867-5309, no wait 80010514 dead PS3!!

[FudgeNuggets]

Apparently some error code, 80015014, is popping up on the PS3 that tanks it.

Sony is denying/mystified at this happening. Theory is that it is a hard drive issue...... hoping this doesn't turn into a RROD or SOny optical drive type of issue. FURTHER hoping this doesn't happen to MY PS3.

http://gamerevolver.com/article-114-PS3-Error-80010514-explained.html

http://kotaku.com/378576/sony-dont-know-what-error-code-80010514-is-either


http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=80010514&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[tresmonos]

Apparently some error code, 80015014, is popping up on the PS3 that tanks it.

Sony is denying/mystified at this happening. Theory is that it is a hard drive issue...... hoping this doesn't turn into a RROD or SOny optical drive type of issue. FURTHER hoping this doesn't happen to MY PS3.

http://gamerevolver.com/article-114-PS3-Error-80010514-explained.html

http://kotaku.com/378576/sony-dont-know-what-error-code-80010514-is-either


http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=80010514&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8


A little off topic:
Thank you for posting a few alternatives to kotaku. Recently it's become a soft core porn site. Gawker media has lowered themselves to paying its editors by page hits, thankfully jalopnik.com has resisted the smut trend (to a degree).

[FudgeNuggets]

I started reading some more and........

Oh CRAP, no not again..... NOT AGAIN... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O

http://blogs.pcworld.com/gameon/archives/006781.html

I had the 80010514 problem (Bluray drive dead 85% of the cases).

Like me, some more dozens of PS3 howners had that problem (In Portugal alone), now the funny part... We HAVE TO WAIT 7 to 10 WEEKS for a repaired PS3! PR from Playstation Portugal refuses to give me an anser about why this happens here in Portugal and in UK they take less than a week for a repair!
Sony is using a company (Stockuno) to take care of repairs, well, they SUCK!

I swear if this is my 7th Sony console to go belly up due to an optical drive issue, SONY WILL PAY DEARLY!

[FudgeNuggets]

Apparently after word of this started spreading, Sony shut down the Playstation forums and removed all threads related to 80015014..... this is NOT GOOD

http://www.us.playstation.com/Search?search=on&s=80015014&x=14&y=9

As of right now the Europe site is still shut down
http://community.eu.playstation.com/showthread.php?t=91875

[CGR]

Wow.. that is so not good for Sony.

[John G]

This will be an interesting thing to monitor development on. It's always difficult to guage how widespread such problems are. At least seeing how Sony handles it isn't difficult at all.

[reclaimer122]

Whoa, this is all happening in one day? lol. Good luck to you guys, us 360 owners are veterans already :)

[Hardin]

Wow I remember the trouble we had with our first ps2. Sometimes it would just decide not to read the disk at all while other times it worked fine. I hope they can resolve this.

[John G]

Wow I remember the trouble we had with our first ps2. Sometimes it would just decide not to read the disk at all while other times it worked fine. I hope they can resolve this.

Yeah, my old high school buddy had the same kind of problems with his. He was on board with a pre-paid first-day launch unit. He reserved one in town, and by the time it actually come out he had since moved to Nebraska. He made a special "vacation" so that he could come down and be in line on launch day morning at the store he reserved it.

He bought a whole new unit about 4 months later because of optical disk problems...and had at least two more that I know of go bad after that one.

I personally had two PS1's go bad over time - all optical drive problems. Never did get a PS2 of my own.

[rainless]

Apparently some error code, 80015014, is popping up on the PS3 that tanks it.

Sony is denying/mystified at this happening. Theory is that it is a hard drive issue...... hoping this doesn't turn into a RROD or SOny optical drive type of issue. FURTHER hoping this doesn't happen to MY PS3.

http://gamerevolver.com/article-114-PS3-Error-80010514-explained.html

http://kotaku.com/378576/sony-dont-know-what-error-code-80010514-is-either


http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=80010514&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Uh oh! Two exclamation points! It's time for another Fudge PARANOIA THREAD!

