[leigh120585]

After a bit of advice, my brothers ps3 today just died playing cod. Now it will turn on but nothing comes on the screen, i did notice that the controllers dont sync to either.
He has it conected up via component, i did the screen set and tried using an av connection.

it is out of 12 months warranty, but not sure how much the ps3 has.

cheers for any help.

[BenchyUK]

Call SONY support. They'll most likely swap it with a new console within a few days free of charge even though your out of warrenty

[leigh120585]

do you know the phone number?

[BenchyUK]

08705 99 88 77

[pandemic]

Funny you mension cod, everyone I've come across with a dead PS3 so far was playing cod on it at the time. Curious to know how much time he spent playing on it.

[leigh120585]

cheers, he does play it quite alot!

[CLH]

Sometimes, if you hold down power off for too long, it reverts to 480p(?) and takes an age to get the signal through, forcing you to reset it to 1080p etc when prompted (resetting up the HDMI setup).

[xcross]

This is exactly what happened to mine, although mine was within warranty.
The sony customer service is very good

[AlanBryant]

Some one at my works had his PS3 go wrong, and Sony sent out another for a swop.But he wasn't aloud to swop over the hard drive, so he lost all his game saves.He was gutted.

If you can, back up any saves that you want to keep

[pandemic]

Can you backup all game data on the PS3? I'm curious if you can back up the additional cod4 maps that were brought seperately to the game.

[TerryUK]

Originally Posted by bla5er

Can you backup all game data on the PS3? I'm curious if you can back up the additional cod4 maps that were brought seperately to the game.

I think you can re-download the maps from the playstation store free of charge if you already purchaced them.

[stillme]

Dont worry man mine did the same thing on dec 1,08 same thing i have a 60 gig its a system freeze just send it bck to sony which if out of warranty like mines was its gonna cost 149.00 plus tax 160.55 i just payed for mine about a week ago and now they are sending me a brand new 60 gig but its better to pay 160 to either get it fixed or get a new 1 compared to paying like 399 or 499 dont feel bad it happened to me and my sytem gets played really hard all i play is online games lik live 09 madden 09 fight night cod world at war all tht just call sony and trust me if u got the 60 gig ur treated like roalty 1800 345 7669 sony my psn is (stillme) if anyone wants a friend or help good luck everyone

[Darth_terra]

Originally Posted by stillme

Dont worry man mine did the same thing on dec 1,08 same thing i have a 60 gig its a system freeze just send it bck to sony which if out of warranty like mines was its gonna cost 149.00 plus tax 160.55 i just payed for mine about a week ago and now they are sending me a brand new 60 gig but its better to pay 160 to either get it fixed or get a new 1 compared to paying like 399 or 499 dont feel bad it happened to me and my sytem gets played really hard all i play is online games lik live 09 madden 09 fight night cod world at war all tht just call sony and trust me if u got the 60 gig ur treated like roalty 1800 345 7669 sony my psn is (stillme) if anyone wants a friend or help good luck everyone

It doesn't cost to get it replaced even out of warranty so i have no idea why you say you were charged for it, unless it was a import and not a UK model.

[clc.sheff]

Originally Posted by Darth_terra

It doesn't cost to get it replaced even out of warranty so i have no idea why you say you were charged for it, unless it was a import and not a UK model.

Stillme will be a resident of the good old US of A going from prices he's posted, they are US retail prices. Sorry to beat you too it Stillme