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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

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

Otherwise it,ll be in the for sale section/Ebay soon
silly question have you tried a lens cleaner?
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Tried everything mate its deffo a dead drive.
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Tried everything mate its deffo a dead drive.
does it spin the disk up at all?
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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..
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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
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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..
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...
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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
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It wont detect any disks of any sort
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and your sure it wont spinn up at all even for a small amount of time?
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It is a dead parrot.
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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
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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.
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How long ago did you buy it and do you still have the receipt/proof of purchase (credit card slips etc)?
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I have no receipt,i had it off someone who got it from their mobile phone deal in Nov 2008.
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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).
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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
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Decided to put it on ebay its now in the for sale section.
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