Sony PS3 2.43 update needed to fix 2.42 firmware
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: August 3, 2008 | 150 Comments
It looks like we will need the Sony PS3 2.43 update much sooner than later as it’s needed to fix the 2.42 firmware. We are getting numerous reports that the latest Playstation 2.42 firmware is causing problems for users.
Personally our PS3 is just fine but then we have not had much time with it since the latest firmware. This is what some gamers have reported to PR:
Well this is totally Effed Up!!! My son decided that it would be a good idea to update the PS3 and he did 2 nights ago without me knowing it. Well now ANYTHING BLURAY does NOT play. NOTHING!!! Doesn’t even recognize the DAMN Disk!!! Is there anything I can do???
Installed this newest update and now nothing works, can not read disks at all. We have done the system restore, etc. now have to wait while it gets shipped to Sony to fix it. Very upsetting, fairly new PS3 (5 months) in excellent condition and was working perfectly prior to update. Extremely frustrating.
Yeah, downloaded it earlier and now I can’t stay connected to a single online game.
Downloaded the update and all my saves on cod 4 single player have gone and when I name my perks online as soon as I switch my PS3 off they disappear and have to name them again.
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Haven´t had any problems whatsoever with my 2.42 version of the firmware. It has optimized my machine by as much as 20% faster menus, it feels like, call it a placebo, if, but it´s a good tweek update.
i just updated my system and is running fine
The article is questionable at best - for a single FW update to have this range of errors, but only have a _very_ small number of them turn up (assume 10 million PS3s have been updated, you’d be looking at 0.0001 per cent failure rate or thereabouts - not quite RROD proportions) and for all of the problems to be different - statistically, it would be a _very_ strange result. If you’re looking for a FW problem, you’d need at least some consistency in the errors that turn up after the FW update.
You’d also expect a much larger internet response to this - even 0.0001 per cent of PS3 users is a lazy 1000 people, a significant proportion who would be expected to get on the interwebs. If you go for a larger failure rate (and, let’s face it, these kind of problems are unlikely to appear at the 0.0001 per cent level - they’re much more likely to be a 0.01 per cent or higher) then you’ve got 100,000 angry PS3 users - and we’ve heard nothing online from any of them until about a week after 2.42 came out? It’d be a first, that’s for sure!
“Downloaded the update and all my saves on cod 4 single player have gone and when I name my perks online as soon as I switch my PS3 off they disappear and have to name them again.”
Thats not a FW related problem i had that problem about 2 moths ago, but it sorted itself out
I had my ps3 update yesterday.. was playing GTA4 before installing it..then straight after it boom..Blurayreader doesn’t work anymore..coincidence you say? not if i read all these topics on the official forums in any country possible as well as this here.. am I really forced to send in my ps3? or should I wait for another update that might “fix” it? jezus..
mind you I didn’t have any problems with 2.40, but really the disc drive failing at the same time of the update isn’t a coincidental event to me.. I mean, I was still playing before I installed it..
Yes, my PS3 does not work with this patch, its got to be a software problem.
Sadly the latest form of attack for the Xbots is to lie about firmware updates messing up their PS3 (which they don’t even own).
There were problems with update 2.4 but the vats majority of the new ones we are hearing about are pure fantasy concocted by children.
yh man i have the same problem, i cant stay connected to online games, max play is 20mins before a problem occurs and psn signs me out automatically, and it isnt my internet connection. i hve 8meg.
this happened t my ps3, would not play ps3 disc, had to send off.
I”ve updated to 2.42 with absolutley no issue. just wondering what models could have possibly be affected? I have a 60gb (first model out). It’s running faster and smoother than ever. Sounds like alot of the issues mentioned don’t necessarely point to firmware issues. The not reading discs is plausible but not probable.