PSP Blue Screen Of Death 133
Many of you may have come across an article about six months ago (on sites such as [tag]digg[/tag]), which showed a crashed PSP with a blue screen. The image that was showed back then was actually a result of what would occur if your PSP were to crash when running a homebrew application. But the image seen above is actually a real Blue Screen that is a part of Sony’s PSP. From my experience I had never seen this screen before, but only appeared on my PSP with Firmware v2.60 when a game froze. The error message popped up when I accidentally hit the eject button on the Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories UMD while the game was loading. (This might also occur if you put a PSP to sleep when a webpage is loading.) The actual error message says:
Setting Information is corrupted. Press the O button to repair and restore default settings. (displayed in 10 languages)
When this occurs none of the buttons function (even power switch) other than the O button. Once it is pressed it starts to restart and it goes through the startup splash screen. After that it displays the setup process that everyone goes through the FIRST time the PSP is turned. Also to note, the PSP that got a Blue Screen has never had any homebrew applications on it and has never been downgraded. There was no mention of this crash screen anywhere in the manual or online, if this has happened to you let everyone know by commenting below.
Links: U.S. PlayStation.com | Latest Firmware Update
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i was plaing GTA on my friends psp whin i hit the power button to turn it off (i dont own one so i didnt know not to do this) and then i turned it back on and got the bsod. it freaked my out, lukily my friend has 2 memory cards and he restored from the other one. (i never told him that i mesed it up, just that something happened)
you are on digg
http://digg.com/software/PSP_Blue_Screen_Of_Death__2
dang, i didn’t know the psp could actually crash
I’ve had one of the first PSP. I’ve upgraded the firmware everytime, taken games out when I wasn’t supposed to and had no problem.
Happened to me during Prince of Persia. Never had any homebrew and just upgraded to 2.60
I lent my PSP to a friend so that he could play GTA on it, and he came back with that blue screen! My save was destroyed! And he didn’t do anything special, he was just playing and Bam! Something happened! PSP is crap, Rockstar are lousy programmers!
I have gotten this a number of times but it is mainly when I am using one of those “cell boost” battery packs to play my PSP for extended periods. It seems as though the cell boost doesn’t give enough juice to actually charge the PSP and the unit will loose enough power from the battery to loose it’s settings. I’ve never lost any data or anything like that… it’s just been when I turn off the unit and the battery is completely drained. If I try and power on the PSP without the cell boost on or the charging cord in place, the unit will not even turn on the green power light. But that’s my experience.
My cousin has come back from Canada today, he got a psp from overthere.
I want to play GTA with him, i dont think he has it.
I hope that i don’t get this blue screen of death when i perform the 1 game sharing umd trick..
I’ve seen this message once upon downgrading from firmware v2.00 to v1.50. v2.00 has new settings that are not supported in v1.50 – new context menus and whatnot that have variables that v1.50 simply does not like. This happened on first boot into v1.50 and after clearing back to factory default settings, I haven’t experienced it again.
I did, however, experience some difficulty in attempting to upgrade firmware back to v2.00. Had to clear to default settings again in order to successfully get through the update.
Just happened to me, thought something horrible was going on until I realized I had taken it out in a 29 degree blizzard. :O
Back to normal now.
my blue screen of death doesnt go away when i press O. the screen just comes up again. i need a hand here!
I have the same problem as Beeva, my Blue Screen of Death keeps coming back also.Is there something i can do about it?
I was playing a game and when i turned it off wrong it came up with a red screen and its neva hane homebrew on it
My PSP crashed!How can i restore this. Is it wise to call Sony? I was in a middle of game when suddenly I got the blue screen of death!Can you restore the PSP with a memory stick?
