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[ExtremeGamer]

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guys I was playing the Show '09 and all the sudden the system shut itself down. I went to fire it back up so that I could get my disc out of the drive and it stayed on for roughly 45 secs before powering down again. I turned it on a third time to get my disc out and got it out and the system was on for about 2 minutes before I shut it down myself.

Anyone have any idea as to what might be going on? Could it have gotten over heated or is it about to go out? It is an original 60gb that I bought on release day.

Thanks in advance.

Sounds like what happened to RawDeal in the thread lower down the page. His is dead.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...e-help-me.html

[countryboy]

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Thanks EG.

I've turned it back on and it seems to be working fine. The fan isn't immediately kicking on, its making no noise.

I read in the manual about it getting hot and the red power light flashing to let you know, but I didn't think it would turn itself off? I guess thats possible. I went ahead and backed up all the files that I need/want, so if it goes, I guess it goes.

[aukevin]

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Thanks EG.

I've turned it back on and it seems to be working fine. The fan isn't immediately kicking on, its making no noise.

I read in the manual about it getting hot and the red power light flashing to let you know, but I didn't think it would turn itself off? I guess thats possible. I went ahead and backed up all the files that I need/want, so if it goes, I guess it goes.

I don't remember exactly what happened with bcruise's PS3, but your problems sound similar to his. He had to send his away. You might PM him about it.

[countryboy]

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I don't remember exactly what happened with bcruise's PS3, but your problems sound similar to his. He had to send his away. You might PM him about it.

thanks man.

[e0820]

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A partition is part of your harddrive (hdd) that you write to. In the past I've always made my harddrive's partition just as big as the harddrive itself. Like on a 500gb hdd the partition is 500gb, but in some cases you might want to split a hdd into two or more partitions or sections. You might take that 500gb hdd and split it into a 400gb partition for data storage and 100gb for your operating system files. When you look at your hdds from My Computer (assuming you are using a PC) you will see two hdds listed even though you really only have 1 actual hdd.

The reason I need to partition off part of a hdd for the PS3 backup is because hdds can be formatted in different ways. Most PC hdds these days are formatted in something called NTFS, but the PS3 can only write to a FAT32 hdd. So my 500gb hdd is NTFS but I can repartition 65gb of it to be FAT32 that way the PS3 can write to that 65gbs. Make sense?

The problem I had is my hdd already had data on it, so I had to download a special tool called EASEUS Partition Manager (there are other similar ones as well) that will repartition your hdd without losing the data on it. So last night I ran this program and told it to partition off 65gb on my 500gb external drive and to format it in FAT32. That took a couple hours (I went to bed LOL). So now this morning I checked it and now my 500gb hdd is split into a 435gb chunk in NTFS and a 65gb chunk in FAT32. I plugged the hdd into my PS3 and the PS3 now sees that a 65gb hdd is plugged into it.

So as we speak my PS3 is backing up all my data to that hdd, it says it will take an hour. Then this afternoon when my new PS3 hdd arrives, I will put it in the PS3 and run the PS3's backup utility again to pull the data back from the 65gb hdd.

So what was the final size of the backup? Did the PS3 compress anything at all?

[ODogg]

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Any further word of a price drop? I'm itching to get my 3rd Blu-Ray player!

[countryboy]

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My PS3 is fried. Off to buy another one this morning.

[ExtremeGamer]

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My PS3 is fried. Off to buy another one this morning.

Why not just pay the $150 to have Sony fix it instead of $400?

[fishepa]

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I'm so glad I bought the BB replacement plan in cases such as this.

[CaptainZombie]

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My PS3 is fried. Off to buy another one this morning.

Damn CB, that sucks. I can't recall, you had the 60gb correct?

I would get it repaired like EG said and if you don't want it then sell it off since you are buying a new one. 60gb's are still going for an alright price on ebay.

[RoyalBoyle78]

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I'm so glad I bought the BB replacement plan in cases such as this.

why, didn't they stop the swapping of systems.

[Motown]

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Damn CB, that sucks. I can't recall, you had the 60gb correct?

I would get it repaired like EG said and if you don't want it then sell it off since you are buying a new one. 60gb's are still going for an alright price on ebay.

yup, he HAD a 60...that's what i got

[fishepa]

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why, didn't they stop the swapping of systems.

I don't think they have at my BB.

[countryboy]

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I'm sending my system off to get repaired. But I need my video game fix...lol...so I went out and bought an 80GB this morning. When I get the 60GB back I'll either sell one or put the 2nd system in my basement. I used to unplug the one from my game room and take it down there for parties/get togethers and stuff.

[Rawdeal28]

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I'm sending my system off to get repaired. But I need my video game fix...lol...so I went out and bought an 80GB this morning. When I get the 60GB back I'll either sell one or put the 2nd system in my basement. I used to unplug the one from my game room and take it down there for parties/get togethers and stuff.

hey countryboy, were in the same boat man. my ps3 did the exact same thing. only u were lucky in that u got to save ur files and i didnt. it wouldnt stay on long enough.

i also checked the sony forums and found that this was happening to alot of the 60gb systems. there is a bunch of people there with the same exact problem. this is common for the 60gb systems unfortunetly(sp?).

i also bought another ps3 system from my co-worker (40gb) to play while mines get fixed. then once i get it back i will also sell mines. i need my gaming fix man! lol i feel ur pain.

i bought my ps3 from my job (Target), so im under thier warranty. were u under warranty? are u getting yours fixed for free or are u paying. mines is free.