Paging *ALL* PS3 owners (with 2.40) - Did 2.40 brick your PS3?

[Justin Dailey]

Well, it looks like 2.40 was pulled - Source. It's just speculation now as to what caused the update to be pulled. However, evidence is pointing to the fact that it was killing people's PS3's.

So I wanted to start a fresh thread to talk about this issue and NOTHING else!

I started a new thread because it'd be too hard to get an organized poll going in the other thread.

Please limit all post to two types:

A. Posts contributing new information about the bricking phenomenon (i.e. news stories, etc...) -- no anecdotal evidence about others, theories about the problem, or advice to others! (let's keep that in the offical 2.40 thread) and,

B. Posts providing short, concise answers to the three following questions:

---1. Did this update brick your PS3?
---2. Define "brick" in your case
---3. If it did brick your system, how many times did you reboot your PS3 before it bricked?

[Justin Dailey]

---1. Did this update brick your PS3? ---2. Define "brick" in your case ---3. If it did brick your system, how many times did you reboot your PS3 before it bricked?

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

[ggnoobIGN]

Mine bricke'd without the DL. I turn it on, see the "New update required" thing in the corner, then it freezes immediatly. Haven't been able to get to the XMB since. 60GB launch.

[Costanza]

1. No, it didn't.

[Evlar]

1. No.
2. N/A.
3. N/A.

[Crisis]

My 60GB US PS3 is working fine.

[A2D]

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

[Speevy]

No.

[Mairu]

1. no

[Metalmurphy]

1 - No (60GB PAL, Downloaded the update from my computer)

[Justin Dailey]

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[Kagari]

No.

[Paznos]

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

[NinjaFridge]

1. No.
2. N/A.
3. N/A.

[rabhw]

40GB

1.) No
2.) N/A
3.) N/A

[user friendly]

No problems here.

[Spiegel]

40GB PAL

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

[Katana_Strikes]

My 60GB US PS3 is working fine.

Same here!

[Doel]

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

[Speevy]

Mine bricke'd without the DL. I turn it on, see the "New update required" thing in the corner, then it freezes immediatly. Haven't been able to get to the XMB since. 60GB launch.

disconnect your console from the internet

[Teetris]

nope

[Id.]

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

[KernelPanic]

1- No it didn't (60Gb launch NA unit)
2- N/A
3- N/A

[ggnoobIGN]

disconnect your console from the internet

Tried, didn't work.

[brandonh83]

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

[Damodar]

1 - No (60GB PAL, Downloaded the update from my computer)

Same. Update wasn't showing up on the PStriple, so I had to download from pc.

[EGM92]

No, 60gb Launch unit
N/A
N/A

[Full Recovery]

My 60GB US PS3 is working fine.

.

[wenis]

Nope thankfully no issues whatsoever.

[Agent X]

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

Mine is a 60 GB system, purchased shortly after the launch in November 2006.

[mrkgoo]

1. No.
2. N/A.
3. N/A.

[Agent X]

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

Mine is a 60 GB system, purchased shortly after the launch in November 2006.

[Jim Bowie]

looks like you're the only one, man

[MoxManiac]

US 60GB with replaced 160GB HDD

1. no
2. n/a
3. n/a

Only issue i had was it kept rebooting when i tried to update SSD HD; deleting SSD HD and redownloading it fixed the problem.

[painey]

Nope. PAL 60gig d/l via PS3 System Update.

[slider]

1) Nope, DL'ed a few hours ago. Have had the 60gig Euro model on for about 2 hours, maybe more, and played Wowhawk, SSHD and GTA4. Sorry to hear other folks have had trouble though.

2) N/A.

3) N/A.

[le.phat]

launch PAL 60 gig
no
no

[inner-G]

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

(not a Stock HDD, 160GB WD Scorpio FWIW)

[Kazenone]

1. No (Updated through PS3 wired connection; 40GB; working fine)

[FFObsessed]

1. No. (60GB EU Console)

[alr1ghtstart]

1. No
2. N/A
3. N/A

(80 GB USA)

[DarkJC]

1. No (60GB Launch PS3)
2. N/A
3. N/A

[burgerdog]

No.

[slaughterking]

1. No 2. N/A 3. N/A

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[Matrix]

20GB US upgraded to 160GB.

1. No.
2. N/A.
3. N/A.

[stuburns]

1, No
2, N/A
3, N/A

A UK 60GB model, brought whenever the 40GB model was released and the 60GB models got to a price a poor uni student can afford.

[amodf]

no, 60gb ntsc launch.

[Melhisedek]

40GB working fine here

[navii]

1. No (Aussie 40gb)
2. N/A
3. N/A

[darkressurection]

1.No
2.N/A
3.N/A