Sony hide as PS3s go into meltdown

[germ1984]

As many of you have probably noticed by now, the PSN is having a few, er, technical difficulties. Apparently (and unofficially) these have been caused by the system's internal clock thinking we are in a leap year and that today should be 29/2/10 instead of 1/3/10 (seriously, WTF Sony!)

This problem causes an 8001050F error and prevents people from signing into PSN, loading up games - even offline - and in many cases actually removes entire trophy lists from the XMB. At the moment it only appears to be affecting 'fat' PS3s, with Slim versions seemingly working perfectly.

Sony have been their normal reclusive selves and given us virtually nothing to ease our minds as to when it wil be fixed, but as it's a clock issue I'm guessing things will sort themselves out at around midnight tonight - that's unless the internal clocks then remain a day behind. Unfortunately, as no-one can sign into PSN, a quick fix patch would be hard to implement unless you did it via a USB stick, so this one has the potential to run for a little while longer.

If you want to stay up to date, your best bet is to keep a beady eye on Sony's PS Twitter feeds, which can be found here:

Sony PlayStation (http://twitter.com/SonyPlayStation)
Sony PS EU Blog (http://twitter.com/PlayStationEU)

EDIT:

Here's the official update on the situation from Sony:

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/03/01/psn-error-update/

Basically tells us nothing we didn't already know. It looks like Sony are just waiting to see if it fixes itself.

[nathanpaythin]

yeah i tried to go on fifa and all the trophies i had for it dissapeared, lets hope they come back

[Radiosity]

Found out about this last night from a friend. Sony really screwed up this time heh. My friend has a fat but it seems he isn't affected (it's a special edition one, guess it has more in common with the slim somehow). Seriously glad I've got a slim, I wouldn't be at all impressed if I couldn't use my system any more (especially a week before FF13 hits).

[emolozzie]

I daren't even turn mine on it was fine yesterday and i was on it till late so it might be ok but dunno if i want all my stuff whipped off so might just leave it turned off until we hear anything more.

[mozzer0]

I have discoverd a Quick fix for this, if you dont mind opening your ps3 and voiding warranty. Any 100% worked for me every thing back to normal for me now. Here is the link to my guide. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BQKBWX9Z. Hope this helps

[Radiosity]

More details, courtesy of neogaf:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20045181&postcount=5160

Seriously, how is something this dumb even possible? GG Sony lol

[germ1984]

Here's the official update on the situation from Sony:

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/03/01/psn-error-update/

Basically tells us nothing we didn't already know. It looks like Sony are just waiting to see if it fixes itself.

[monkeymajiks]

was working fine until i turned it off to watch 24 last night. I have a launch day 60GB fat, with a replaced HD to 320GB.

Think i will leave it switched off for 24 hrs, then it should be fine again. As with most calendar issues it should only get triggered on the day it happens otherwise the machine wont know any difference.

[liam93]

Glad i'm not the only person, lol

[germ1984]

was working fine until i turned it off to watch 24 last night. I have a launch day 60GB fat, with a replaced HD to 320GB.

Think i will leave it switched off for 24 hrs, then it should be fine again. As with most calendar issues it should only get triggered on the day it happens otherwise the machine wont know any difference.

You would think so. However, what if the system thinks that tomorrow should be 1/3/10? It would remain a day behind. I don't know about the technical implications of stuff like that, but this may not fix itself at midnight. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[ally]

My day 1 fat still shows all my trophies...

[DazG]

Iv not turned mine on all day, i think ill leave it untill there is a fix :(

[MegastarMATT]

Well i managed to play a game on my 60gig but obviously couldnt sign in

[Reaver]

I turned my PS3 off at around 5PM yesterday and was about to turn it on today but after hearing that tweet, well I got a tad nervous.

[lodgio]

God xbox fanboys are going to be cumming in their pants with this news!!!

[Dragoniroth]

You would think so. However, what if the system thinks that tomorrow should be 1/3/10? It would remain a day behind. I don't know about the technical implications of stuff like that, but this may not fix itself at midnight. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I would Assume that monkeymajicks is right, and when you turn it on, on the 2nd it'll update the date properly. The problem as I understand it is that they were trying to set itself to a date that doesn't exist and then defaulting to the other one. Which then seems to have snowballed the issue.

