Comments on: PS3 – How to do a factory / hard reset

By: TobesShaw

TobesShaw — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:19:22 +0000

NEED HELP SOON – JUST HAD PREOWNED PS3 AND ITS TELLING ME “A SERIOUS ERROR HAS OCCURRED. CONTACT TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR ASSISTANCE” THIS CAME UP ON A RED SCREEN AND PS3 WONT BOOT. I WANT TO RESTORE IT TO ITS FACTORY SETTINGS WITHOUT TURNING ON, SO HOW DO I DO IT?

By: Jimmy Selix

Jimmy Selix — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:52:12 +0000

@Young Marke

nope, you’ll need to call Sony to reset your password and they do require your birthdate for the account. i had this happen on my 2nd psn account.

By: Young Marké

Young Marké — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:04:55 +0000

My password is not working on my system and my birthdate keeps saying its incorrect. Do I need to do a hard reset? Are is there a way to keep my games that I’ve down loaded. Please help. Trying to download games on my daughters & sons PSP games.

By: BlackSun81

BlackSun81 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:36:03 +0000

Unfortunately it didn’t work for me. T_T
I still get the loading screen. My PS3 won’t read my game disc anymore. I guess need to get this to the shop for cleaning.
how sad…. >’

By: BlackSun81

BlackSun81 — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:18:04 +0000

Currently formatting my HDD in my PS3 40Gig. I hope this helps me. Am not even using my PS3 that much for the past 2 years and it stop working yesterday. I just updated my firmware to 3.73.

Will post update if it works!

q[O-O]p\m/
“Long Live and Prosper” – Spock

By: Gloopy

Gloopy — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:48:18 +0000

We just tried this for one of our customers who had 2 blu-ray lasers fitted by us. At first we thought a faulty Blu Ray Laser but you learn that these problems can be anything and a factory reset did it, don’t ask why but just wanted to say thanks to the poster for this.

By: Mak

Mak — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:34:29 +0000

My ps3 wont let me get passed the Hardrive Recovery screen!! Can you help me?

By: Jimmy Selix

Jimmy Selix — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:08 +0000

@Rodneyroo yes, that is actually pretty easy to do too! just power off the PS3, then press and hold the power button in until you hear a second beep (first beep is when you power on the PS3) and then release. It will then reset your video options to whatever it can detect a signal on and then let you resetup your display options again :)

hope that helps!

By: Rodneyroo

Rodneyroo — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:27:19 +0000

Hi, I have a problem with my ps3. My 18month old has had the controller and now the screen is totally blank, I have been told she may have changed setting from component to another thing other than hd which I have tried to no effect? Help pls?

By: peter

peter — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:13:23 +0000

I have a problem to restart your hard drive when it Restarts and so I re-explode ‘hard disk restartnout