Logitech G25 problems -- Dead!

[Krayzi]

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Has anyone else had their G25 just bite the dust completely? It was working fine--didn't miss a beat. I hadn't raced for a month or so (at least one firmware update in there), but had some company over last night, so I plugged it in and set it up. The wheel seemed to calibrate itself normally. Then I put in the GT5P disc, and the PS3 wouldn't recognize it. I tried all the combinations of unplugging, replugging, ejecting, waiting, shutting down, sacrificing goats, etc., but the wheel no longer calibrated itself, and the GT5P BluRay disc would not show up in the XMB at all. (But arbitrary other BluRay discs were detected properly).

So I shut down the console, and then switched the power off at the back for a couple seconds. After turning the PS3 back on, the disc was recognized, but the wheel was not functional in the game. No calibration, nothing. I had nothing else plugged into the USB ports.

Of course, early in the process, I was continually checking the various cable connections to and from the G25, and everything was correctly plugged in and secure.

Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[H3rmaN]

Try resetting the PS3, and see if that helps. To do this, turn it off from the back, then turn it back on, and hold the power button at the front until you hear 3 beeps.

This resets the console settings (it does NOT format the HDD, so dont worry). Then simply set it up again and try the wheel again.

Does the wheel still work on a PC? If so, then its not the wheel at fault, its the PS3.

 

[Krayzi]

It detected and calibrated when plugged into my PC. Moving the apparatus back and forth is a pain, so it will take some time for me to try the PS3 reset, but I'll post back here when I do.

 

[Krayzi]

Apologies for resurrecting this thread after so many months, but I finally got a chance to figure this out. The problem had nothing to do with the G25 steering wheel at all. It worked fine on my PC, and in other racing games on the PS3. The ONLY problem was GT5P, and other discs worked fine. I tried a full format and factory reset, and still nothing.

There are no visible scratches, dust, fingerprints, defects, etc. on the GT5P disc, but it seems to have just stopped working. So I bit the bullet and downloaded the PSN version. It works fine.

Looks like I just have a dead disc. Boy, I sure took the long way around to diagnose that one, didn't I!