giving a name for it already.

...this means that the PS3 failure rate is around 0.00000012%



I would have to say that is really great, especially compared to the 33% failure rate of the 360.

my brother dropped mine and some pieces broke off and my harddrive had to restart but it still works like new. i have no trouble with it and i folding at home all the time when i aint playing it. trust me they dont break that easy. 360 breaks very easily i took very good care of it they just brake of faulty parts.

It's been over a year. And, it's thanks to this one guy that managed to brick his PS3 (also wondering how he did it) that we now know what happens.

It doesn't deserve a name though, especially since the yellow light is just a warning that something's wrong with the PS3, and not an avatar of PS3 Death.



I'm pretty sure if you took out the hard disk, formatted it, and maybe installed windows on it or something, that's what would happen, but, if that's what he did, AND IT'S PROBABLY NOT, well, no wonder he's the first known brick.

pretty damn impressive if you ask me. that's the equivalent to finding a faulty Intel processor (in retail)...one in a bajillion

i had my ps3 from lunch date and have it an for at least 40 hours a week and it still runs perfect

You'd rather it die quickly...



No comment on that bud..

hmmm, i came home one day after school and mine had a flashing red light on it. I booted it up via the controller and it flashed ORANGE, yes ORANGE, and then to the standard green and blue lights.



it works fine now though and i havnt had any problems since.

You can get this problem if you start updating the firmware and electric supply gets cut off. This can happen if a power cut or the console gets uplugged before it finishes updating the firmware. I know two people on electric token meters who had the ps3 brick because they had run out of credit just at that crucuial moment. Probably one in twent thousand units will get this fault because of this. But your risk increases if you have token meters. I would suggest you all make sure your meter is fully topped up before doing any updates. Also I noticed he switched it off / on with the back switch. Don`t touch that switch if you are updating. maybe he switched it off during update and that can also cause it. Cauld have crashed his harddisk or messed up his firmware.

To be honest I would suggest you never switch the machine off with the back switch.



Hope it helps.



Arnookie

No such word as borken

My room mate STILL tells me that there is *no* problem with just pulling the plug... God he has issues sometimes.

simple word brick.... but not from the HDD. i believe the ps3 uses flash memory just like the psp for their firmware updates. extra features like (Divx,profiles, etc) are installed in the HDD.... just a guess...

This doesn't really have anything to do the the internal electronics of the PS3 but I have first hand knowledge of the mechanical quality of the Blu Ray drive. I couldn't get the disc on the XMB to play so I went to eject it. It spit out 5 cdrom's that my 3 year old had apparently shoved in there on top of each other. Have had no problems since then with the drive reading discs. Only thing wrong is when I first turn it on and the drive spins up it rattles and hums for 15 seconds or so like its out of balance and then steadies down once it reaches operating rpm's.

she shoved 5 dvd's in the drive and i got them out one at a time and it still works just hums and rattles for 15 seconds till rpms smooth it out