so 44k to 60k credits per lap. 5 laps of drifting = at least 250,000 credits. And seems way more fun than the test track. /derail

I've had no BSODs since though

 

[Fruitcake]

And again last night when starting a race

 

[NLxAROSA]

The PSP turned it self off after I spent I a couple of minutes in pause during a race. I thought it was the powermanagement, so I turned it off.

 

[twinace]

And again last night when starting a race

The PSP turned it self off after I spent I a couple of minutes in pause during a race. I thought it was the powermanagement, so I turned it off.

Did you folks lose all the work that you put in? or credits that you earned?
This is increasingly annoying and I wonder if the software itself is unstable even after they spent 5+ years making the game.

 

[NLxAROSA]

Did you folks lose all the work that you put in? or credits that you earned?

I was half-way during a really butt-tightning race on the Nurb against the AI with a high powered RWD car, and I was doing really well. I was not amused.

 

[twinace]

I was half-way during a really butt-tightning race on the Nurb against the AI with a high powered RWD car, and I was doing really well. I was not amused.

haha, let me guess.....Carbon R?

 

[Cottees]

NOO! I just had it happen to me. I was doing the GTP Member Time Attack Challenge, doing ok, then black screen. The worst part is I was doing ok at it.

Stats:
PSP 1002
OFW 6.10
UMD UCES-01245 (Euro/Aus)