Well my PS3 is f***ed

[Mellish]

My PS3 has died. One day I start up and the following message comes on screen "Your
PS3's hard disk system file has been corrupted and will be restored". Everytime it gets to 100% it restarts and the same message comes up. I should be able claim it on warranty. The funny thing is the main reason I bought a PS3 is to avoid the overheating problems on the Xbox 360. Oh well.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Ah that sucks, I didn't know the PS3 was prone to such things, I bought a 360 recently and it never even get slightly warm? New cooling in it I believe.

Anyway, have you tried putting your PS3 in the freezer?

 

[Sedako]

If you can find someone with a PS3, you can put your current hard drive into theirs and reformat it, then put it back in yours and reformat it again. May fix it.

 

[Mellish]

If you can find someone with a PS3, you can put your current hard drive into theirs and reformat it, then put it back in yours and reformat it again. May fix it.

I think that breaks the warranty and I don't want to risk it.

 

[Fishlore]

Wow, that sucks. Hopefully everything works out for you. Do you have any idea why it might have happened? Poor ventilation, powered on since you've had it, thousands of gameplay hours, moved it around a lot, etc.?

 

[Mellish]

Wow, that sucks. Hopefully everything works out for you. Do you have any idea why it might have happened? Poor ventilation, powered on since you've had it, thousands of gameplay hours, moved it around a lot, etc.?

It got plently of ventilation, but the fan still seemed to get loud. I played it about 6-7 hours a week. The worst thing is all my game saves are gone. All those hours on oblivion gone.

 

[Asus]

Hard drives do go bad even without overheating. Xbox's problem was with the circuitry and chips. A simple hard drive replacement is nothing hardware wise.

Too bad about the data though.

 

[Sedako]

I think that breaks the warranty and I don't want to risk it.

Taking out the hard drive of the PS3 does not void the warranty. It's designed so you can upgrade the HD if needed.

 

[Xendance]

Since this thread is about a PS3, I have a question:

is there any way to make multiple network settings?

For example, I travel to my dad's often, and take my PS3 with me and hook it up to his internet. This means I lose the settings from my mum's house, and it's replaced with the one's at my dad's. Everytime I set it up, I am forced to type some bastard WEP key in.

 

[Blackthorn]

Eep, don't scare me with these horror stories, I just bought mine today and my luck, or lack of, usually screws me with a big hard one.

 

[VictimOfScience]

Yeah, the overheating would likely not have caused this. Still, could be a lot worse--at least it could even tell you the problem and help you fix it with minimal stress. Too bad about the saves though of course. Always good to have backups (and make sure they work). :E

Sony actually tells you how to switch out the drive for a bigger one, so no voiding of anything, and you totally should. Those demos are big and the PSN games and TV and movie downloads are getting pretty nice looking, not to mention anything tyou rip yourself and throw on there. Its a great piece of electronics.

 

[Acepilotf14]

lol, ownt

 

[-Psy-]

Ah that sucks, I didn't know the PS3 was prone to such things.

Every computing device is prone to failure.

Anyway, have you tried putting your PS3 in the freezer?

I'm sure the moisture would screw it up even more unless you put it in a huge plastic tub.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Since this thread is about a PS3, I have a question:

is there any way to make multiple network settings?

For example, I travel to my dad's often, and take my PS3 with me and hook it up to his internet. This means I lose the settings from my mum's house, and it's replaced with the one's at my dad's. Everytime I set it up, I am forced to type some bastard WEP key in.

I don't think so. The systems aren't exactly made so that they can be taken from house to house, so you just need to deal with the WEP key.

Oh, and if it's in warranty, call Sony and see if they can fix it.

If not, prepare to shell out $150 for a repair...

 

[Dalamari]

Just shows you the kind of quality Sony makes

 

[Sedako]

Just shows you the kind of quality Sony makes

No it doesn't. It's a simple hard drive failure. Can happen to any device that uses them. In the case of the PS3, it can be replaced cheaply and easily.

 

[Vegeta897]

Just shows you the kind of quality Sony makes

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22red+ring+of+death%22+OR+%22rrod%22

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22red+ring+of+death%22+OR+%22rrod%22

Why don't you go search yellow light of death, smart ass.

 

[Vegeta897]

ok

15,000 for "yellow light of death"
404,000 for "redring of death"

Which term has more results has nothing to do with which is the more reliable system obviously, so I don't know why you'd ask me to search that. I only showed Dalamari that search to point out the major issue that a good number of 360 owners experience. It's as if his post is ignoring all that and just saying that sony is shit because a hard drive failed.

I'm not saying the PS3 is without its problems, but for Dalamari to make a comment like that seems kind of silly, regarding a hard drive failing. Xbox 360 has far higher count of systems failing than the PS3.

 

[Combine Hybrid]

But the fact is, Sony's overall hardware product quality has declined tremendously.

 

[Sedako]

If anyone remembers the release of the PS2, it was plagued with faulty systems for a while. The PS3 has been a relatively stable piece of hardware.

