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- hot_cheese
Man this sucks! I came back from work today ready to claim my rewards for the 9 hours Tsukuba endurance in B-spec and found out the game froze at the post race screen. Nothing works and was forced to switch it off from the back (80GB fat PS3)
I thought it must be caused by overheating but my PS3 was cool to the touch, the bottom part where the HDD was installed is only slightly warm.
Turned the PS3 back on after 15 minutes and froze again at the XMB. OMG....
Keep trying the same thing for one hour with no luck, I either get a black screen or frozen XMB.
Looked at some guides online and decided to boot into safe mode and use the "Restore PS3 system". It worked and I was able to navigate the XMB and login to PSN.
However, as soon as I insert GT5 and perform the 1.5 update, the system froze again... All I could see is the non-stop HDD light. Tried a few more times and got the same result.
It's weird, it's not like a YLOD because I can browse PSN store, send/receive messages and playing Blu-Ray movies works perfectly fine!
What's the issue? Any chance this is caused by a faulty Hard drive? Or my PS3 is on it's way to hell?
1. Should I try to replace a new HDD?
2. Call SONY and let them tell me to bend over because my warrant expired.
3. get a new PS3 slim?
AWWWW!!!!! MY CARS MY EPIC EPIC CARS!!!!!!
I thought it must be caused by overheating but my PS3 was cool to the touch, the bottom part where the HDD was installed is only slightly warm.
Turned the PS3 back on after 15 minutes and froze again at the XMB. OMG....
Keep trying the same thing for one hour with no luck, I either get a black screen or frozen XMB.
Looked at some guides online and decided to boot into safe mode and use the "Restore PS3 system". It worked and I was able to navigate the XMB and login to PSN.
However, as soon as I insert GT5 and perform the 1.5 update, the system froze again... All I could see is the non-stop HDD light. Tried a few more times and got the same result.
It's weird, it's not like a YLOD because I can browse PSN store, send/receive messages and playing Blu-Ray movies works perfectly fine!
What's the issue? Any chance this is caused by a faulty Hard drive? Or my PS3 is on it's way to hell?
1. Should I try to replace a new HDD?
2. Call SONY and let them tell me to bend over because my warrant expired.
3. get a new PS3 slim?
AWWWW!!!!! MY CARS MY EPIC EPIC CARS!!!!!!