ps3 repair
 

Is there anyone here who can repair PS3,s ?
Mine takes disks in but has stopped reading any media so it looks as though it needs and new blu-ray drive.Its out of warranty and Sony want £129 for a replacement console with a 3month warranty :thumbdown:

Otherwise it,ll be in the for sale section/Ebay soon

silly question have you tried a lens cleaner?

Tried everything mate its deffo a dead drive.:(

does it spin the disk up at all?

Just watched a pretty good how to on you tube, looks really straight forward to do the replacement, but if you try and find a replacement drive to do it yourself, you're looking around £90. So really, £129 doesn't seem bad. Let face it, you're not going to get a new PS3 for that. If it were just the Laser at fault, the job becomes a lot more in depth, but still you're looking £40 - £70 for parts and it still might not fix..

well its the laser or the controler chip that drives the motor and stepper for the laser carage

The drive does not spin up, it will take the disk in and eject ok .The console still does everything else so i can still play my downloaded games Battlefield1943/Wipeout HD etc,its just sooooo annoying and only just out of warranty.Not sure what to do with it...

will it play cds or ps2/1 games? it sounds like a laser to me

It wont detect any disks of any sort :(

and your sure it wont spinn up at all even for a small amount of time?

It is a dead parrot.

ring sony and tell them you have done a update and it died after it should be free of charge

See if you can get a cheap PS£ which has broken due to YLOD. then take the drive from that and put it in yours. I had a similar issue and made 1 working one out of 2 broken ones.

How long ago did you buy it and do you still have the receipt/proof of purchase (credit card slips etc)?

I have no receipt,i had it off someone who got it from their mobile phone deal in Nov 2008.

Ah, I'm not going to be of much help then...

Good luck with repairs/getting Sony to help - but I doubt that there would be any retail Blu-Ray drive that fits/is compatible for any less than Sony have quoted you for a reconditioned one.

Check this, cheapest Blu-Ray drive is £55, and won't be compatible with the PS3 (probably).

i repaired one for a freind and the BR drive is hard coded into the firmwere of the ps3 so you can only swap out the laser and the motor control ic's not allot else i would ring sony and see what they will do it wasnt after a update was it? my other freind had one replaced free of charge with no recipt

Decided to put it on ebay its now in the for sale section.