Either way mine is staying off today and won't be turned on tomorrow until we have a definitive response from Sony.

[Combatting]

My day 1 fat still shows all my trophies...


God xbox fanboys are going to be cumming in their pants with this news!!!

Lol, 360 still however has got a worse failure rate than the PS3 ;).

[AE-Twister-MC]

So, bottom line.
Anyone with a fat ps3 can't play? Or just online?

[civilred1]

Lol, 360 still how ever got a worse failure rate than the PS3 ;).

I wouldn't say that, seeing as how EVERY PS3 is down atm ;)

This is such a massive balls up by Sony, I'm just wondering how on Earth this was allowed to happen.
I have a theory however:
If you turn off the PS3's access to the internet and switch it on, it won't be able to sign in, right? This is no major issue, my internet is dodgy so I know from experience that the HDD won't reformat itself or anything like that. So, once the PS3 is on and not connecting to the internet, surely you could correct the date and sign back onto the PSN...?

[Reaver]

So, bottom line.
Anyone with a fat ps3 can't play? Or just online?

Can't play any game at all that is Trophy-enabled.
Online or offline.

[mozzer0]

It dosent matter if you turn your ps3 on or leave it off you will still be effected as the clock is powered by an internal battery so even when turned off the clock is ticking. Follow this guide if you want a fix for it. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BQKBWX9Z

[Dom]

Thanks for the info Germ (Y)

I feel like loading every trophy game up I have and getting that error, just so I can start trophy collecting all over again :D

[Rock-Shayde]

I wouldn't say that, seeing as how EVERY PS3 is down atm

Naa mate, only phat SKU's. It's apparent that slims are fine, I may have to get one now just in case this happens again after the 9th! Let my avatar tell you why :)

[wayno1987]

As ridiculous as this sounds, in a way i'm kinda pleased the trophies are disappearing from the list. Gives me a chance to get rid of a few games which aren't at 100% and that make my trophy list look bad lol! i cant see them being gone forever though

[AE-Twister-MC]

Well its such a shame with FF13 around the corner. Luckily i got a slim one, Hope it don't affect this soon :(

[ally]

Hmm, I'm going to see if I can get rid of my pain 0%
Edit, pain won't even load.

[wayno1987]

Hmm, I'm going to see if I can get rid of my pain 0%
Edit, pain won't even load.

Only the trophy lists of retail games can be 'got rid of', not PSN games unfortunately

Goodbye Ghostbusters (92%) and Resistance 2 (45%) :D

[killakk]

Ffs! My Ps3 60gb Doesn't Work When Will It Fix

[germ1984]

Any trophies you synched before the issue arose will be on Sony's servers so after it's fixed and you synch again, they will reappear. Bit of a bugger as I would be able to try and get rid of my SF4 and FC2 lists that are stuck at about 10%. :(

[wayno1987]

Any trophies you synched before the issue arose will be on Sony's servers so after it's fixed and you synch again, they will reappear. Bit of a bugger as I would be able to try and get rid of my SF4 and FC2 lists that are stuck at about 10%.

Dammit! Would be nice if the trophies are still on my trophy card but not actually showing on the list when compare. Fingers crossed but cant see that happening either

[Arun.]

Faggots.

[Dom]

As ridiculous as this sounds, in a way i'm kinda pleased the trophies are disappearing from the list. Gives me a chance to get rid of a few games which aren't at 100% and that make my trophy list look bad lol! i cant see them being gone forever though

I wish I still had Ferrari Challenge, that's on 2%, it looks crap on my list! :D

[mk_ermac]

i read this on ign and it's pretty bad PSN has been a bit up and down from the beginning but iv'e got a mr.slim so iv'e not been effected as of yet

[johnleonhart]

Think I'm gonna leave my 160gb version off til this is sorted.

[Cerberus64]

Faggots.

As a Moderator and a person in a position of authority I expect better.

You should re-consider your choice of words.

[Dom]

As a Moderator and a person in a position of authority I expect better.

You should re-consider your choice of words.

:D

The lack of PS3 is very annoying now...

[AE-Twister-MC]

As a Moderator and a person in a position of authority I expect better.

You should re-consider your choice of words.