I WANT TO DOWNGRADE V2.60 TO 1.50 ,HELP HELP
i hear the psp is bricked and i’ve given up.
its just a btg that Sony’s gotta deal with…it’ll probably be gone in the next update that iam impatiently waiting on. ~dont worry about it. just make sure u bak ur files up!
this started happening to me at least a month ago. i do play lcs but its happend when the disk aint even in. usually if im gonna get it then it happens after a restart. or if i just turn it on. sometimes the browser has just froze
umm i wanna get this blue screen can someone tell me a garaunteed way to?
I have the same shnizzle..
Running firmware v2.50 and never used homebrew..
And yes i’m playing GTA:LCS
Im tired to type my WEP key everytime after reset.. (and other settings) bah.
hey if you started off with a 1.5 psp and updated to 2.6 would this bring you to your original settings and downgrade?
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I wish it would downgrade your PSP back to 1.50 everytime this occured so I could go back to using homebrew, but it unfortunatley doesn’t work that way. The PSP firmware is writing to the bios, which replaces any old files already on the PSP. If you get to 2.60 your stuck there.
P.S. I agree, retyping the WEP key each time is extremely annoying!
Pavaloo:
A guaranteed way to get this blue screen to happen is to take out the PSP in very cold weather (95 degrees Fahrenheit).
I have the same problem as beeva and HellRazor. The blue screen just keeps coming up after hitting the O button! Anyone know how to get my psp working??
i was uprading my psp then when it reach 67percent my power cut off and my psp wont even turn on!!! any idea how 2 get it back runnin ??
i had this BSOD the second time on my psp when i try to setup the internet connection (FW 2.50)
i was changeing the font on my psp with theme psp 1.1 flashed and bam Blue screen now i get this screen everytime i load my psp and thats it i cant go no futher
yeah i had twice. i ejected a game as it was abut to load cus i wnted to display the home screen.
I’m using firmware 1.5, and yesterday i had tried the devhook 0.45, but i didn’t like it, so i go back to devhook0.44, in that time when i’m trying to launch a game(homebrew), it appear the Blue screen.
I found it only realy happens on vers.2.6
is there a way u can do it with 2.8 psps (usin psp to post now)
I got a 1.50 psp after i ran THEMEPSP1.2 for 1.50 PSP MY PSP KEPT SHOWING THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH now i am stuck with it. Everytime I press O to restore or repair the settings it still keeps showing up And the only way i could run anything is if i go to RECOVERY mode I HATE THIS THING i don’t have a clue how to make it go away……..
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Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? Is it a good idea to send to Sony? i bought the PSP 4/5 months ago and i have downgraded. Will that affect in something if i send it back to Sony for repair? PLz answer me ;)
thx
For all of you with Blue Screen which are not going away even after restarting. This is because you tried to downgrade or run some sort of homebrew application. If you try to restart it and it doesn’t work at all it is probably bricked. Sony will probably not offer support because you were not suppose to downgrade in the first place. However i’d still try using my warrantee and just say it happened while playing game. Also try removing your memory stick and then restart it after it has been off for a while. If you are able to load the PSP normally try upgrading your firmware to a newer edition so that it overides any errors in your current one.
ok if you get BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH
Follow the guide below…
step1
Call sony:- 08705 99 88 77
you must NOT tell them you use homebrew..
tell them you bought locoroco it asked you to update. you connected to the ac adapter then run update when you came back it was on a blue screen with funny writing..
Sony will ask when didi you buy it? you say It was a gift and you dont know…
if they ask any other questions about the update just say you left it to update came back and that is the screen it was on, now it dont work.. if they ask any other questions play dumb and say i dont know…
it worked for me 4 times so far using differnt addresses of friends..
sony will then send a courier in 2days to change it
Ok thx…
im gonna try that ^^ if it works ill post here =P
Stay Coll and thx for the tip ace9094
what if i press the “o” butten and nothing still happens……..i have no memory card
That happend to me a couple times. It sucks cuse it deletes all ur settings and u have to put date, time, wep password if you have one all that stuff.
everytime i try to play a game off my memory card it freezes after laoding to a higher firmware and the “ble screen of death appears and it really @#$@$%%@##$ me off
I get the Blue Screen of Death as well, but I haven’t used homebrew or downgraded around the time of the initial release. It happened out of nowhere, my PSP is just being a f*g and I have no way to fix it. Maybe I’ll call Sony and use that method to get them to fix it. I took my memory stick out and left the PSP off for an entire week and it still hasn’t done sh*t. Now its annoying because every kid has a PSP and makes fun of me because mine doesn’t work anymore. How the hell did their’s stay in such good shape? They drop theirs, leave it in cold, lend it out, downgrade, re-upgrade, play homebrews and all theirs work perfectly.
