PS3 Problem (Hangs Up on Start-up Screen)

When I start up my PS3 it has recently (in the last 3 or 4 weeks) started taking longer and longer to go from the SCE screen with the wavy line into the XMB. It used to take less than a second to go into the XMB after the SCE icon disappeared, now it take 2,3,4 seconds. I wouldn't really be concerned but my last PS3 was doing this and then it screwed up and it would just stay on the start-up screen and never go off of it no matter what I did.

Is this normal and is there a fix to it?

do you have a very big collection of big videos, Demos, pictures, music....etc. or are you connecting your PS3 to a big external memory?

do you have a very big collection of big videos, Demos, pictures, music....etc. or are you connecting your PS3 to a big external memory?

newown

I have about 60 GB worth of videos, demoes, installs, etc on my PS3, and I have an external Hard Drive hooked up to it.

[QUOTE="newown"]

do you have a very big collection of big videos, Demos, pictures, music....etc. or are you connecting your PS3 to a big external memory?

I have about 60 GB worth of videos, demoes, installs, etc on my PS3, and I have an external Hard Drive hooked up to it.

[QUOTE="StealthMonkey4"]

[QUOTE="newown"]

do you have a very big collection of big videos, Demos, pictures, music....etc. or are you connecting your PS3 to a big external memory?

newown

I have about 60 GB worth of videos, demoes, installs, etc on my PS3, and I have an external Hard Drive hooked up to it.

I've had a lot of data taken up for a while but it's only recently taken longer to boot up. Also I recently cleaned up around 20 GB worth of data and I've noticed no change.

I've bought a few games recently but it just seems to be random; it doesn't seem to go faster after I delete some things or slower after I install some games/download demoes and videos.

I can only come with this option if you have or haven't installed anything from any game: Backup all your data to an external HDD and then do a full-format to your whole system and you will end up having a clean internal HDD. and this is the only cure for everything that occurs if there is any issue from the System Software. If the problem continues, this could be a Hardware issue and it does require cleaning from dust and fixing damaged internal machine parts... I hope that I helped...newown

Okay, thanks, I'll try that.

[QUOTE="newown"]I can only come with this option if you have or haven't installed anything from any game: Backup all your data to an external HDD and then do a full-format to your whole system and you will end up having a clean internal HDD. and this is the only cure for everything that occurs if there is any issue from the System Software. If the problem continues, this could be a Hardware issue and it does require cleaning from dust and fixing damaged internal machine parts... I hope that I helped...StealthMonkey4

Okay, thanks, I'll try that.