PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[King-Krish]

hello,

this is my 1st post so I hope I'm in the right place. my brothers playstation recently stopped working when I tested it, u can turn it on, but there no picture or sound being sent to the tv and when I try to turn it off nothing happens, I can only pull the mains out to cut the power. any ideas how I can fix this? thanks for the help.

[Lee984]

i have the same problem

[half0pipe]

Have you tried holding down the power button untill it beeps twice? That will reset the video and sound output.

If that won't work, boot your PS3 into the recovery menu [Google it] and restore file system and database, that should fix it.

[Lee984]

i have tried that only getting one beep from it and it won't go into recovery

it won't even switch off unless its unpluged

[Iyonix]

If you hold the power button on the console long enough it should switch off safely. Unplug any connected devices and retry.

[Girl_Gamer_247]

I'm not sure if what happened to you is the same as what happened to me. But with my original PS3 40gb model I got the 'yellow light of death' where one day it randomly shut off and when I tried to turn it on, it would beep a couple of times then nothing would happen. 

If this is what happened to yours, then sorry, it's pretty much screwed unless you want to pay quite a bit to get it checked out and repaired, if possible.

I just went and bought a new PS3 slim 320gb Still got that broken ps3 lying around somewhere.