PS3 Slim. Black screen no safe mode.

Ptmccar89

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Black screen and can't enter safe mode. I've been searching and searching. You can turn it on and off. No video no sound. No hard drive light when you turn it on, but the fan kicks on. You can put a disk in and eject it. Took the hard drive out and put another one still does the same thing. Tried entering safe mode and it won't. You hold the power button in like everyone says and it shuts off. I've tried everything and there's still nothing. Anyone have any advise at all??? Need Help!!!!!!
 

Vynavill

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Have you tried using the analog cable that came with the console? I assume you're using HDMI, and I've already seen plenty of them ports getting fried over time.
Viceversa, try the HDMI out if you're using the analog one.

Have you tried connecting it to another port on your TV/Monitor?

Have you tried connecting it to another different TV/Monitor?

Are you using a (cheap) signal splitter? I constantly have issues with mine, mainly where no video would be shown but with audio audible or without any video/audio at all.

Does the console beep once after you turn the power on?

Sorry for the flurry of questions. Just want to make sure you tried anything I could think :p
 

Ptmccar89

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Yes I have tried everything you can find on the net. For every problem that there could be. It all started with the dreaded fall but only from vertical to horizontal. So about the highth of the console. And that was with the HDMI pluged in. I have tried everything sence to get her back to like. When you turn it on you get a single beep with the light going from red to green. Then you try and try and try as you might but you can't get it to go into anything. No safe mode no matter how you try to get into it with any of the tricks there is. I have even tried the dreaded penny trick. I tryed the fan test and that seems to work but then I notised something at least I find odd but when you first turn it on you see the light change and the single beep but no hdd light flashing in the front but the fan in the console runs and seems to run fine. You can here a noise like it's trying to do something in the hdd. I have tried the hdd that is in the so far broken PS3 in my other console and it works great. You try and turn on the broken PS3 with out the hdd and still nothing all same results. So then I noticed the second thing and that's when I tryed the fan test the second time it started the test the fan got louder for about 5 seconds then everything stopped and the red light would not come back on till I pulled the power and put it back in. Then I turned the unit back on and tryed to get it into safe mode and guess what now ... Now when it shuts off the first time if you press the Power button to turn it on again and hold it the green led goes out and then there is no led on at all. But if you press the button again it goes back into standby mode and then press it again and you can get the red to green led and it seems to be on but like I said no hdd led flashing the fan is spinning well. There is just no video or audio no safe mode no rest mode. No nothing but everything els seems good. so I have no idea what to try next. That's when I turned to this site to see if any one has ever in countered a Problem like this and got it fixed. I'm starting to think it might be time to just give up. I am a man that normaly never gives up. So like I said any advice would be awesome thanks.
 

Vynavill

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Well, some punctuation would help too. It wasn't easy reading through all that ;)

Anyways, you said it fell off from vertical to horizontal, right? Depending on how strong was the hit, something might have jumped out of place internally. I don't know for sure if the PS3 is like that with the HDD, but the Xbox 360 refuses to launch if no or wrong dvd drive is found, for example.

If it's any model except a superslim, it REQUIRES an HDD to work, at least AFAIK (and if someone else happens to read this and knows it better than me on the matter, please do correct me). If something got broken or disconnected there, it would explain the no HDD light and why it doesn't launch at all. If you tried the HDD and it gets formatted on a different console, then the issue is most likely damage-related.
 

Ptmccar89

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I edited my post so you all might be about to read it better. Sorry I just got up when I wrote the reply. I live on the easy cost so lol. But any advice would be awesome. The DVD/blueray drive seems at least with no screen or anything to be fine. I can put a disk in and hear it spin and sound like a good working drive. I have checked all the ribbon cables and still can't find anything. I even tore it down again this morning to see if there was something I missed and still can't find anything.
 

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Hi Ther Ptmccar89

( The Issue )

i really got the same issue as your's
No signal on TV or the console while the (system+fans+blueray drive+power botton & its beeps) all are fine
so i tried alot of methods ..

1- i tried to plug it into 3 different TVs (still the same issue no signal)
2- i tried to plug it using "HD -or- AV" (no signal)
3- i tried to replace my HDD with another new HDD (no signal)
4- i tried to replace my HDD with another PS3 - HDD (no signal)
5- i tried to Turn on the Save Mode so many times (no signal)
6- i tried to Turn on the Video Mode so many times (no signal)
7- i tried to change power cable (no signal)


so i stopped trying i started to pay attention to my controller
(it never pick a signal & still flashing trying to get a signal even with \ without plugging the cable directly)

so from this moment i knew there is something with the system it self from the inside (because there is no signal in the controller)
so i thought OMG its the internal motherboard or the Bios

so in my Last desperation Moment before i gave up i tried a (a Stupid Crazy Method) but it WORKED ON like a charm "i dont know why"

(The Solution)

all i did was i plugged out the (HDD) then i trned on the PS3 without the (HDD)
then it worked on and gave me signal in both the (Controller & TV)
then it gave me a message telling me there is no (HDD)

after that i formatted my new 2nd (HDD) by using my (PC) then i put it back into my (PS3)
and the signal was back and gave me the message (To Format & Install the Current Frimware)


so i hope this method work on with you or anyone Else