My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD

Subject: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Sat 01 Jan 2011, 8:39 am

Found a place here in Orlando about 20mins from the house ,they said they have a 2 hour turn around time,with 6 mth warr. they dont use heat guns,like a lot of services out there,they use the same tech. that sony uses , a state of the art reflow machine using infrared heat. No heat guns or machine screws here. thats great news, and they are a member of the B.B.B., COST $100.00 the web site....www.getgamingorlando.com just give me a couple of days guys,and ill be back on, funds are low right now from Christmas got to wait until i get paid this week...

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Sat 01 Jan 2011, 8:44 am

good luck radron when when mine did that it was emd for it but did sell it for parts bad news is bout new smaller one with more gb for less could have cried

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Sat 01 Jan 2011, 2:11 pm

if mine is bad and cant get fixed and i buy a new ps3 will i loose my trophys,and other game data?? i think i read some where that all that data was stored in the playstation network, please if anyone knows let me know,i hope i dont loose my ranking on the games ive played , i know you can go to the ps store and redownload the patches and upgrades to the games... thanks guys...

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Sat 01 Jan 2011, 6:30 pm

unless you had a backup you will lose all of your data.

Sony encrypts the HDD to each ps3 so you can't just plug it in another one. Ask the guys at that place about it, they may have a way to make a backup for you.

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Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Sat 01 Jan 2011, 6:32 pm

nope all my stuff was at playstation store i even got the 1st game I downloaded just had to send the time re downloading it .mine crapped out last spring

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Sat 01 Jan 2011, 9:06 pm

What ever you payed for will always be there under downloads in the settings thru your PSN name. Just remember what e-mail you used and password, all your downloads will be there, such as map packs, demo's etc. Trophies won't be there because that is saved to the Hard Drive of the current PS3 your using. I have 02 PS3's and I play GT5 on one with a rank of 20 and the other PS3 has the rank of 2, so it depends on the game also. Socom is like COD, you will retain the same rank, Clan tag and so forth but all your settings will not be there, such as if you turned sound off, camo colors, weapons, certain controller settings.

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Sun 02 Jan 2011, 6:13 am

When you get your new PS3, if you sign in to your old name you will still have your trophies because trophies are stored and tracked on the PSN. All your downloads you can get back. Save data however will be lost (all online data will not be, you will still be level 50 on COD or whatever). You can ghost your hardrive, which is basically like backing it up. Then you can plug your replica hardrive into your new PS3 and you won't lose anything, although you may not be able to get trophies on games you played previously.

I don't know much about how you would go about doing that, as I never had to, but if trophies aren't a big deal you can always take a Flash drive and copy most of your save data on to that.

The only things you could lose is single player data, not a big deal for a game like COD, but if you a game like Gran Turismo 5 it would be a big problem.

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Sun 02 Jan 2011, 2:52 pm

That is actually my fear, losing my save files that are encrypted (can't back them up)

Sony should hurry up and get some cloud based saving - I'd pay for that

Hit me Up on the PSN! I_Seiran_I
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Seiran is Japanese for Storm from the clear blue sky, because I'll come out of no where and rain all over your party Wink

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Mon 03 Jan 2011, 5:32 pm

Yea STREETDOC you where right ,i had 2 buy a new ps3, my EMD and hard drive took a crap ... " OUCH " bought me a 320 gigger and a intercooler fan, im not going to let this 1 burn up and crap-out, not this time....

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Mon 03 Jan 2011, 5:38 pm

I never will understand how people break the consoles. I've never personally broke one, while on the other hand my brother has broken 3 PS3's, including my 60GB backwards compatible PS3, and my XBOX.

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Mon 03 Jan 2011, 7:55 pm

not that we abuse them in my case it was left in special case are built for it and it just died no reason at all

Subject: Re: My PS3 just died New Years Eve...YLOD Tue 04 Jan 2011, 4:46 am

i dont know why ,i would clean mine out every month ,would take my air compressor and blow out all the dust out of it ,EVERY MONTH, i bought mine the first week when the ps3 came out, what 5 years ago. so idont understand why it crapped out , i took care of my ps3.and it still crapped out.now with the new ps3 ive been downloading and installing updates now for about 7 hours now and still not done with the updates, didnt realize how much stuff i had on it,