A couple of weeks ago I bought a PS3. After a week of experiencing its capabilities I was like "wow, this a pretty incredible system". I mostly bought it to play MGS4. I purchased the 80g model w/ MGS4 bundled. A pretty decent deal for $500.
Well all this awesomeness just went down the toilet when MGS4 froze during a cutscene and I had no choice put to reset it. When I did I found out that I corrupted the HDD. Then I had to rebuild the database. Over and over and over again, I "rebuilt" the database. All that it would do is restart. Finally it went to the XMB. Everything is fine, right? No. After attempting to play a game it froze then I had to go through the exact same BULLSHIT over and over and over again. When it went to the XMB again I decided to do a quick format. Took about 10 seconds. I thought all of my problems were solved except for the fact that I lost all of my saves and downloads.
So I went through and started downloading everything again. I had to install MGS4 again and MGO. That takes about 45 minutes total because of the excruciatingly slow download time of the update. Then about an hour later of playing MGS4 (this time I backed my saves up), it froze again when I paused. So guess what. Thats right. All of the same bullshit over again.
When I finally was able to get to the XMB again I did a full format. (this was last night). Took about 4 hours. Whatever. Seemed to have fixed everything.
Today I was playing MGO and I was disconnected or something. Then it froze while it was loading. There is NOTHING you can do but restart. My HDD is corrupted again, now I'm on another full format. About 3 hours left. What the hell do I keep doing wrong? I know I know, don't turn it off when the HDD light is blinking. But what are you supposed to do? These machines aren't going to fix themselves. Is it because of the latest update?
Does anybody else have this problem??!?! Heres a short video of it in action:
Any input would be great. Keep in mind that my system is well taken care of. Well ventilated in a modest room temperature. It fucks up because... well... because I'm using it to play video games. Is that so bad? If I have to send it in and Sony dicks with me I'll fucking flip out and head butt the sidewalk.
I'd recommend contacting Sony... see if you can have them send you just a new Hard Drive.
If you have a typical 2.5" HDD for laptops, you could try testing the PS3 with that in the meantime.
if you just bought it a couple of weeks ago, go return/exchange it for another one, your still under the 30day in-store warranty (if it came with it, most stores do). If not contact Sony, tell them about your problem and they will take care of you.
I would love to exchange it at the store, but what about all of the games I purchased on the PSN? Also, I bought it at gamestop, I don't think they would accept it. It also says on the box not to return it, so I would think that gamestop would abide by that guideline.
Downloads are associated with your account. It's not like the old 360 proprietary DRM BS.
I still think you should tell them about the problem. Returning it because you don't want it is a different story from returning it because it's DEFECTIVE.
There's still the issue of contacting Sony... but seriously, ask Gamestop first.
go exchange it if you can. my shit only freezes in the web browser and i've unpluged it, hard resetted, soft resetted and i've never had data get corrupted. had to re format though due to a nosey brother with a desire to press options he knows nothing about. new hdd tomorrow with linux, with snes, with tales of phantasia (english). i'll be so happy.
I'm surprised more people haven't had this trouble with modern consoles though. I worked on a UW campus, replaced lots of computers and the replacements were ordered a department at a time. It was never much of a shock if a computer had a shit HDD right out of the box. Sounds like you just hit the slim chance of having it happen with a console; both hdd-equipped options have had a pretty good record for this so far.
Sounds like a bad hard drive, that or your room's too hot. I noticed that mine would lock up every now and then when my AC was busted and the room was a little over 80.
If you go to transaction history in the account settings you can re-download anything once you get it up and running again.
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I'd recommend contacting Sony... see if you can have them send you just a new Hard Drive.
If you have a typical 2.5" HDD for laptops, you could try testing the PS3 with that in the meantime.
I still think you should tell them about the problem. Returning it because you don't want it is a different story from returning it because it's DEFECTIVE.
There's still the issue of contacting Sony... but seriously, ask Gamestop first.
I'm surprised more people haven't had this trouble with modern consoles though. I worked on a UW campus, replaced lots of computers and the replacements were ordered a department at a time. It was never much of a shock if a computer had a shit HDD right out of the box. Sounds like you just hit the slim chance of having it happen with a console; both hdd-equipped options have had a pretty good record for this so far.
If you go to transaction history in the account settings you can re-download anything once you get it up and running again.