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80010514 Error Hits PlayStation 3

Sony knows nothing of it

By Andrei Dumitrescu, Games Editor

11th of April 2008, 10:02 GMT

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When there's console talk going on, someone is bound to bring up the subject of the Red Ring'o'Death syndrome of the Xbox 360. There's been a lot of talk about how Microsoft almost never delivers actual new consoles and instead patches old ones up. And it's fairly known that high hardware failure rates are one of the main issues users have with the Microsoft game console.

But Microsoft is not alone in not addressing

quickly and professionally all the problems that are related to its consoles. Rumors have been cropping up recently, especially after the latest firmware upgrade, that the PlayStation 3 console from Sony is beginning to develop a hardware failure syndrome. The error code associated with it is 80010514. But Sony doesn't yet acknowledge the existence of this particular error.

The people at Game Revolver managed to reproduce the error on their game console. They seem to believe that the error code means one of two things, either a faulty sector on the internal hard drive or a faulty installation of software/firmware. Apparently, a hard drive issue might be generating the second possible explanation, if a firmware is attempted and the bad sector gets written over.

The fact that the console affected by the error could still play DVD and Blu-ray movies without problems gives even more truth to the theory that it can all be a symptom of a defective firmware update generated by way of a faulty internal drive in the PS3.

The usual steps of dusting off your console and preventing any possible overheating apply, along with having a stable connection when attempting the firmware update.

What's strange is that Sony technical staff doesn't seem to be aware of any error code 80010514. A Sony spokesman told Eurogamer: "I've spoken to our Customer Services department and they aren't aware of this issue with the PS3." Could it be simply a communication issue or a genuine refusal to acknowledge an existing PlayStation 3 problem?

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Comment #1 by: Cam Mc on 15 May 2008, 23:03 GMT	reply to this comment
Had this exact error. Was playing GTA4, the game froze so restarted the system. Started the game up again and it ran for 5 minutes before feezing. Restarted agin and attempted to load the game but recieved the above error. tried other games with the same result. Took my PS3 back to retailer, who sent it away for what seems like the longest 3 weeks of my life. Not happy...

Comment #2 by: mason on 05 Sep 2008, 22:22 GMT	reply to this comment
yh that is what happend to me and i think sony should do something about it because the is getting a joke it realy gets me angry but now im gonna have to get a new 1 with my garenty

Comment #3 by: adam on 15 Sep 2008, 07:48 GMT	reply to this comment
I Just rented beau-wolf from blockbuster started watching it then it just turned my ps3 off now nothing will work on it could it be a virus on the dvd because i have not had any problems until i used that disc i want to cry is there any help out there ?

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