I've decided to try another new game and see if I have issues with it. I've also found some online material about freezes that came after the 4.0 update that added the Vita features. Then the PS3 starts up complaining about improper shut down and maybe my drive is corrupt which requires a restart. And these freezes don't clear up after holding the power button for 10 seconds like a normal freeze they require me to pull the plug. Then it started freezing every time I tried to start Battlefield3 (and I was probably 70% of the way into the campaign so it didn't start immediately), so I erased the install and started again, and it froze downloading the first patch, then froze on trying to start.

Which is very weird, the automatic update is locking the system up. But it isn't a normal freeze, I've found my PS3 running and frozen late a night, the first time it was showing the update page, the second time it showed nothing. I've been having issues on and off this week, ever since I started playing Battlefield3.

What do you do when your ps3 freezes