My PS3 has died :(


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my ps3 just YLoD'd 2 days ago, and sony wants 150 bucks to fix it because it's 1 year past the 1 year warranty period. i want to sell it on ebay, but sony told me the only way to "de-activate" the ps3 was to send it in to them. is de-activating really that big a deal? i will format the drive before i sell it, and change the password on my account. and if i buy a new ps3, and sign in with my original account, can i still re-download everything i've purchased, and will my Modern warfare 2 ONLINE stats be intact? thanks.

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Sony will reset activations remotely if you can provide proof of purchase, I really don't know why they're asking for the PS3 back... that's just hassle when what they're doing is related to your PSN account not PS3.

Proof of purchase and the PS3 serial number is what they should be asking for. They don't even need any of that, with your account name they can reset all activations, but I think they've started asking for proof of purchase due to game sharing and people in America losing out on activations due to sharing details with Henrik and Gunter in Germany, then phoning Sony to bitch/cry that Gunter/Henrik can't be contacted.

While the terms and conditions state 5 PS3s can be activated under the one account, they do say Sony don't condone sharing your account information with other people.

To answer your other question yes, your account can be active on up to 5 PS3s as I said above, so you can redownload everything.

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your selling a broken ps3 , grate selling point.

you'd be surprised how many people buy broken ps3's to repair on ebay.

Sony will reset activations remotely if you can provide proof of purchase, I really don't know why they're asking for the PS3 back... that's just hassle when what they're doing is related to your PSN account not PS3.

Proof of purchase and the PS3 serial number is what they should be asking for.

To answer your other question yes, your account can be active on up to 5 PS3s.

ok, thank you! that was exactly what I needed to know.

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your selling a broken ps3 , grate selling point.

LOL This is how I would list it.

For Sale: PS3 $150

It Only Costs $150 to have Sony Fix It!

It's a bargain at $150.

$150 and it's yours now.

See you keep saying $150 even though you mention right in the second sentence it will cost $150 for Sony to fix it. However by continuously mentioning $150, that might divert the sucker, oops I meant human being, and it just might make them not realize it will actually cost them $300.

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LOL This is how I would list it.
For Sale: PS3 $150

It Only Costs $150 to have Sony Fix It!

It's a bargain at $150.

$150 and it's yours now.

See you keep saying $150 even though you mention right in the second sentence it will cost $150 for Sony to fix it. However by continuously mentioning $150, that might divert the sucker, oops I meant human being, and it just might make them not realize it will actually cost them $300.

So my PS3 does cost me $150 then.

You're selling a PS3 with $150 for... $150? Which is an aggregate of $0. Then Sony fix for $150.

Thanks Larry :rofl:

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LOL This is how I would list it.

See you keep saying $150 even though you mention right in the second sentence it will cost $150 for Sony to fix it. However by continuously mentioning $150, that might divert the sucker, oops I meant human being, and it just might make them not realize it will actually cost them $300.

i'm pretty sure anyone who buys it would have the technological know-how to fix it themselves. or they could be taking parts from it. you never know.

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Mine just died also. It will not play any videos, Blue Ray, normal DVD or streaming from my media server. My kids when to use the system, to watch a Futurama movie on blue ray, and it told them there was a mandatory update, after that no more video support. Thsi sucks. My kid called Sony, they told him that my PS3 was to old, (first gen unit), and they would repair it for $150 or possible swap it out, I bought this one so that i could play the PS1 games ther we have, and they play well on this system, but not on a freinds newer on.

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Mine just died also. It will not play any videos, Blue Ray, normal DVD or streaming from my media server. My kids when to use the system, to watch a Futurama movie on blue ray, and it told them there was a mandatory update, after that no more video support. Thsi sucks. My kid called Sony, they told him that my PS3 was to old, (first gen unit), and they would repair it for $150 or possible swap it out, I bought this one so that i could play the PS1 games ther we have, and they play well on this system, but not on a freinds newer on.

If that happened to me, I would raise holy hell with Sony! Basically you could say: I downloaded a mandatory Sony update, and afterwards the PS3 died. Sony wants me to take responsibility for it. Who gives a shi* whether it was 1st gen! To sum it all up in other words, "A Sony Update killed my system!" Sound's like Sony's fault to me. And personally, that's the same thing as Sony walking through your front door and throwing the unit against the wall and then telling you that YOU can pay them to fix it!

Trust me, raise some hell. You'll get the replacement for free...

