Possible PS3 Flashing Red Light Fix Posted by XanTium | 10-12-2006 23:28 EST

From ps3.qj.net: [QUOTE] Yesterday I woke up to bad news, I turned on my PS3 by the switch in the back and about 2 seconds later it beeped three times and the red light started flashing. After trying to turn it on for about 1/2 an hour I realized that it wasn't going to turn on... I did some searching on the web and found nothing but 360 had the same problem. Here's the interesting thing I found a 'fix', all I did was take out the hard disk, and turn it on to get my game out. Then I put the HD back in and turned it on. It worked. I booted up a game and the same damn red flashing light came back on. I repeated the steps and checked to see if the game would work now, and it did! I'm currently using my PS3 to write this. I wanted to let you guys over at QJ.net because I couldn't find a fix anywhere and maybe if you post this I'll end up helping someone else. [/QUOTE] Read More: ps3.qj.net

that's pretty interesting

I read somewhere about this problem, Sony stated it was a power failure issue, and to send it back.

Bah! Who need to troubleshoot when you can just hit the damn thing!

Lol my fav saying: "If it dont work, hit it" although, that doesnt tend to fix things very often....

Works for my xbox! Stupid dvd tray gets stuck now sometimes so i hit it and out it comes....doesn't fix the problem though as you stated....

Frylock: Shake, would you stop hitting the TV!?! You're gonna break that thing!
Master Shake: I'm teaching this thing a lesson! If it doesn't want to get hit anymore, it'll start working.

the red lights flashing means its overheating, leave it for a couple hours, then try again!

Matt

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