Problem With my Ps3 Can you help ?

[Mr.Gee]

Hiya thanks for reading my post, OK..... Now let me explain

What my PlayStation has been doing over the last few days is after playing Blu-ray dvd's sometimes the sound like distorts but anyway thats an easy fix - I have to Power off the unit for about 20 mins to cool down, My play station in located under the TV on the cabinet sometime this is known where the dvd player goes or VHS Video player goes

Anyway.....

Now what the playstation is doing now is Nothing.....Powering up All i see is the Sony Wave going through the screen NO OPTIONS ON THE SCREEN

Its like a softwear problem Is there a master reset i can do to fix this or do you know anymore please let me know thanks

[Ryu]

can you boot to the Safe menu (Recovery menu)

also KEEP the ps3 in a well ventilated area

NOT a inclosed area

[Mr.Gee]

Hiya Ryu

Nope i can not do nothing can only see the wave going across the screen,

Anyway while i was waiting for a reply to this post i have been googling around to try find other forum message to see if anyone else has had the same problem!! and the answer is YES they have since updating to the new software, there are many but few message ppl saying this new software from Sony is a pain in the ass, (pardon my french) All since the new software contains this (Cinavia) crap, Forum messages so i read that Sony are planing to update again and stop the play station 3 reciving you streaming from your PC, weather thats true i dunno

Anyway along my travals i found this:

How to access the PlayStation 3 Recovery Menu


1. Turn off Playstation®3.

2. Hold The power button down; The system will turn on and turn off once again.

3. Once the System has been shutdown, re-press you finger until you hear 2 consecutive beeps

4. When you hear the 2 beeps take finger off power button.

5. You will be prompted to plug in your controller via usb and then hit the PS button

6. The Recovery menu will pop up.

Since doing this Its Worked However its wiped all my settings, all my game saves all gone,

Now!! However after all this has happened i was talking to my webmaster over the phone about 10 minutes ago and when he own this ps3 (i bought it off him second hand) 60Gib Version plays 1,2 & 3 games



Anyway he was saying to me that he found a forum somewhere on the net where one guy installed LINUX operating system on the PS3 are you aware of this by any chance?

can you boot to the Safe menu (Recovery menu)

also KEEP the ps3 in a well ventilated area

NOT a enclosed area

[Mr_WoRRieD]

your firmware is probably allready on 3.60 or 3.61, so you can forget about installing linux

[Mr.Gee]

OH wHY'S THAT PLEASE EXPAIN ? (Oops sorry caps)

your firmware is probably allready on 3.60 or 3.61, so you can forget about installing linux

[ERIFNOMI]

Because Sony took away the ability to install Linux because they're assholes. We had to wait for a community made solution. It requires CFW which is 3.55 and if you're past that then you're left to give up all hope.