PS3 Problem - Blu-ray Forum

atomik kinder · 02-08-2009, 02:51 PM

Okay, one of my PS3s will power on, the icons on the XMB are fine, but any of the sub icons, game demos, user ids etc just show up as the rotating arrows and they never go away. If I stick in a blu-ray disc, nothing happens. If I click on one of the rotating icons, the whole thing locks up. Any ideas what could be wrong? This one is not hooked up to the internet at the moment. I was thinking it may be the hard drive or something since it looks like it is unable to load any of the information.

Pepelutivruski4 · 02-08-2009, 05:37 PM

back up your hard drive if you can, i smell death of your PS3...

Toxa · 02-08-2009, 05:57 PM

Fomart your HDD

atomik kinder · 02-08-2009, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toxa

Fomart your HDD

Do you think that will work? As to the other post, I don't think I can back it up because it will freeze up when I click on anything. And how can it be formatted if I can't click on anything. I could remove it, but could I stick it in my notebook to format it?

UKTruBlu · 02-08-2009, 07:09 PM

Just contact Sony.

paul0908 · 02-08-2009, 07:14 PM

i had a problem just like that so i bought a new hard drive on the advice of a friend and everything was fine

atomik kinder · 02-22-2009, 08:48 PM

I fixed this myself. I did contact Sony, but from the info they sent me, it looked like I was going to have to send it in to get it fixed. It cost me nothing but a little time. I took the Hard Drive out of the non working PS3 and one that works, (yes, I have 3 don't ask). I switched them out, that took a little while as the PS3s have different Hard Drive carriers so I had to remove those and switch them out. I stuck the working Hard Drive into the PS3 that wasn't working and booted it up. It made me reformat the drive. I ended up losing everything saved on it, but I didn't really mind. It worked in that PS3, so I took the drive, swapped them out again. Wouldn't you know, it didn't want to work. Well, it told me I needed to have a removable storage device with the most current firmware on it. I grabbed a thumb drive and got on the net and downloaded it. I hooked up the thumb drive and followed the instructions. Works fine now. I don't know how it ended up with the error it had since it is one that the kids use all the time, so it could have been anything.

So, the formatting the drive trick worked, but as I said in my previous posts, I could not click on anything so I could not format the drive from the original PS3 itself.

SkantDragon · 02-23-2009, 09:56 AM

Disconnect all USB devices and anything else you can unplug from it besides the video cable and power. It's a long shot, but it could be a bad USB device interfering with the system.

It's more likely a failed hard drive though. Just reseating the hard drive might fix it.

02-08-2009, 02:51 PM	#1
atomik kinder Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jun 2007 Location:Omaha NE 4K collection:- Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:-	PS3 Problem Okay, one of my PS3s will power on, the icons on the XMB are fine, but any of the sub icons, game demos, user ids etc just show up as the rotating arrows and they never go away. If I stick in a blu-ray disc, nothing happens. If I click on one of the rotating icons, the whole thing locks up. Any ideas what could be wrong? This one is not hooked up to the internet at the moment. I was thinking it may be the hard drive or something since it looks like it is unable to load any of the information.

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02-08-2009, 05:37 PM	#2
Pepelutivruski4 Banned Member since:Oct 2008 Blu-ray collection:19	back up your hard drive if you can, i smell death of your PS3...

02-08-2009, 05:57 PM	#3
Toxa Moderator Top contributor Member since:Nov 2007 Location:Opera Garnier Home Theater Gallery:110 Blu-ray collection:311 Blu-ray reviews:1	Fomart your HDD

02-08-2009, 07:09 PM	#5
UKTruBlu Senior Member Member since:Dec 2007 Location:Surrey, England Home Theater Gallery:9 Blu-ray collection:170 Blu-ray reviews:1	Just contact Sony.

02-08-2009, 07:14 PM	#6
paul0908 Active Member Member since:Feb 2007 Location:Telford U.K Blu-ray collection:89 DVD collection:3	i had a problem just like that so i bought a new hard drive on the advice of a friend and everything was fine

02-22-2009, 08:48 PM	#7
atomik kinder Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jun 2007 Location:Omaha NE 4K collection:- Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:-	I fixed this myself. I did contact Sony, but from the info they sent me, it looked like I was going to have to send it in to get it fixed. It cost me nothing but a little time. I took the Hard Drive out of the non working PS3 and one that works, (yes, I have 3 don't ask). I switched them out, that took a little while as the PS3s have different Hard Drive carriers so I had to remove those and switch them out. I stuck the working Hard Drive into the PS3 that wasn't working and booted it up. It made me reformat the drive. I ended up losing everything saved on it, but I didn't really mind. It worked in that PS3, so I took the drive, swapped them out again. Wouldn't you know, it didn't want to work. Well, it told me I needed to have a removable storage device with the most current firmware on it. I grabbed a thumb drive and got on the net and downloaded it. I hooked up the thumb drive and followed the instructions. Works fine now. I don't know how it ended up with the error it had since it is one that the kids use all the time, so it could have been anything. So, the formatting the drive trick worked, but as I said in my previous posts, I could not click on anything so I could not format the drive from the original PS3 itself.

02-23-2009, 09:56 AM	#8
SkantDragon Active Member Member since:Oct 2007	Disconnect all USB devices and anything else you can unplug from it besides the video cable and power. It's a long shot, but it could be a bad USB device interfering with the system. It's more likely a failed hard drive though. Just reseating the hard drive might fix it.

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