At last! My "paranoid" behavior of never installing a new firmware version until it's been out for at least a week with no negative reports pays off!
-Chris
Yep, that pretty much sounds like what happened with mine. I knew that the suit was coming, which is why I have not sent mine in yet. I will sit back and see how things fall out and if I can pick up a new slim on Black Friday or at least a good deal, then I'll pick one of them up and hopefully be able to send the 60G in to get repaired or replaced free of charge or at least at a discount. I am always online on my PS3 so I had no choice but to update it to 3.00 There is nothing wrong with my HDD as far as I can tell, so when I get a new one, I should just have to drop the drive in and go.
Chris, i'm w/ you. I've always tried to wait and check the PS3 forums before updating. However, like J_Garcia, I play online and had to update. The bad part is, I never play games in the summer and decided to pick it back up about 3-4 weeks ago. I wanted to get used to COD4 Mod. Warfare again, since the second one is coming out soon. When I turned it on, I had to update.
The odd part is, I was able to play for 3 wks until I put my first Blu-ray movie in, Transformers 2. Their claiming its a hardware issue. The flaw with that reasoning is, I can usually watch part of the movies before it freezes. If it was hardware, I can't imagine it would play at all.
I filled out the service request online and entered my CC info before I realized the problem was this widespread. The service shipping box arrived Fri. Though, I'm w/ J_Garcia, I don't plan to send it in until I see some resolution coming. It's one of the early 80gb Motorstorm bundle PS3's and this is the first real issue i've had in ~3yrs of owning it. As Seth=L mentioned, this could hurt them giving that COD6 MW2 is due out in a couple weeks. I know I now have no reason to rush out and buy it...