Tips, Tricks and Fixes

[Me-Hostage]

So I took my PS3 apart a few weeks ago to clean the heatsync. Long story short I ****ed something else up, and it would no longer power on. It really didn't bother me since I had plans on buying a PS4 next month anyways, and assumed I could still use my hard drive if I were to get another PS3 later on. I tried putting my hard drive into my boyfriend's PS3 (we both have the slim, 500gb. I didn't think there was much to it, just pull his out from the side and put mine in. After that I kept getting an error on his PS3 with my hard drive, saying it couldn't run correctly or some shit. I put his back it, worked fine.

Is there a way I can use my hard drive in his PS3 to play my downloaded games, or to upload all of my saves, so I can download them later on?

[dyne]

No. The only way to get the saves is

1. If they're uploaded to the cloud with PS Plus
2. Maybe use a 3rd party tool to extract the saves from the drive while it's plugged into a PC
3. Maybe set it up as an external drive for the PS3, login with your PSN ID and retrieve them that way

Either way the saves will only work while logged in with your PSN ID and might not even work because they may have an ID tag on them that's system specific.

For the games you cannot use your downloaded games on that drive with somebody else's system. You would have to create a 2nd account on his system with your PSN ID and redownload them.

[Me-Hostage]

Originally Posted by dyne

No. The only way to get the saves is

1. If they're uploaded to the cloud with PS Plus
2. Maybe use a 3rd party tool to extract the saves from the drive while it's plugged into a PC
3. Maybe set it up as an external drive for the PS3, login with your PSN ID and retrieve them that way

Either way the saves will only work while logged in with your PSN ID and might not even work because they may have an ID tag on them that's system specific.

For the games you cannot use your downloaded games on that drive with somebody else's system. You would have to create a 2nd account on his system with your PSN ID and redownload them.

Yeah, I know about making the second account with my login details to download them, done it many times. Just thought there could be an easier way than waiting two days just for one game to download. Ugh. Oh well. I tried. Lol

[Waboman]

My original fat 60GB bit the dust again. This is the 2nd time. It had the YLOD awhile back. I had it fixed. Now it seems that it overheated and is DOA. It will turn on but has no audio nor video. If I get a new PS3 is there any way to transfer all the saved game data from the dead fat PS3 to the new one?

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by Waboman

My original fat 60GB bit the dust again. This is the 2nd time. It had the YLOD awhile back. I had it fixed. Now it seems that it overheated and is DOA. It will turn on but has no audio nor video. If I get a new PS3 is there any way to transfer all the saved game data from the dead fat PS3 to the new one?

I don't think so, not unless you had them uploaded to the cloud using PS+

Maybe you can plug the SATA drive in to a USB dock and read it from a PC? Never tried it though.

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

I don't think so, not unless you had them uploaded to the cloud using PS+

Maybe you can plug the SATA drive in to a USB dock and read it from a PC? Never tried it though.

Thanks. I was afraid that was the answer. I avoid using the cloud. Too many nekkid pictures of me.

[Azyiu]

Is my PS3 dying? Or specifically is the hard drive dying?

Over the past month or so, the system randomly would turn itself OFF (beep once) right after I pressed the PS button to start it. Sometimes it works fine for 2-3 days in a row, and all of a sudden on the 4th time or so the above would return.

A friend of mine suggested I go deactivate my system, and then restore the system. Should I do it? Or what are the risks? If I am not wrong, all game data (including games I purchased from the PSN) would be deleted?

[Elandyll]

I have been struggling for months with a weird Netflix glitch:

During playback, the yellow light would suddenly go fll on (instead of blinking), and the video playback would stop for 3-5 seconds while the audio would go on.

I tried a lot of things, looked online and many times tricks were to uninstall and re-install Netflix, among other things.

Even more weird, the problem was strictly Netflix, Amazon Prime working like a charm.

Eventually, I used a combo of words that clicked on Google and brought me this:

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/9903

I am getting choppy or freezing video on my Sony PlayStation 3.

Choppy or freezing video while streaming Netflix on your Sony PlayStation 3 is caused by an issue with storing and retrieving information from the PS3's memory. In these cases, video choppiness will usually happen on all titles, immediately or after a brief window of normal playback.

These symptoms generally indicate a bad or failing hard drive. Upgrading or replacing the hard drive will resolve this issue. More information about this process can be found on PlayStation's support site.

Today, finally getting to replace the local 250Gb (Slim PS3) by the stock 500Gb that came with the PS4 (replaced by a 1TB SHDD), I can confirm that yes, replacing the hard drive solved the issue.

Weird that the "failing hard drive" was only hindering Netflix though.
Me thinks it was probably more a fragmentation problem and that Netflix makes a heavy usage of virtual memory on disk (buffering), but anyways, it's solved.

[Azyiu]

Originally Posted by Azyiu

Is my PS3 dying? Or specifically is the hard drive dying?

Over the past month or so, the system randomly would turn itself OFF (beep once) right after I pressed the PS button to start it. Sometimes it works fine for 2-3 days in a row, and all of a sudden on the 4th time or so the above would return.

