I have a disc in it now
but I'll keep it in mind if my PS3 ever come out of this coma without repairs.
PS3 hardware failure
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I have a disc in it now
but I'll keep it in mind if my PS3 ever come out of this coma without repairs.
oramay said:I have a disc in it now
There must be a sensor in there ... Perhaps you can trigger it somehow with a sheet of paper or something?
It's a weird issue - has your PS3 ever been open? Sounds like the sheet that connects the buttons isn't plugged in right or is damaged.
PS3s are fairly easy to open up if you need to remove the disk manually. I had to manually remove 2 disk that my wife jammed in the blu ray player (don't ask grrrr) and it was pretty straight forward, I read a couple articles and watched a couple youtube videos and then just did it. If your machine is out of warranty, nothing wrong with trying.
Ironically my PS3 just started flashing the red light, this will be the first console I have owned which has failed. My launch 360, PS2 and GC all still work.... If I can swap it out for a PS3 slim for a hundred bucks I will likely do that.
Ironically my PS3 just started flashing the red light, this will be the first console I have owned which has failed. My launch 360, PS2 and GC all still work.... If I can swap it out for a PS3 slim for a hundred bucks I will likely do that.
The only time my PS3 was opened was by the Sony repair people. It has gone through a red bleeping failure (may be called YLOD) already. The buttons were already malfunctioning somewhat at the time. I also asked them to check but the buttons were working ok at their repair center and they didn't do anything for this problem. The buttons seem to have gone progressively worse.
Paper doesn't seem to trigger anything. I'll probably wait a week or two more and then may be try what temesgen suggest.
BTW, how do these old fat PS3 buttons work? By heat? Electrical conductivity? Pressure?
Thanks.
Paper doesn't seem to trigger anything. I'll probably wait a week or two more and then may be try what temesgen suggest.
BTW, how do these old fat PS3 buttons work? By heat? Electrical conductivity? Pressure?
Thanks.
Capacitance buttons AFAIK, same as most touch screens.
RenegadeRocks
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Okay, I sold all my game collection to make enough money to get a new ps3 on 50% discount. Actually i made a little more than I required !
So, now I went to Sony yesterday, gave them my old ps3, paid up 50% amount for a new ps3 and now I have to wait for a month before it arrives ! A month ! Hope it arrives sooner !
Good part is I did not give them my controller, told them I lost it. so now when my ps3 arrives we'll have two wireless controllers ! We had been using our ps2 controller uptill now to play co-op with my nephew !
So, now I went to Sony yesterday, gave them my old ps3, paid up 50% amount for a new ps3 and now I have to wait for a month before it arrives ! A month ! Hope it arrives sooner !
Good part is I did not give them my controller, told them I lost it. so now when my ps3 arrives we'll have two wireless controllers
! We had been using our ps2 controller uptill now to play co-op with my nephew !
^^ awesome "plan" you did there
PS3 gamepad is very expensive, nice to get to keep the old one.
back about PS3 failures,
a few months ago my friend use his PS3 slim like crazy (he play RPGs) and its still alive, then i borrow it to play many hours of Uncharted 3, its still alive but the fan is louder than before. despite already cleaned using vacuum cleaner. And im sure its the fan, not the BR drive because i installed the game to HDD and put away the game disc on my shelf.
is something wrong?
is the thermal paste need to be changed?
similar thing happened on my xbox and the fan back to slow after i change the thermal paste.
PS3 gamepad is very expensive, nice to get to keep the old one.
back about PS3 failures,
a few months ago my friend use his PS3 slim like crazy (he play RPGs) and its still alive, then i borrow it to play many hours of Uncharted 3, its still alive but the fan is louder than before. despite already cleaned using vacuum cleaner. And im sure its the fan, not the BR drive because i installed the game to HDD and put away the game disc on my shelf.
is something wrong?
is the thermal paste need to be changed?
similar thing happened on my xbox and the fan back to slow after i change the thermal paste.
When did it support full game installation?
How did you connect your PS2 controller to your PS3?
You guys make me scratch my head!
RenegadeRocks
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When did it support full game installation?
How did you connect your PS2 controller to your PS3?
You guys make me scratch my head!
Orangepulpa has CFW on his ps3, hence he can copy games to his HDD.
As for me, I use a cheap converter to plug in my ps2 controller. I'll take a pic of it and post here for u when I am home. The same converter which is used to connect the ps2 controller to the PC. It connects to the usb port and thankfully, ps3 recognises ps2 controllers.