So far there have only been a handful of these cases reported and it's almost always due to a hard drive error. I know this because my friend's PS3 went south due to a bad install of Devil May Cry 4. Basically the hard drive that came with the system was probably corrupt from the get-go and it interfered with the firmware causing his Bluray drive to not operate. I would imagine this will be fixed, at some point, by a firmware update that prevents this from happening and checks drives for bad sectors.

But this issue is nowhere NEAR as prevalent as the RROD... so it's not even sane to make that comparison. This is more like one of those first firmware updates for the Wii that was crashing systems. About as many people get this error as Wii owners that had their system go down to bad firmware.

[FudgeNuggets]

When you've had 3 PS1s and 3 PS2s bite the dust due to Optical Drive issues, it is enough to make you paranoid, Rainless......

[Drinkyoghurt]

read some sony threads regarding this..now a guy has his 3rd console doing this, and all every fanboy in that topic is saying is : suck it up, don't complain, it's a piece of electronic and it can fail..

now I just look to my right side..what's that? aah yes, it's a NES, its warranty expired last year, that's 22 years (!) of warranty, and it's still going strong


when I spend a lot of money on a piece of electronical equipment I want it to NOT FAIL..this is just ridiculous, the waiting time of 3 weeks is outrageous to say the least

[rainless]

When you've had 3 PS1s and 3 PS2s bite the dust due to Optical Drive issues, it is enough to make you paranoid, Rainless......

No it's not. That's like saying you had a toaster and a microwave go bad on you and now you're worried about your car.

read some sony threads regarding this..now a guy has his 3rd console doing this, and all every fanboy in that topic is saying is : suck it up, don't complain, it's a piece of electronic and it can fail..

now I just look to my right side..what's that? aah yes, it's a NES, its warranty expired last year, that's 22 years (!) of warranty, and it's still going strong


when I spend a lot of money on a piece of electronical equipment I want it to NOT FAIL..this is just ridiculous, the waiting time of 3 weeks is outrageous to say the least

http://www.n4g.com/tech/News-133627.aspx

Chances are the dude that says he had THREE PS3s die on him is simply lying. Nobody else that I've seen has had a PS3 die on them. Nobody HERE has had a PS3 die on them. And this error usually comes up in the first month or so of use.

The real problem is internet nutjobs running around creating a MAJOR CATASTROPHE out of a rare error that most people hadn't even heard of until yesterday.

[FudgeNuggets]

No it's not. That's like saying you had a toaster and a microwave go bad on you and now you're worried about your car.

That makes no sense at all. 2 different game consoles by a single manufacturer with the same issue (optical drives failing) 3 times each is not even remotely equivalent to a toaster, nuke and car those are 3 different products and manufacturers, well unless you drive a Daewoo.

It'd be like an Atari 2600, 5200 and 7800 all having a cartridge slot that broke after 6 months. That would be similar. I think your analogies need work.

[Sarsbaby]

Mines fine, my 2 friends that own them haven't seen this, and you're right i've not heard of this until today.

BUT, they do have a bad track record when it comes to the life span of their systems.

[Golden Monkey]

The sky is falling!!!!!!!!!!! :p

OH NO'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Niku-Sama]

When you've had 3 PS1s and 3 PS2s bite the dust due to Optical Drive issues, it is enough to make you paranoid, Rainless......

i have 3 PSX's and 3 PS2's and none of them are bad, some of them are first run systems aswell.
i think your doing something wrong.

well wait a minute i did have a PSX get out of alignment but i also threw a dual shock at it as hard as i could over and over.

[FudgeNuggets]

i have 3 PSX's and 3 PS2's and none of them are bad, some of them are first run systems aswell.
i think your doing something wrong.

well wait a minute i did have a PSX get out of alignment but i also threw a dual shock at it as hard as i could over and over.

Consider yourself lucky........

Oh and this says I am NOT doing anything wrong, they ALL work like new

ColecoVision with 2600 adapter
Atari Jaguar
TurboGrafX 16
Turbo CD

NES
SNES
N64
Gameboy color
Gameboy Advance
DS Lite
Gamecube
Wii

Master System
Genesis
Sega CD
32X
Saturn
DreamCast

Xbox
Xbox360 (actually this is my second one :rolleyes:)

Out of all of these I've had NONE cease to work outside of 3 PS1s 3 PS2s and 2 360s.......

