Had a very bad day yesterday when my PS3 Slim decided to go beserk and not work. Nothing would start, the main menu would freeze, haven't a clue on what happened to cause it (other than the fact I was downloading an add-on in the background for Batman Arkham Asylum). Anyhow, feeling frustrated, I decided to leave it for the night, and look at it again in the morning. After some Googling, I found this site with information on starting the PS3 in "safe-mode", thereby giving you the options shown in the picture above. I have all options in the order above, only having to restore the PS3 system as my last resort. All worked well, and now the PS3 is back in business! But....lost a lot of my previous game data, which means I would need to play 200+ hours again to get back all the saved game data which was wiped out during the system restore. Ah well....better get started then!
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