My ps3
got the yellow light of death a few months ago, and despite getting it repaired twice it kept breaking, so I got a shiny new slimline ps3 and everything looked rosy.

However, I now can no longer play fallout at all for more than about 5 minutes at a time without it freezing, resulting in me having to switch the ps3 off at the plug. I'm also having the same problem with COD MW2, each and every time I try to play online it either freezes in the lobby or at the end of the first game :( Deleting game data and save games makes no difference. Two of my favourite games of all time and I cannot play them. If I didn't love my ps3 in such a strong emotional way, I would boycott sony for everything I was worth.

*edit* First half of my reply disappeared for some reason, making my reply seem random and unrelated
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 25 Jun 2010, 18:33, 1 reply)

The PS3 recovery mode might help.
1. Turn off PS3.

2. Hold The power button down - the system will turn on and turn off once again.

3. Once the System has been shutdown, re-press you finger until you hear 2 consecutive beeps

4. When you hear the 2 beeps take finger off power button.

5. You will be prompted to plug in your controller via usb and then hit the PS button

6. The Recovery menu will pop up.

7. Select "restore file system" - it checks for corrupt/missing system files. (once completed, "rebuild database" as well)
(god_is_a_ghoti Carpe Deum., Sat 26 Jun 2010, 4:09, closed)

Smashing,
I'll give that a try, thanks :D
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Sat 26 Jun 2010, 18:38, closed)