PS3's corrupted by Firmware 2.0 update?

  • Posted November 14th, 2007 at 08:52 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Users on the official PlayStation forums have reported multiple hardware issues since installing the Firmware 2.0 update on their PlayStation 3 console.

PS3 owners claim that, since installing the update, their consoles have experienced a number of issues, some of which include serious hardware faults, such as the machine’s inability to read game discs or indeed ceasing to function at all.

Other oddities include a slow down of performance and loss of content.

Sony Computer Entertainment has yet to comment on the alleged faults. Stay tuned to PSU for more developments as they become available.

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  1. JMedders

    • 8:56am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    This is worrying. I haven't had any problems. *touch wood*

  2. Hemin | Herro

    • 9:08am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    my ps3 can't be killed by a firmware update. i've put it through hours of play time and left it on for days and nothing. my ps3 is godly.

  3. royboy | bigfreezy1975

    • 9:11am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    yeah man my games don't show up when i put them in. the disc icon doesn't pop up. this is very upsetting. hopefully Sony will correct this problem very soon

  4. Sniperwithacause | Sniperwithacause

    • 9:16am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Last night it happend to me and two other clan mates of mine.  I was hosting a game in Warhawk and then all of a sudden i was kicked off Warhawk and the Playstation Network.  When I tired to get back online it wouldn't let me, but when i switched to another account it was fine.  The only problem was is that it would say my other account was still online and in Warhawk!  I HOPE SONY IS WORKING ON A SOLLUTION SOON!!!!  I was queted on this last night about 3am EST saying "More bad than good has came from this update".

  5. bluecrane7

    • 9:21am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I didnt think much of it till now, but last nite i put in The Show and i got some error message saying the game wasent there or disk error or something. Sht hope they can fix this soon. (all my other games work fine tho?)

  6. Sniperwithacause | Sniperwithacause

    • 9:22am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    PS:   IT SURE WOULD BE NICE OF SONY TO HAND OUT SOME FREE PLAYSTATION STORE POINTS FOR THE TIME AND TROUBLE TO THOSE WHO HAD TO WASTE TIME IN LOOKING FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT'S # EARLY THIS MORNING!

  7. JD-82 | JD-82

    • 9:30am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Can't say i've had any problems...played Smackdown for four or five hours last night and no issues...

  8. TekkenLord | HitMan00

    • 9:44am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    have no problems with the update,

  9. frank_magnet | Frank_Magnt

    • 9:51am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    no problems thus far !

  10. Gameware336 | Tyrial

    • 10:04am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    my system crashed 6 times in a row...everytime i started smething (a setup or game disk) it would crash, i tought it was the info bar so i took it off.fixed it, but now my themes wont stay on and they did before..mind you his happened yesterday and not right after the update minus a few freezes that i rubbed off as a launch bug, it rarely ever freezes but it does every 2 months or so, this is a launch system also. but the themes crap is pissin me off, not as pissed as when i thought my p3 was broke cause of the constant freezing.

  11. killers72888 | killers72888

    • 10:07am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    never had a problem yet but man does this suck for a majority of people

     

  12. TheRizeofWar

    • 10:17am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I hate to see this happen. I havent had any problems, making themes and playing games constantly. No probs. At least its not hardware setups, b/c not much you can do to fix that except change it. Im sure sony will have a resolution soon. Sony dont let these people down.

  13. DeadOnArrival06 | DeadOnArrival06

    • 10:25am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    No problems with me. Let's hope it stays that way..

  14. JD-82 | JD-82

    • 10:29am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Oh and "sniper" remember that Sony don't use point on the store, they use cold hard digital cash...keep up brother...

  15. stovich | TasteLikeBurning

    • 10:33am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    No problems so far, but d4mn this IS worrisome.

  16. Ryo_Stryfe | RyoStryfe

    • 10:48am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I've had no problems. I'm thinking that the new firmware just didn't install correctly in those people's cases. Sony should simply release a FW 2.01 that only makes minimal tweaks in the installation process as a bug fix.

  17. mlgacc

    • 10:48am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I've noticed a purple line rising through my TV and it is only when my PS3 is on. It appears in the chat room, when i watch movies and even in XMB menu It sucks because now I have to watch movies with my older DVD player. please sony fix this problem.

  18. d-universe | DJRush12

    • 11:00am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Well, my ps3 hasn't made many errors since the update, but the errors that it did bring are pretty annoying. I do hope they fix them.

  19. Clarky_psu | clarky-132

    • 11:05am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Ohh SHI.T!

  20. justme911

    • 11:08am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    no problems on my end,  but if there is sony will fix.

  21. scott333

    • 11:11am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Haven't had any disc problems but I did notice that when that information bar was displayed it slowed down navigating through the xmb. So I turned that crap off and it's all good.

  22. izzheemee | Tienamen-Ra

    • 11:12am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Mine froze once inthe XMB,and once during COD4.

  23. vfitz22 | vfitz66

    • 11:16am GMT - November 14th, 2007

    ps3 froze a couple of times n is generally a bit slower, games run fine tho

  24. MrAce | mrace

    • 12:03pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I would just like to say that since the new firmware update I have had no problems(so far). However I have had to have my playstation replaced with a new one about a three weeks ago because it suddenly stopped playing discs. and a guy at work had exactly the same problem. Could this be frimware related or just dodgy consoles?

