DO NOT TURN ON YOUR FAT PS3 - date bug is majorly screwing up systems

[joeorc]

Hyruken said:

joeorc said:

Hyruken said:
Mine is still not working either, and i just got Heavy Rain :(

They better hurry the fook up and sort this out as Bad Company 2 comes out on thurs and if i can't play that i will layeth the smackdown on my PS3 by swapping it for the 360 version!

How the hell can you fook up a system over a clock....haven't like consoles from nearly 20 years ago had clocks and not had the problem?

it's not as simple as your looking at as.

for instance :

these system's are geared toward by design as system like you have as a PC these system's are entertainment computer's. these are not like a Game console in the sense as the PS2 or the Game Cube even to some extent as the first xbox.

with the function's they have added also come's with more complex system design. the Bio's of these system's are like the PC bio's not like the Bio's you had in much older Game system's.

you did not have firmware update's to your PS2 like you would have that is on the PS3. more complexity come's greator chance of a fault, but since these thing's that happen are few and far between , and that some can be more critical than other's quite a number of people are not used to this, which is quite understandable if your mainly a console gamer and not say a gamer on the PC.

many PC gamer's have experienced problem's like this many time's it's just the first time game console's have hd this extent of problem's. they will get ironed out, and I know it is very frustrating but they are working to fix it. I say hang in there.

But how does that explain all the consoles that have never been connected to the internet to receive updates having the same problem?

It has to be something that was inside the machines when they were made for all of them to go the same way.

Which again makes you ask the question how could they get that wrong as it seems so basic? Like Mobile Phones for example, we have had them for decades now, they have updates etc. Have never heard of this happening to a phone. Could you imagine how pissed people would be if say their Iphone would not work due to a date memory problem?

This problem has already started to hit national media now.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/mar/01/games-sony

it's the Bios, you see even if you never connected the PS3 to the internet, say for some reason someone is able to buy a brand new ps3 fat off the shelf tody. the PS3's internal clock's swait state is kept by a onboard battary a CR 2032 watch batter. that battery hold's information not just the date and time but also other setting's on the PS3's internal Bio's chip on it's motherboard. if the software in that Bios chip has a fault in it's program, it would effect the unit even if it was never connected to the internet, that also depend's on the chip and what ver' of the Bio's software that is on the chip. no all the PS3 mother board's may have the same Bio's chip.

lol..there is a big seperator between a mobile phone than something like the PS3 and PC's though that is getting toward not the case in the near future today some PHONE'S ARE RUNNING EMBEDED risc processor's like the Nexus from google that contain's A 1GHz embeded risc processor!

unheard of 5 to 6 year's ago.