My PS3 died

[VanishedNine]

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My PS3 died tonight when I turned it on...so I will be out of commission for PS3 gaming until I pick up a new one...or can fix mine...luckily I should get my new PC on Monday

[rePETE4x]

Is there like a RROD for PS3? You don't hear about them failing much.

[Neptune49]

Blinking yellow light?

[VanishedNine]

Red screen of death...serious error message and to call tech support...I figured it was on its way out...fan was extra loud...having hardware freezing issues in all games

[Neptune49]

Which Model of PS3?  Fat or Slim?  I have a buddy that had this problem and managed to fix it.  He said something about flipping the switch on the back to off, then back on after a few minutes.  After that hold the power on button down for a few seconds and a few options should appear on your screen.  You pick the system Recovery one.  It'll make you connect the controller with the USB cable as the wireless doesn't work in this mode.

He said that he had to run the recovery 3 or 4 times before it worked.  The worst part was that he lost his saved games.  I'm not sure when you get the red screen, but if you can access your dash board it might be a good idea to back up any saves that you want to a thumb drive.  So yeah... You might lose your save game, but from what I understand this is totally fixable.

Let me know how it goes if you try it.

[Neptune49]

Check out this Youtube video, it's for a different problem, but I think this is what I explained in my previous post.

How to Fix your PS3

[VanishedNine]

Yeah..I had searched tht and tried it but it didn't work...I get the red screen right when the PS 3 turns on...there is a guy locally who buys broken consoles...so he is gonna buy it...then I will pick one up on sale

[VanishedNine]

So I ended up at a Zellers that is closing to become a Target and they had 25% off...so I picked up a new PS3...with the $50 I will get for selling my broken one...pretty decent deal. Ends up being about $135.00 for a new one.

[rePETE4x]

So I ended up at a Zellers that is closing to become a Target and they had 25% off...so I picked up a new PS3...with the $50 I will get for selling my broken one...pretty decent deal. Ends up being about $135.00 for a new one.

Cool! Glad you'll be back online right away. I guess you'll have to do a lot of DLing, or can you transfer from the old one by removing the HDD, or something?

Peter

[VanishedNine]

I will have lots of updates to...and lot all my saves...tried to recover...but can't get to a recover screen

[UberFeld]

Happy to hear you got such a good deal V9. As far as updating and transferring stuff, can't you simply transfer the physical HD to the new machine, providing your older machine was also a slim?

[VanishedNine]

My old one was a fat...and it had quite a few corrupted sectors on it...I can re download all my stuff from the download history tab...just a pain

[rePETE4x]

My old one was a fat...and it had quite a few corrupted sectors on it...I can re download all my stuff from the download history tab...just a pain

I wonder if Spinrite (http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm) could fix it? Probably not worth the price in this case, but I keep a copy on hand for emergencies.

And I do have a neat note from a listener of ours, Philip Garrett, who wrote, in my quest to always find new SpinRite stories, "SpinRite Saves a PS3."  Of course the PS3's been in the news a lot lately because of the backdoor stuff that's been happening, all of the hacking of the PS3.  He said, "Sir or Madam:  My PS3 Slim started acting flaky during a game add-on download on Sunday, February 20, 2011.  The interface was sluggish and would momentarily freeze up.  On Monday evening, when I arrived home from work, I attempted to turn the PS3 on, and it would only perform an incomplete boot before hanging up and freezing solid.

"I have two years' worth of game-saved files and other moderately important information on that hard drive, so it was important to me to repair it.  I had a hunch that the problem was with the PS3's hard drive.  I removed the hard drive from the unit and slaved it to my main machine.  I inserted my SpinRite disk and rebooted the machine.  SpinRite booted right up, and I was able to select the slaved drive and run SpinRite at Level 2.  After 30 minutes, SpinRite completed its work and showed one unrecoverable sector.  I crossed my fingers, hoping the drive had been repaired enough to properly boot.  I placed the drive back into the PS3.  The PS3 boots right up.  I was able to immediately perform a backup of the data onto an external drive."

I guess it can...

[I am Canadian]

So I ended up at a Zellers that is closing to become a Target and they had 25% off...so I picked up a new PS3...with the $50 I will get for selling my broken one...pretty decent deal. Ends up being about $135.00 for a new one.

Glad to here you got a new one at such a good price Rod. Although I don't game a ton any more I do still love my PS3 best for media.