My PS3 Died!

[Grumpy Old Man]

My Blu Ray Drive went out on my PS3 today.......Anyone else have a problem with this? I bought it mostly for Blu Ray movies and don't play many games on it. Just wondering.

[Shoeless]

I had that happen back in February. It was a 60GB model. If you have the same problem that I did, then your hard drive is still fine and any digital content you have still plays straight off the console, but it won't read Blu-Rays, DVDs or even CDs, correct?

If that's the case, then it's a "Fatal Error," as Sony's customer service describes it. You have three options. Take advantage of your in-store warranty if you bought one, take advantage of Sony's 1 year warranty if it's still valid, or be creative, buy a Blu-Ray drive for the PS3 off eBay and install that yourself. I know at least one person that's done this, but that was because he was a gamer and wanted to avoid to losing his game data.

[aaronwt]

Get a new PS3 from Walmart for the Fathers day sale or better yet get a stand alone BD player.

[Kilgore]

I bought a 40GB PS3 back in late November 2007, and the drive in it died in April 2008. I also used it primarily for Blu-ray playback, and a couple games. Had to send it back to Sony for replacement. Turnaround for me was about 10 days from the day I called.

The XBOX 360 I bought in December 2006 still works great, so go figure.

[Grumpy Old Man]

I called Sony and they are sending me a coffin........its still under warranty. I'm on my 3rd xbox so I'm acustomed to this process.......it just sucks because I just bought 3 Blu Ray movies this weekend and intended to watch them. Is the PS3 reliable or do they have a high failure rate like the xbox? Just wondering.

[Badger3920]

Originally Posted by aaronwt

Get a new PS3 from Walmart for the Fathers day sale or better yet get a stand alone BD player.

I'm sure he really appreciates that obscure fanboy remark after the Walmart mention.

[MSchneider84]

Mine actually just died yesterday. I was playing GTA 4 and it froze, so I hit the switch in the back not knowing I wasn't supposed to do that and it refuses to read any media now. I called Sony and now I'm waiting on the email.

[TheAnswerMVP2001]

Originally Posted by Shoeless

buy a Blu-Ray drive for the PS3 off eBay and install that yourself. I know at least one person that's done this, but that was because he was a gamer and wanted to avoid to losing his game data.

You can get the game data off the hard drive with a USB flash drive. I bought my PS3 off Amazon.com and purchased a 3 year extended warranty. For $50 it wasn't a bad deal.

[Arpeggi]

Happened to me last night. Luckily my PS3 was still under warranty. Got a brand new one as a a replacement.

[Maxx_75]

Originally Posted by MSchneider84

Mine actually just died yesterday. I was playing GTA 4 and it froze, so I hit the switch in the back not knowing I wasn't supposed to do that and it refuses to read any media now. I called Sony and now I'm waiting on the email.

Why are you not suppose to hit the switch in the back ? What are you suppose to do when you get a hard freeze ?

[theHDphantom]

Sorry to hear about your blu ray drive going kaput. This is exactly the reason why I don't play movies in my PS3 anymore and just use it for gaming nowadays.
I have the LG Combo player now; got it for 399.99 here in Canada. I suggest buying that player if you just want blu-ray movie playback. It's fantastic.

[45rpm]

Originally Posted by theHDphantom

Sorry to hear about your blu ray drive going kaput. This is exactly the reason why I don't play movies in my PS3 anymore and just use it for gaming nowadays.

But that is the only reason why some people bought a PS3, to play movies. Because the stand-alones were more expensive and non-upgradeable profile 1.0.

[krammer]

I recently got the BDP-S300 but have only watched a couple BDs on it. I got my 60GB PS3 December 2006 & have had 0 problems so far. My count of watched BD discs on the PS3 so far is 457 btw.

[Shoeless]

Originally Posted by Maxx_75

Why are you not suppose to hit the switch in the back ? What are you suppose to do when you get a hard freeze ?

You're supposed to press the power button on the front. Keep your finger depressed on it for several seconds and this will do a soft reset of the console. You'll know you did it right when you hear a series of beeps coming from the PS3 and it begins to shut itself down.

[Maxx_75]

ahhh.... I think that I have only had one hard freeze a long time ago and turned it off in the back.

I have had a few times when I shut if off that it beeps differently. Some type of error code but it boots normaly and shuts down normaly the next time. I only have Motorstorm and use it 99% for BD.