Though when my PSP did work; it’d occasionally refuse to load things like the music folder or the USB connection. The little load sphere in the corner came up and went away instantly, I’d restart about 5 times before it’d work. Months later this blue screen crap happened and now I’m screwed.
I tried to opgrade my PSP from version 2,82 i think to 3,01 and after the installation my psp restarted as it always does after installation and when the start screen where it is written “SonyComputerEntertainment” it freeze and turns itself off.
i have the same problem as beeva + HellRazor- wen i press O the screen just comes back again. can any1 help me plz?
i got the blue screen of death i rang playstation on
08705 99 88 77 and said i got locoroco and updated
and left it when i came back the psp was off and when i turned it on it came up with the blue screen
they will ask you to give the serial and model number and then send you a new replacment psp its that easy
hi this has happend to me several times wen i installed fonts onto my psp but wen i pressed circle it went bak to choose ur settings as normal. but now its totoaly gone weird and now it keeps coming up and i cart access the xmb menu. plzzzz help
the blue screen happened to me in very language and said to press the o button, i pressed it and then it goes to the start up screen then GOES RIGHT BACK to the blu screen again and again. i tried taking out the battery and startin it up again but nothing works. CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE.
hmmm so i was usin thempsp v 1.2 and i wanted to reinstall the default xmb back..so i do and i do it to the flash thing and devhook 1.5…so afterwards i get tht blue screen….i press o it restarts…and poof…what happens? it keeps comin bac..dunno how and y ….im runnin 1.5 emulatin 3.01…email:xxshadowslayer92@hotmail.com
i think ive found a way to solve this emi brickedness!
http://tinyurl.com/2mxkln
this might just work…i think it’ll work on 1.5s too but if you have 2.8 it will deff work…..ima try it out tho…otherwise i gotta call fxckin sony………..
“XeCuTeR NG5 says
i got the blue screen of death i rang playstation on
08705 99 88 77 …they will ask you to give the serial and model number and then send you a new replacment psp its that easy”
Do you neeed warranty in order to do that ?
I live I AUS and i just got my psp from hong kong. It’ sucks x_X, the day I leave the airport I decided to try the Internet option via the home menu of the new homebrew games ( cos 1.5, the firmware i have, doesn’t have the Internet option)& i accidentally turned my psp off while the browser fing was on. Then Blue screen >
helloz. I fixed my psp ^^!!!! I just formated my memory card & re-installed devhook by following tutorials.
Check out this link: http://tinyurl.com/yqg4na
I’ts meant to recover ur psp from a corrupted flash1.( the thing that’s causing the blue screen I fink’). It was only released yesterday(19/1/07) & i’m guessing it’s the first of it’s kind cos i’ve never come across this type of program b4. Best of Luck!!
I was playin on GTA Vice City Stories, I then compleated a mission and all of a suddun the Blue Screen came up i pushed 0 then a red screen came up that said nothin so I tryed to restart it but it wouldn’t switch back on even if you push the on button!!!!
Try going to Settings in XMB, choose:
System Settings | Restore Default Settings
Reboot, reconfigure your date/time etc.
It fixed my Blue screen every time I ran web browser after installing a Dark Alex release (3.10 OE-A).
Sony says $89 for a refurb….because they can track your psp by the serial number down to the exact time, date, and store you purchased it at. You cant BS SECA.
