Is Your PS3 Freezing? Firmware v2.00?
My PS3 was freezing constantly on me last night. Even after reboots the system would just freeze again. I’ve never had any stability problems until now which is impressive since I put my system through very heavy use; it’s almost always on and it’s usually running folding@home while I’m not actively using it.
Based on other online reports and Sony’s v2.01 heads up, my suspicion is that this is a firmware problem.
If I have to send in my system, I will be upset. One of the best things about the PS3 is it’s generally rock solid reliability. If this is just a bum firmware update that gets addressed by a patch, that will still be annoying, but ultimately not that big a deal.
Anyone else have similar issues?
(after 3 weeks... but for 23.5€ I cannot remotely complain!)
So merry Christmas!
November 19th, 2007 at 11:05 am
yes, skate demo always freezes after 2nd olie completion, anyone else get this. Seems to be in certain areas of games. skate’s been the only problem with me. can some else try this and see if it happens for them? I tried deleting demo and re-downloading, and started after the 2.00 release. must be something with the news ticker or something.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:30 am
I haven’t had any issues with mine thus far. Maybe it’s just a random thing….??
November 19th, 2007 at 11:33 am
What game are you playing? It keeps freezing randomly while I’m playing AC. Anybody else getting this because its really pissing me off
November 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am
I’ve had zero issues here.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:42 am
My girlfriend was using the PS3 to watch DVDs when it started freezing. Afterwards it was freezing in XMB seconds after boot or even before XMB screen came up. I definitely never had anything like this happen until yesterday.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:44 am
60 Gig, fully BC, USA ps3, 2.00 firmware, playing the SKATE demo, seems to die consistently when logged into the PSN, with the news ticker displaying, will test out toggleing these on/off tonight to see if that resolves the issue. But the system freezes right after completion of 2nd olie task in SKATE demo. I deleted and re-downloaded installed, and the same freeze.
not a huge issue, but was going to so my 360 own’n friend the skate demo on the ps3, trying to get him to get a ps3, so the 360 can continue to collect dust, and he can cancel his xbox live service.
Anyway, was just trying to see if others got the same freeze. Pretty hard freeze up.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I think that has to do with firmware 2.0.
I have noticed that games are freezing when accessing the HDD and i think FW2.0 may have changed something. I have noticed it on R&C, i now don’t get a title screen, just a black screen with the options along the bottom, the load screen flickers very badly, once loaded the game runs fine, although when purchasing weapons, armour, gadgets etc from the vendors the system is very slow and doesn’t always display the info…… i think all this info is stored on the HDD chace, i am going to delete the game info and see if this makes a different, if not role on FW2.01!
November 19th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I have been having some issue connecting my controllers. It would not connect unless I plug it in and then unplug to play wirless. My PS remote would have issues connecting to. I have also trid to connect my second controller since it ha not be used much. I had the same problem with it to. But sometime is works. I have not had any other problem. I have a 60gig. Does anyone have simular problems too?
November 19th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I think it has to do with the info bar. That is causing disconnects from online games and such. I turned mine off and I havent had anything like these other people have had. Now that I said that it will probably happen to me tonight.
Also, I have not played CALL OF DUTY 4 nor have I played Assasins Creed. I think that COD4 has problems with whatever it does to the PS3. Seems that people that have played this are the ones having the problems. No COD4 for me and so far I have no problems.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
watched a blu ray movie last night and nothing happend! so no, no issues here
November 19th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Same for me as Huschke…
I had however some “lockup” which resolved themselves in seconds (try multitasking with the internet browser and the RSS reader on… then it locks up frequently, yet it does not freeze completely).
I didn’t play much though the last few days
November 19th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Just 5 freezes while playing Assassin’s Creed. I’ve played Ratchet & Clank, CoD4 and PSN games during the same period and experienced no freezing issues since Firmware 2.0.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
There seems to be a few problems with Both Assains Creed AND Call of Duty 4 with 2.0
This is what I can come up with after reading tons of messages on the boards.
