How many of you still have PS3 fats still running?

[Zappykins]

Mirson said:

Zappykins said:

attaboy said:
Mine died for no reason. I installed data from a game and that was all she wrote. It was an 80GB phat. It doesn't even power on. It's not even the YLoD. I power up the console, a red light comes on and then the console turns right off.

I got a slim but all of my movie purchases are gone forever. You can't re-download them once they are gone.

What! That is completly unacceptibale!  Both Xbox and Amazon allow you to get them again (and again, and again, etc. if you want.)  Amazon forever, and Xbox for as long as they still have them.  You buy the license to watch the film, not the actually movie.  You could also stream it if you prefer on Xbox or even switch back and forth. 

However, sounds like your power supplied died.  Have you tried taking out the hard drive?  I would hope the movies would still be fine on there.  Perhapse you can transfer them to your new system.

If I'm not mistaken, the PS3 will ask you to format the hard drive if you try to insert it into another PS3. And yeah it's true that you can't re-download your movie purchases. That sadly happened to me as well when my PS3 fat died.

I bought my 80GB PS3 in Oct. 2007, and it died like a month or two before the slim hit the market. Before it died, it would make a loud buzzing noise after 15 minutes of use, and after 45 minutes, it would sound like an airplane. One day, the noise went to full force, and my PS3 died.

Hmm, Wonder if you could do a ghost/copy of the drive before?  But then that gets into all sorts of copy protected license issues.