HomeI know I’ve already posted the final part of my broken PS3 story, but this is a follow-up that I think will help.
After I received my PS3, I tested by playing some Blu-ray movies and it worked great. However soon after, I started noticing some small problems.
I noticed that after the Sony Computer Entertainment fanfare music plays, there is a long pause between it and the XMB loading, something I’ve not noticed before. There was even once when the XMB refused to load even after a long wait.
Then just the other day, I was playing an XviD movie over the network. The movie was really slow to start, and fast forwarding doesn’t work. And half way through the movie, the wireless BD remote refused to work. Even the wireless controller didn’t work, and only plugging it in through the USB port worked. A restart and wireless worked again. Other XviD files worked okay though.
So it does look like that I’ve been given a dud refurbished PS3. But the first step for troubleshooting the PS3 is to do a full system restore (actually, you reset to default settings, and if that doesn’t work, do a quick restore, and then finally, a full restore). 3 hours later, the PS3 no longer pauses just before the XMB loads. Playing that XviD file again, it started instantly and fast forwarding worked again.
So the tip would be to do a full system restore after you get your refurbished PS3 back. It’s still too early to declare the problem fixed, but it does look like the restore at least helped. I will keep monitoring the PS3 for any more of these small problems, but fingers crossed.
