PSN issues. A real pain in my backside. Help please.

[Euphoria14]

Pristine20 said:

Euphoria14 said:
The controllers will not work when I turn on the PS3. When I press the PS button the 4 lights flash and then go off. When I plug in the USB cord and then press the PS button the PS3 will recognize the controller and then it works as usual. I can then take the USB cord back out and use it wireless. Other than that, I can not use it at all.

@Blazinhead89

I tried holding the reset button on the back of the controller, resetting PS3 default settings (not HDD formatting) and installing a new PS3 update.

None so far have worked.

 

It looks as if your ps3 is having trouble "remembering" your controllers or the other way around. This is the first I've heard of this problem though. You should probably try "linking" your controllers to a friends ps3 and linking different controllers to your ps3 to nail exactly where the problem lies.

That sounds like a good idea I should try that.

There were a few people on the Playstation forums who had this issue as well and after a system update it said the controller configuration files were corrupt. I figured I would manually install 2.43 but that didn't seem to fix my problem.

Hopefully the 2.50 update wil fix this issue? I can hope.

Once I turn on the PS3, hook up the controller, press the button and disconnect it, it works fine. I have this issue only when the PS3 is turned off and then turned back on. Oddly though even though it won't recognize my controller I can still use it to turn the PS3 on.

I am fairly sure that a system restore will fix the issue, but I would have soooo much to reinstall. My UT3 data alone is almost 4GB due to mods and I can tell you installing 1 mod at a time again would not be something I am looking forward to.