PS3 Error: 8001050F/Do not turn on PS3 today!

[Lew]

LOOL Owned

GG
xbox 360 will always will own ps3

[kk.]

This is not a '360 is better' thread. These are getting as common and as annoying as the speed test threads. It's nothing to do with how good the ps3 is. I'd rather have a console which has 1 error which is fixable in a couple of days, rather than having a RROD

[Stephen!]

"Well the gist is that the ARM SYSCON CPU that is used to power up the front panel of the ps3, that is responsible for doing things like sleep mode, eject, RTC etc. Is an old batch that sony picked up from the shelf like other manufacturers that has that calendar year bug regarding feburary 29th on certain periods. Causing the ps3 and the real time system clock to desync, messing up timing like Digital Rights Management software and sometimes games that relies on clocks for whatever reason.

This is the same CPU that is powering up mobile devices like zune and blackberries, they have been affected with this bug, so they done some software patches. A syscon update can also fix this problem

The Slims ps3s aren't affected with this problem because they use a newer up to date revision on the syscon cpu that fixes this bug, this cpu is always on even when your ps3 is powered off.

A quick way to fix this is to remove the RTC battery for at least 5-10 min and plug it back in, you will see the date and time reset, and voila...

BTW all this was quoted from some ps3 hardware gurus and tested by various of peeps on efnet, all thanks to them for the information"

Supposedly the cause

[Fez]

xbox 360 will always will own ps3

Your console had the same problem... for two weeks.

Fanboy.

My friend suggested that the internal clock is differently default on the Slim PS3s, so this problem COULD have been avoided.

[syko2006]

I own a slim it it's doing this. :S

[Judge Judy]

hmm I'm technically screwed.
Turns on PS3 for PlayTV before reading all the tweets from Sony.
Better not turn off the PS3 now.
Hell I don't know what to do... nor does anyone it seems.

[dbgtz]

Yay for slim.

[Stephen!]

Won't we all have to turn on our PS3's at some point to download an update to fix this?

[kk.]

Won't we all have to turn on our PS3's at some point to download an update to fix this?

You can download the update on computers and then turn the router off, and put the ps3 into recovery and install the patch

[Geraint]

Don't see what turning them on will do to affect it. They're just saying it as a precaution as it seems to be a bug and you don't really know what to expect with them.