Comments on: SCEA Pulls PS3 Firmware 2.4 After Bricking Consoles?

By: ManOfTeal

ManOfTeal — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:41:45 +0000

I wonder if commenter ANGRY is actually Norbit in disguise….

Go Marlins!!!!

By: ANGRY

ANGRY — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:59:01 +0000

People with a Non Booting PS3 and a PC with spare SATA port try this.

1)Remove the HDD from the PS3 and connect it to your PC,
2)Boot the PC and once in windows quick format the drive to NTFS.
3)Replace drive in PS3 after format and boot, PS3 will ask to format the HDD.
4)Format.

Now it should boot on 2.40

This is for the people who do not want to wait a few days to get another PS3, seems to have been sucessful on the US forums

By: Handisnacks

Handisnacks — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:27:01 +0000

It doesn’t brick any consoles newbs, god damn. The issue was a small percentage of folks (with certain data on their hard drives) got corrupted which required you to format the drive to get it to boot up again. Not a big deal if you back up your saves (which you should every so often).

This certainly wasn’t epic failure Microsoft style, that’s for sure. But yes it somewhat sucked if you were one of the unlucky few. My 60GB works fine with 2.40 however.

By: LSDariuss

LSDariuss — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:14:20 +0000

I couldn’t download, I just wanna know if My Ps3 Had What it take to survive it

By: Ivan_PSP

Ivan_PSP — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:32:44 +0000

My 60GB PLAYSTATION 3 works flawlessly with firmware version 2.40. And all my friends just upgraded some have 40 0r 80 gb models non of them have problems.

By: Sk8man

Sk8man — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:22:17 +0000

My only issue is that they pulled the update before I could download it

By: Davn Kincade

Davn Kincade — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:08:49 +0000

*shrug*

No problems here either, well not really..it went wierd once but everything is 100% now.

By: spencer

spencer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:07:07 +0000

All my buddies are on using it, mine works great I have a launch unit. When things like this happen people always freak out but those people on the blogs and such are having problems and talking about it, while most of us are enjoying the update and our games.