Old style PS3 owners

Rye and i were just playing heavy rain and it crashed, i turned it of from the playstation cus the controller was unresponsive, and when it came back on it wont log into playstation network or let me play heavy rain, both times it keeps telling me network error 8001050F.

I just looked it up and it seems to be happeing to only old style PS3's, and nearly everyone was sying that after speaking to sony they seng them a box to send their PS3 back in and got sent a band new one a few days later, so anyone with an old style try cashing in!

I'm going to call them tomorrow to find out wtf is going on and see what they say, only thing im worried about is backing up all my data if i have to send it off, i dont wanna loose all my shyt!

yo my mate sort of lent me his playstation (old one) long story.... and when he had it back the same happend to him, but the game wouldent actually load even tho it was coming up with the little loading disk simble? he phoned up and they said if it is over 3 years old they cant do anythin! they then said that he would have to pay just over a £100 to get it sorted which means that he thought that i'd broke it even tho i didnt do anythin and he wants me to pay half towards which im not very happy about.
let me know how you get on with this ez as dont really wanna pay for it.

o ye sometimes when i used to play my mates it would do the same and not be able to go online, have you tried resting the modem? or check that all the lights are flashing on the modem as the tinternet mite have failed??? that was usually the case it used to happen to me.

Thats whats happening to me, i try to load the game and it wont load giving me some bullshit about the trophies and that error code, tbf who did he call because the people who had posted about this had ols styles some of which surely would have been out for longer than 3 years

edit: I know what ur sayin i thought that at first but i have had my system all synced up and working perfectly for years, then this whole psn business starts?

ye that the exact same, he phone playstation and they came off with all that shit!
i've heard of quite a few of my freinds that the same as happend to them anychance its a 60gb??

i heard that there more easy to get viruses then say the other gb's, dont ask why lol

i think mines a 40, sony just tweeted they are narrowing down the problem :s

Guys - its mainly the 40's that bugger up..

I brought a faulty 40gb, the spindle wont spin disc's can get fixed for about £50-80 but once out of warranty sony kindly ask for £150 repair... (fek em)

Ez, I know it sounds silly but I assume your PS3 is out of warranty??

I hope mine don't start playing up

ned i assume urs is slimline like mine, think this affects gen1's

no bud, mines a 60gig premium old school

Mines out of warrenty too, its dropped to £128 i think now, still no twit updates from sony

Is anyone else having this problem with there fat PS3?

Update Ez, PS sending out a firmware update tomorrow, few mates at work had same prob's so connect up to the PSN tomoz.

ive got one of the 1st ps3 so mine is gettin on a bit now lol n touch wood mine is still going strong im just avin trouble with tiscali it keeps kickin me off the net the guy there said there is a problem in the sandwell area (so fix it then numb nuts) lol but i just hope mine dont pack up ive only just got on the net (cheers to ned)

fingers crossed its sorted soon then

Just read that users of the fat ps3 should not touch thier consoles today!
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/815356-ps3-users-warned-not-to-use-consoles-as-8001050f-error-crashes-network

so mines staying off

I wouldnt beleive that, i emailed sony last night and got this back:

Quote :

Dear Aaron,

Thank you for your recent correspondence.

I understand from your e-mail that you are unable to access the PlayStation Network.

The PlayStation Network is currently unavailable due to a technical problem and you may experience the error 8001050F.

I can confirm that we are aware of this issue and are working to resolve the problem. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. I would also advise you to continue to try to connect to the PlayStation network.

For updates regarding this issue, please visit our website: www.playstation.co.uk

Should you have any further, please call PlayStation Support: 0844 736 0595, quoting your reference number: 1821404, where an advisor will be happy to help you further.

Our operating hours are 8am - 10pm Monday to Friday, 10am - 6pm Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays.


Yours sincerely,


Joanna Lewis
PlayStation Team
Sony Computer Entertainment UK
PlayStation Support: 0844 736 0595
E-Mail: Help@uk.playstation.com
Web: http://www.playstation.co.uk/

I have had an idea with my (broken PS3)

Call them, say this has knackered my PS3 and see what they do??

yes, keep it on the low thow

Defo.

mine works now!