an error occurred during the start operation. (80010510)

[frentzen]

Hey Guys,

Please could you help me. I Receive the following error message when trying to launch a demo game from the Hard Disk. "an error occurred during the start operation. (80010510)" Theses are demo games downloaded from the Sony store. When I insert a Blue-Ray game and then launch demos from the Hard Disk I get the following error. "an error occurred during the start operation. (8001050B)"

The PS3 also does not read the blue ray discs of ridge racer 7 and the free movie, it actually does not even see them and nothing is displayed in the menu screen. It does however read Playstation 2 Games Only. It recognises DVD films as "Data" and therefore does not play them. It recognises PS1 games as audio Cd's.

I've tried the following:-

1) Restore PS3 OS + Full Format
2) Restore Default Settings
3) Replaced with New Hard Drive
4) Used the clean blue-ray laser tutorial
5) Disconnected Blue-Ray drive from PS3 board, but same error message when trying to play demos from hard disk.

Currently the only thing I can do is play movie trailers from the HDD that I have downloaded from the sony store and play mp3's that i have copied accross from my usb memory stick to the PS3 Hard Drive.

My confusion is that I can play movies off the Hard Disk, but not the demo games off the Hard Disk. Is this a hardware problem of software issue ?

Many Thanks.

[Lachlan]

Sounds like the Blu-Ray section of the drive has died, weird that you can't start demo's from the HDD though.

[Anunakin]

This sounds like, for me, your PS3 Firmware has broken... wait new FW, and proceeds with a upgrade.... I has this some issue at my PSP... some time ago...

Or a bit more simple, if u PS3 detects a new FW by the network/internet... this blocks you PS3 for play... and you need upgrade to unlock game play....

[frentzen]

Hi There,

Yes I was thinking the same thing about firmware. The problem had started when I was on firmware 1.30, now we are on firmware 1.32. Maybe the problem will be fixed when there is a major firmware upgrade like 1.4X.

What we really need is the ability to install and uninstall the OS.

[frentzen]

Hey Guys,

I've got some more information. I managed to get hold of a USA NTSC PS2 game (Metal Gear Solid 2) and thought i'll try to play it on my bricked PS3.

It recognised the game and when I try to launch it I get the message "this game cannot start due to region restriction"

I've tried my PAL and JPN PS2 games and they have this error, as I would expect, but I wouldn't expect this message for the USA game.

I have checked the SLUS-20144 number of the game and according to the PS site this game is compatable with the PS3.

Another interesting thing is that when I put in a dvd movie it recognises it as a data dvd. I can then browse that dvd and only see the top 2 level folders. Normally they are somthing like video_ts & audio_ts. I actually see videg_ts & audig_ts.

So any thoughts as to whether the problem is related to the blue-ray drive being locked or some type of problem in the PS3 OS, software corruption ?

Thanks.

[Lachlan]

Is this ps3 made in china or made in Japan? It seems the made in china models are having more problems.

[frentzen]

Yes it was made in China.

Yeah just looking for forward to the 1.4 update. Hope that fixes it.

[frentzen]

Hi Guys,

Found someone on a Brazilian forum that fixed the problem. Anybody good at translating from portugese to english.

Here is the site via a google translation ! Can't really undertand what they are saying.

Thanks. :)

http://forum.jogos.uol.com.br/viewtopic.php?p=16334705&sid=a88df1ca6861d325be4fe8360cea7b8b

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://forum.jogos.uol.com.br/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D16334705%26sid%3Da88df1ca6861d 325be4fe8360cea7b8b&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=6&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dps3%2B80010510%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

[ken9]

for the demo prob..all i did wuz redl them and they worked..the movie prob..happened to me once with tat xmen blu-ray disc..all i did wuz reset the ps3 (hold down the power button for 10ish seconds til u hear the beep) but dunno about the data disc..dvd thing...interesting