I tried to do this but all it comes up is a little grey screen within a black screen. There are absolutely no words at all and both of my controllers refused to turn on and connect to the PlayStation 3 at all even after I reset them. Even if I had a touch screen TV I wouldn't be able to go to any of the settings in safe mode to make it restore anything or reset anything or anything. There are no words that come up at all. I even tried changing where the HDMI was hooked up to the TV I tried to unplug it for a while the PlayStation I even tried unplugging HDMI for a little bit and plug it back in and see if it would try to reset that too no matter what I do there are no words at all. On the screen no thing like usually it'll say that it's shut down improperly or something when I unplug it for a while that didn't pop up either so there's no words on the screen there's no way for me to touch any words even if there were words because it won't hook up with anything I seriously need help because none of these have helped me I tried doing a hard and soft reset with the power buttons and stuff and unplugging and everything and no matter what I do nothing is working at all. It's very upsetting very frustrating I tried banging the PlayStation a little bit not too hard obviously I tried shaking it I tried blowing in every little hole trying to get a little bit of dust out if that was the problem there was an issue with that outlet at one point where for you plug it into the wall it was a little corroded around the metal that plugs into the wall and the PlayStation to turn the power on I clean that all up make sure it was dry and everything so it finally has power cuz for a little while he wouldn't turn on there was no red light or anything but thankfully it was just that issue the power cord I fixed it so now it's turning on but there is nothing and on top of all that where all these videos say that they're supposed to be beeps when the PS3 turns on and off and everything to make you go into safe mode and reset it and whatever there's no noises no beeps at all. I just held it down for as long as I could multiple times until it finally came up instead of being completely black screen to a black screen with a big gray screen in the middle so should be technically it is in safe mode so I can you know do all the steps that you can take to try to fix it but there's absolutely no words on the screen so basically no menu even if my PlayStation 3 controller would turn on and hook up to the PlayStation they would be useless because I cannot move anything I cannot touch anything there's nothing to touch there's no words I hope and pray that somebody knows what's wrong with it and they can help me I really need help I'm begging you please.
Mine would fight me and drive me nuts, but it would make the beeps. I had to do this reset issue many times with my PS3 and sometimes it would take days. Leave it unplugged for a few days so that the system completely loses its power cuz they still hold some juice even hours later. Sometimes after a hard reset I would turn it back on and count to 5 or 10 and then push left or right on the D-pad and hit the X button as if I had something on my screen. I think sometimes the image is black but the options are still there just not visible. This process can drive you nuts and make you wanna rage for sure. Keep in mind if you try this for months and nothing works, the system may have just crapped out. Sorry for the long delay in response, I have alot of alerts and never saw this till now.