Yeah, it's my fault Sony makes ****ty lasers......

[Nathan0490]

I remember my Ps2's optical unit dying i think 3-4 times?

[grayg]

My PS2 is still going pretty damn well considering I got it at release.
Infact the most trouble I have ever had with a console is with the supposedly ultra relaible Gamecube.

[ratbuddy]

80010514. What an interesting number. I am so intrigued I just registered 80010514.com :p

Any great ideas for preying on peoples fears and making lots of money?

:beer:

[AngelfireUk83]

It's a good job I have my games saves backed-up and just bought the 2yrs ext warrenty at GAME so I can take it in and get a new one should this happen.

Hopefully it won't be a major outbreak like 360.

[Niku-Sama]

Consider yourself lucky........

Oh and this says I am NOT doing anything wrong, they ALL work like new

ColecoVision with 2600 adapter
Atari Jaguar
TurboGrafX 16
Turbo CD

NES
SNES
N64
Gameboy color
Gameboy Advance
DS Lite
Gamecube
Wii

Master System
Genesis
Sega CD
32X
Saturn
DreamCast

Xbox
Xbox360 (actually this is my second one :rolleyes:)

Out of all of these I've had NONE cease to work outside of 3 PS1s 3 PS2s and 2 360s.......

Yeah, it's my fault Sony makes ****ty lasers......


you know last night i came across my first faulty 2600 peice, it was a bad power adaptor, the thing literally came apart in my hand when i was trying to unplug it to see if it was the outlet, freaked me the hell out.

[noxqzs]

The same airheads that defended the PS3 vs the 360, are also going to be the strongest voices of opposition when talking about the severity of the error.

Microsoft managed to keep the fire under control with their problems, It wouldn't be unreasonable to think SONY couldn't do the same. The most interesting part would be how they would tackle this problem, if indeed its true.

[joe2000gt]

The same airheads that defended the PS3 vs the 360, are also going to be the strongest voices of opposition when talking about the severity of the error.

Microsoft managed to keep the fire under control with their problems, It wouldn't be unreasonable to think SONY couldn't do the same. The most interesting part would be how they would tackle this problem, if indeed its true.

Yeah... PS3 owners can't say anything about the RROD now..

[thideras]

Yeah... PS3 owners can't say anything about the RROD now..This does not prevent me from saying anything about it.

The scale between these two is MASSIVE.

[John G]

80010514. What an interesting number. I am so intrigued I just registered 80010514.com :p

Any great ideas for preying on peoples fears and making lots of money?

:beer:

That's a good idea...

If you make it into a popular enough site detailing the problem, gripe forums, etc... Sony might try to buy it from you for big bucks so that they can shut it down. :D

[Kenshiro]

man... if this is the RROD of sony... i might think of picking up a xbox360.

EDIT: Lets not turn this in PS3 vs. Xbox360 failure rate. It's getting old and tiring.

[Neural Net]

This does not prevent me from saying anything about it.

The scale between these two is MASSIVE.

I hate to admit it but this is true, the recall rate of 360's due to hardware failures including the RROD is pretty high:

a 16.4% failure rate for the Microsoft Xbox 360 (http://squaretradebuyerblog.typepad.com/squaretrade/2008/02/xbox-fail-rates.html)... a sample group of 1040 Xbox 360 warranties purchased between April 1 and July 31, 2007... Out of the 171 claims, 102 were "Red Ring of Death" (RROD) general hardware failures. This represents roughly 60% of all claims, and 9.8% of all warranties in the sample group. It's believed that overheating is the main cause.

Of the other 69 claims;

• 18% were disc read errors.
• 13% were video card failures.
• 13% were hard drive freezes.
• 10% were power issues.
• 7% were disc tray malfunctions.

Notice that a lot of these faults are not covered by Microsoft's warranty, so this is a better reflection of the failure rates. Also worth noting is that at the moment Microsoft refuses to release white papers on the issue.

PS3's do brick, but not on this scale.

