did u try changing ports on the tv?
my ps3 had the same deal on my friends tv so he jiggled it a bit n got it working
aand my ps3 stil lworks fine to this day

Come on guys, I am a juggalo but I am not stupid...

wel ltel lus what u tried and what it did
i dont really see any updates or respones like " tried that and did this" or "tried that"

No one is calling you stupid, that is just literally how these things go sometimes.

This post was edited by ROM on May 24 2013 12:12am

My first response should have ruled out any of those simple fixes.

I do not think jsp is going to help solve my issue. I appreciate the help anyways, yall can still help me figure out my next step!

Should I call Sony and see if they can help me over the phone? (I am not very technologically inclined, but I am very mechanically inclined)
Should I try to send it into Sony for repairs? (Will the cost of this outweigh the benefits?) or...
Should I take it up the road to the local console repair shop and chance it with the spanish people running that store?

id call sony ... prob the best bet and over the phone help is usually like ... a retard could understand it so you should be good lol
if you come to the conclusion that its the ps3 thats fucked ask the spanish guysif they could fix it or send it to sony...or buy a new ps3 or wait for ps4
e: or be an asshole go buy a used identicle ps3 at gamestop then bring yours back and say it died get a replacement and sell it lol

This post was edited by dragoneth on May 24 2013 01:34am

I would love to do the gamestop thing, but how do I save all of my files?

not sure i never did it
i think u can back them up to an external HD or sumthin tho

Yeah, you can back it up on an external hard drive. But if you have a larger hard drive in your PS3 it takes a while to do.

<-- pro scammer here

I believe GameStop will scan the serial number on the PS3 you purchase from them, so if you are going to do the gamestop trick you need to swap out the shell/casing of your old PS3 with the new Gamestop PS3 and return the broken one which is in the gamestop shell (so it matches serial number) and keep the new one with your old shell.
serial has to match the serial on the receipt.
#FuckGameStop