Playstation 3 help

[Brassler07 10+ year member]

Hey I don't know how much you all know about troubleshooting my problem, but I've tried calling Playstation, gone through Playstations troubleshooting options online, and done everythign I can imagine possible to try to fix the problem, but I have been able to.

So here's the deal. A few days ago my system was working fine. I played it earlier in the day actually. Anyways, later that night the picture would not show up on the appropriate input channel, nor on any other input channel. I have the HDMI cord for the HD output and the original AV cables that came witht he unit. Because the picture went out I figure it must be my AV cables, because I used to have to plug in both the AV cord and the HDMI to get a picture. So I went and bought an S-Video AV set to use, in case the AV input on my TV was bad, I tried that and it didn't work. So after raging a bit, I took the PS3 up to my friends room and plugged it into his HDTV. With just the HDMI and the sound inputs plugged in the PS3 worked fine.

After all that rambling, I'm basically asking if anyone has any idea why it's not working on my TV? My friend has an Xbox 360 hooked up on the component channels and it works fine, so it can't be my TV's inputs. Other than that, any ideas?

Thanks guys.

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[90accordman 5,000+ posts]

try your ps3 on another input besides HDMI

 

[KickerSoItBump 10+ year member]

when u turn on ur ps3 by touching it, hold ur finger on the power symbol, until u hear it beep twice. it will then start using whatever output signal it can find.

It worked for me, an it sounds like ur having the same issue i did.

 

[Brassler07 10+ year member]

****, man. That worked like a charm. Thanks.

 

[LBC99 10+ year member]

when u turn on ur ps3 by touching it, hold ur finger on the power symbol, until u hear it beep twice. it will then start using whatever output signal it can find.
It worked for me, an it sounds like ur having the same issue i did.

any time you change the input or type of cable (like HDMI to component or something), you have to do this.

 

[staypuff 10+ year member]

you also should not use anything other than the hdmi cable..... this is what is confusing the system..... HDMI covers both sound and picture.... you don't need any other cables when you use it.....

 

[bds0688 10+ year member]

you also should not use anything other than the hdmi cable..... this is what is confusing the system..... HDMI covers both sound and picture.... you don't need any other cables when you use it.....

Unless they have an older receiver that only takes optical, and a TV with no audio out. But yea, you do want to stick to one cable if at all possible.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

werd

 

[quakerroatmeal 10+ year member]

Unless they have an older receiver that only takes optical, and a TV with no audio out. But yea, you do want to stick to one cable if at all possible.

Use HDMI to the TV, Optical to the receiver. I think it should be able to do that.