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As in the description I own a fat PS3 VER-001. It had a period of around 3 years when it was unused. Now as I powered it up, did all the updates and stuff, chugged in a good ‘ol Sacred 2 disc and fired it. The end. Smooth transition to black screen. TV re-reported 1080p (as if the video resolution was reset) and my PS3 is frozen solid. No reaction to controller, black, 1080p screen (reported resolution stays until PS3 is turned off). No sound at all No reaction to controller by any means(couldn’t turn the console off/controller off) When turned off, with a pwr button, it beeps once, starts blinking the power led and then beeps twice (as if it realized it was frozen) and turns off No error upon the nesxt power-up is shown No “fix” related to safe mode helped (filesystem or database rebuilding/formatting) Happens in all the games I have on physical discs, PS Home and PS Store (with PS Store, Playstation logo is shown and we’re back in the freeze afterwards) I have found no topic related to that particular issue, please, correct me if I’m wrong EDIT: Additional information and findings: The freeze happens on opening PS Home, PS Store, any PS3 game disc During the freeze, the PS3 draws constant 90W from the wall It’s a CECHL04 model and all the voltages are spot-on (within 1%) with the specsheet Updates pass without an issue Rebuilding a database or other safe mode hacks did not work, an entirely new hard drive did not work either The controller does not pair when frozen
Hello, I believe you have an overheat issue, as you mentioned you didn’t use your PlayStation 3 for years, so your console is surely full of dust, so you need to clean it and verify if the fans are spinning correctly. You can follow the ifixt guide to walk you through the steps.
I’m having the same issue, tried everything.
Have you got it solved because I’m having the same issues I’ll say I haven’t done as much as you but my ps3 is doing the same thing
Solutions? Anyone? I have the same issue