Yeah that PlayStation 2 to USB converter is handy little thing
btw its my friend's PS3, i dont have one.
i got xbox and sometime we just exchange our console to play different games
btw its my friend's PS3, i dont have one.
i got xbox and sometime we just exchange our console to play different games
You can't really clean a console that way, you need to open up the casing and blow out the innards with compressed/canned air (NOT vacuum cleaner, because they can generate static electricity that zaps electronics, causing immediate or long-term catastrophic damage to the various components inside.)
sorry i didnt clearly say, i mean i opened and cleaned the ps3 using vacuum cleaner.
and i keep a nice distance from the vacuum cleaner nozzle to the ps3 (maybe around 20cm)
thus my conclusion maybe the thermal paste need to be changed.
and i keep a nice distance from the vacuum cleaner nozzle to the ps3 (maybe around 20cm)
thus my conclusion maybe the thermal paste need to be changed.
I have problem turning on my PS3 over the past few days.
The on/off and eject buttons have a long history of working only intermittently. Usually, I just turn it on with my controllers. However, it's not responding to any of my controllers right now. I mean no response at all, NOT that kind of red light blinking, turn on for a second and then off again kind of situation.
The buttons don't seem like in the mood to react either. What can I do to turn it on and hopefully sync my controllers again?
Time for an update. Opened my PS3 and saw:
http://i.imgur.com/ZtwfV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/50QcE.jpg
The contact points are circled. Orange for Eject, blue for On/Off.
Seems like rusty contact plates is the problem with the buttons. If I touch the button contacts on the board directly, they respond correctly. After some cleaning, Eject is working like normal now (with casing on). The On/Off button still isn't working though (only responded once).
I've synced my controllers again and they are fine. From now on, I'll try to take out the disk before powering off. If my PS3 loses sync with my controllers again, I can put a disk in to wake it up. The Eject button does work reliably now if I leave a disk inside on shutdown.
It's disappointing to see how badly some of the metal in PS3 rust nonetheless.
Do you have your PS3 in a sauna or something??
Time for an update. Opened my PS3 and saw:
http://i.imgur.com/ZtwfV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/50QcE.jpg
The contact points are circled. Orange for Eject, blue for On/Off.
Seems like rusty contact plates is the problem with the buttons. If I touch the button contacts on the board directly, they respond correctly. After some cleaning, Eject is working like normal now (with casing on). The On/Off button still isn't working though (only responded once).
I've synced my controllers again and they are fine. From now on, I'll try to take out the disk before powering off. If my PS3 loses sync with my controllers again, I can put a disk in to wake it up. The Eject button does work reliably now if I leave a disk inside on shutdown.
It's disappointing to see how badly some of the metal in PS3 rust nonetheless.
WTF!!!
Doesn't metal rust primarily occur in the presence of water?
Moisture, so very humid conditions can do it. That's why PS3's aren't popular in the middle of tropical rainforests (maybe...).
I don't know how it got so bad, but "hot and humid" does describe my summer days well. :smile: Even so, I've never seen anything this bad in my PC. May be the PS3 is hotter. Would rusting also relate to whether a piece of metal is grounded or not?
Thinking back now, may be I could have made the On/Off button work reliably as well (it's responding intermittently now). As soon as I saw the Eject button was ok, I was thinking mission accomplished and didn't want to spend more time on it.
Thinking back now, may be I could have made the On/Off button work reliably as well (it's responding intermittently now). As soon as I saw the Eject button was ok, I was thinking mission accomplished and didn't want to spend more time on it.
That's the nastiest corrosion I've ever seen in any piece of consumer electronics still being used! I had an old steel PC chassis sit for like half a decade in an unheated storage room and it got a rash of surface rust on the inside (which was unpainted) that was fairly bad. Nothing a bit of steel wool or soemthing couldn't have fixed I'm sure, but I was still surprised. I thought that room was pretty dry on the whole!
Your PS3 however, oye vey! It's really surprising it would rust in indoors conditions, unless you sprayed it down with salt water or something...
Your PS3 however, oye vey! It's really surprising it would rust in indoors conditions, unless you sprayed it down with salt water or something...
Time for an update. Opened my PS3 and saw:
http://i.imgur.com/ZtwfV.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/50QcE.jpg
The contact points are circled. Orange for Eject, blue for On/Off.
Seems like rusty contact plates is the problem with the buttons. If I touch the button contacts on the board directly, they respond correctly. After some cleaning, Eject is working like normal now (with casing on). The On/Off button still isn't working though (only responded once).
I've synced my controllers again and they are fine. From now on, I'll try to take out the disk before powering off. If my PS3 loses sync with my controllers again, I can put a disk in to wake it up. The Eject button does work reliably now if I leave a disk inside on shutdown.
It's disappointing to see how badly some of the metal in PS3 rust nonetheless.
At some point in that PS3's life it got wet, or do you have very sweaty hands?
At some point in that PS3's life it got wet, or do you have very sweaty hands?
It's not like I hug the PS3 when I game and let it soak up my sweat.
I put it behind an LCD monitor. Does LCD by any chance release ionized oxygen or anything that may speed up oxidation? I can't think of more tangible factors. :smile:
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