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missroxor
29th Sep 2010, 07:13 AM
Not sure if I'm allowed to ask technical questions that aren't to do with sims or this site but I didn't find anything that said not to.

Our PS3 just randomly out the blue stopped working. It's not been banged or had anything spilled on it. It's not been used and abused, my husband only plays it every other week for a couple of hours. It just stopped working. It looks like it turns on at the console, the lights come on but nothing comes up on the tv. All wires etc have been triple checked. He tried it on the other telly and a message came up about the resolution of the device not being supported. (It's been used on that telly before when it used to be our main telly). My husband says he thinks it's the solid blue light problem and seems convinced there's nothing we can do to fix it but I just thought I'd ask if anyone here has ever heard of a fix before we completely give up and bin it. We only got it around last June/July and it only had a 1yr warranty so we can't expect any help from Sony :rolleyes:

I've heard of planned obselescence but sellingn something at extortionate prices that completely dies as soon as the warranty runs out is bullsh!t and if that's the case I won't be giving another penny to Sony :wtf:

itsnotozzyitsozzy
19th Dec 2010, 08:57 PM
I am not sure what to do...maybe play it more?
I dont know but I am just going out of the box here, maybe when you play the PS3 for a few hours then turn it off for a long period of time then turn it back on for a few hours then off for another long period of time, it maybe making the PS3 act up...get it checked out somewhere lol

ElPresidente
19th Dec 2010, 09:11 PM
Not sure if I'm allowed to ask technical questions that aren't to do with sims or this site but I didn't find anything that said not to.

Our PS3 just randomly out the blue stopped working. It's not been banged or had anything spilled on it. It's not been used and abused, my husband only plays it every other week for a couple of hours. It just stopped working. It looks like it turns on at the console, the lights come on but nothing comes up on the tv. All wires etc have been triple checked. He tried it on the other telly and a message came up about the resolution of the device not being supported. (It's been used on that telly before when it used to be our main telly). My husband says he thinks it's the solid blue light problem and seems convinced there's nothing we can do to fix it but I just thought I'd ask if anyone here has ever heard of a fix before we completely give up and bin it. We only got it around last June/July and it only had a 1yr warranty so we can't expect any help from Sony :rolleyes:

I've heard of planned obselescence but sellingn something at extortionate prices that completely dies as soon as the warranty runs out is bullsh!t and if that's the case I won't be giving another penny to Sony :wtf:

Don't give up on it if you don't find an answer here. Go to the Sony Playstation support forums and post your query there.