I bet 2.1 will fix that.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
No issues at all with 2.00 in an PAL launch PS3
I’ve been playing COD4, watching DVDs, downloading, etc…
The only issue for me is Linux, as 2.0 breaks Wi-Fi
[YDL are looking into it]
November 19th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Picked tthis up from the Playstation.blog :
“…Firmware v2.01 is a minor update that will improve the stability of PLAYSTATION 3.We’ll provide more specifics as the update is about to go live, but we thought we’d give loyal blog readers advance notice!…”
Looks like they’re aware of your trouble, guys!
November 19th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
yeah, anyone else try the SKATE demo? i turned off status/news ticker and tried skate again, seemed to work for a bit longer, and would then get a system pause/crash where it’d simply kill over. i hope rock band or uncharted won’t cause this to happen. Played a ps2 game(viewtiful joe 2), friday night for 4-5 hrs without any troubles, so it’d appear to be a problem either with my HD or with the firmware. I’m glad i backed up my data.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
jwspiker……
I can play the Skate demo all the way to the end with no problem, and I too can play PS2 games no problem. I have been addicted to Splinter Cell Chaos Theory for the PS2 (Yes, I am late to the party lol).
November 19th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
No issues at all.
Had a blast with HS lately, too bad the normal gameplay is fine with button mashing, because some combos really are awesome (2nd time through).
November 19th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
The first thing I did after the v2.0 upgrade was to turn off the InforBar thing. I’ve not had any freezes yet (touch wood), but I have noticed that CoD4 does disconnect me from the PSN randomly. I have Skate (full game) and not seen any freezes with that either.
Andy.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
My one coworker with a PS3 just mentioned a nearly identical issue with his PS3 freezing over the past few days. He hasn’t had stability issues before the v2.00 update either.
The odds of this *not* being related to the firmware update are very slim. On the good side, I suspect this will be fixed in the v2.01 update.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Actually there is something I noticed. The PS3 would turn itself back on after I turn it off sometimes (I have remote start enabled). I read somewhere it’s a bug in the firmware.
November 19th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
No issues here (60GB PS3)
November 19th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I fear, some people are to “impatient” and think their console froze in XMB when it was just stuck for several seconds (i.e. more than 10 or 15 seconds)… As I said earlier, I had this too when the RSS reader was enabled, but is gone without!
Problem with this thing is, every time you enter something in the XMB, the reader shuts down and then, when you exit it, it restarts and needs to reload itself completely, which locks up the XMB for some seconds. Pretty dumb actually!
November 19th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Segitz, my PS3 is freezing. Not just for 10-15 seconds, but I’ve left it for minutes and it doesn’t come back. I expect this will be fixed by 2.01 this week.
Davey, that is a strange controller issue. I’ve never heard of that before. I can’t imagine why that would be.
Has anyone experienced this before v2.00?
November 19th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
2.01 is out now… dling now
November 19th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
fixed my problem with SKATE DEMO!! sweet.. wonder what it did
November 19th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
well, was working till the video replay tutorial.. oh well.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
…no problems with firmware 2 here. I wonder if 2.01 supports DivX…I’m looking forward to less transcoding.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Ugh. 2.01 patch didn’t seem to help. My PS3 still crashes within seconds (usually 0-7 seconds) of powering on. It seems that the longer I wait while it is off, the longer it stays on. If I leave it off overnight, it comes up for several minutes.
While applying the 2.01 patch, the PS3 reset itself while the onscreen progress indicator was at ~40% progress. That can’t be good. Ideally, I would like to reapply the patch but I’m not sure how to do that.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Andy might be up tro something: the first thing I did after 2.0 installed was turn off the info bar (ugly and annoying little bugger).
November 20th, 2007 at 2:55 am
My ps3 has no problems, I might as well wait for 2.1 (not 2.01), they may just have broken something again with 2.01..
