Black screen of death?

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So having moved six months ago and left my PS3 at my olds in storage, I'm staying with them over Christmas and decided to fire up GT6 for a run around Trial Mountain with the RJN Nissan GTR GT3. So this went all fine so I shut the system down and went to bed.

So turned the PS3 on the next morning to cut a few laps and when the game loaded up all I could see was a black screen and I couldn't go back to the dashboard using the controller, it's like it's frozen so I had to restart the system. I doubt it's the laser as I played some DVDs through it and they worked fine.

My guess is maybe data corruption. From memory it's updated to 1.08 and it wasn't connected online at the time.

Any ideas?
 
Same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. Hadn't played games in a while (a good many years ago), was mainly using my ps3 console for watching DVDs etc. About 2 weeks ago decided to buy GT6 having played and enjoyed GT on ps2 back in the day. Anyway I think it all started to go downhill when I put in the orig GT6 disc. Message came up saying I needed to apply updates in order to play more recent games. Not too sure if it was ps3 system updates or GT6 updates at the time (could be ps3 system updates). Clicked on update, the updates started and when I thought it was finished after about 15 minutes or so and the system supposedly rebooted the next thing I knew is the screen just went black and nothing I did could get it back on to the Home screen. Tried safe booting it, all kinds of time, but no dice.

Long story short, I had to end up buying a new ps3 console as the one I had became bricked.

You problem though may be related to the system update/s or the multitude of GT6 updates that may have been had to then download/install. The last version you had was v1.08. There were many other updates following that with the latest I believe being v1.22 so you could imagine the amount of updates to apply. Many users from my research their consoles got bricked also if they had not updated for a while.
 
davidt33
Same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. Hadn't played games in a while (a good many years ago), was mainly using my ps3 console for watching DVDs etc. About 2 weeks ago decided to buy GT6 having played and enjoyed GT on ps2 back in the day. Anyway I think it all started to go downhill when I put in the orig GT6 disc. Message came up saying I needed to apply updates in order to play more recent games. Not too sure if it was ps3 system updates or GT6 updates at the time (could be ps3 system updates). Clicked on update, the updates started and when I thought it was finished after about 15 minutes or so and the system supposedly rebooted the next thing I knew is the screen just went black and nothing I did could get it back on to the Home screen. Tried safe booting it, all kinds of time, but no dice.

Long story short, I had to end up buying a new ps3 console as the one I had became bricked.

You problem though may be related to the system update/s or the multitude of GT6 updates that may have been had to then download/install. The last version you had was v1.08. There were many other updates following that with the latest I believe being v1.22 so you could imagine the amount of updates to apply. Many users from my research their consoles got bricked also if they had not updated for a while.
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Thanks for the reply. I actually solved the problem this morning. Turns out its a cheap HDMI cord that's playing up. I discovered that by firing up the game and only hearing the intro music but still seeing a black screen. Pulling the HDMI cord out the back of the console and putting it back in solved the problem.

Thanks for the advice about the updates. I'm aiming to update to current when I get back home to my unlimited wifi is there any way to update one update at a time manually so somehow avoid bricking the console?
 
notsofast
I'm aiming to update to current when I get back home to my unlimited wifi is there any way to update one update at a time manually so somehow avoid bricking the console?
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My advice is to do what I did when I got the new console. Since your ps3 console may not have been updated for a while begin first by downloading the latest ps3 system update from the Playstation site, copy it to a USB flash drive, plug the flash drive in the USB slot in the ps3 console and then installing that latest update according to instructions seen from said site. Then afterwards if the GT6 has any updates it needs to install let it do its thing. Might take a couple hours so be patient. If the ps3 is connected to the internet via a wired connection that is best for the GT6 updates as it's quicker than via WI-FI. Then after you're good to go.
 
What davidt said is tru too, I could afford a long ethernet cable , so I managed to install my updates via wifi, the bundle of 1.01- thru 1.13 took 2.5 hours for me , if not more.

But what I also wanted to say is this, depending on the age of the hardware, HDMI connected devices can sometimes have no image nor sounds when they power up. in the first years of HDMI, you often had to unplug and replug the cable, or check how you're powering up the devices. E.g. make sure you already have an image on the tv befoire powering the console
 

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