  25. TheBlackMamba | tofast4ya

    • 12:32pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    No problems for me, you other losers must have purchased a bootleg PS3

  26. gingo | gingo

    • 12:33pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    psn id: gingo.. no problems so far but the xmb has been a bit laggy but i tihnk thats more to do with the info bar rather than a corrupted system

  27. Amoebalove | amoebalove

    • 12:40pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    i bet Bill Gates is behind this! this reeks of microsoft's money they must have paid someone to do this just like they pay people to delay games and to give crap PS3 games low review scores!!! HA! ya bunch of loons!!!!

  28. xBSGeorge | xBSGeorge

    • 1:07pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    My PS3 has experenced some slow down times on the main menu, selecting music and games or wanting to make messages to others, but the game play itself has not been affected.

  29. Clarky_psu | clarky-132

    • 1:15pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I`ll believe when it`s confirmed, so until' then I`ll be playing COD 4. XD .

  30. Redrider | Warhawk1

    • 1:24pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    My PS3 has been running fine since FW update 2.0 but if anything comes up I will be sure to blame it on the FW update like some here are doing..........

  31. iToke | iToke

    • 1:29pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    roy boy, you can't even play games anymore!?  didn't I see you last night on that Motorstorm?  dayum, too bad people are having problems tho, definitely is strange.  fortunately muh box still works, has gotten even quicker since updating with things like loading icons, friends list, web browser....sheeit, people no longer disapear momentarily from my list so that's a good thing.....but still too bad to hear about these things.

  32. liquidghost | LiquidGhost

    • 1:45pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    no problem here i love my ps3

  33. ACHILL6969

    • 1:47pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Ive noticed some things since 2.0 when I load a game it goes directly to game instead of the xmb. Hope this fixes soon not to much problems on my end.

  34. cashville

    • 1:58pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    lol ..... i cant stand firmware updates anymore sony ... your games and  upddates are getting  lamer ..... maybe you people at sony need to hire former microsoft   guy or something cuz  you guys suck @ softwares ....

  35. blachaze | blachaze213

    • 1:58pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    nothin seems to be wrong with mine.

    psn id: blachaze213

  36. THE_NEXUS | nexus321

    • 2:03pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    warhawk freezed and i had to turn my ps3 off.I think its cause of the over heating thing so i bought a cooler

     

  37. dfontes1188 | dfontes1188

    • 2:09pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Yea I have been experinceing some slow down in performance n freezing ever since the update unforunately...

  38. Muzikguy | Muzikguy

    • 2:43pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    psn id Muzikguy   Nothing is wrong with mine so far. "knocks on wood" I'm pretty sure Sony will fix the problems though

  39. leeman99 | Bedsidelee

    • 2:44pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Well this bad for the people who are having these problems.

  40. Syphon_Filter

    • 2:44pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Well, evem mine sometimes it does happens but not all the time, when i want to check my mail box i see the picture is very slow and it goes back to normal after. I never had this porblem before but only i after updated to 2.00

  41. reccodog | reccodog

    • 3:16pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    Nope, No problems for me! Must of been some xbox 360 fanyboz saying crap about the ps3!

  42. Yuk-Yuk | Yuk-Yuk

    • 3:28pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    The only thing I've had is after the update is that demo's now sometimes slow waaaaay down when I play them.

  43. Zillion2210

    • 3:33pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I have experienced a lot of lag when opening applications in th XMB

  44. primalbreath | jdawg222

    • 3:44pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    yup, myn has crashed like 6 times sice the update  in the xmb, i saw on this site restoring the default setting of the ps3 does the trick, it hasnt froze since. but my cod4 still has some isuues, but i think thats an isolated problem within the game

  45. Lp47PS3 | Lp47

    • 3:50pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    I havent had nay problems.

  46. Limanima | Limanima

    • 3:53pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    No problems with mine .But if this is true it sux.They should be careful with this updates. There s no rush, they should make proper tests. It s not this updates that are going to sell consoles. But if it s a firmware problem it s ok because they can fix it. Had my ps2 for7 years and had no crashes.

  47. GR333DY | THILEB

    • 3:58pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    uhhhh......thank god i haven't had time to play my PS3 in weeks, lol so i haven't updated mine............its not gonna force me to update is it ???

  48. Super_Dante | DanteSuper

    • 4:03pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    no problem so far!

  49. soul_reaper25 | soul_reaper25

    • 4:10pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    psn id:soul_reaper25...u now that update did somthin to my system man that message borad thing that wut made me lose my online for my ps3 and it sucks big time man i cant even sign in at all so i got a new roator and now wut it sayed cant not find a conntion point if u now wut is the proplem plz tell me A.S.A.P plz i want my online back who ever helps me get back my online add me then if u now the solution for it plz tell me if u can have friends on here then asdd me on here and tell me then u opr me ill add u on psn k so if anyone nows how to help me pplz tell i want online back so addd psnid: soul_reaper25 tyhats my psn but i dont have my online right now so tell me first then ill add u if u add me say on the messagre that im the guy/women that helped u get ur online back plz telll me and sony plz dont let nothin like that happen again i lost my onlne because of that boad thing onec aghainj psn id: soul_reaper25

  50. Xomaniac2

    • 4:21pm GMT - November 14th, 2007

    if its the information bar (which i found usless...like a flap of dead skin) turn it off, like i have done by going network > information bar > triangle > do not display

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