My ps3 will turn on but it doesnt play any games or dvd and the ps3 menu doesnt show up either

hit the X button when selected, or hit too many buttons... PRETTY COLORS...

if your ps3 is not set up to auto play when you insert disk. the disk should show in the menu under video menu, just select the dvd icon. If it still wont play the easiest way to figure out the problem is go to your settings menu and select reset default settings. this will reset to factory settings but wont delete and info stored in your harddrive. then try again. it should play.

if its not playin any matured rated game someone has had to set rating lock in the ps3 menu hopefully no has set a password to prtect the rating.....i would have said if it was only that game there is an option to turn blood/gore/whatever off in options...i would check in the ps3 menu

Take out the ps3 hard drive and save it to a backup folder on your computer, or just keep the hard drive. ps3 hard drive removal Your PS3 Type here ps3 slim ps3 fat ps3 super slim...

Im pretty sure you need to replace the laser

harddrive is not posting. your icon information and xmb menu is stored on partition 1 of harddrive..try to change hardrive or they may be bridged connection on SATA controller

My ps3 freezes up every when I am playing Madden 09 and its getting real old. I have to quit my game every time because there is no other way to fix it other than quiting. It doesnt freeze all the time but it has started to alot more a few days ago. Is there something I can do about this?

It's because your trying to play american games on a japanese system. See the japanese system is different because of not only how much Power it needs to function (I'd be wary about that btw) as well that a Japanese PS3 can only play Japanese PS3 games. American games wont work for it.

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to any future people with this problem disable 1080i from supported resolutions check 720 P and 1080P only, ps3 doesnt have good 1080i support
good luck