A friend of mine suggested I go deactivate my system, and then restore the system. Should I do it? Or what are the risks? If I am not wrong, all game data (including games I purchased from the PSN) would be deleted?

Ok, so I went ahead and re-formatted my slim twice (once each in Quick and Full re-formating), and it still has trouble starting up. As soon as I press the PS button, it would start up like normal, but as soon as the loading screen appears I would hear 3 beeps; and it turns off. I have to press the power button on the system to do a hard reboot to get it start up again. And sometimes I need to repeat the process 2-3 times before it runs normally. Strangely, once it starts up I would have zero trouble with it even if I use it for 5-6 hours in a row. Help! What is wrong?!

[Canada]

I have a top loading PS3 I have been watching the Soprano's and I have been changing the disks out really fast. The disks are still going at quite a high RPM before I use the slider button, then they come to a full stop. My first question is can I damage the disks by having them come to such a quick stop? Also is there a command I can give the PS3 to get the disk to slow down first, by pressing the triangle button or something?

[Derb]

Doesn't the disc come to a stop as you pointed out when you press or open the top slider?

Wear & Tear on the disc drive, but no you will not harm the BDs by slowing down the spin with your fingers.

[SolidSnake35]

I just had my launch PS3 repaired after it YLOD'ed on me. I wish there were some kind of permanent fix. I'd pay good money for someone to immortalize her.

[Psybits]

Originally Posted by SolidSnake35

I just had my launch PS3 repaired after it YLOD'ed on me. I wish there were some kind of permanent fix. I'd pay good money for someone to immortalize her.

NASA could

I just read that the probe they sent to pluto is using a radiation-hardened version of the CPU used in PS1s

[paul_66]

My PS3 is just a little over a year old and it only recently stopped loading certain blu-rays. PS3 games are loading okay. But the strangest thing is that all my Olive Films blu-rays will play perfectly and any BD-25 disc. So it seams to have something to do with the disc sizes. Any ideas? I have the super slim, btw.

[dyne]

Originally Posted by paul_66

My PS3 is just a little over a year old and it only recently stopped loading certain blu-rays. PS3 games are loading okay. But the strangest thing is that all my Olive Films blu-rays will play perfectly and any BD-25 disc. So it seams to have something to do with the disc sizes. Any ideas? I have the super slim, btw.

I don't have any ideas for you aside from some of these suggestions http://www.amazon.com/forum/blu-ray/Tx374K52UQSY4BT. My slim (I believe) went tits up last night. It won't display a signal. I tried taking the HDMI switch out of the equation as well as switching cables. Booted to safe mode and still had no signal. I can't believe they sell the super slims for $250 still.

[paul_66]

It's weird, all of my BD-50 BDs will not play, but my BD-25s will. I take it back about my Olive films playing because Of Mice and Men is BD-50 and it did not play... Could it be that I have too much space used up on the PS3?

[dyne]

Did you try anything in the link I posted?

[tiger_qc]

Originally Posted by Waboman

My original fat 60GB bit the dust again. This is the 2nd time. It had the YLOD awhile back. I had it fixed. Now it seems that it overheated and is DOA. It will turn on but has no audio nor video. If I get a new PS3 is there any way to transfer all the saved game data from the dead fat PS3 to the new one?

I saved my data after my old fat PS3 had a YLOD 4 or 5 years ago using this method and it worked.

method

This is a temporary fix but it should give you enough time to transfer your data, I kept using it for a month after that. Than it died another time, I did it again to save the little progress I made in that month and it worked again but I just bought a slim 500 Gb PS3 after that and stored the fat one.

[tiger_qc]

Originally Posted by paul_66

It's weird, all of my BD-50 BDs will not play, but my BD-25s will. I take it back about my Olive films playing because Of Mice and Men is BD-50 and it did not play... Could it be that I have too much space used up on the PS3?

It's probably the lens, I cleaned it once and it worked for a few months than I changed it there's a lot of cheap ones on eBay, I bought the lens with the tray, it's much easier than just changing the lens.

[paul_66]

I was afraid it was the lens. But I figured if it was the lens that it would do it to every BD. But thanks for the feedback, I will check into getting a lens with a tray when I can. I've already tried turning off the internet connection and I've deleted every BD data that was in the BD data utility, I've even did the database rebuild and rebooted the system many times and none of that worked. It's strange that it suddenly started doing this and it's been playing BDs fine since I got it. But it started having freezing problems on Rio, every single disc I got exchanged that was brand new, even though everything else was still playing just fine, so I finally realized that it must not have been the disc.

UPDATE: It seems the problem has been fixed. I did a reboot two to three times in a row, and I cleaned the lens, now everything seems to be playing perfectly. I'm not sure which one did the trick, but all is good now. I suppose it was the lens being dirty. I used a special cloth used for touchscreens and such and wiped it really good, so that's probably what did it. However, Rio was still having freezing and skip issues, so I refused to allow a Internet connection with the BD and now it doesn't seem to be skipping or freezing at all. Thanks.