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Pristine20 on 08 June 2009
Xxain said:
Pristine20 said:
Xxain said:
pristine...stop comparing PS3 to PS2 man, your only gonna put yourself at risk again if you keep using " but my PS2.." argument

My next one will be backed up every 2 days lol. I know ps3 is waay more complex, I'm just saying that failure isn't something that should be excused/accepted.

i back up the first of every month...I leave myself messages on my phone to remind me :)

I back up copyable saves every weekend. The problem is that some saves are DRM-protected. The full back up think backs up loads of videos and demos on my ps3 that really don't need backing up...and it takes eons too. This is part of the problem. I wont be in this predicament if not for DRM



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

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Gippon on 08 June 2009

That sucks, two though! Recently mine has been making more noise than it used to... Hopefully it won't do something stupid, but it isn't doing too bad considering it is over two years old.



PSN: Gippon

Seece on 08 June 2009
Xxain said:
seece said:
I'm sorry your PS3 broke, this isn't fair you have to pay again for it to be fixed, I would bug the living hell out of Sony.

I bet seece is giddy in the inside

Er no ...



 

Leonidus on 08 June 2009

60GBs are like time bombs, you know It's coming



Pristine20 on 08 June 2009
Feylic said:
Pristine20 said:
Xxain said:
Pristine20 said:
Xxain said:
pristine how is ur playing habits???...i ask because i notice you play KZ2 like 24/7 or pretty close to that, that would definitely contribute to overheat features

I play a lot. Always did. played ps2 a lot, ps1 a lot....nothing broke. I just tuned on my ps3 to play devil summoner 2 and it went off after 5 mins and never came back on.

Sega genesis had overheating issues but c'mon this is 2009...we still have this problem? The console isn't hot...the problem is that it thinks that it's hot when it's not. Overengineering perhaps?

i highly suggest giving breaks inbetween( full shut down), higher techs mean higher risk which is contrary to popular belief..and cant compare a PS1&2 to 3

computers are higher tech too yet they somehow stay on for days. It isn't in a cramped space or hot either. It's on a table by itself with a fan next to it. Like the tech said, the problem is that the system thinks it's hot when it really isn't so to avoid burning your house, it shuts itself down...sounds like an engineering issue to me.

You've got to remember that your computer, although on for days at a time, spends most of it's time idling, so it doens't generate that much heat. Try playing a console for 4 hours, then try playing crysis for 4 hours. I guarantee there will be hot air coming out of your computer as well as the console. Unfortunately you just got unlucky here. With 20+million ps3's out there, some of them are going to break :/

but 2? the same owner? the same exact way? It's perhaps partly my fault but isn't that what consoles are buit for...to be played? If you ask me, they should be built to withstand what they were designed for. They've done this in the past, why should it be different now? I personally think console engineering switched focus solely to power and technology and abandoned longevity in the process. Like people have stated, lots of things were jammed into the ps3. Ps2 slim on the other hand is as simple as it gets. It generates almost 0 heat



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

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Xxain on 08 June 2009

@Pristine - you know you can manually back up the games right????

@seece - i was joking



Pristine20 on 08 June 2009
Burning Typhoon said:

Just curious (only read the 1st 3 pages)  But, does your PS3 have room to itself where it can't overheat?  Is it sitting on carpet (not supposed to)?  Are you dusting it off?  When you turn it off, do you wait for the green light to turn red, and then switch off the breaker in the back of the console?  Turning turning the switch in the back before the PS3 is ready will mess it up.

If it's breaking often, it just could be you, and not the PS3.  I know the same thing goes for the 360 (I unplugged it accidentally, and it got RRoD).  Luckly for me, my 360 cured itself of RRoD.  Happened like.. 5 months ago, and hasn't happened again.

Just take care of it, and READ THE MANUAL that came with the system.  It doesn't hurt to read it once, or twice.  Sit the system somewhere in the open off the carpet, and don't let it overheat.  There also could be a small chance that it's the PS3 that's just defective and just simply needs to be completely replaced.

 

Just read your last post about heat.. Well, if you're too lazy to turn your system off, you must like wasting 160 bucks.  What's the point in leaving the system on if you're not going to be there to use it anyway?  Let's say the power goes out with your comp on, and it turn back on only to burn out the power pack.. happened to me, and I thought the entire thing was dead...  It cost 200 dollars to get a replacement, and no, I didn't learn my lesson because I still leave it on.. But, not the game systems.. those go off when I'm finished with them.

Just stop leaving the PS3 on, it only takes 3 seconds to get from intro screen to XMB... My comp however takes a few minutes...

My ps3 is set to go off after being idle for an hour. The on period was a reference to my slim ps2. I left my apartment to go see my friend in another state and forgot to turn the ps2 off before leaving. It still works fine.



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

Pristine20 on 08 June 2009
Xxain said:
@Pristine - you know you can manually back up the games right????

@seece - i was joking

Not all game saves can be backed up manually. Try backing up sf4 or kz2 data.



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

sabby_e17 on 08 June 2009

Buy a new PS3 and then return your broken PS3. I did that when I had a 360 and it worked!




S.T.A.G.E. on 08 June 2009
sabby_e17 said:
Buy a new PS3 and then return your broken PS3. I did that when I had a 360 and it worked!


Are you fucking nuts? The problem has been solved.