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Sometimes I'm glad i live in a country with enough consumer protection to require 2/5 years mandatory "warranty" on factory faults, something pretty much all of these situratiosn would fall under, and consoles fall in the 5 year category.

To bad the EU is trying to helps us all out by giving all of EU a universal factory warranty, of 1 year or was it less.

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Mine just died also. It will not play any videos, Blue Ray, normal DVD or streaming from my media server. My kids when to use the system, to watch a Futurama movie on blue ray, and it told them there was a mandatory update, after that no more video support. Thsi sucks. My kid called Sony, they told him that my PS3 was to old, (first gen unit), and they would repair it for $150 or possible swap it out, I bought this one so that i could play the PS1 games ther we have, and they play well on this system, but not on a freinds newer on.

Uhhh I don't understand this part.

The other 3 rely on the physical drive, common factor, but anyone who's BR drive dies can still stream media to the PS3. Updates aren't mandatory for watching videos either, the only thing that's mandatory for an update is the ability to sign into PSN.

By video support do you actually mean video signal, does the PS3 go to the main menu when you turn it on or is it a black screen?

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Again I think the guy should just call Sony and do a bit of yelling. You'd be surprised about how far you can get!

Yelling at support personnel may be counter productive.

start yelling at people who do their best to help people who keep abusing them and doing it for some of the worst pay around, and you'll soon find that their willingness to help drops with the anger and yelling of the customer, in fact if the customer starts yelling their rules are that they can hang up. Sure you can yell a bit and demand a supervisor, but supervisors barely get paid more and need to do more work and usually started out on the floor. When they get forced on the phone, they're less likely to help out, especially if they see that the agent in question has done anything he's required to do.

be nice, and calm and treat them with some respect and patience though, and you'll be surprised at the extra services they may find room to give. The only time they'll give extra service to a yeller if is they just don't give an F, or they just don't have a choice due to a mistake being done or there being a service notice.

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Uhhh I don't understand this part.

The other 3 rely on the physical drive, common factor, but anyone who's BR drive dies can still stream media to the PS3. Updates aren't mandatory for watching videos either, the only thing that's mandatory for an update is the ability to sign into PSN.

By video support do you actually mean video signal, does the PS3 go to the main menu when you turn it on or is it a black screen?

I plan to call them my self and raise some hell over it.

Since the update it boots, and the menu works fine, you can sign in and everything. If you put a video disk in the unit, it will go to a black screen, and that is it. Sometimes when it boots, you get a error that it was not properly shut down, or even some hex code numbers show up. When a disk is in the unit, will only say video disk, no title or disk name.

I does **** me off, i am going to try to clean it, to see if that makes a difference.

It bothers me that things that I was doing like streaming from my Windows media Server no longer works, it reads nothing in the directories, which before it did not have any issue. I might just clear everything out related to the Media Center system, and re-start the configuration. My son also said that some of the PS2 games no longer work either. I need to get back my 2 PS3 games to test it out.

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I checked with a friend who repairs Xbox360 and other game units, he told me to hold the dvd/br eject button for 10 seconds (wait for a beep, it causes a laser reset), then reformat the HD ( i have it set to 10gb for OS and rest PS3). That fixed all the video playback issues. Honestly how hard would it have been for SONY to tell my kid to do that first?

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I checked with a friend who repairs Xbox360 and other game units, he told me to hold the dvd/br eject button for 10 seconds (wait for a beep, it causes a laser reset), then reformat the HD ( i have it set to 10gb for OS and rest PS3). That fixed all the video playback issues. Honestly how hard would it have been for SONY to tell my kid to do that first?

Well no offence but what age is your kid? It might of been best if you had phoned the tech support.

I was actually going to recommend you did that, it tells you in the PS3 manual how to reset your video settings, but because of the symptoms you were throwing at me I was getting confused.

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Well no offence but what age is your kid? It might of been best if you had phoned the tech support.

I was actually going to recommend you did that, it tells you in the PS3 manual how to reset your video settings, but because of the symptoms you were throwing at me I was getting confused.

My son is 19. Sony answer was to send it in, plan and simple and pay the repair fee. I did some more reseaarch last night, and found a lot of people with the same issue over the years, and the fix was to reformat the HD, (and people complain about MS fixes).

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Well no offence but what age is your kid? It might of been best if you had phoned the tech support.

I was actually going to recommend you did that, it tells you in the PS3 manual how to reset your video settings, but because of the symptoms you were throwing at me I was getting confused.

Isn't the eject button the fan test? 60gb EU models etc.

On/Off is the Video settings reset.

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