yea stock, haven't changed it yet, it's a Hitachi Travelstar something something.

had to happen to me huh

Sony has announced they will release a fix. how they gonna do it, I don't know.

screw it la guys, I give up. been working on my machine for the past 2 hours

I'll wait for a fix. if still cannot, I'll send it back to Sony. but problem is, bernard cannot guarantee how long it'll take. I'm guessing because it has to go through suppliers and such. and I don't have the means to go there myself. sigh.. any alternatives?

no la not hard disk problem. tried another hard disk also still cannot fix.

I'm guessing it's the firmware problem. something wrong with the flash.

no la I'm not the one going to Aussie

I FINALLY GOT MY PS3 TO WORK! WITH MY DAD'S HELP!

the NTFS formatting of the hard disk was the root of the cause. it has to be formatted using DOS not NTFS. after my dad suggested formatting using DOS it worked again!

YES!

I'm not gonna touch it until Sony releases the updated fix though.

the guide on the US Playstation board said NTFS so I just ikut la. then dad suggested DOS and it worked!

2.40, because previously the problem was the flash was updated, but the hard disk wasn't. it couldn't accept files older than 2.40 so I had no choice but to run the update.

yeah, after the umpteenth time trying probably! haha.

last problem was wave of death.

grr the guide shouldn't have said NTFS formatting. if i knew it was DOS i wouldn't have wasted my time with NTFS.

yea I will

it's better for people to know, who knows when it might come in handy.

thanks guys

This post has been edited by nerd: Jul 4 2008, 01:08 AM

I phobia to update already

updated already. no problems

yup! and updated via thumbdrive just in case.. my heart was pounding when it rebooted

I'll wait