My Sony PS3 Crashes A Lot: Hard drive maybe
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: July 17, 2008 | 16 Comments
This is some news that has affected myself and also a few other people that I know, lets find out if its just a small number of people or a much wider issue with the Playstation 3.
Since updating to firmware 2.41 from 2.40, my Sony PS3 crashes a lot and this has happened in games like Call of Duty 4 (as reported before). At first I felt this may be an issue with COD4 and the recent firmware, but after hearing from others having crashes with COD4 it may not be the case.
Recently the hard drive needed restoring as the PS3 would not even boot up, as the settings were back up to an external hard drive, this process was painless.
After the problem with the hard drive, we are thinking that this could be an issue with the hard drive being damaged in some way and I have heard of this before.
Has your hard drive ever packed up on your Sony PS3?
The good thing with the Sony PS3 is the hard drive; it’s really easy to just slip another much larger drive in. Many gamers have installed drives of 250GB into their PS3 and receive the benefits of a much larger hard drive.
With the movie download service launching for the PS3, it is time to upgrade our PS3 drives to have all this content stored internally thanks to a larger drive.
Can anyone else report they have had a PS3 hard drive fail, other problems or crashes? And have you upgraded your drive to a larger one?
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Hey wrenchy, hate to burst your buble, but sony will send you a refurbished ps3 not a ne one…. Happy Gaming!!!!!!!!!!!!1
hey i got a ps3 and it never comes on straight away and when i am online and i want to send a masssage it crashes so i have to quit the game (drag) and sometimes when im quiting the game it crashes so i have to turn off the system and turn it back on again it drives me crazy if u know what to do mail me at pigface67@hotmail.com
I bought my ps3 80G in july. Within two months my PS3 would shut down durring games like pain, Metal Gear Solid4, Paradise City, etc. Mostly it would shut down during the movie cuts, but some games like MGS4 would go haywire during play. Sony said it was a hard drive issue and exchaged it with me. 3 months later the same exact thing is happening again with my swapped one. Now I can’t even start any game that has a long movie clip at the beginning. The ps3 just shuts down. I bought pacific rift and it will shut down during gameplay. I’m hopping that it really is a hard drive issue and that an upgrade to the hardrive will help. Any suggestions?
I HAVE A 160 GIG PS3 AND I HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH CRASHING WHEN I PLAY MLB THE SHOW 09. I DECIDED TO CONTACT IOMEGA AND BOUGHT A 1TB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE AND THE PROBLEM WAS RESOLVED. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT WITH THE PS3 THAT YOU BACK EVERYTHING UP. IT DOESN’T TAKE ALOT TO CRASH A PS3 JUST LIKE A COMPUTER. NOT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE. COULD BE WORSE YOU COULD BE STUCK WITH AN XBOX 360.
my ps3 just keeps crashing b4 it gets to the menu its just stays on dem wavy lines now why does it do it i wanna know before i phone sony lol
get an xbox they wont crash like your shitty ps3