He won mod of the year asif he cares :P

[johnleonhart]

Just wondering, can anyone confirm that the 160gb model is defiently affected by this?
I dont wanna turn mine on lol :S

[AshleyAc]

20 or so hours too late ;). .org posted this within minutes of it happening.

[lodgio]

.org and .com have this as front page news...why havn't we got it? At least this way we wounn'y have ten thousand different posts lol

[Tykain]

Thread title is misleading, PSN isn't at the origin of the problem. Consoles that never been connected to internet have the same problem too. it's the consoles, not PSN.
Also, you still can download firmware updates. It doesn't requires being connected to PSN, as long as you can get on internet its fine. Games patch works too, as long as you can start it up (ie if it doesn't have trophies) it doesn't need to be connected to PSN.

[Reaver]

A person on Kotaku wrote this comment.
It's seems rather plausible.

"The problem is probably related to the system clock itself. All processors do everything in slices of time. Those time-slices are distributed to the system by the clock.

The main clock that is running the processors thinks that today is Feb 29th. The other clocks in the system, that control other things like the system board or GPU are reporting that the date is March 1st. The servers at Sony are probably reporting a timestamp to the PS3 also, with March 1st, further confusing the logic processors of the PS3.

Since they cannot communicate or issue time-slices things are at a standstill. Once the date does actually change on all the clocks then maybe the problem will be fixed. Changing the "time" on your PS3 would probably not fix anything. That clock is more-than-likely not controlling anything sensitive to machine operations or it could be the clock that registers with the servers for DLC authentication. I'm not sure since I do not program for the PS3 and I am not too familiar with its architecture.

If the problem is not "self-resolved" by the date change at midnight then Sony will probably have to provide a firmware patch that can be downloaded on a PC USB stick and installed on the PS3. We would have to use this route since the clock that is controlling the system board is effected, which means the Wi-Fi and Ethernet ports will not be able to connect to PSN."

[shearsby_93]

Will I get my trophies back that got deleted?

cheers

[AE-Twister-MC]

I feel a street protest coming along. :D

[Chrisbes32]

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[johnleonhart]

Lol, I seen that vid on youtube earlier haha.

[wayno1987]

On a change of subject, do you think that guy has ever got his willy wet? Discuss...

[Rock-Shayde]

Sometimes an angry fat person is the funniest thing in the world...

(I know he's doing it for comic effect)

[nathanpaythin]

mods on this site are all dickfucks

[AE-Twister-MC]

Lol classical :D

[mk_ermac]

Sometimes an angry fat person is the funniest thing in the world...

i second that.

don't now whether this has anything new on the link but take a look it's a Q and A with someone - http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/107/1073007p1.html

[johnleonhart]

Lol, sure I read something else earlier eh.. :P

[Tykain]

A person on Kotaku wrote this comment.
It's seems rather plausible.

"The problem is probably related to the system clock itself. All processors do everything in slices of time. Those time-slices are distributed to the system by the clock.

The main clock that is running the processors thinks that today is Feb 29th. The other clocks in the system, that control other things like the system board or GPU are reporting that the date is March 1st. The servers at Sony are probably reporting a timestamp to the PS3 also, with March 1st, further confusing the logic processors of the PS3.

Since they cannot communicate or issue time-slices things are at a standstill. Once the date does actually change on all the clocks then maybe the problem will be fixed. Changing the "time" on your PS3 would probably not fix anything. That clock is more-than-likely not controlling anything sensitive to machine operations or it could be the clock that registers with the servers for DLC authentication. I'm not sure since I do not program for the PS3 and I am not too familiar with its architecture.

If the problem is not "self-resolved" by the date change at midnight then Sony will probably have to provide a firmware patch that can be downloaded on a PC USB stick and installed on the PS3. We would have to use this route since the clock that is controlling the system board is effected, which means the Wi-Fi and Ethernet ports will not be able to connect to PSN."

Whoever wrote that was very confused with internal clock / CPU clock rate, which is completely different things.
And the problem isn't that the date on internal clock / OS / PSN is all different, if it was any other different times but that actually exist it would be fine, the OS would sync with the internal clock time. The problem is that the internal clock says we are 29 feb, and for the OS 29 feb 2010 simply doesn't exist so it's just confused and displays a random time. And anything that uses the get_time function (Which uses the internal clock time) will just bring up an error.

