PSP Blue Screen Of Death 120
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
Related: PSP v2.60 Review | DownGrade PSP | TiVo 2 PSP
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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