PS3 beeps 3 times and light flashes red - please help :(
Hi all,
In possibly the most unfortunate timing imaginable - 25hrs into a Dark Souls addiction, on the eve of possibly the largest volume of quality releases in the shortest period of time in memory - my PS3 has decided to give up the ghost.
I have the classic 3 beeps and a flashing red light when I try to turn it on.
I had no other warning signs that anything was amiss. I'd just turned the system on to play some more 'Souls and had had it sitting on the XMB doing nothing for a few minutes, when it then turned itself off with the above symptoms.
The PS3 is an original UK 60GB model, with a replacement 500GB hard-drive.
I've read elsewhere that it could be an overheating problem, but this seems unlikely to me as it happened a few minutes after turning on the system after it had been off all night.
I've also read that the issue could be with the hard-drive: it could be corrupted, or it could simply have come unseated from its connections. However, I think I've ruled out this possibility too, as I've put the original (60GB) drive back in the system and the exact same thing happens.
So now I'm a bit lost, and I'm after help. Does anyone have any other ideas what might be wrong? Or is the system just kaput?
Also of great concern to me is the (seemingly very high) possibility that I'll lose my 25hrs of Dark Souls progress. I am a PS Plus member but I'm not absolutely kicking myself that I never took advantage of the "cloud saving" service (mainly because I didn't want to turn on any of the other stuff that it seemed to want me to turn on at the same time, such as auto-downloading demos and so on).
So with the cloud saving out of the picture, from what I've read elsewhere it seems that the only other way I'd be able to preserve my saves would be if I used the ethernet system transfer feature, but unfortunately it seems unlikely that I'll be able to do that because to do so I'd need to be able to actually turn my old system on!
One other possibility I was wondering about was whether I could buy a new PS3, and buy a USB caddy that I could connect the the 500GB drive to, and then plug that into the new system - would I then be able to copy my old saves onto the new system? And if so, would that also work for (presumably) copy-protected saves such as Dark Souls? After all I would be using the same PSN account on the new system, or is the copy protection even meant to prevent you from backing up and restoring your own saves on your own account?
Well I think I've covered everything here. Any help or advice anyone can offer me would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
erp.
In possibly the most unfortunate timing imaginable - 25hrs into a Dark Souls addiction, on the eve of possibly the largest volume of quality releases in the shortest period of time in memory - my PS3 has decided to give up the ghost.
I have the classic 3 beeps and a flashing red light when I try to turn it on.
I had no other warning signs that anything was amiss. I'd just turned the system on to play some more 'Souls and had had it sitting on the XMB doing nothing for a few minutes, when it then turned itself off with the above symptoms.
The PS3 is an original UK 60GB model, with a replacement 500GB hard-drive.
I've read elsewhere that it could be an overheating problem, but this seems unlikely to me as it happened a few minutes after turning on the system after it had been off all night.
I've also read that the issue could be with the hard-drive: it could be corrupted, or it could simply have come unseated from its connections. However, I think I've ruled out this possibility too, as I've put the original (60GB) drive back in the system and the exact same thing happens.
So now I'm a bit lost, and I'm after help. Does anyone have any other ideas what might be wrong? Or is the system just kaput?
Also of great concern to me is the (seemingly very high) possibility that I'll lose my 25hrs of Dark Souls progress. I am a PS Plus member but I'm not absolutely kicking myself that I never took advantage of the "cloud saving" service (mainly because I didn't want to turn on any of the other stuff that it seemed to want me to turn on at the same time, such as auto-downloading demos and so on).
So with the cloud saving out of the picture, from what I've read elsewhere it seems that the only other way I'd be able to preserve my saves would be if I used the ethernet system transfer feature, but unfortunately it seems unlikely that I'll be able to do that because to do so I'd need to be able to actually turn my old system on!
One other possibility I was wondering about was whether I could buy a new PS3, and buy a USB caddy that I could connect the the 500GB drive to, and then plug that into the new system - would I then be able to copy my old saves onto the new system? And if so, would that also work for (presumably) copy-protected saves such as Dark Souls? After all I would be using the same PSN account on the new system, or is the copy protection even meant to prevent you from backing up and restoring your own saves on your own account?
Well I think I've covered everything here. Any help or advice anyone can offer me would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
erp.
, and i found my ps flashing red. so i Turned it on then in flashes orange for a split second and then flashes red, i have a disc stuck in the console too. ive left it too cool down with no luck.
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