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

[joeorc]

NJ5 said:

joeorc said:

posted: in the response section of The CNN article:

March 1st, 2010 12:40 pm ET

From http://www.ign.com:
Might be old news, but thanks to a certain hardware/software guru, and from various of sources and efnet they are able to at least give the letdown why this problem is happening. Quoted.

Well the gist is that the ARM SYSCON CPU that is used to power up the front panel of the ps3, that is responsible for doing things like sleep mode, eject, RTC etc. Is an old batch that sony picked up from the shelf like other manufacturers that has that calendar year bug regarding feburary 29th on certain periods. Causing the ps3 system clock and the real time clock to desync, messing up security measures like Digital Rights management software and sometimes games that relies on clocks for whatever reason. As well as signing up to the playstation network... This CPU is always on even when your PS3 isn't plugged
This problem is also happening with various of test Ps3 models, particulary the ones that has the emotion engine cpu/gpu for ps2 dev.

This is the one of the same type of CPUs that is powering up mobile devices like zune and blackberries, they have been affected with this bug, so they done some software patches. A syscon update can also fix this problem

The Slims ps3s aren't affected because they use a newer up to date revision on the syscon cpu that fixes this bug.

A quick way to fix this is to remove the RTC battery for at least 5-10 min and plug it back in, you will see the date and time reset, and voila...

BTW all this was quoted from some ps3 hardware gurus and tested by various of peeps on efnet, all thanks to them for the information

One cannot wait to hear Sony's excuse for this one, They might play innocent for using off the shelve parts and blame manufacturers
Date Edited:3/1/2010 4:57:54 AM (2 edits total) edited by: Fishcake21

Could be correct, but I never heard of other devices stopping to work on March the 1st. Are there any reports of that happening?

 

I don't know that's why i posted that, IF the PS3 has such an ARM processor for that type of control, which not saying it does, for me I have never heard of the PS3 having one of these ARM processor's inside the PS3. and with many teardown's and myself including taking apart one. I have not seen the PS3 with an ARM core on the Mobo or anywhere attached to it. though that could be Chip's that have not been identified yet. there are still some that have no marking's other than a series of number's and that mainly be only Sony chip's. but we have not IDEA.