| Chark said: You held down the power for 20 seconds? I'm pretty sure you don't need to do that when a PS3 freezes. Whenever my PS3 freezes you just have to push the power button on the console and it shuts down. Holding the power button is for when you want to reconfigure your screen settings or something. I've never done it, but I heard a troubleshoot on the PS Blogcast. Anyway. What PS3 model do you have? What kind of cable output are you using? What are your video and display settings like? |
There's two kinds of freezes with the PS3, first kind, is what I'd refer to as a 'good' freeze, all you have to do, like you said, push the power button once and the system will shutdown, you turn the PS3 on again and everything is fine.
Then there's the 'bad' freeze, real bad, like. Where pushing the power once does nothing, I could push that button 20 separate times, and nothing. The only way is to hold the power button in for about 20 seconds, the system will shutdown, but once once you restart the system it'll tell you ' Your PS3 did not turn off correctly. Your HDD is corrupted and needs to be restored. This may take 2-3hrs to complete', thankfully, it only takes 5 minutes. This is kinda freeze I get with the Blu-ray movies.
I have a Slim model, I'm using a pretty old HDMI cable, and I'm outputting it 1080p. I upgraded to a 1TB HDD about a year ago, and I wonder at times whether that was a wise decision.