Well, I guess I’m part of the club now, cause my PSP did the same thing. Mine’s all original, I mean to say that I never changed anything, nor did I run homebrew. I was playing Vice City when it blue screened out of nowhere. To make things worse, this is already a replacement PSP. The first one crashed on X-mas day, twenty minutes after I opened it up and started using it. That time it just remained black screen with a power light on, no functions at all…it was bricked before Santa made it home :(
Now the replacement has crashed. At first the Blue screen would loop back whenever I pressed O, but now it turns black screen when I press it…with no functions. It won’t power off either, I have to unplug it and take the battery out to get back to the blue screen. I thought maybee it was repairing itself so I left the black screen on for a while, to no avail. Looks like my second PSP bricked itself, and I say it like that because I did nothing to cause it, this is all SONY’s mistake. The product is junk because the software is POORLY written and/or the hardware is incapable of handling basic functions..like playing a freaking game.
I’m really at my ropes end with the PSP, two bricks in three months and I always kept everything factory and never used homebrews.
What’s really sad is that I own every single Gameboy model that ever came out in the US, from the first one to the last, and not one of them has crashed…EVER!
i was on the internet and put it to sleep and i turned it back on and i got the blue screen of death luckly my psp still works
I got the blue screen of death just a few days ago after upgrading the firmware to 3.11. It wouldn’t let me push O like some of the other people on here with the same problem. So i just went to turn it off but it wouldn’t let me, so i pulled out the battery pack turned it on and it let me push O. So i had to go through all the annoying setup crap. But i didn’t know how it all started. luckily it wasn’t the red screen once you get that your PSP is f*****.
I Just bought GTA there on my PSP . It has no homebrew it has no exploits. I played GTA and then Bam !! Blue screen. Now i have no PSP . Im very angry
i got the blue sceen but i dont know how my umd drive had been empty last few days and i quit the game i was playing and the quit took out umd turn off two days later turn on blue screen and now my wpa thing doesnt work and “key information cannot be sent” shows
This is normal when a PSP form 2.71 get downgraded to 1.5 via a “PSP(tm) Update ver X.YZ” Exploit Program. What it does is erase all the PSP flash memory drives and overrides them with a 1.5 firmware renamed “Update.pbp5″. A PSP-1001 PSP might confuse the new firmware as a system error. But once you press O, your PSP will restart with firmware 1.5.
If you have 2.60 then……
Bad news:
You(TM) Can’t(TM) Downgrade(TM) it(TM)……
Good News(R):
You can downgrade it by upgrading…
2.60 >>> 2.71 >>> 1.5
Buy the family Guy Video Game (PSP), it has the 2.71 Upgrade.
Use a downgrader that is compatible with 1.0 firmware AND the HEND tiff exploit to downgrade.
I figured out how to make it go to the blue screen of death! Go to web browser, try and fo to a website, itll ask you to scan for a wifi coneection and while your foing through the steps for connection turn off your psp. When you turn it on itll have the blue screen. DEATHE TI WINDOWS!!! LINUX ALL THE WAY!
what would happen if i freezed in the middle of a downgrade………just asking :)
wtf would u want THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH, thats like throwing your psp out the window!
everytime i turn my psp on it goes to a screen and just sits there
and i cant fix it
email me as soon as possible and try to tell me if you have any suggestions.
THanks so much!
This happend to me when i was trying to install the machete theme (as seen on evolvexmb.com). I Was On Custom fw 3.03OE-C. The Circle button never worked when i pressed it. it just shew the Blue screen of death agn, and agn.I Guess it semi-bricked my psp so i had to go into recovery mode. i had to install 3.03oe-c agn. my psp history: White PSP 1.5>2.8>1.5>3.03OE-A>3.03OE-B>3.03OE-C>semi bricked>1.5>3.03OE-C.
