Originally posted by xLew
ring sony say you brought it preowned, and they will fix it probs for about £50-£150
or just try reinstalling the same fw over the top, get it off the sony site.
or if you really wanna go into the recovery menu (google it) and restore do a few off the options, if all else fails try restore ps3 to factory settings and see if that brings it up, sometimes you will lose the tv icons in the xmb, just start up vidzone or home or any other sony service then when it loads just quit and they should appear.
I have restored & formated 5 times
and im not willing to pay 100$ for this shit :\
I dont like the idea of paying sony for something that there OFW caused :\