Jet said:

Dude, Don't worry about it so much, get the most out of your system don't be scared its going to break because 99% the systems will be fine. EVEN if it did break and it's out of warranty I'm sure it wouldn't cost that much to get fixed... any one know?

Dukes00 said: to get the drive replaced(which is the only prob i know of with them) it'll set ya back about $150 or if ya got a technical mind then you can do it yourself and order the drive for $110

This is what ill be doin the next time it happens

texinick said:

But the facts are that the failure rate of the 360 is much higher than that of the PS3 or Wii.

Warranty provider reports have put it as almost %30 of Xbox consoles sold. Where as the PS3 is reported as being less the %1... that is an extraordinary margin, and for the price of a 360, we as consumers deserve better.

All 3 Console Failure rates:

Mate, those 'facts' you talk of from that article are a year old. You need to take into consideration that the 360 has been around a year longer than the PS3. I reckon if you look at the failure rates today, then the PS3 won't be looking as good. How can you go on about the 'build quality' of the PS3 over the 360, when these disk errors are happening everywhere you turn.

If the laser is only getting a life span of somewhere in the region of 10-12 months, then they're all going to start happening around now.

This is going to be Sony's RRoD equivalent. Let's see if they have the balls to offer those console owners a 3 year warranty like MS did. My mates PS3 died like this three weeks out of warranty, and sony don't want to know. A $1000 on something with great build quality that lasts a year?? Maybe the $399 Arcade 360 is looking a better option if the $700 PS3 is just as likely to go kaboom!

wutang01 said: Oh wtf ...
I decided to change game disc, because I wanted to play a different game. Took out Bad Company, and inserted Rock Band.
After inserting Rock Band, the blue LED light lights up (normal) but there's no game disc icon under GAME on the XMB.
I've tried changing to Guitar Hero, Bad Company ... turning on and off ... no results.
Is this a classic example of the BD drive dead? Do I have to call Sony now on 1300365911?

wutang01 said: The blue LED light is lit up ... and there's the continuous twirling bubble in the top right corner which indicates that the PS3 is thinking?
I'm turning my PS3 off for about an hour and will try again then.
God damnit, please don't **** up BD drive ... please don't ...
But then again, if it does ... I can get a new one for free right? It's still within the first 12 months ...

tank1252 said: In a month

wutang01 said:

tank1252 said: In a month

Fk ... PS3less for a month? I'm screwed ...
Back to PS2/PSP ...
I'm restarting my PS3 in 30 minutes. Hope to god it works again.

wutang01 said: Ok. Thanks guys.

After turning it off for an hour, I've turned on the PS3 again and it still won't read any of my PS3 game discs.

I haven't tried a Blu-ray movie or DVD movie yet. I might give that a go in awhile.

wutang01 said: Funny thing. I let my mate borrow my Xbox 360 because I had plenty of new games to play:

Bad Company, Bourne, MGS4 ...

Who would've known that my BD drive would die?

Yea, well ... even if I kept my 2nd PS3 ... I think it would've died quickly too because of that spastic fan (right?)

crazynites said: Sorry to hear that wutang, it really sucks, the way the last couple weeks been going for me this will proberly happen to my PS3, be just my luck. Anyways hope you get it back quickly or by some minor mircle it fixes itself by morning.

wutang01 said:
I got an error message saying "please insert the correct hard drive". Something along those lines. The phone op (John was his name, friendly dude) said that (from his experience) that error message means bad news. (Out of my 40GB and 250GB hard drives, never had a problem with them before)

So he wrote in the notes, that the repair centre will fix my drive/laser and look into the HDD problem.

wutang01 said: There's something else they should be looking into for me.
When I restored factory settings, I got an error message saying "please insert the correct hard drive". Something along those lines. The phone op (John was his name, friendly dude) said that (from his experience) that error message means bad news. (Out of my 40GB and 250GB hard drives, never had a problem with them before)
So he wrote in the notes, that the repair centre will fix my drive/laser and look into the HDD problem.

Jet said: my ps3 came up with that same message the other day when i booted it up, i reset it and it never came up since. hope it doesn't show its ugly head again! lol.