[voodooyaz]

Like my new sig, I found it through Twitter....

[wayno1987]

Like my new sig, I found it through Twitter....

Epic win!

[AE-Twister-MC]

mods on this site are all awesome

I like the way you edited that. Don't think i didn't see :P

[lodgio]

Like my new sig, I found it through Twitter....


Don't .com use that as there main home page. Apart from the error code lol

[voodooyaz]

Don't .com use that as there main home page. Apart from the error code lol

I have no idea, I found it in a image hosting site, and grabbed the code
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=15qp8y9&s=6
Now everyone can have it....

[naneljube]

http://i46.tinypic.com/15qp8y9.jpg
i have it, thnx m8!!!

[Dom]

Haha great vid and image! :D

[Boji Frusciante]

I have a fat 80gb and haven't had any problems. I'm signed into PSN and the dates correct. Guess I'm lucky.

[madd-x]

lolz so jokes, hopefully this ends at midnight.

[madd-x]

only slims arent affected

[Boji Frusciante]

only slims arent affected

I have a fat PS3 and it's perfectly fine, absolutely nothing wrong with it.

[Dom]

Lucky you.

[Jam]

Mine's fat and fine too. Slims definitely aren't affected, and certain batches of Fats are unaffected also.

[individuo]

Just checked my fat PS3 and lost my dragon age trophies as well as a no. of themes.

[germ1984]

If this is set to fix itself at midnight, surely we would have reports of PS3s in Australia, Asia, Middle East, etc. now working? I haven't heard anything like that.

[individuo]

I can't see it being auto fixed at midnight. Maybe stupid o'clock tomorrow morning.

[McMilian]

40GB doesn't work, but I don't have time for playing games because of my A-level exams (in Poland it's called "Matura" - something like a maturity exam) in May. Although I want to have my and others PS3 fixed :D

[ShadowGandalf]

mines also a fat 80gb, no problems here. clock says 1/3/10. im typing this from my ps3 while i'm online. i've lost no trophies, i can play games, basically, whatever is happening isnt affecting me. (phew). maybe it only affects older models. i dunno how old mine is, Sony sent it as a replacement for my YLOD'ed 60gb.

[mk_ermac]

maybe they fixed ahead of schedule :stunned:

[romanbellic707]

its the 2nd of march here 9am in australia,my PS3 is still not fixed fuck sony,this is such bullshit

[mightyclipper]

my old 60g died last night, i got the perfect crime trophy on heavy rain went back to finish of last few trophies and everything crashed big time my end
but im sad and brought a 250g slim today
a good way of making money out of me sony (is this your plan!!!!!)
plus sony is saying do not start your ps3 till problem is fixed now, wanna move my save files to new slim but i dont wanna risk it or has anyone tried this yet ??

[individuo]

This does make me feel dam lucky that I plated heavy rain last night, before all this.

[JonnySlaughter]

If this is set to fix itself at midnight, surely we would have reports of PS3s in Australia, Asia, Middle East, etc. now working? I haven't heard anything like that.

I'm sure that it reset at midnight GMT time

[Mattas]

I have a fat PS3 and it's perfectly fine, absolutely nothing wrong with it.

i second that, mine has not been affected 1 bit, its a fat 80gb but with a 500gb that i put in myself, ppl saying every fat console is affected dont know anything, i know 3 ppl on my list with the fat who haven't had any trouble, ppl need to stop bashing the fat the fat has been good for me

[Tykain]

I'm sure that it reset at midnight GMT time

Yeah the internal clock is on GMT time and is then converted by the OS to display the correct time for your zone.

[kuja84]

funny fat men?

beat this one by the legendary rathergood.com Joel

http://www.rathergood.com/fat_man

[LSL]

My old 60GB recently died, im so glad i got me a slim now and not a fatty.

[joseragna]

This is happening to me also but my friend in real life I gave my account to he can sign in but I can't so I say wtf.
I tried playing NGS2 and then my trophies disappear and my burnout. If they get deleted SONY must give them back to me.
If any of you talk to sony please mention my psn joseragna

[spreetin]

It seems like someone don't want me to play games right now. First I break my xbox controller, and then Sony breaks my PS3 :-(

And to top it of my dualshock2 have started making funny noices. Now I'm just waiting for it to break too.