 

[smwScott]

But the fact is, Sony's overall hardware product quality has declined tremendously.

Why do you say? I remember having small problems with my PS1 and the laser in my PS2 stopped reading regular CD's after about a year ... whereas my PS3 has been perfectly fine ever since I bought it. I haven't heard of any other widespread problems either.

Of course neither of them can stand up to Nintendo as far as product reliability goes. My SNES and N64 still work as good as the day I got them. I doubt ANY 360's will still be working in that amount of time, who knows about PS3.

As far as your problem goes - if Sony doesn't cover it under warranty then you can just replace the HDD yourself for not too much money. As long as you bought it recently it'll be covered though.

Sucks about the data. If you hadn't already reformatted it multiple times you probably could've salvaged the data with a PC though.

 

[Asus]

To those who suggest the PS3 has a failure issue...
The PS3 failure rate has been reported as .2 % and "less than one percent".
Even if those figures are not up to date and lets say it's at least double like 2%...thats small.

And a hard drive issue is not Sony's fault unless there isn't enough cooling. They don't make the drives, I think it's Toshiba. And I recall stories about Xbox360's breaking because someone put them in a glass cabinet with no air flow...the same cabinet as their PS3 which ran fine. So I doubt there isn't enough cooling.

 

[ailevation]

I think my Wii is going to give in, I just played RE4 and the whole 3 hours there was artifacts on the screen(something like when you OC your graphics card too much).

 

[Sedako]

I think my Wii is going to give in, I just played RE4 and the whole 3 hours there was artifacts on the screen(something like when you OC your graphics card too much).

Take some compressed air to the vents and get all the dust out of it. See if that helps at all.

 

[ailevation]

Take some compressed air to the vents and get all the dust out of it. See if that helps at all.

Will do. But, after I make a stop to a store because my cans are all out.

 

[Mellish]

I took it back to the shop hoping to get a return.
They gave me three options. 1. Get a new 40GB and get ?50 back, 2. Get a preowned 60gb and get ?35 back or 3. Ask Sony for a completley new 60GB though this might take a week. I chose 3 and yet to phone sony.

 

[ailevation]

Surprising enough, I think the compressed air worked... or it was the fact that I let my Wii chill out by turning off WiiConnect24

 

[Korgoth]

I've been having trouble with my Wii reading discs... It doesn't want to detect wii games, and sometimes it'll freeze on start up which is really annoying. I have had it and my ps3 (orig. 60 gb) since launch so maybe thats why. I have had my ps3 lock up a couple times using the web browser, but thats about it. I must say though, all the demo ps3s you see froze at stores is a little daunting, but it was nice to know they weren't the same model that you purchase.

 

[Loke]

Yeah, the web browser has frozen my PS3 a few times. It's a bit of shit really, I wish they could increase the memory to it since you can barely have, say, Youtube up while you're browsing a forum as it would force you to close one of the windows becuase of lack of memory.

 

[Kyorisu]

But the fact is, Sony's overall hardware product quality has declined tremendously.

Let me fix that for you.

People are hungry for cheap devices that will work in the short term. Product quality in all fields has therefore decreased to meet with this trend. If you're product lives past it's warranty period consider yourself lucky.

Of course neither of them can stand up to Nintendo as far as product reliability goes. My SNES and N64 still work as good as the day I got them. I doubt ANY 360's will still be working in that amount of time, who knows about PS3.

See above and you'll understand why they still work. People cared about product quality back then.

 

[VirusType2]

I totally agree Kyo

The old consoles were solid state as well. Little to no moving parts.

The PS3 has a spinning Hard disc that spins at 54,000 Revolutions per minute, an optical drive that spins at high speeds (52X CD speeds at least) and several fans, etc., and has doors that mechanically open and tons more heat involved and isn't going to last as long.

In my experience, if they are well built, they should last a couple years at least, even with daily use. Sometimes you get the one with a slightly unbalanced hard drive or was dropped in shipping, or something.


I worked in a distribution center for about a year. You should see what happens to some of the shipping boxes, like falling or being thrown from the conveyors which run 12 feet up in the air over concrete floors.

First, we get a truck full of similar merchandise that needs to be distributed to the individual retail stores. It comes off the trucks at the hands of unloaders (receivers) who might drop them - I've seen entire walls of boxes come tumbling down. Then they get tossed onto an electric belt that pulls them up to the sorter.

Nearly all of the boxes make it through the belts unharmed, but when they get taken off the belt, and stacked in the trucks, they are at the hands of a truck loader (like myself) who has 8 other trucks to load, with a long belt full of boxes to load for each truck all night long, and they can be dropped, kicked around, or thrown up in the air to reach the top of the truck, or just plain banged around.

And this is just the distribution center in VA, going to the stores in VA. It has received similar treatment all the way from China, and again once it gets to the store itself.


Basically, consider the mundane yet amazingly successful packing that your fragile merchandise comes in.