PS3 will not load past sony screen

[DUKENUKEM2UK]

Just turned on my ps3 to play some saints row 2 and it will not get past the the screen that says sonycomputer enteriment

it just gets stuck on the screen below link to picture below as i could not seem to get it uploaded

http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ps3problemra6.jpg

no idea what to do

[kernow]

Have you updated to firmware 2.5 yet?

That has a built in recovery menu which might help you, if not I guess you could try removing the drive, formatting it (eep), and then putting it back in.

Or sending it to sony, if you've updated though, try this

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/10/18/firmware-2-50-adds-hidden-recovery-menu/

[DUKENUKEM2UK]

tryed doing this http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/10/18/firmwa...-recovery-menu/ but know all the ps3 does is turn on and the screen is black but all the correct lights are on the ps3

[kernow]

Tried removing the hard disk then turning it on? worth a shot I guess.

edit: on some of the newer models the firmware is stored on the hard disk itself so maybe it'll just do the same.

Looks like you might need to call Sony.

[DUKENUKEM2UK]

sorted it had to re format the hdd lost all my saves but at least its fixed now

[kernow]

I'm surprised that the repair menu didn't come up when you tried, (or did it?), and you could have just selected 'rebuild filesystem' from there.

[DUKENUKEM2UK]

tryed that but it did not work so had to format