[individuo]

Normal Service has resumed (well for me at least).

EDIT: I've noticed I'm missing 2 trophies (more than likely due to me not syncing before the meltdown) but they're easy enough to re-do.

[KK090]

Normal Service has resumed (well for me at least).

Same here. Finally some good news!

[TheFemaleDurden]

i can sign into PSN but it hasnt given me back my missing trophies, even after syncing

[germ1984]

Drama over. Apparently nearly all fat PS3s should be working now. Mine's running perfectly.

[Ano!]

Mines all a-ok - came on a minute ago - not lost anything!

Brill!!

[Davros22]

it's working now ;)... but my bioshock 2 trophies have gone walkies and the date is 29/4/2020 lol

[Guyers94]

I thought the PS3s were going to start eating people through the blu ray drive :(

Some Y2K copy that was people need to get a grip, you couldn't play your PS3 for a day and you all go insane.

[Thepupil]

Load of bollocks. My god of war trophies and Fifa 10 trophies have gone. Have just got back onto fifa now, and i unlocked a trophy i already had.

Came out of the game, and then looked at the amount of trophies I had. Its still the same amount that I had yesterday before the bug.

Sony looks like they have a lot of work on there hands.

Edit: Original percentage is now back for my Fifa once I came back out. So fix must be go into the game and come back out and everything should be fine from when they were lasted synched.

[Frostie]

I saw this morning my PS3 wasnt working. searched on the internet and saw there are allot of people havin this problem..

now its fixed but i lost my heavy rain and bioshock2 trophy's. i didnt had any of the heavy rains yet. but i was only 1 trophy away from platinum of bioshock!!!

if something happens so i lose my PSN id or all of my trophy's. im buyin an xbox 720 (when its out yet). you maybe need to pay for online. but at least your on a server that works properly

[UNTITLED]

i can sign into PSN but it hasnt given me back my missing trophies, even after syncing

I've found you have to play the game first and then resynch.

[germ1984]

If there are any trophies missing, try resetting your time & date via internet and resynching. Worked for me, but no guarantees.

[CraigyBL2]

First time I turned my PS3 on in like a month and it's the one time Sony really fuck up, just so happens I had my mate around and he wanted to see what all the hype about Modern Warfare 2 online was ... needless to say he didn't get to see. We managed to play Fallout 3 and GTA4 yet Dead Space and Burnout wouldn't read.. anyways for what it's worth I guess I'm glad it's fixed now.

[joseragna]

hmm I'm going to check mine to I hope it works and my damn NGS2 platinum and burnout better be there or else I'll be extremely mad.

[VIPER-G1]

Don't worry m8, you should still have your NGS2 plat m8, lol.

[canarydan]

have lost 12 of my heavy rain trophies, but these should be soon retrievable. feel sorry for those of you with heavier trophy losses. Cant believe this glitch was able to occur, doesn't look good on sony, but despite this still think we have the better console on the market and at least it prompts us to replay our favourite games to reachieve the trophies we lost

[chapelboys]

Lost my Killzone 2 trophies, i will play the game tonight and see if they come back, i have got all the stats still, no trophies though :(
anyone else suffered with killzone?

[individuo]

i can sign into PSN but it hasnt given me back my missing trophies, even after syncing

Start-up the game that has your missing trophies, then sync them. That's how I got nearly all my Dragon Age Trophies back.

[beanie_g]

im buyin an xbox 720 (when its out yet). you maybe need to pay for online. but at least your on a server that works properly

shouldve read the problems properly mate was as internal clock bug, not the servers.
no need to get an xbox now :D

[imahobo]

i lost all my lego rockband trophies :(, i managed to earn a few back last night but gonna have to start a new save to get some because the power challenge trophies wont unlock even though i have played them again.

[amplifiedAnt]

I thought the PS3s were going to start eating people through the blu ray drive :(

Some Y2K copy that was people need to get a grip, you couldn't play your PS3 for a day and you all go insane.


I think if people had been explicitly told by Sony that the problem was only going to affect one day then a lot more of them would've been reasonable and willing to wait it out.

