The Wang-Out: You look adopted.

[Inferno.]

New hangout and whatnot.

[Supreme Warrior]

oh boy oh boy new hangout, too bad i got jack to talk about

[Cookie Monster]

Ah shit, midway through watching the Abyss my PS3 has given in and now has the red light of death. It's an old model PS3 (bought in the summer of 07) and the hard drive seek times have been getting progressively worse so I think the hard drive is at fault, now it won't even boot. :/

Anyone got any opinions on it?

That sucks :/ What do you get when you turn it on, it does nothing or a yellow light appears briefly?

[Tassadar]

That sucks :/ What do you get when you turn it on, it does nothing or a yellow light appears briefly?

When I turn it on I get a message saying the ps3 is checking the file system for errors, after it checks the file system for errors it tries to boot normally and instantly switches off THEN the red light starts flashing and continues flashing.

[Inferno.]

Do PS3s work at all without hard drives? I'm guessing not.

Do you not have an old SATA/spare SATA 2.5" drive you can test the hard drive theory with?

[Tassadar]

I read online and I'm not sure if this is true that you can take the hard drive out, let it boot off the mobo and if the ps3 reports no problems then you can blame the hard drive, although I'm not sure if this will work.

No I don't have a spare hard drive, I might have to buy one, the cheapest laptop hard drive I can find online is a 120 gig one for €68.

[Inferno.]

I read online and I'm not sure if this is true that you can take the hard drive out, let it boot off the mobo and if the ps3 reports no problems then you can blame the hard drive, although I'm not sure if this will work.

No I don't have a spare hard drive, I might have to buy one, the cheapest laptop hard drive I can find online is a 120 gig one for €68.

Wow, expensive. Do you have any spare 3.5" drives? Because you can get SATA extenders I believe for the fat PS3, so you could use a 3.5" drive just to test it isn't completely dead. May be cheaper than the price of a 120GB drive.

[Cookie Monster]

Does it access to the recovery menu? If it does you could try to restore corrupt files.

http://community.us.playstation.com/...art=0&tstart=0
http://www.semperthree.com/ps3recoverymenu.html

[Tassadar]

That sounds like a good idea Dan, also I may PM Beelzebub anyway since he fixes tons of PS3s.

[Inferno.]

Hopefully you won't have to fork out £££ for a new PS3.

Or €€€ in your case.

[Jackhammer]

Hopefully you won't have to fork out £££ for a new PS3.

Or €€€ in your case.

He can buy mine. It's stuck in the cupboard doing nothing.

[Inferno.]

He can buy mine. It's stuck in the cupboard doing nothing.

All your old consoles are belong to Jackhammer.

That didn't even make any sense. Awesome.

[Inferno.]

I wish someone would give me an Amiga 1200 with an accelerator card installed though, do I look like I have £250 to blow on a 20 year old computer?

[Tassadar]

Now it won't even boot, it just goes straight to flashing red. :/

[Cookie Monster]

No recovery menu either, Tass?