Black PSP:
2.8>1.5>3.03OE-A>3.40OE-A>1.5>3.03OE-B>3.10OE-A>semi bricked>1.5>3.03oe-b>3.40OE-A
this happened to me while i was restoreing the settings on the psp..and when it asked me to restart the psp i push X and then i took out the battery pack and the blue screen poped up when i turned it back on ….
Since most of you were playing GTA that game must have a virus or something like that, but it is not the PSP console, because when I was playing , DBZ Shin budokai another road, then I started playing GTA, and it turned to that blue screen, I thin they shouldn’t change the PSP, but GTA instead :-)
That happened to me, I just pressed O and it restarted sucesfully! Restore defualt settings, when it says “Press the x button to restart” take out the battery pack. Then put it back in and turn it back on, when it is at a black screen take it out again. Then after you put it in again, it will show this screen.
im getting a blue screen of something… im serving out in kuwait for the united states military. i have the protective case that i can still play on it with. some dude knocked it out of my hands while i was playing. now i turn it on, i get a blue screen, no menu, no button does anything, not even the power button.
Thank you, the:
>Try going to Settings in XMB, choose:
>System Settings | Restore Default Settings
Made my day…
it happend to me when i format flash 0, i used pandora battery and i install 1.50 then this screen blue screen of death showed up,i press o and it start again ,please help me?
yes this hapened to me so i went to restore defacult setting after my psp shut down for good?
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Have you found a solution to this problem? I’m having the exact same problem
It happened to me after I downgraded from 3.52 to 1.5 using Pandora’s Battery, and it didn’t restart, just took me straight back to the setup wizard.
my psp went to the blue screen when i happened to put the custom theme on….nothin went wrong until i turned the psp off, then i turned it on and it wouldnt go any further then thattt…..i push O and it messes up once again!! is there any other way for me to reach the flash0 so i can put back my previous settings or default settings i guess….ive seen the XMB was set to default, but the other options are numbers that im not sure of?!?! if anyone can help please email me at last_chance_11@hotmail.com please and this would be much appreciated
I had this problem just before I was about to m-0-d it and then the screen poped up and I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Then when it was getting m-0-d It recovered some of the errors and then it worked. I was glad, then the next hour or so I turned it on and the blue screen came on, it pissed me off then it says click o so i clicked it and then my psp worked again and I didnt get the screen once after that but teh psp has errors like freezing or song will freeeze but the sound is still tehre and u cant click back. (I droped mah psp so thats probably the problem) I am very sad…=[
i used the pandora’s battery and the magic memory stick and succesfully unbricked my psp but then when i turn it on BSOD appears, i press O but the blue screen keeps popping up,, some guys told me to hold R trigger while turning it off completely and turning it on again to go to the recovery menu and format flash1 but nothing happens~~i can’t get to recovery menu~ what can i do??
It happens to my 3.71 m33-2 psp when ever i hit R or L while watching a video
Everytime when I turn my PSP on the blue screen pops up, so I hit the square button and the right trigger button to send it in recovery mode. After I do that I exit from recovery mode and then the blue screen pops up again. Did I brick my PSP completely?
wat can i do if i have the blue screen for the psp and i cant get it off of that mode and i pressed the o butten but it does not work it just turns off and i need help
my psp’s system information was corrupted when i removed all the files inside the font folder in flash0.then when i restarted my psp, this blue screen pop up and even if i press the O button, nothing happened………….how can i fix this.??
it happens to me all the time
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we have the same mistake,, what did u do? pls help me
what did u do?? pls help
I got my psp bricked then i went to recovery mode and then restored all of flash1 files then restarted my psp and blue screen i preseed o and setup and stuff and now it works :)
this has happned to me about 20 times this is known as a semi brick. good news is that it is reversable if you have a custom firmware, and pressing the circle button doesnt work. you just need to boot the psp in recovery mode and either undo the last thing you did on the flash 1, 2, or 3. or you can run the program at /PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/eboot.pbp. and there you have unbricked the psp. if you dont have cfw and the circle button doesnt work then call sony and get a new psp like XeCuTeR NG5 did.
