Try a different HDMI cord, I had the black screen of death on my ps3 and I thought I was going to replace my ps3 turns out my HDMI cord was shot as soon as I replaced it my ps3 started working again. Just a suggestion.

ive used 3 hdmi cable and still nothing I used hdmi cable from other ps3 and still nothing

I Have a Ps3 that turns on but no video will display I tried doing reset thing but still nothing I used hdmi and red,yello,white cable and nothing still..?

its a fat model cechh01
how much should I sell it for if broken?

With the reset you mean holding the power button until it beeps?

you have to reset the display or go into recovery menu to restore factory settings that will auto detect your display setup,resetting is easier tho

yes.........

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ive done that many times but still nothing

I surprising number of people have reported that simply unplugging all components and waiting about 10 mins before plugging them back in and fixed their setups. We have some more comprehensive workarounds below if that one doesn’t do the trick, but you should at least try it first.

After some reading I saw the suggestion that worked for me:

Hook up the PS3 using the old-school cables that came in the box, in my case that was the composite cable, in addition to the HDMI connection between the TV and PS3 (connect both outputs).
Turn on the PS3, let it boot up
OPTIONAL: If you have no video, hold your finger on the Power button for 6-10 seconds, you should hear two beeps. A normal power-off is only 2 seconds or so, but if you hold your finger there for 6-10 secs it causes a hardware reset which should reset your video output to the default composite cable. After the second beep, you can let go.
OPTIONAL: With newer firmware updates, it seems the PS3 auto-detects the HDMI connection and will ask you if you want to switch to it, you can say “Yes” and skip down to Step #7.
Go to the System Settings > Display Settings, and change the display to HDMI
Switch your TV to the HDMI input, accept the display changes.
Unhook the old (composite) connection.
After much worrying, the steps above fixed my problem and I was off the races. My first impression of the interface running at 1080p on my Mitsubishi WD-65831 was “NICE!”… I’ll post my BluRay (Crank) impressions soon.

Update #1: This update is long overdue — this post is a few years old and there have been almost 200 replies below with folks running into the same issue. I’m going to try and summarize some of the other things that have worked for people incase the above doesn’t do the trick:

Problem: No matter what you do, you cannot get video output OR you get it, but loose it after a few moments/secs/minutes.
SOLUTION: More than a few times I’ve seen this caused by cheap HDMI cables that are not allowing the television and PS3 negotiate a secure HDMI connection OR your TV/PS3 just doesn’t like the cable. I recommend Amazon Basics HDMI Cable for $7 or something from Blue Jeans Cable (make sure you get the right length).
NOTES: In cases where you are using HDMI-DVI or an HDMI hub or some other piece of equipment in the connection chain, try and rule that piece of equipment out first (by removing it temporarily) before getting mad at the PS3 or TV. That would be the easiest way to start troubleshooting.
Problem: Video output is corrupt (weird artifacts) or discolored or screwed up in some weird way.
SOLUTION: This sounds like damage to the video card in the PS3 and likely needs to be sent to Sony. There are a few commentors below that reported this issue.

I found this when I googled it;

can u get to recovery mode? if so try reinstalling ur firmware thru usb,i had the same issue...no video except for recovery menu. if u get the recovery menu then its not a video connection problem its a hdd or firmware problem.