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I'm at the end of a very enjoyable first session playing FF13, and as I go to save my game the game freezes, nothing new there this has happened on every console that has used discs. Well since nothing was responding at all I was forced to turn off the power to the PS3. I came back a few hours later to play again ad...FUCK THE DISC ISN'T LOADING?

No panic though right? Sure its annoying but maybe I just got a bad copy? So I test out another PS3 game...no luck. I try a blue-ray movie...no luck. I try a DVD, a CD.....nothing. Then I go through the whole troubleshooting bullshit on the Sony website. I restore the system settings, replace the data, I even go through the last resort of restoring everything to default completely.

Discs still wont load. I'm about to be sick, thgis PS3 was a gift from years ago and is no longer under warranty, it has been almost exclusively a blu-ray player for two years and suddenly this happens. I can't afford a replacement.

Is there anything that I can do that I have missed? Has this happened to anyone else with FF13 or any other PS3 game for that matter?

That sort of thing happened to me once a couple years ago, and I did have to get it repaired.

Arstechnica had a problem where the laser diode in the Blu-Ray died. Are you in the United States? Ars's experience was that Sony will do their best to repair your specific unit, not sure what about out-of-warranty.

Ypoknons wrote:Arstechnica had a problem where the laser diode in the Blu-Ray died. Are you in the United States? Ars's experience was that Sony will do their best to repair your specific unit, not sure what about out-of-warranty.

Going to cost me $150 to get a repair done if it actually is something that broke down, but this system has worked perfectly ever since I had it and it just happens to break NOW? I'm not entirely buying it.

Darth Fanboy wrote:

Ypoknons wrote:Arstechnica had a problem where the laser diode in the Blu-Ray died. Are you in the United States? Ars's experience was that Sony will do their best to repair your specific unit, not sure what about out-of-warranty.

Going to cost me $150 to get a repair done if it actually is something that broke down, but this system has worked perfectly ever since I had it and it just happens to break NOW? I'm not entirely buying it.

You did say you've used it almost exclusively as a blu-ray player for a long period of time though. Maybe running the FF13 game disc caused it to finally break? I would assume FF13 would be slightly more energetic than a blu-ray when it comes to resources used to read it. (rpms, etc.)

AMT wrote: You did say you've used it almost exclusively as a blu-ray player for a long period of time though. Maybe running the FF13 game disc caused it to finally break? I would assume FF13 would be slightly more energetic than a blu-ray when it comes to resources used to read it. (rpms, etc.)

So you're saying that my machine would have gone out a long time ago if I had been playing games on it more intensely, and that using it for movies only kept it alive a lot longer?

That...makes sense.

Darth Fanboy wrote:

AMT wrote: You did say you've used it almost exclusively as a blu-ray player for a long period of time though. Maybe running the FF13 game disc caused it to finally break? I would assume FF13 would be slightly more energetic than a blu-ray when it comes to resources used to read it. (rpms, etc.)

So you're saying that my machine would have gone out a long time ago if I had been playing games on it more intensely, and that using it for movies only kept it alive a lot longer?

That...makes sense.

I win!
...Seriously tho, it's possible, especially if its an older modle. IIRC those wern't the most... sturdy.

Its the 60 GB model.

So should I consider replacing it instead of repairing it then? If so how long can I responably expect a used one to last? (Or should I be going with the slim version if i'm going to replace?)

Darth Fanboy wrote:Its the 60 GB model.

So should I consider replacing it instead of repairing it then? If so how long can I responably expect a used one to last? (Or should I be going with the slim version if i'm going to replace?)

Get Sony to repair it. Unless you like spending more money, that is. It's clearly a manufacturing fault, and clearly Sony are now aware of it. My brother had the exact same happen with his unit he got barely a year after mine, and annoyingly it was when I was playing a game on his that it happened. I thought it was the firmware update from the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game I got messing with the power to the diode laser, but it's just a common problem with first gen PS3s, like the Red Ring of Death on the Xbox 360.