[Kenshiro]

Ok, lets be serious.... how many people here plus the people you know of has this problem? I'm getting a little paranoid about this.... because i want to get my 2nd PS3. Will really suck if both went down with the this problem.

None of the people who I know that owns a PS3 has any problem at all.

[Krome]

I had never heard anything about this until this morning. The only problems that I thought I may have had w/ the PS3 was a slow wireless downloads + heat. Both of them checked out to being "normal."

[thideras]

Ok, lets be serious.... how many people here plus the people you know of has this problem? I'm getting a little paranoid about this.... because i want to get my 2nd PS3. Will really suck if both went down with the this problem.

None of the people who I know that owns a PS3 has any problem at all.This is the second one that I have used for a long time, the first one was not mine. Neither have had issues. They are blowing this WAY out of proportion, you are fine.

[Neural Net]

Well, when I worked in GAME the only PS3 bricking fault I came across was the bluray drive failing to even appear on the PS3's desktop, everything else worked fine. This fault is pretty similar to the most common hardware fault on PSPs. Never seen an error code come up.

[Kenshiro]

Sounds like this error is some kind of april fool joke.

[AngelfireUk83]

I read about it on an unoffical PS3 forum I know 6 people with PS3's 4 are the 60GB models from launch and they haven't had any problems especially this one.

Only thing they get from time to time is the internet browser locks up on certain websites it does it on mine too. BUT it has stalled a couple of time when playing COD4 online.

[ghouse78]

this is all just a rumor Bill Gates made up to sell more 360's

[tenchi86]

Well, I know I have not turned my PS3 off since I got it at pretty much launch and I am having no issues with it yet. Maybe I am lucky, maybe my time will come.

As for 3 units breaking. I would almost bet my life that is from another issues such as bad power or someone who likes to lie.

[Surfrider77]

I have one of the launch version 60G PS3s and my brother has a newer 80G. Neither of us have ever seen any errors whatsoever.

I also still own a release-day PS2 and its never had a problem. This is pretty amazing considering its pushing 8 years old, has survived moving to 3 continents crossing the Atlantic three times. Never once so much as hiccuped. :thup:

[Kenshiro]

In conclusion... this is just a bull**** fake error that never existed. Apparently, no PS3 owners ever experience an error like that.

End tread...

[ratbuddy]

Uhh Kenshiro that's not how threads die ;)

When this was first posted here, googling that number gave something like 6500 hits, searching for ones in the past 24 hours resulted in over 6000 of them.

Yesterday, it gave 15k hits.. This morning, almost 32k.. Hopefully the rumor keeps growing :p

[Kenshiro]

Hopefully the rumor keeps growing :p

Obvioulsy, like you said, this is just a rumor and a waste of time. Anyway, i'm unsubscribing to this tread.

[DomoRawks]

So, people have reported an error, and in response, Sony shuts down the forums and deletes any reference to the error.
Surely that means its a serious problem Sony has no idea whats causing it, how prevalent its going to be or how to fix it?

I find it especialy funny that someone brought up that microsoft refuses to release failure rates or be open, in order to defend Sony doing the same.

[ratbuddy]

44000 hits today. Yay.

[CGR]

So, is it real or is it not?

[FudgeNuggets]

So, is it real or is it not?

It is VERY real. It's just being covered up by Sony. It is not as widespread as the 360 RROD but the PS1 and PS2 optical drive issues were quite widespread however they were never met with the furor or media that the 360 RROD was.

[ratbuddy]

Fudge, since you're a believer, want to run 80010514.com? Give you half the profits :p

[tenchi86]

It is VERY real. It's just being covered up by Sony. It is not as widespread as the 360 RROD but the PS1 and PS2 optical drive issues were quite widespread however they were never met with the furor or media that the 360 RROD was.

Thats because the RROD effects gamers since it was within the first couple years of launch. Which as we know gamers use the internet a lot more other people do, so it just seemed like the media cared more.

