PS3 going nuts?


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Has anyone else had their PS3 suddenly just go nuts? Last night it was sat there quietly folding, and all of a sudden all the fans kicked in, made a huge amount of noise and was kicking out a lot of heat. This didn't stop until I unplugged the machine.

Is this normal? What's it doing? Anyone elses done that? I have the 40gb version.

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Maybe it needed more power as you were folding, hence the higher temp and fan noise?

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There was no smell, just the fans on full blast and a lot of heat...? I doubt it was the folding as it was in full swing when it happened, and has not happened on it before?

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weird

i had one weird thing happen to the ps3 here, maybe someone can shed light on it. I turned it on to stream an avi from a pc, but i think it was saying it was an invalid format, i was confused. I restarted the ps3, and this time it had the little thumbnail for the video, and selected it to play, it went to the black screen, then did nothing. Restarted it one more time, and then finally, it detected and played right away.

Is your still working properly?

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Other members on this forum have had this happen once or twice, im sure Game has.

I fold often and it's never happened.

I'd say it's a safety feature, that when the PS3 reaches a certain tempature the fans kick in at full throttle. When you turn it off, it obviously cools down, and when turned back on returns to normal.

Seeing as there aren't many reports of this, it's probably room temperature/other devices causing the PS3 to get a little bit hotter than it normally does.

That's my guess anyway.

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Maybe it was passively, or doing really low active cooling, until it reached a certain temperature point, then kicked the fans in to keep it within certain temperature limits.

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Don't worry. It's happened to me about 2-3 times. My old 60gb was like that about an hour into every game, my 40gb only does it once in a blue moon, I have it standing vertical now and so far it seems quieter... :yes:

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"Reports" indicated the PS3 was cooler when horizontal, but from personal "testing" I can say that it's the opposite for me and that my PS3 is significantly quieter vertical even though the top of the PS3 almost hits the top of my cabinet... :yes:

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"Reports" indicated the PS3 was cooler when horizontal, but from personal "testing" I can say that it's the opposite for me and that my PS3 is significantly quieter vertical even though the top of the PS3 almost hits the top of my cabinet... :yes:

I hope it doesn't stand next to your TV then. ;)

Mine made such load noises before. It happened, did it for a while and then stopped.

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