ps3 repair

[budgio]

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

[Battle_axe]

Originally Posted by budgio

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?

[budgio]

Tried everything mate its deffo a dead drive.

[Battle_axe]

Originally Posted by budgio

Tried everything mate its deffo a dead drive.

does it spin the disk up at all?

[Dazzler]

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..

[Battle_axe]

Originally Posted by Dazzler

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

[budgio]

Originally Posted by Dazzler

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...

[Battle_axe]

Originally Posted by budgio

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