The communication and 'PR' was simply awful. No, it’s not the biggest deal in the world that this happened, but for all that the man-on-the-street knew their consoles were broken and could have stayed that way for some time. Not everybody is as clued up as many of us were and nor would they have understood what was going on, so why wasn't a full and proper announcement made or a mass email sent?

Sony didn’t make ANY announcements on their 'fix' progress yesterday, they stalled us with one or two posts that gave nothing away. It’s very likely that they were working on it, but they didn’t fix anything – the system clocks sorted themselves out. They were still referring to it as a PSN outage last night which shows just how close they were to a proper diagnosis!

What I really love is the fact that Sony are claiming THEY fixed it, rather than what really happened which was essentially waiting it out. Coincidence then that it all started working exactly 24 hours after it all started cocking up in the first place. They must have been absolutely bricking it (pun not intended, but it fits).

I still think a firmware update is necessary - if my line of thought is correct then the internal clock will fail again; perhaps in 2014, maybe sooner i.e. the end of March. If they've just let it roll on then the internal clock will still be thinking that it's 1st March today which could have a knock-on effect. This is probably a 10-line code fix, tops.

Pathetic really and Sony got VERY lucky.

[p9ul]

How likely is it that unlocked trophies that have disappeared are now locked completely so that a replay won't fix?

[Lewis Grindell]

Why is evreyone going over the top about there trophies? You should already know that "TROPHIES ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO DELETE IN ANY WAY"! No matter what happens, your trophies cannot go!

[p9ul]

Why is evreyone going over the top about there trophies? You should already know that "TROPHIES ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO DELETE IN ANY WAY"! No matter what happens, your trophies cannot go!

On Sunday I had one, now I'm told I haven't.

If the Trophy Police are reading I've said I unlocked Baby Master [Bronze] in Heavy Rain and my card says I now don't have it - create a thread for me in the Cheater thread pls! :D

(joke! joke!)

[Guyers94]

I can imagine the Sony HQ last night would have been hilarious. Everyone sitting with their fingers crossed at half 11 then breathing a massive sigh of relief. Lucky bastards

[ibage]

So has anyone lost any saves? I heard rumours that some people had but I think the rumours where just rubbish

[Lewis Grindell]

On Sunday I had one, now I'm told I haven't.

If the Trophy Police are reading I've said I unlocked Baby Master [Bronze] in Heavy Rain and my card says I now don't have it - create a thread for me in the Cheater thread pls! :D

(joke! joke!)

Will fix itself eventually, as happened to me before but just resync and put the date right.

[p9ul]

Will fix itself eventually, as happened to me before but just resync and put the date right.

I only noticed it this morning, but I've unlocked 3 more trophies in the game, and resynced but no joy - will replay the chapter tonight and see what happens...

[Mr_Independent]

OMG NOOO

My COD5 save file!!!

[Habel]

When it happened a few days ago i tryed to play COD World at war, and it deleted my trophies for it. Not they stil havent come back i have tried re sycn loads of times, including on the website with no joy, so u CAN lose your trophies. Its a rite bastard as was going thru getting veteran trophies, now am gona have to do it all over again if i want to get platinum....

WTF SONY!!!

statment from Sony:

"It is possible that some trophies may be lost if you attempted to synchronise while the PlayStation Network was not available. Any trophies already synchronised to the main server before the outage should not be affected. If after you have attempted to re-synchronised trophies, any trophies are lost, it is not possible for them to be retrieved. "

[Jaytech]

poor you! i just haven't touch my ps3 until everything was fine again.

[dodge]

my old 60g died last night, i got the perfect crime trophy on heavy rain went back to finish of last few trophies and everything crashed big time my end
but im sad and brought a 250g slim today
a good way of making money out of me sony (is this your plan!!!!!)
plus sony is saying do not start your ps3 till problem is fixed now, wanna move my save files to new slim but i dont wanna risk it or has anyone tried this yet ??

lol, im doin the same, sold my phat 80gb for £160 today, got £100 on a gamestaion card, so my new 250gb slim is only costing £40.... bargain

also lost my heavy rain trophies

[petetighe1982]

Why buy a new ps3? the problem has been sorted sure you lose some trophies but only if you were too eager to play that you lost them.

