[NeoSabin]

Originally Posted by nickmitch Bad times for Sony if they dont patch it soon.

F*ck Sony, bad times for those of us who have been hit by this .~_~.

Please donate to the PS3 Leap Fund and help someone less fortunate than you.

[madshaun1984]

Feed your recycle bin, give it your leap year ***0red ps3.

[General Plot]

40GB non BC US model and getting the error here too. Tempted to pull the system battery.....

[madshaun1984]

"This week on psn. We kick the week off with a schoolboy error, that will disable thousands of consoles for 24 hours while users of the slim console get a bit of breathing space to see what online gaming is all about. Mid week we continue with our efforts to piss fat ps3 users off, by releasing an update that will remove otherOS functionality. We then finish the week off with our usual ps home update, which we will continue in our lets piss the users of approach, by giving the US a big update while EU users will not really get anything, and we will include 3 new demo's on the psn and add 1 full game to our lineup."

I think that about sums thing up on the ps scene atm, what do you think?

[}{acker]

**** off! why should we from EU dont get anything?? you can share all demos and stuff like that, but it doesnt matter! Sony should fix this bug... i hope it will be done tomorrow, if they clothe OtherOS the whole wide world would send tons of mails to sony and get them on there nerves!! ....

[General Plot]

OK, decided to take a chance and take my PS3 apart to unplug the RTC clock battery. Surprisingly enough, it was much easier to get to than I would have expected. On my 40GB non BC model (US), the battery sits just under the blu-ray drive, and so only taking the top cover and then moving the drive over a little bit is required. It's unplugged now and waiting a bit before putting it all back together.

[ilsonman]

i dont even have my ps3 conected to psn and its messed up

[neil270]

I can confirm that by removing the clock battery and waiting about 2 minutes before replacing it does actually fix this problem. I'd only attempt this if you are confident that you can do this without messing anything up. My ps3 was slightly different to the one pictured above, I had to take the metal plates off the motherborad to access the battery. I hope this helps since i know that there are a lot of pissed off people out there.
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interestingly enough, anyone else find this a bit suspicious with there being an exploit found in the phat ps3's and only the phat ps3's world wide being affected by this? Just a thought.

[Spiker]

I agree with neil270. I believe this should be looked over by the underground scene more because this is thee one major exploit we could be looking for, and once it is fixed, it could be totally gone.

[deviance159]

This is the fix. I was saying it from the moment people talked about the issue being related to the clock. Clear the CMOS fix your problem. If people weren't so scared about voiding their non-existent warranty on old fat PS3s lol... Sony can't really do jack squat because it's an internal time issue, you have the option to wait until roll-over or open your PS3 and clear the CMOS, nothing Sony can do remotely except fix the error in code so it doesn't happen again in the future. What you do at this point is irrelevant to any "fix" Sony comes out with lol...