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Mines screwed, I called sony, their having me send it in.
Dont send your console in!! I sent this to engadget along with the firmware being pulled like 2 hours ago.
FIX FOR BRICKED 2.40 SYSTEMS!!
Take out your hard drive and put in a new one, or reformat your current one on a pc, or working ps3. THIS WILL FIX YOUR PROBLEMS!
Brilliant solution... Delete all your save games. Thanks Survivalism.
I'd rather send off to to sony, in the hope they can recover it then delete everything.
You think sony can fix it without deleting your saves? be my guest haha.
Make a backup to an external storage before applying updates. Then if it breaks follow survivalism's instructions and do a restore. Then you don't "after the fact" woes.
The biggest problem with Survivalism's advice is the fact that the os/firmware dosen't reside on the HD. It's in seperate flash memory elsewhere in the PS3. The HD is only for savegames and downloads.
Nice try though.
I thought the firmware was on flash too, but I was told by a fellow Shacknewser that now PS3 firmware is on the HD and that's why Survivialism's fix is the way people are doing it over on the Sony forums.
Guys my fix has nothing to do with the firmware, it is still stored on the flash memory, what i think happening is the hard drive is becomming corrupt and not allowing the system to boot, reformat the drive or put a different one in and it works fine, many people have already proven this works.
Survivalism's recommendation is true. Whatever causes the freeze before the XMB loads is stored on the hard drive. The firmware itself is NOT stored on the hard drive, but obviously some settings for the XMB are stored on the drive. There are already quite a few reports on the forum of formatting fixing the problem and the PS3 boots into 2.4.
I can tell you this, Sony isn't going to save your data, they are going to format your drive, it's the easiest, fastest, guaranteed solution possible.