Help!!! Everything else works normal. I insert a disc and it doesn't play...both games and blue-rays. I already tried reformatting, restoring the original factory settings.

5/19/2010 10:15:02 AM

It's because you can't use an apostrophe correctly that it failed.

5/19/2010 11:45:08 AM

Alert the media! PS3 Hardware failure!

What leg will the fanboys stand on now???

[Edited on May 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM. Reason : .]

5/19/2010 12:06:42 PM

50$

5/19/2010 12:50:11 PM

that happened with me also, had to send it back to Sony to get it fixed. Cost me $150

5/19/2010 1:08:48 PM

^they didn't replace it for free??? WTF?

5/19/2010 2:12:25 PM

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"It's because you can't use an apostrophe correctly that it failed."

Also maybe if you tried blu-rays instead of blue-rays that might work out a little better.

5/19/2010 3:35:41 PM

happened to mine
repaired for free and back to me in 5 days

5/19/2010 6:43:01 PM

did you blow on it? whenever my sega genesis would have trouble reading games I'd just blow on it and it'd work

5/19/2010 8:01:41 PM

^ also works when i don't want to take out the trash and my fiance wants me to

5/19/2010 8:41:06 PM

just tried deleting corrupt files on the hard disk...still did not work

5/19/2010 8:43:20 PM

http://progamer.cc/blog/ps3-laser-kem-400a/how-to-replace-a-ps3-bluray-lens-guide.html/

5/20/2010 12:37:22 AM

open it up and spray it with a lot of canned air duster. I was only halfway kidding when I said blow on it. a lot of times that can fix your problems with cd/dvd/whatever drives.

5/20/2010 2:55:10 AM

^^Yeah, I used either that guide or a similar one to replace my Blu-ray laser. Ordered one off ebay for $50. It's been working fine since I replaced it in October.

5/20/2010 8:34:45 AM

I sent mine to Sony and they fixed it, but it was under warranty.

5/20/2010 8:51:47 AM

happened to me too. OUt of warranty so 150 to fix.

5/20/2010 9:10:03 AM

ditto for me, out of warranty but I've yet to send it back or do the fix.

I really need to get on that.

5/20/2010 9:25:31 AM

heard that crappy firmware upgrades are sometimes to blame

5/20/2010 11:22:06 AM

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"Alert the media! PS3 Hardware failure!"

5/20/2010 11:23:47 AM

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"heard that crappy firmware upgrades are sometimes to blame"

I guarantee you this has never been the case. It's like when people would say new game X causes 360s to RROD. Total coincidence.

5/20/2010 11:26:24 AM

my response to Golovko's snips of trolling

5/21/2010 8:10:08 AM

Whose disc's?

Btw, the plural of disc is discs

5/21/2010 8:42:35 AM

SWEET BURN 73

5/21/2010 10:55:54 AM

Wasn't meant to be a burn...just correcting him.

5/22/2010 8:12:54 AM

what about just getting one of those lens cleaner discs like this one?:

http://www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/PLAYTECH-WII-Xbox360-PS3-DVD-Lens-Cleaner/3218973/product.html?cid=146609&fp=F&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=11333026

5/22/2010 10:03:06 AM

did a firmware update fix this?

Otherwise, I'm gonna either have to send it in or try the fix myself.

I've not had the thing on since the failure.

9/20/2010 10:43:25 AM

nope. Lens cleaner didn't work, update didn't work, disassembly to ensure drive was on track didn't work (mine is like 3 years old).

had the thing for 3 years, only played it a few times. I mainly used it to watch Blu-ray DVDs.

Oh well, just put it on the credit card and sending it in to Sony.

Fuckers better gimme back this one (but working), I got that CECHE01 model. HOLLER.

9/20/2010 2:30:29 PM

blu-rays, dvds, or both?

9/20/2010 2:48:06 PM

ahh *forehead smack*

yeah, it wouldn't play Blu-Ray, DVD, CD, PS3 game discs. It doesn't even spin up.

It happened immediately following upgrade to 3.01 firmware. I was playing a game, stopped for a while, and started F@H on the PS3. It wanted me to update and so I did. The very next day the disc issue started.

I had been running F@H pretty much since the week that I got it, and had it for 1.5 years before the failure.

9/20/2010 3:06:04 PM

what version do you have?

mine's the original 20gb no wifi one. it still reads discs just fine, but if i don't put a fan in front of it after about an hour of HD content (1080p games like LBP really get it), it'll overheat and shut down. it's not enclosed and has plenty of ventilation otherwise. it just hates me. anyway, if it overheats, i have to set the fan up and leave it off for an hour or so to cool down. i doubt that's your issue but that's all i could think of to contribute.

9/20/2010 6:25:57 PM

it says pretty cool, and I did have a fan on it once I started folding (I'd read in a forum about people having cooling issues).

I got that 80GB model, which was baller as fuck until the disc drive bricked out.

9/20/2010 8:44:36 PM

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"Fuckers better gimme back this one (but working), I got that CECHE01 model. HOLLER."

they'll probably send you a refurbished one, instead of your old one back.

9/20/2010 9:54:31 PM

that's fine, as long I get the same model back. That CECHE01 is baller!

9/21/2010 9:13:13 AM