Tonight during date transition from 28th of February to 1st of March internal Real Time Clock of PS3 units other than 160GB, 250GB Slim, and one series of 80GB Fat, suffered a major failure resulting in a system failure.
Basically what happened is that the internal clock of your PS3 thought its a leap year and tried to set the date to 29th of March 2010. This caused something like a mini-millennium bug and hell broke loose.
The affected consoles are reported to be unable to connect to Playstation Network. In addition the savegames and trophies seem to have been wiped, the access to a trophy based games is blocked even in offline mode, and any DRM based content you might have is also blocked at the moment.
How bad it really is should be known at about midnight tonight as the 1st/2nd of March transition might fix the problem by itself. If it does not there is a possibility of a real hardware failure where opening the console might be required.
Officially sony claims to have a fix ready in the following 24 hours, which as i see it is buying time to see what happens tonight.
For those of you technically enabled there's a fix that seems to be working as we speak and requires manual reset of the RTC clock. If at this point you have no clue please just wait. If you know how on the other hand - take the battery out for 10-15 minutes et. voila!
Basically what happened is that the internal clock of your PS3 thought its a leap year and tried to set the date to 29th of March 2010. This caused something like a mini-millennium bug and hell broke loose.
The affected consoles are reported to be unable to connect to Playstation Network. In addition the savegames and trophies seem to have been wiped, the access to a trophy based games is blocked even in offline mode, and any DRM based content you might have is also blocked at the moment.
How bad it really is should be known at about midnight tonight as the 1st/2nd of March transition might fix the problem by itself. If it does not there is a possibility of a real hardware failure where opening the console might be required.
Officially sony claims to have a fix ready in the following 24 hours, which as i see it is buying time to see what happens tonight.
For those of you technically enabled there's a fix that seems to be working as we speak and requires manual reset of the RTC clock. If at this point you have no clue please just wait. If you know how on the other hand - take the battery out for 10-15 minutes et. voila!
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