PS3 Repair and/or Death Thread

[Bamafan3723]

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Well it looks like my luck has run out. It appears my blu ray drive is shot. In fact, my PS3 is no longer reading any discs. It had been playing fine since the last incident but after playing some today, I popped in Uncharted and it froze while loading and hasn't read a disc since. I've tried rebooting, resetting, restoring PS3 system, backing up and re-formatting, and still nothing. I bought mine used off Craigslist so there is no hope of sending it in to Sony. Does anyone know of a good repair place or service that I might send it too? I'm going to check in my area on Monday.

EDIT: Nevermind, I bought a new laser off ebay and am going to fix it myself.

I got my replacement laser and installed it yesterday and it works so far. I'll see if it lasts. I've heard some will work but then stop so we'll see, but so far so good.

[rudyjuly2]

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I got my replacement laser and installed it yesterday and it works so far. I'll see if it lasts. I've heard some will work but then stop so we'll see, but so far so good.

How much did that cost and was it hard to replace?

[goh]

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I've been having problems with LBP since I got it from Goozex about two weeks ago. The game will lock up within the first few minutes of gameplay every time and not always at the same point. I'm also having a few lockups in other games but they seem more random, however NCAA10 which I play a lot has no issues at all. I tested LBP in another system and it works fine which obviously tells me it's a problem with my PS3 (a launch 20GB).

The moral of the story is that now that the PS3 has dropped to $299, I'm going to rip open my machine and see if I can figure out whats going on. I'm hoping it's simply a matter of dust collected inside or something simple like that. While I'm sure I could, I really don't want to mess with replacing a Blu-Ray drive or something like that.

Anyway, I'll post my findings sometime in the next week or so... hopefully it won't be laced with expletives.

Well before you rip your machine open,unless you already did,is your hard drive near full?

[gschwendt]

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Well before you rip your machine open,unless you already did,is your hard drive near full?

Haven't ripped it open yet... still debating it. No, HDD is not full. I've got a 20GB and initially I formatted it with no improvement. I've since replaced it with a 250GB HDD and it's certainly not full now.

[J-Unit40]

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What's the best method for backing up your save data on a PS3? External hard drive?

You guys have me paranoid. I've had my 40GB for about 1.5 years now (I think).

Thanks.

[Chef Matt]

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What's the best method for backing up your save data on a PS3? External hard drive?

You guys have me paranoid. I've had my 40GB for about 1.5 years now (I think).

Thanks.

I use a 8gb flash drive. Although alot of the game saves are not transferable.

[gschwendt]

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Gamestop is offering $150 trade-in credit on working consoles towards the purchase of a Slim.

Instead of ripping mine open and working on it, I figured a brand new Slim only costing $150 was worth it. I explained the problems I was having with my system but the clerk tested the system out and decided there weren't any problems with it, so needless to say I'm now the proud owner of a PS3 Slim.

[Bamafan3723]

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How much did that cost and was it hard to replace?

Including shipping it was $78. It was not hard at all.

[rudyjuly2]

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Including shipping it was $78. It was not hard at all.

Thanks. My 60 GB is over two years old and this thread is making me nervous. I'm thinking gcshwent's plan is pretty good towarding trading toward a PS3 Slim.

[judgejudy]

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couldn't you buy an as-is ps3 on ebay for $60-$100, then pay the $150 to sony to fix it and end up still paying less than if you bought it brand new?

[Burns11]

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couldn't you buy an as-is ps3 on ebay for $60-$100, then pay the $150 to sony to fix it and end up still paying less than if you bought it brand new?

Sure you could, but really that's no different than buying a refurbished PS3 in terms of warranty or price.

[Chef Matt]

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Update status on my 4th refurb. Got it on Thursday night at it works better then my original 60 gb. Fans are nice and quiet, no stuttering or freezing, and it also DL'ed update 3.00 in record time!

So now I have a slim in the living room and a 60gb fatty in the bedroom....my poor wife. LOL

[JerzeyReign]

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My PS3 just died over the weekend. I'm really sad right now almost too sad to type

[Chef Matt]

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Yeah that bytes. Sendin it in?

[RoyalBoyle78]

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Mine got the YLoD just after 2 years (as seems to be the common time frame based on the topic in the Sony forums). It's not getting repaired because I'm not giving Sony any more money with all the trouble from their other systems,the BBB didn't do anything and no one does it locally. It was a 20 gig model with a 250 gig hard drive. Also it's $170 + tax through Sony in Canada.

I have a repair guide for the YLoD but I don't have the tools or skills to use it but others have said it's worked,it's 1.32mb so I can't attach it but I uploaded it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0ERU17EG

If you're in the US and have a credit card you can go through a guy on ebay to fix the YLoD if you don't want to give Sony any money (you shouldn't),it's also cheaper ($75 instead of $150) and you'll be getting your own system back (your save data will be safe): http://myworld.ebay.com/jdelectronone/ It looks like the individual pages expire so that's the main page.

If you've had a BRD failure well you'll have to look that one up but I've seen instructions around to have replaced those too.

My good freind call me up last week to tell me his 2 year old PS3 just died with the YLOD, and he watched a youtube video and fixed his machine, it took him 2 hours, but he fixed it.