Hello forum!
I only got GT5 a few weeks ago, and it was playing fine just until the previous day, when it freezes the console (laek the video signal just freezes and audio loops until I hold the power switch). I have the corpulent 80 gigabyte version of the PS3, with the latest software updates available. The freeze is pretty consistent, it happens on every track I've tried, no matter what time of day, weather conditions or car I am in, and it usually happens from 1,5 to 2 minutes into the race, the more opponents I see in front of me, the faster it does this.
I was worried I was going to get into this kind of trouble, as I had my PS3 stand upright for a few weeks, since I didn't have any room to lay it down horizontally. So, I thought the blu-ray laser had caught some dust and it needs to be replaced, or maybe I just scratched the disc. But then I watched a BD movie ("No country for old men", an epic one), from start to finish without a glitch. YET, Uncharted 2 works flawlessly on the console, although I only tried it for 15 minutes in the start of the Nepal levels. What's even more frustrating is that I tried the same GT5 disc on another (my neighbor's) PS3, ye old 40 gig model. I have tried reinstalling all the game data except for my save. I have dusted it, vacuumed the DUST out of it, still the same. I had the HHD run a S.M.A.R.T. test on itself, when I connected it to my PC.
Now, my amateur and unprofessional guess is that the RAM chips have given up, and when loaded fully, they corrupt. Or maybe it's the PSU, since, which screws up the currents when at maximum load (god damn the 20% per year aging on those things).
Is there anything I can do to save my PS3 ? And if so, can I do it by myself and how much will it be ?
I only got GT5 a few weeks ago, and it was playing fine just until the previous day, when it freezes the console (laek the video signal just freezes and audio loops until I hold the power switch). I have the corpulent 80 gigabyte version of the PS3, with the latest software updates available. The freeze is pretty consistent, it happens on every track I've tried, no matter what time of day, weather conditions or car I am in, and it usually happens from 1,5 to 2 minutes into the race, the more opponents I see in front of me, the faster it does this.
I was worried I was going to get into this kind of trouble, as I had my PS3 stand upright for a few weeks, since I didn't have any room to lay it down horizontally. So, I thought the blu-ray laser had caught some dust and it needs to be replaced, or maybe I just scratched the disc. But then I watched a BD movie ("No country for old men", an epic one), from start to finish without a glitch. YET, Uncharted 2 works flawlessly on the console, although I only tried it for 15 minutes in the start of the Nepal levels. What's even more frustrating is that I tried the same GT5 disc on another (my neighbor's) PS3, ye old 40 gig model. I have tried reinstalling all the game data except for my save. I have dusted it, vacuumed the DUST out of it, still the same. I had the HHD run a S.M.A.R.T. test on itself, when I connected it to my PC.
Now, my amateur and unprofessional guess is that the RAM chips have given up, and when loaded fully, they corrupt. Or maybe it's the PSU, since, which screws up the currents when at maximum load (god damn the 20% per year aging on those things).
Is there anything I can do to save my PS3 ? And if so, can I do it by myself and how much will it be ?