PS3 General Discussion
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My PS3 has just packed up, I was playing on GTA4 and it just turned its self off with the red light flashing apparently meaning the system has over heated (which is strange because it hadn't even activated all of it fans) so I have left it to cool down for a few hours, now every time I turn it on the green light turns on for about 2 seconds it then turns orange for a split second then it shuts down & I just get a flashing red light. It could not of happened at a worse time because I've been tempted to buy a PS3 Slim but I have no money at all for about 2 weeks & when I get Sony to replace it, it will probably take about the same time so I'm screwed either way.
This is the second PS3 that has just packed up on me, the first one Sony replaced because all of a sudden it just stopped reading discs.
This is the second PS3 that has just packed up on me, the first one Sony replaced because all of a sudden it just stopped reading discs.
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- landseaair
I took mine apart this weekend for the second time to clean it because the fan noise was getting sort of ridiculous. Seems to have worked pretty well and again I would recommend it to anyone who is confident they can handle it. I bet it increases the life of the system as long as you don't screw up.
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Well I've just phoned Sony and they said they will replace it if I pay them £128 which is probably to be expected since the guarantee expired 4 months ago however last time I had one replaced for free and that was 2 months after the guarantee expired so I was expecting the same thing this time.
So the choice is pay £128 for a big bulky 60 gig that doesn't even last for 18 months or pay £250 for a more compact and possibly more reliable 120 gig unit that I can get as soon as I have the money. Not a tough decision really, its got to be a new PS3 Slim, it's just so annoying that I've lost all my downloaded & saved data, I've got to go 2 weeks with no PS3 & my broken PS3 won't release GTA4, I think its time to introduce it to my friend Mr Sledge-Hammer!
So the choice is pay £128 for a big bulky 60 gig that doesn't even last for 18 months or pay £250 for a more compact and possibly more reliable 120 gig unit that I can get as soon as I have the money. Not a tough decision really, its got to be a new PS3 Slim, it's just so annoying that I've lost all my downloaded & saved data, I've got to go 2 weeks with no PS3 & my broken PS3 won't release GTA4, I think its time to introduce it to my friend Mr Sledge-Hammer!
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That actually brings up a good point, it should actually be pretty simple to add parts from a dead 60 gig to a model that doesn't have some of it's features such as wifi or a card reader, the bluray drives don't appear to be able to switch between systems but the power supply (which can go bad) does. I wonder if the card reader/wifi can just be swapped and plugged in to another system.
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My PS3 has just packed up, I was playing on GTA4 and it just turned its self off with the red light flashing apparently meaning the system has over heated (which is strange because it hadn't even activated all of it fans) so I have left it to cool down for a few hours, now every time I turn it on the green light turns on for about 2 seconds it then turns orange for a split second then it shuts down & I just get a flashing red light. It could not of happened at a worse time because I've been tempted to buy a PS3 Slim but I have no money at all for about 2 weeks & when I get Sony to replace it, it will probably take about the same time so I'm screwed either way.
This is the second PS3 that has just packed up on me, the first one Sony replaced because all of a sudden it just stopped reading discs.
You know...this just happened to me two days ago. You didn't buy yours around Ocotober/November of 07 did you...?
Eric.
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My PS3 has just packed up, I was playing on GTA4 and it just turned its self off with the red light flashing apparently meaning the system has over heated (which is strange because it hadn't even activated all of it fans) so I have left it to cool down for a few hours, now every time I turn it on the green light turns on for about 2 seconds it then turns orange for a split second then it shuts down & I just get a flashing red light. It could not of happened at a worse time because I've been tempted to buy a PS3 Slim but I have no money at all for about 2 weeks & when I get Sony to replace it, it will probably take about the same time so I'm screwed either way.
This is the second PS3 that has just packed up on me, the first one Sony replaced because all of a sudden it just stopped reading discs.
Hey, if you've got any 2.5" HDDs you should see if putting one in does anything. But first see if you can make any use out of the restore menu. My second PS3 failed, but after doing a full factory restore, it failing again, then trying a different hard drive, it was fine.
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No my first PS3 just stoped reading discs so Sony replaced it in May 2008.
Yeah I tried restoring the system by holding the power button but it was no use it would just turn off after 3 seconds. I havn't got a another compatable HDD but I tried starting it up with no HDD at all as some people have suggested but it makes no difference.
It is beyond repair now anyway, I had to take it apart to get GTA4 which was inside. Hopefully I should get a new PS3 this week.
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If the HDD was at fault I wouldn't have had the same problem when I tried it without the HDD in it.
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I'll be fair: I looked into your problem more.
My point and facepalming remain. The first hit of a 5 second Yahoo search tells me what you had was probably a bad PSU, with the most likely second place being a fan malfunction. The cost for a replacement for that is around $60. Broken CECHAxx and CECHExx PS3s can still go for $100-120 even if you didn't want to bother fixing it. So perhaps you can understand my lulz when you decide to just destroy the thing rather than attempt to minimize the damage.
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I agree with you I could of saved a bit of money if I got it fixed or sold it.
If you have time take a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRyRxKlo9-o
But to be honest I was looking for a good excuse to get a new PS3 Slim and this is the perfect opportunity, its just a lot easier taking the game out myself & buying a new PS3 rather than going to the hassle of trying to find the right people to fix it or buy it for the small amount of money I would save.
- 40,753
Courtesy of Sega's typical idiocy, it seems that a whole crap load of Sony info has been leaked (some stuff highlighted for emphasis):
I'm looking for sources (Sega immediately went after those who posted it), but that seems to be a straight-from-the-horses'-mouth transcript.
I'm looking for sources (Sega immediately went after those who posted it), but that seems to be a straight-from-the-horses'-mouth transcript.
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It came directly from Sega's FTP. Shouldn't have been on there, the FTP is open PR.
There's a huge thread on neogaf.
There's a huge thread on neogaf.
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Screw it:
You know, Sega should probably stop posting important things on the company's public FTP server. But hey, we might know the skinny on Sony every 3 months if they continue quarterly meetings!
@ LaBounti: I'm assuming they mean a general purpose one (they want all PS2 games on PSN), but I'm not sure if the PS3 is powerful enough. Sony would know better than me, of course.
Official transcript of meeting.
You know, Sega should probably stop posting important things on the company's public FTP server. But hey, we might know the skinny on Sony every 3 months if they continue quarterly meetings!
@ LaBounti: I'm assuming they mean a general purpose one (they want all PS2 games on PSN), but I'm not sure if the PS3 is powerful enough. Sony would know better than me, of course.
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Toronado, is there a link that still has that info anywhere? I want to send it to some friends but, "I got it on a message board" won't go over well.
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I can post an outside download link to the official transcript (ie. Mediafire), but Sega forced the news site originally reporting the leak to take it down and they finally removed the memo from their FTP server.
Kotaku reported on it too, but they only talked about a few things.
Kotaku reported on it too, but they only talked about a few things.
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