November 20th, 2007 at 2:59 am
BTW, from some changelog: “Stability during playing some PLAYSTATION 3 format software has been improved.”
“improved”.. It has to be, erm, perfect?!
November 20th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Update 2.1 is out
November 20th, 2007 at 6:12 am
You mean, 2.01?
November 20th, 2007 at 6:34 am
I had one freeze on uncharted. none on AC which is surprising
November 29th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Well.. Ever since I got the new firmware, My PS3 has been freezing ever since I tried to start it up. I cannot play my PS3 at all now!
I hear part of the start up tune, Then it stops and all I see is a black screen.
Someone please please help me! I’m desprate!
Regards,
Larry.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Hold down the power button on your ps3 for a few seconds untill it beeps twice, this should reset it back to default settings and solve your black screen problem.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Larry, that’s *exactly* what happened to me. Some times the PS3 would run for 1-2 minutes before freezing, but most of the type it freezes before I even get an image. I do get the startup chime though.
My PS3 was perfectly fine until v2.0 firmware.
I tried holding the power button, I tried patching with 2.01 (when I could get the PS3 to boot), I tried disabling the new news ticker, and I even did a complete system settings reset (also when I actually got the PS3 to boot).
Ultimately nothing worked. I called Sony support and I sent my system in for repair/replacement.
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Well, Please tell me if you solve our problem, Because I *really* want my PS3 to work.
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Larry, I solved my problem: I called Sony, they sent me an empty box to return my PS3 with prepaid postage, I sent my PS3 off and am awaiting a replacement to arrive.
The process is reasonably painless. Make sure you have a receipt of some kind. They will also make you go through a few basic troubleshooting steps before they agree to do a warranty exchange.
Call Sony Support: 1-800-345-SONY (7669)
http://www.us.playstation.com/Support/PS3/HowToObtainService
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Okay, Thanks..
But I’m from the UK, So could you find me a UK number?
Regards.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:40 pm
I just got a ps3, installed the firmware update, and holy crap I’m having a crap load of freezes and whatnot
What’s up with this? I hope its not because I got a refurbished ps3, is it?
December 4th, 2007 at 10:46 am
No, It’s the shitty, Buggy version.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Darkpen, sounds like you need to do an exchange. Call Sony Support.
Larry, sorry, I’m lazy. The UK number is on the support site somewhere. I feel your pain. I am waiting for a replacement system right now.
December 8th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Just got a new PS3 yesterday and worked great up until about an hour ago. It boots up fine and everything but then when I go to play a Madden game, the game lets me play for a max of 3 minutes then freezes. I am pretty sure its the system because I had a buddy bring his Madden disc over and it froze in the same area for him. I also tried switching outlets, unplugging chords and rebooting. This is making me really angry. Any suggestions?
December 8th, 2007 at 3:52 am
Maverick, I’m no troubleshooting expert, but here’s what I would recommend:
- Make sure you are using latest 2.01 firmware.
- Go into settings and do a System Reset to reset all settings.
- If the freezing still persists, you are probably screwed: Get your receipt, call Sony support, and get a replacement.
January 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
mine has just started doin this aswell!!!! does reseting the system work??
its the same for me 4 mins into any game and it freezes!!
i was getting quite good at COD4 aswell!!!!
November 7th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
my ps3 just goes on the title page do u no wiv that group of swirly lines and then doesent do any thing but ive done everything and have been scouring the internet for help on the thing ive got COD4 i play all the time with my mate i dnt no wat to do i also have got assasins creed but i completed it copule of months back any help or any awnsers please give me some or im takin it to sony!
November 7th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
my ps3 just goes on the title page do u no wiv that group of swirly lines and then doesent do any thing but ive done everything and have been scouring the internet for help on the thing ive got COD4 i play all the time with my mate i dnt no wat to do i also have got assasins creed but i completed it copule of months back any help or any awnsers please give me some or im takin it to sony!!