QUOTE(Dreamworks @ Feb 9 2011, 10:58 PM)
Hi,
Wanna ask... Any of you experience hangs/lock-ups in the middle of a game? Mine happened for the 1st time just now. Was playing Ratchet & Clank (only a lowly 720p game), and was happily fighting a boss battle when the sound suddenly cut-off and the whole screen went black

All buttons on the DS3 are of no use, so I just powered off the unit via its power button (the only button left which works), the PS3 also made a few beeps before shutting down.
Any ideas what went wrong? Overheat? Firmware issues? I'm on 3.56v1 btw...
Thanks!
QUOTE(Dreamworks @ Feb 9 2011, 11:01 PM)
320GB Slim, MY set... Bought about a month or two ago

Added on February 9, 2011, 11:05 pmForgot to mention, I was also downloading a game from PSN while playing. And the PS3 can still start normally after that issue.
Nothing to worry about.
The occasional lock up, especially when you're downloading also.
Many games (in which case this time, R&C for you) sets your HDD for data access.
This is to cut down on load times (primarily..), but downloading while playing may introduce lock-ups here and there sometimes.
Not a big issue.
You can take a check that games which installs data on the PS3 will take longer to load when your downloading something.
Games which doesn't install, but uses the HDD as a pre-fetch space will also take longer to load as well.