PSP Blue Screen Of Death - January 3, 2006
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
posted by Sahas Katta in Gaming & Software
on 1/3/2006 at 03:54 PM with Comments (109) & TrackPings (2)
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Zackery graham says
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!
CLWsNiPeR 2 says
what would happen if i freezed in the middle of a downgrade………just asking :)
CLWsNiPeR 2 says
wtf would u want THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH, thats like throwing your psp out the window!
Scott says
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!
blzdPSP says
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
steven says
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 ….
Amit says
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 :-)
riotcodes says
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.
heith says
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.
Wildcat says
Thank you, the:
>Try going to Settings in XMB, choose:
>System Settings | Restore Default Settings
Made my day…
dxramax says
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?
cool breeze says
yes this hapened to me so i went to restore defacult setting after my psp shut down for good?
DD says
Have you found a solution to this problem? I’m having the exact same problem
BL says
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.
LastChance says
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
Thomas Wong says
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…=[
okuzumi yuu says
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??
Cory!!! says
It happens to my 3.71 m33-2 psp when ever i hit R or L while watching a video
Julian says
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?
danny falcon says
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
john says
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.??
seon says
it happens to me all the time
amanda says
we have the same mistake,, what did u do? pls help me
amanda says
what did u do?? pls help
PZP says
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 :)
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