P1Fanatic

80gb Fat. Has had some serious usage so I cant complain (400+ hrs on BF3 in the past 18 months alone).

Was playing BF3 and starting making a strange sound. Game crashed but I couldn’t reset it from the console reset button so had to use the power button. One it came back XMB is fine but wont load BF3 or other games. Read online it might be blu-ray function only but tried a few DVD’s and no success their either.

Any quick fixes I can try other than fit a new drive or at the price of new consoles am I just better of biting the bullet and getting a new one?

Cheers
Simon

joey_turbo

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Not really a quick fix, its just a new laser needed. Replacing the whole drive will also require another printed circuit board from the donor PS3 other it won't work. So thats more expensive.

urban

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I'd get a new one.

P1Fanatic

Will keep an eye out for a deal. Those new super slim versions only have 12gb storage. May just use it as an excuse to build a new gaming pc.

urban

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Ask Santa for one for Christmas

Fleetster

These guys fixed mine:
http://www.repairworlddirect.co.uk/

phoenixgold

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As said above, new laser, think mine was about £25 and 20 mins to fit.

P1Fanatic

Says £39.99 on that site plus you have to ship it to them (and back I assume) and only a 6month warranty. New super slim 12gb SSD is £138 at Sains currently with a 3yr warranty.

Hmm will have to mull this one over. Wont be getting one from Santa this year as Santa has no job currently.

joey_turbo

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It is an easy job to do yourself.
You've got to weigh it up. If this is only the first issue you've had with the PS3, get a new one while you can still access all your data.
Because once you get the YLOD (yellow light of death), that should be due soon, you could lose all the data unless you fix that too (much harder job).

joey_turbo

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Oh and PS3 12gb slim slightly cheaper here: http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/play...-tesco-1380414

P1Fanatic

Cheers Joey. That is a good deal and I could do with a spare controller anyway so makes it even more of a no brainer.

urban

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12Gb?

alcazar

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My eldest just forced "Game" into repairing his brother's PS3 which was 6 months out of warranty.

They paid all costs, carriage etc.

joey_turbo

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Yeah, it doesn't have an actual hard drive installed, this is just onbaord flash memory that apparently is inaccessible once you put a hard drive in.

P1Fanatic

Yeah that is one thing that has stalled my purchase. The 12gb flash sounds good for load up speed etc but surely to god if you add an external HDD you should be able to choose where you install things i.e. most used game on the flash and other crap on the HDD. If you can fit an SSD as the external drive I maybe interested but from what I read so far I don’t think you can.

urban

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But 12Gb isn't going to last long though is it

joey_turbo

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You could put your 80GB HDD in there. It'll be a simples swap. But mean you will have to back the 80GB game saves/pics/videos etc up first, as it will be re-formatted when you put in in the new one.

4u2nv2

just get as new blue ray laser for it 70 quid done

steve ex vauxhall

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Have a quick butchers on you tube.
I've just had the same thing on an Xbox , that turned out to be a very simple fix and now runs perfect again

alcazar

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Can you point me at that? we have an X-Box here with a problem, about 18 months old.
TIA

steve ex vauxhall

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Alcazar,
I can't post links for some unknown reason, it never works
I searched you tube for "Xbox 360 unable to read disc"

Came back with a couple of videos,
One showed how to open the console and get to the laser head without damaging anything, cleaning of the head, and re building the console.

I did all this , but when re booted the console I had the same fault.

Then watched a second video that showed my problem, and the solution was to open the drawer using the eject button,

Then close the drawer by "slamming it by hand"

I was sceptical, but as I'd been arsing around to no avail all afternoon, that's exactly what I did.

Xbox now working fine!

joey_turbo

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We are talking about a 4 year old piece of equipment here. Spending 70 quid on it, to then have the other fault (YLOD) which could render it useless, is pointless.

Xbox is a different story. The Bluray lasers are a well know fault on the older PS3's. Once they die, they don't come back.

Natski

Fix the laser I have a launch ps3 that has had two laser replacements since new and never had YLOD yet. My PS3 has had a serious amount of use from day one and my resistance fall of man addiction. It also has a 300 gig hard drive they are just laptop drives and easy to find cheap on eBay

Saint AAI

It's easy to swap a laser yourself, especially if you buy it already mounted to a deck, but not much more work if just the laser and you want to save more ££. My launch PS3 needed a new laser a few years ago, been fine since. Good idea to clean the inside of the console and apply new thermal paste to the chips while your there. Plenty of guides around.

Same with Xbox. Very easy and Xbox lasers are cheap. My friend gave me an old xbox that wouldn't read discs, I bought a new laser, but still haven't fitted it as I increased the power to the existing laser a little and it's fine for now, he was going to throw it in the bin.

P1Fanatic

£70 quid for a laser when a new PS3 can be had for £125 inc a new controller

P1Fanatic

Will have a look around on youtube as may as well try as its useless now as I only used it for gaming.

Is there an easy way to back up all gamesave / profile data rather than 1 by 1 to a usb stick? Seem to remember last time I tried some wouldnt copy over but others wouldnt.

4u2nv2

if you price a controler at 75 quid then rock on

4u2nv2

sorry 55

4u2nv2

they are not even 30 quid now
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-KEM-40...item3ccbe9540f

P1Fanatic

Finally got around to ordering the new laser & deck which turned up today (£18 delivered). Wish me luck

Have watched a few “how to” vids on YouTube and whilst there seems a lot of screws & parts it looks fairly straightforward. Slow and methodical is the order of the day me thinks.

If it works or not will be going on ebay as a kit / spares. Back to PC gaming for me starting with Battlefield 4 at the end of the year.