Help my PS3!

[Brocman]

If the problem has nothing to do with your HDD that would be awesome, just put that one into the new PS3 and your good to go.

[Zabka]

Can you put new hdds in the new ps3 slim?

[norm]

Yep Zabka you can. I all ready looked into this..lol
PS3 Slim HDD Removal



Shocker I'm sorry this happened to you. It always sucks when anything breaks. Was your PS3 out of warranty? I'm not as familiar with the PS3's warranty and what it entails.

[shocker101]

Yeah it was out of warranty. I have had it for two years now so yeah. Its not that bad the new one looks much nicer anyways.

[Deslock]

I've been in mortal fear of this, especially since the new update is well known to brick 1st gen. machines. I'm normally not a worrywart, but 80+ pages on the PS forums gives me good reason for pause.

I'm not a Sony "fanboy", and I've been less than thrilled with them for quite some time now. But I've always loved Sony's PS products up 'till now.

Just because I own their product, shouldn't give them the right to change the very way my machine functions, nor it's visual appearence, just to be able to game online.

If you bought a car from Toyota, does that give them the right to change the interior colour of your car, change the way it drives, and force you to listen to their new ads on the radio...?????!!!! And if you don't approve, you can't drive it anymore? If you want to drive it, you are literally "forced" to update it?

There's no way in Hell anyone would stand for that. So why are you doing it for your PS3?

And if your car does stop starting, you have to send it to them for repairs...Out of your own pocket..???!!!! When it was their fault to begin with ??!!!

I never thought I'd ever see the day when I'd be hardcore thinking about getting a 360. But I sure as Hell have been. At least Microsucks does listen to their customers.

Wow.

[RageProphetXIII]

Yeah it was out of warranty. I have had it for two years now so yeah. Its not that bad the new one looks much nicer anyways.

Keep the HDD it should swap with all your stuff with out a problem.

So shocker any chance I can have your old PS3, IF you decide to do so I'm willing to pay for the shipping.

[Deslock]

If he could swap it out and keep all his game saves and info, that really would be great.

But I still can't help but think that unless he was literally beating the Hell out of it, two years is still a short time to have it go down. My PS1 is still going like a champ. For that matter all of my old systems are. Why are all the new consoles bricking like this? Cheap components?

I still buy games for my sega genesis and N64 at pawn shops and Gamestop to this very day, and they work just fine.

I had 2 PS2's, one stopped reading disks and I cleaned it out well and re-aligned the laser and gave it to a buddy, and it's working great for him. The other one I sold to another guy at one of the places I worked, and it's still doing great for him. Now I wish I would've kept them both, now that the new PS3's don't have B/C.

And Rage, I have to ask, if he does remove the hard drive, and his old PS3 is bricked, what the heck are you going to do with it? It would prolly cost more to fix, than going out and buying a new one.

[RageProphetXIII]

I have an extra HDD from my PS3. But for the most part I want to experiment with it. Maybe I could try fixing it but for the most part I want to see if I can turn it into a laptop. It may not work but I can use it for the right measurements and give it a trial run before investing in something like that.

I like taking things apart and messing with them. But Shocker is ignoring me right now and is hurting my feelings.....:(

Mostly If i can learn to fix it then I can offer to fix them for cheaper than 150.00

[mrpappy2u]

I had the same thing happen to my ps3 last year. I bought a new one with a killer crcd offer from sony and sold the old one on ebay for about $50.00 as is . Sony online had all my download info and I reclaimed everything. No problems, my machine however did not just break down , one of our ( still alive but I do not know why ) cats PISSED on THE FRICKIN THING. Right on the slot ! I was pissed but I love my wife more so I did not kill the thing. By they way the cats had also sprayed on a wall oulet in the bath room and the out let because of the corrosion , later caught on fire. Ya I know ..... here kitty kitty kitty....................BLAMMMMMMMM.


oh did I do that ???

[norm]

Okay Pappy I try not to laugh at others when their gaming machine dies on them, but that's pretty damn funny..lol

[jmhc74]

Yeh I would have taken that cat and dropped it off at the local chinese restaurant...hmm pork lo mein, that's not pork...is it

[shocker101]

Naw I am going to keep it cause my brother might send it in to have it fixed. Plus you do not need to swap out the hard drives it saves just about everything with your email address and password. I was able to download everything from the profile.

[RageProphetXIII]

Alright well anytime anyone wants to donate stuff for me to tinker with let me know.

Anyone have nintendo stuff they don't want?

[Rommel]

Why are all the new consoles bricking like this? Cheap components?

The major issue is heat dissipation.

As consoles became more complex, their processors started to rival and even surpass (in the case of the PS3) the power of regular desktop PCs. If someone told you in the 90s that video game consoles like your PSX would one day rival desktops, you would've laughed in their faces. Remember that the PSX, a console considered "on the edge" at the time, had a processor speed of 33Mhz, while the average processor speed of a desktop PC in 1996 was 100Mhz.

I'm not an electrical engineer, but as the processors become more complex, they required more voltage. This means that they get more hot. To provide for heat dissipation, console architects have added fans, more transistors, sinks, more memory, etc. This only makes consoles more complex, and as they get more complex, there are obviously more things that can go wrong.

Add to the above that you have to design the system in a way that is easy to develop AND cheap to manufacture, and you really start to wonder at how companies like Sony manage to keep their failure rates so low.

So no, it's not that they're using cheaper components. It's just that consoles are getting so advanced so fast, that the people who make them can't possible foresee all the possible problems.

It's also one of the side-effects of the console wars. Manufacturers are under constant pressure to release the next big console, so they launch a product that hasn't been properly tested and/or designed to get an advantage over their competitors. That way they can gain market share, and once they have it, re-release the console with any fixes it may need (like making it slimmer or less power hungry). It can backfire though. Just ask Microsoft.

[Rommel]

Oh, and just to add a bit more to the above:

Average CPU clock speed for a desktop in 2009: ~2.5Ghz
PS3 Cell microprocessor clock speed: 3.2Ghz