To sum things up, the error is not hardware releated. Unfortunately, it is occuring through the corruption of firmware. Restoring you PS3 will not roll back the firmware, and unfortunately will not fix the issue 9 times out of 10. If you are receiving this error, contact Sony for a replacement unit. They are very fast when it comes to servicing/replacing as we had our 60Gb (the one that is in shortage ya know) back in about 2 1/2 weeks. Not bad.http://gamerevolver.com/article-114-PS3-Error-80010514-explained.html

[ratbuddy]

52500 hits on Google this morning. Rumor still growing.. Sony make a statement yet??

[FudgeNuggets]

52500 hits on Google this morning. Rumor still growing.. Sony make a statement yet??

Only a denial, saying it is a small percentage and is not specific to any one problem.... they denied their optical drive issues too......

[NettieZoom]

If there was a serious weakness with the PS3 ours would have bit the dust by now, between my husband and I and our 4 kids and every single kid in the area that does not have one (it seems) it is going almost 24/7 lol.

[FudgeNuggets]

If there was a serious weakness with the PS3 ours would have bit the dust by now, between my husband and I and our 4 kids and every single kid in the area that does not have one (it seems) it is going almost 24/7 lol.

Took all my PS1s and PS2s about a year and a half to die..... Took my 360 a year and a half to die.... don't count your chickens.....

[Surfrider77]

Fudge: "console pessimist spokesman of OCForums"

I think youre in the 0.00001th percentile for bad luck with consoles. LOL

[FudgeNuggets]

Fudge: "console pessimist spokesman of OCForums"

I think youre in the 0.00001th percentile for bad luck with consoles. LOL

but as I've said before. It's only THESE consoles. I have like 20 other ones that have worked fine for DECADES!

[tenchi86]

I don't think he is a pessimist. More like he is shielding himself from emotion so when/if it does break he will not be shocked/saddened. (Or maybe he just wants them to break so he can say he was right?):beer:


(PS: I'm note a Psychologist, just messing around)

[FudgeNuggets]

Expect the worst and you will not be disappointed and possibly pleasantly surprised.

[ratbuddy]

Expect the worst and you will not be disappointed and possibly pleasantly surprised.

Doesn't give you much to look forward to though, does it?

In this case, I'm hoping for the worst so I can cash in 80010514.com :p

I still need a webmaster, dangit..

edit: uh oh, googling for 80010514.com doesn't look very good.. Maybe I should edit that :beer:

[ratbuddy]

It's finally snowballing. 86900 this morning. Yeehaw.

[NettieZoom]

Kinda almost funny but right after this thread went up my neighbor had his PS3 die on him LOL.

[FudgeNuggets]

Kinda almost funny but right after this thread went up my neighbor had his PS3 die on him LOL.

I find nothing amusing about that..... did he get the error code?

[ratbuddy]

If he did, send him to 80010514.com, and if not, send him there anyway :p

Wow, I'm quite the web designer. Sadly, it won't be live for another day or so.

[NettieZoom]

I find nothing amusing about that..... did he get the error code?

If you knew him you would find it funny aswell. Lets just say he is not the nicest neighbor one could hope for :)

[ratbuddy]

If you knew him you would find it funny aswell. Lets just say he is not the nicest neighbor one could hope for :)

Did you find out if he got the error code or ?

[Golden Monkey]

Nice site......very informative.

http://www.80010514.com/

Here's a picture for you site.

:D

[ratbuddy]

I don't want to get sued by Comedy Central, even though those jerks did sell me all the seasons of South Park on DVD only to make them available online for free.. Some time when I've got too much beer and free time I'll fire up NVU and make something REALLY offensive for the www.80010514.com site :p

[Krome]

I walked into GameCrazy today to pick up some GelTabz, and some guy walked in with his 60 Gigger. They set it up on the display there, put in a copy of COD4, and they received error code 80010514. The kid had lost his receipt for the extended warranty, so he was gonna get Sony on the horn.

I guess that this is very real. He told me that he got the PS3 a month after launch, so it must be pretty old. Both the kid, and the GC Worker freaked out when I asked them if it was that exact error code.

[ratbuddy]

Google is coming up with over 140k hits on 80010514 now. Either it's a real problem, or it's a really big rumor.

[CGR]

There are some videos on youtube with this error. The below one was posted back in November.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKWlMT8rsEo