Firmware 2.42 Bricking Some PS3’s, Solution
Posted on
August 5th, 2008
by
PS3Vault
The message boards over at Playstation.com are all fired up with people reporting that the latest Firmware upgrade, 2.42 has caused their PS3’s to brick and stop reading all discs. Normally a certain number of machines will always die, coincidentally at the same time as a firmware upgrade. But in this case, enough people have had the same, pretty specific sequence of events and then an almost completely dead PS3.
To read the complaints, visit the Firmware 2.42 thread. And, to see a possible solution, visit here.
Please post a comment if this has happened to you and what your results have been with the admittedly painful fix listed above.
Filed under: Firmware Updates
Yup. 80 GB Asia model.
Doesn’t read some discs after the update esp. all the lionsgate BD discs.
Some discs play after repeatedly being popped into the console.
Sony, please fix this problem; its certainly your firmware. The problems started with 2.40; now its kinda acute.
THIS DIDN’T WORK FOR ME
yea its f_$7en mest up im pist they need to fix this problem 6bills to shit