Hello!
Around 1-2 months ago, Sony released an update. I went to update my PlayStation 3 like any other normal time and it the updating part itself went quick as usual, then when I got to the installation screen...it was horribly slow. I didn't think anything of it, I just thought it had a lot of information to download and so on. So, I simply watched TV and after about an hour I changed inputs to my video screen..and I noticed that my PS3 was stuck on 99% of installation. Well, I let it sit for about another...5 hours because I had to go to work and didn't have time to muck around with it. After coming back, it was still on 99%. I then called Sony. Sony was asking for $99.00 for me to ship it in and a bunch of other crap. I was upset because, it wasn't my fault the system had a failure. And it's only two years old! So, I then did everything I thought I could do to get it to work. I tried putting it in Recovery Mode. It wouldn't go in Recovery Mode. I tried taking my HDD out and seeing if it'd turn off, it didn't. I restarted the system. So...I'm not sure what else to do, because I don't want to lose all of my data. What do you guys think?
1. Turn off Playstation®3.
2. Hold The power button down; The system will turn on and turn off once again.
3. Once the System has been shutdown, re-press you finger until you hear 2 consecutive beeps
4. When you hear the 2 beeps take finger off power button.
5. You will be promted to plug in your controller via usb and then hit the PS button
6. The Recovery menu will pop up.
The Menu:
Restart System:
Restarts the PLAYSTATION®3 System.
Restore Default Settings:
Reset all system settings back to default.
Restore File System:
Checks for corrupt/missing system files.
Rebuild Database:
Rebuilds the OS for the PLAYSTATION®3.
Restore PS3 System:
Fresh restore; Deletes everything and starts from Scratch.
System Update:
Update the PLAYSTATION®3 System
If the Update won't work in here, maybe you have to restore your system complitly.
1. Turn off Playstation®3.
2. Hold The power button down; The system will turn on and turn off once again.
3. Once the System has been shutdown, re-press you finger until you hear 2 consecutive beeps
4. When you hear the 2 beeps take finger off power button.
5. You will be promted to plug in your controller via usb and then hit the PS button
6. The Recovery menu will pop up.
The Menu:
Restart System:
Restarts the PLAYSTATION®3 System.
Restore Default Settings:
Reset all system settings back to default.
Restore File System:
Checks for corrupt/missing system files.
Rebuild Database:
Rebuilds the OS for the PLAYSTATION®3.
Restore PS3 System:
Fresh restore; Deletes everything and starts from Scratch.
System Update:
Update the PLAYSTATION®3 System
If the Update won't work in here, maybe you have to restore your system complitly.
Sony had me try that when I called them. All it did was send me back to the installation screen.
Sony had me try that when I called them. All it did was send me back to the installation screen.
This happened to me too. I took out the HDD to try and make it corrupt, to force it to go to the recovery menu, it didn't work. After awhile, it eventually got the YLOD and was pronounced with the YLOD because of software failure. Nothing you can do.
There is a battery in the ps3 that provides power to store certain settings. The flag that controls the update loop will be deleted if the battery is removed for a short time. Unfortunately, the console must be opened up to remove the battery (it is like the battery in a pc that is used to maintain the cmos settings though I'm probably the only person here who has owned a pc long enough to necessitate changing the battery). There were several posts on this topic at psx-scene.
PS3 Stuck in Update Loop
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Originally Posted by Candyhax