[dodge]

eager? i was blisfully unaware of the prob until i tried to load heavy rain.... by then it was too late, wierd thing is though, when i synced my new slim the heavy rain trophies wer back???

on the plus side... new ps3 means new warranty so that makes me feel better

[Dom]

When this error happened I thought my PS3 couldn't get any worse.......

Damn, just got the YLOD earlier today :S

Just this minute finished doing the hairdryer fix, and the pS3 is sat in the garden cooling down XD

I hope it turns on...I need to back up my saved data!

[JimBobIV]

How's your PS3 doing Dom?

[joseragna]

I don't understand why sony don't fix that stupid YLODs from PS3s.
I will make sure I got my save data in usb just in case anything crazy happens.
Dom it really sucks to be you now lol. You got to start all those games over :(

[joseragna]

Your trophies aren't gone play the game you got trophies for and then you just enter it.
Then exit the game and trophies re appear.
This happened to me.

[killakk]

It works now so its cool

[dodge]

ylod is this affecting slims?

[BLaCKoNi666]

Well i have being digging into this and i found that my theory was right on the money. This error was the work of the 3.15 firmware as my cousin's 80GB PS3 and one of their 80GB PS3 where untouch by this pandemic, both of these consoles has never being online and their firmware is very out dated. So with this i think its all down to a error in the latest firmware

[Jam]

Well i have being digging into this and i found that my theory was right on the money. This error was the work of the 3.15 firmware as my cousin's 80GB PS3 and one of their 80GB PS3 where untouch by this pandemic, both of these consoles has never being online and their firmware is very out dated. So with this i think its all down to a error in the latest firmware

Not sure about that blackoni; my fat PS3 has always been online and wasn't affected. As far as I know, slims and newer batches of fats were unaffected. But there were numerous reports of consoles being affected that had never been online. All of these things point to a hardware fault.

Your cousins just got lucky I guess!

[BLaCKoNi666]

Not sure about that blackoni; my fat PS3 has always been online and wasn't affected. As far as I know, slims and newer batches of fats were unaffected. But there were numerous reports of consoles being affected that had never been online. All of these things point to a hardware fault.

Your cousins just got lucky I guess!

Well also know that most of the older fat PS3 that got off with out a scratch was those that got their harddrives replaced with larger ones. By the way mine and my cousins where the same age models and if this was a hardware problem wouldn't it of happened last year too? I really want too get too the bottom of this so i am just throwing around theories would love too hear other thoughts on it

[Jam]

Now you mention it, mine was originally an 80GB, but I swapped the HDD out for a 500GB one. Can't see how that would make it immune to the problem though :huh:

[BLaCKoNi666]

Could be down too HDD size as all the Slims are 120GB and over and all the fat PS3 i heard where uneffected was the special 160GB uncharted bundle edition and the ones that had a HDD upgrade too have a larger HDD. Still don't think this was a hardware error, my money is on a flaw in the Firmware. BTW wasn't this the first new Firmware since the release of the Slim?

[individuo]

Could be down too HDD size as all the Slims are 120GB and over and all the fat PS3 i heard where uneffected was the special 160GB uncharted bundle edition and the ones that had a HDD upgrade too have a larger HDD.

Doubt it. Mine was a 60Gb Japanese import (now with a 320Gb HDD) and that was effected.

[BLaCKoNi666]

Doubt it. Mine was a 60Gb Japanese import (now with a 320Gb HDD) and that was effected.

Mmmmm interesting could be cuz its a japanese import? Not sure yours is the first i heard of to do that with a HDD upgrade, hopefully there are more people that can offer insight into this. Its really annoying not knowing what caused this

[Davros22]

I got a 40gb fat christmas 2007 and changed the hard drive last year but was still affected

[BLaCKoNi666]

I got a 40gb fat christmas 2007 and changed the hard drive last year but was still affected

With what size HDD? and what continent was it from?

[amplifiedAnt]

It had absolutely nothing to do with hard drive size, the firmware or the console's region of origin.

The culprit was the internal clock chip which incorrectly treats all even years as leap years, when it should only be those years which are a multiple of four. Sony should have acted far more quickly as the exact same component has already caused havoc in the Zune mp3 player and certain Blackberry mobiles.

PS3 slim consoles (and a small batch of the 80GB consoles) weren't affected purely because they no longer contain that specific chip.