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Force a shutdown
Press and hold the Power button on the front of the PS3 for about 10 seconds to force the system to shutdown (safely).
Use this method if your PS3 freezes/crashes. Do not flick the power switch on the back of the unit to shutdown because it could potentially corrupt your files.
Force disk eject
Press and hold down the Eject button on the front of the PS3 for about 10 seconds to force the system’s drive to eject.
Useful for example if you try to launch a PS2 game and it freezes. You should be able to force eject the disc and then force shutdown the system.
Reset video settings
With your PS3 turned off, press and hold the Power button on the front of the PS3 for about 10 seconds (the system will beep as normal as it starts up but after 7-10 seconds it will beep again). The video settings should now be reverted. Doing this will also reset any theme settings.
I use this method to revert from HDMI 1080p to Composite 576p, without having to swap cables and change settings.
There is one more. Turn off your PS3 entirely. Then, flip the backswitch and Eject button at the same time. The cooling fans will start to blow at max capacity to blow out all the interior dust. This only works with 40GB models
This also works on the drake bundle(160gb)
Seems to work on the 80Gb version too
That could potentially burn out your PS3′s graphic card and it works on 60 GB models to
I’ve tried it ONCE!
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has anyone tried to do what paul says?
what paul says is true but dont do it…it damages ur ps3 vid card …i ran into a prob after i did it…,i couldnt use the a/v cables anymore for some reason…only hdmi
DO NOT do what paul says !!!!
I have even asked sony, it can potentially damage your Ps3′s graphics card
your only surging a current to the fan. you can potentially fuse your ps3
That method who Paul posted doent work. Thats the fastes way to broke ur ps3. It will damage ur video card, and burn ur ps3 to the YLOD stage. What a useless post Paul.
No, that was with another way. Some people would do the same thing by turning the PS3 upside down, so the heat would go into the card. The way he suggested simply spins the fans faster – the worst you could do is wear out the fans faster.
My PS3 died today (red light and 3 beeps within a second of powering it on). It died with a disk stuck inside it. I phoned Sony and they got me to do what Paul suggested. It did indeed make the fan blow at maximum, but it also (thankfully!) forced the system to eject my disk.
Now i just have to send my dead PS3 away and hope they decide to fix/replace it despite it being a month out of warranty…
Hey, I have the same problem, can you tell me exactly what you did to get the disk out? Does it have something to do with attempting the eject while the fan is in hurricane mode?
Thanks!
Ours did the same thing today, but I tried holding the ejecct button and pressing it and the back button at the same time and nothing happens. Our Harry Potter Lego game is inside.
Who did you call?
I never did, my GTA:IV is still stuck in there.
yeah! i have recently bought the lego harry potter game aswell! it turned itself off half way through and now i cant turn it back on or eject the disc out
My PS3 died a month ago, its a 60GB and it has the yellow light, i have a game disc inside and i cant get it out can somone help me???
That’s exactly what happened to me Gaby. See my post above…
It has since been replaced by the lovely people at Sony, even though it was out of warranty.
my ps3 got the yellow light of death , but my modern warfare 2 was stuck in it does anyone know how i could get it out without smashing the ps3 ???
Modern Warfare 2 is garbage.
Get a real game, then we’ll help you.
Here’s how a country boy does it. I had the hated red light and yellow lightback to red lights of death trapping my Blue Ray movie inside which Sony said they would not replace. My PS3 is out of waranty. FIRST UNPLUG PS3. Get a dinner knife, not the sharp steak knife. Now take the fake chrome plastic cd cover off. Now wrap one layer of duck tape around blade of knife ( a popcicle stick might work also ). Locate disk in slot. Take knife and gently slide under disk. Slowly slide from right to left. When you feel disk is free. Keep knife inside and under disk. Have a friend carefully pickup ps3 and hold it up above you with slot facing down towards you. Now if done right the disk will slide out. Try again if not successful , this has worked for everyone who I told how when their ps3 died.
I wanna see someone do that and the other person drop the ps3 on them which pushes the knife into their eyeball that’d be great.
Had the same problem,
Froze while playing game then switched itself off and got the red blinking light of death! No matter what combinations of power switch, eject buttons and swearing would release the disc so had no other option than to take the bugger apart….
Not hard but will void any warranties you may have on your machine.
First remove small torx screw from left side of unit (under warranty sticker and rubber plug) then slide cover left and remove, undo 9 or so screws from top which will release the top half of the machine, the Disc drive will simply lift out (there is a ribbon cable to detatch also) Under the drive there will be 5 small screws holding the metal cover on, take these off then remove the six or so screws holding the two halves of the drive together and Tadaaa you hostage can simply be lifted out.
Putting the thing back together is the reverse of above or you could find the nearest blunt heavy object and exact some sort of revenge!!!
I’ve had a problem with my 80 gig backwards compatible ps3 for some time now because my loving dog (who’s overly energetic) knocked my ps3 off of the shelf and it landed on the floor with a nice crash, since then a disk has been stuck inside… I’ve tried everything and just recently got the courage up to take it apart after trying tweezers a license or a knife finding out that I have the stupid little gate and it was stuck. My ps3 will flash yellow go beep beep beep then turn red flashing light on, so finally I took the sucker apart and after reading magicmogwai’s idea I went to walmart to get an eye glass screwdriver, but it’s too small, and the other tiny screwdriver I have is too big, so I found at wally mart they sell those kits for tiny repair stuff the only bummer is like eye glass repair they’re flat heads not phillips anyhow you need one of those kind of screwdrivers they come in a pack of usually 4 or 6 and they are different sizes. It runs in mm size. They sell them in the hardware department I know that much too. So if I ever get this stupid disk drive apart I’ll come back and let you know if I actually was able to fix it since I’ve heard the reason mine does the flashy beep beeps is due to hardware malfunction or something maybe with the disc out it’ll go back to normal functioning.
Do what Paul did to eject a disc that is stuck due to red blinking light. Turn the system completely off in the back. Then hold your finger on the eject button and turn the system back on. It will power up the PS with enought time to eject your disc. But, it will not fix the main problem with the PS.