10-19-2016, 09:13 PM -
You know... I never would have considered the hard drive until you mentioned it because I was so fixated on the idea that the BGA solder was failing because it's such a common issue and does the same triple beep, plus it's what ended the life of my last PS3. The hard drive being bad never once crossed my mind which is almost shameful.
So I backed up all my saves, tore out the old drive, and plopped in a 60GB OCZ Agility SSD I happened to have laying around (leftover from when I upgraded my PC's SSD awhile back). Went through setting everything back up, installing the game, updating, blah blah.. and I'll be damned. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I've had it running for almost 12 hours straight now with about 7 hours of game time and the issue hasn't happened once! It definitely, definitely would have happened by now, so this seems to have fixed the issue! You mentioning the HD saved me money and sanity, thanks dude!
So I backed up all my saves, tore out the old drive, and plopped in a 60GB OCZ Agility SSD I happened to have laying around (leftover from when I upgraded my PC's SSD awhile back). Went through setting everything back up, installing the game, updating, blah blah.. and I'll be damned. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I've had it running for almost 12 hours straight now with about 7 hours of game time and the issue hasn't happened once! It definitely, definitely would have happened by now, so this seems to have fixed the issue! You mentioning the HD saved me money and sanity, thanks dude!