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Well, after complaining about the support of the Playstation 3 (see my previous posts) I did not rest

As you know my PS3 was unable to read disks no matter what I tried… So with the warranty already gone and Sony not willing to help I decided to try and fix my playstation 3.

The movielink below shows the issue I had.

This is the problem I had

Since my warranty was gone and the PS3 being pretty useless without it I tried to fix it. I opened the case and took out the BD drive. Please click the link below to see how to do that (pretty simple).

How to get to the drive

Ones you have the disk you can clean the small lens very carefully with some alcohol and soft cloth. Be carefull not to scratch the lens. After this procedure mine was working fine again.

If you for whatever reason don’t want to try this please see the video below. This might be a more suitable fix for your PS3 then!

Another solution for PS3 diskdrive problem

Hopefully this little post helps you if you have similar problems…. Let me know if it did!

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As I have told you in my previous posts my Playstation 3 is not working correctly. It won’t read any discs anymore. The Playstation helpdesk advised me to do all kinds of restore actions and finally mentioned that the update of this week might help……

After installing the update yesterday the drive still doesn’t work.. So I’ve called the Playstation helpdesk ones more. The conclusion is that the drive is faulty (duh)……

Since my playstation is 1,6 years old it is not covered by warranty Sony sais.. This means that my expense release playstation 60 GB is basicly lost in just a small period of time. Sony mentioned when they released this platform that the Playstation 3 would at least last 10 years.. Well, maybe it will be on the shelves this long, but you’ll need to buy at least 6 Playstation 3′s to get to this period????

I’ve been reading online regarding this issue and it seems Sony is aware of this issue and is removing posts from their own forum. This tells me they know they have an issue with the first released Playstations…

Thanks Sony for picking my pockets and not replacing a faulty system which clearly has some design issues……

I’ve spent for more than 1500 euro’s on Playstation stuff (games, camera, extra controllers and the damn thing itself) and this is the support you can expect………….

 Several consumer actions are starting up at the moment, hopefully Sony will come to it’s sense and replace these systems…..

Untill then be carefull buying this machine or try and get longer warranty……

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Today I’ve called Sony as I mentioned in my previous post I would do. 

The problem is that the diskdrive of my Playstation 3 does not function well. If I’m lucky if it sees the disk in the drive and plays. If the disk plays it will play without any issue, however most of the time (after switching it off and back on) it does not work.

My playstation 3 is 1,5 years old and thus not eligible for warranty clames…. This is the message I got. However I talked to the technician and mentioned that several post on the internet show that this might be some sort of design flaw…. In my opinion it can not be the case that a 500,- euro costing device brakes down due to the fact that the diskdrive is broken. 

Tomorrow there will be a new firmware he mentioned, I should try if the playstation still has issues after installing the new firmware…. Don’t think it will help but I can try…. 

The Sony technician also mentioned that the repair cost would be approx. 200 euros…. I think they really make a mistake here…. 

I will keep you updated tomorrow and see if my ps is working normally again , hehe

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Since the launch I instantly bought myself a Playstation 3. This was the European launch and was in feb/march 2007.

Since this week I’m having issues with my diskdrive and the Playstation won’t play my disks. It doesn’t matter what kind of disks (bluray/game/cd). After trying for a while they sometimes work.. It seems that a lot of people are having these issues now. especially with the 60GB version. I tried calling Sony today but since it’s sunday I got no answer….No problem, I will try again tomorrow. Since the system is more than one year old it might be a non supported issue since the warranty is only one year in my country. I’m hoping that there will be some “understanding” from Sony since I bought the PS3 for about 500 Euro’s. A lot of money for a product that is supposed to last at least 3-5 years imo.  

I will let you know how Sony will deal with this problem via this site. Wish me luck

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For al you who are trying to get your mac to stream media to your PS3. Here it is, a new version of Medialink.

Personally I still haven’t found a better media streamer. Try it and see for yourself. 

You can download it here

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