in refrence to Amit’s comment “Since most of you were playing GTA that game must have a virus or something like that, but it is not the PSP console, because when I was playing , DBZ Shin budokai another road, then I started playing GTA, and it turned to that blue screen, I thin they shouldn’t change the PSP, but GTA instead :-)” most of the people were probably playing an unpatched version of GTA. this unpatched version, if used correctly can downgrade the phat psp to 1.50, and can downgrade the slim to 3.60. most of the people probably activated this feature without knowing it and the shut off their psp. this has happned to me several times, and i still havent figured out how this action got started. when i figure out how to start this action i will let you people know. until thenbe careful with what you do with the firmware, cause if you brick this correctly it is PERMINATLY UNBRICKABLE, EVEN WITH THE PANDORAS BATTERY.
My psp is messed up(ded brick) wont shut on or off, no buttons work if i try the battery thing it is still a brick. How can i fix this?????
allso the screen is ALLWAYS BLUE once it changed collores to green then back?? How can i fix this without sony??? Maby the memory stick trick might work?? IDK im trashing this!!!!!!!!!!!
iwas lookin at the comments and i laughd when _ _ _ _ said now you can throw your psp away like _ _ _ _did.. my story was similar i was flashing from 3.71m33-4 to the beta4 and it worked but it was so diferent that i thought that it did not work so i went on the recovery mode and by error i formatted flash o it came up with n error code so i went back to the recovery mode and went to the flash o and i had some saved files fro another version i had 3.03 oe-c and i had made acopy of the font and the vhs folders so i thought that putin them in the same place were the ones y formatted were and it was a disater now the psp does’t even boot to the recovery menu that is to throw awy answer my question ?? what would you do after you delete the files after turning it back on ///no boot screen/no recovery menu/no usb open pot
i was playing psp then the blue screen pop out then i panic n took off the battery n when i turned it back on the screen was black anyone know how to fix this??plz help
DAT has it!! I tired it and it works. thanx DAT.
i need the flash 0 back up file for 3.03ce-c
my psp works fine even the umd drive, but when ever i go to the xmb it goes to that blue screen…
everything works except the xmb…when ever i go there the blue screen appears.
Help? please
i got the screen. i was stillable to access recovery mode so i put my backuped flash 1 and flash0 and it worked. always have a pandora battery jst incase if nything worse happens. if you dont have a backup of your flashes, ask a friend with the same cfw to send it to you so you can replace your lashes. if you have no friends, you are screwed. good luck. your friend Stanley Yelnats
every one who has a blue screen of death (BSOD): your PSP is not screwed! all you need is a pandora battery and a magic memory stick! go to my myspace and add or message me if you need help! or email me if ya need help – camaroboi@gmail.com
i went to restore default settings then…it suddenly went to blue then,asked me to pressed o..i did then it went black i turned it on,it ould say sony and the sound comes out but then it shuts it self off again anyone help..really appreciate.
i had that on my psp but I fixed it
i jst got homebrew on my psp slim nd i removed a file fom da psp called “font” nd after dat a blue screen came up.it doesnt work da blue screen is still der after i tried most of ur methods.i tried formatin da flash but it still dint work.i even tried pressin da o button but it only took me to da sony psp icon.i need help.
hi i have the problem too, it only occurs when i see a video then when i skip it to another video ,why ….can anyone help me please!
hey i need help. my psp is like this also, but like wenever i press O it just keeps goin back to the blue screen. idk wat to do. can someone help me?
I forgot all about my PSP until a few days ago.I booted it up and the screen was cracked in 4 places.Now I remember why I had forgotten about it….The PSP is STILL the sleekest gaming device ever created!
HELP!!!! yea i got the stupid blue screen displaying this message but only in english. its cuz i have homebrew and im not sure what i did cuz im a noob lol. can anyone help me? jus email me ApexApocalypse@aol.com if you kno how to help. when i turn on the psp it goes straight to the blue screen so idk wat to do. please help