Turned on my PS3 (CECHE01 with a 320GB 7200RPM HDD thrown in) for the first time since early March; it went through a couple minutes of telling me I had new stuff I could download; I left that screen, went and clicked on the Store, and it blacked out, beeped, and the light started blinking. Turned it off for a while, tried again maybe half an hour later, and the same thing happened before I even made it past the improper shutdown screen. Next two tries failed before any sort of video output appeared.
Apparently it's a general hardware failure error, which could be just about anything. There's nothing in the BD drive, and I didn't try to use it, so I doubt it's that. I didn't hear if the fans came on the first two attempts, but they definitely did the last couple tries. I didn't try blowing out the vents with compressed air or anything because they seemed pretty much entirely clean and I didn't want to drive to the store. I haven't had much in the way of problems since I bought the thing about a year ago, only some noisy fans in more intense gameplay.
Any thoughts on what this could be other than an error on the motherboard? Really can't afford to replace the system or even have a reflow done at the moment. Even if I could replace it, none of the games are backed up on any external drive, and I doubt many of my saves are in the cloud; I don't think PS+ even lets me back up my virtual PS2 memory cards, but I could be wrong.
Apparently it's a general hardware failure error, which could be just about anything. There's nothing in the BD drive, and I didn't try to use it, so I doubt it's that. I didn't hear if the fans came on the first two attempts, but they definitely did the last couple tries. I didn't try blowing out the vents with compressed air or anything because they seemed pretty much entirely clean and I didn't want to drive to the store. I haven't had much in the way of problems since I bought the thing about a year ago, only some noisy fans in more intense gameplay.
Any thoughts on what this could be other than an error on the motherboard? Really can't afford to replace the system or even have a reflow done at the moment. Even if I could replace it, none of the games are backed up on any external drive, and I doubt many of my saves are in the cloud; I don't think PS+ even lets me back up my virtual PS2 memory cards, but I could be wrong.
