Got A Broken PS3?

Brocky

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The Blu-Ray drive on my 80Gig fat PS3 is on it's way out. It can take anything upto 15 mins of ejecting and re-inserting a disk to get the drive to pick it up. Once it can see the disk though, up until now at least, it's fine....though i don't expect this to last long.

I thought about just buying a new drive but because the console itself is over 2 years old i don't think it'd be worth it because another problem could crop up anytime and i'd be stuck with a useless, though new, drive.

I'll get another PS3 eventually but can't afford one at the moment.

So, i decided to take a punt and see if anyone had a borked PS3 lying around that they wanted rid of and so wouldn't mind donating to a fellow Caftard.

Obviously i'd pick it up myself or pay for it to be posted if it's far away.

The model of my machine is CECHM....which is one of the 80Gig UK models. An exact match would be ideal but i think that certain drives are compatible across different models (Weaste?).

As i said, i'm just taking a chance punt on this but if anyone can come through for me then i'd be eternally grateful and would even offer up Elvis to serve as your own personal sex slave as payment if prefered.

Cheers.
 
1871_Biscuit said:
How much you selling it for?
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I'm not selling it. Did you read the post? I can't afford to get a new one at the moment....unless you want to pay me £200 for mine....so i need an un-needed broken one to switch drives with.

If i can't get hold of a donor then i'll have to make do until i can get a new one. Once i eventually do get a new one then i'd be willing to give this one away to anyone that wanted it. It'd be no good to me then anyway.
 
Brocky In Black said:
I'm not selling it. Did you read the post? I can't afford to get a new one at the moment....unless you want to pay me £200 for mine....so i need an un-needed broken one to switch drives with.

If i can't get hold of a donor then i'll have to make do until i can get a new one. Once i eventually do get a new one then i'd be willing to give this one away to anyone that wanted it. It'd be no good to me then anyway.
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Seems a bit steep mate. Don't think anyone will buy a broken PS3 for that much.
 
Brocky In Black said:
:lol:

Of course it's steep. You can get a new one for less than £200. I was being sarcastic.
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Nobodys going to buy it if you take that attitude.

And for that reason I am out.
 
Brocky In Black said:
I'm not selling it. Did you read the post? I can't afford to get a new one at the moment....unless you want to pay me £200 for mine....so i need an un-needed broken one to switch drives with.

If i can't get hold of a donor then i'll have to make do until i can get a new one. Once i eventually do get a new one then i'd be willing to give this one away to anyone that wanted it. It'd be no good to me then anyway.
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So the selling price is £200 then, does this include postage and packaging?
 
Well, the drive has finally died and wont read disks at all now so i'm bumping this in the hope that somebody might be able to provide a donor drive.
 
I want a Blu-ray drive.

If someone has a dead PS3 that they were just going to get rid of and they wouldn't mind donating the drive then that'd be great.

If they want paying for the drive then fair-do, let me know how much.

Whether i get a donor drive or not i'll be getting a new PS3 in a few months....i just can't afford one right now. If someone has been generous enough to donate a drive then i'd be quite willing to give them my old console....absolutely free....even if it's still in perfect working order.

Hope this makes things clearer.
 
Yep. Reconditioned ones are around £130 and the few compatible used ones i have seen have gone for £65+.

I'm still keeping my eye out but i'm not able to pay those kind of prices.
 
There are three different lasers in the PS3 with a single lens. You can buy a special disc with perforated holes in it that when spun causes a vacuum effect without actually having to touch the lens. Whether it will solve your problem or not I do not know, but you don't give many details.

Do CDs work without a problem? Do DVDs work without a problem? Do BD movies work without a problem? Is it a game only problem?
 
WeasteDevil said:
There are three different lasers in the PS3 with a single lens. You can buy a special disc with perforated holes in it that when spun causes a vacuum effect without actually having to touch the lens. Whether it will solve your problem or not I do not know, but you don't give many details.

Do CDs work without a problem? Do DVDs work without a problem? Do BD movies work without a problem? Is it a game only problem?
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DVDs are fine. BD movies or games don't work.

When i insert the BD i get a sound that i think is the lens moving or trying to move. Usually you would then hear the disk spin up (try it yourself) but it doesn't....instead i get another sound (around a second or so after the first sound) that's like the lens has stopped moving/trying to move. Around 6 or seven seconds later i get another sound like it's trying again. Around 10 seconds later i get the sound that's like it's stopped again and it seemingly gives up trying. All the while this is happening, the 'activity' indicator clock is spinning in the top right corner of the XMB screen until the last sound i mentioned where it goes back to showing the time.

Not sure if my descriptions are accurate as to what is actually happening but that's how i envisaged things. :)

Edit - The issue first started a few weeks ago when the disk wasn't read when i turned on the PS3 but i had to just eject and re-insert and it was fine. After a week or two it got worse and took two or three attempts to get it to spin up and read. This gradually took longer and longer up to the point of it taking me 20 mins to get it going. Once i actually got it to read the disk though i could start the game no problem and could play for hours with no problems with games crashing or anything....unless i turned off the console for a while....then i would have to start again.
 
I have one from a 40Gb model that I'm putting on eBay Australia soon. I doubt that helps.
 
starman said:
Broken Ps3s can fetch near to £100, so i doubt anyone is just going hand it over for free.

You could however call Sony and ask to tradein + plus cash for a new slim PS3, they have some sort of exchange programme for faulty PS3s, or you could try Consoledoctor: Nintendo DS and NDS Lite repair, Sony PSP, PS2, PS3, Wii repairs - Console Doctor
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Do you think if I bought a broken PS3 off of ebay and then rang Sony to trade it in for a new slim PS3 it would save me much money? I've seen broken ps3s going for £40-50.
 
starman said:
Broken Ps3s can fetch near to £100, so i doubt anyone is just going hand it over for free.
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How would they be handing it over for free when, in a couple of months, they would be getting my current PS3 given to them for free when i get my new one?

I'm not on a scam. I'm not looking to make a quick quid. I need a drive to keep my PS3 going until i can buy a new one. At which point i will give away this one to the donor as repayment for the favour.

Hopefully it's just a dirty lens as Weaste said and i can sort it that way. That would be the ideal situation.
 
Brocky In Black said:
DVDs are fine. BD movies or games don't work.

When i insert the BD i get a sound that i think is the lens moving or trying to move. Usually you would then hear the disk spin up (try it yourself) but it doesn't....instead i get another sound (around a second or so after the first sound) that's like the lens has stopped moving/trying to move. Around 6 or seven seconds later i get another sound like it's trying again. Around 10 seconds later i get the sound that's like it's stopped again and it seemingly gives up trying. All the while this is happening, the 'activity' indicator clock is spinning in the top right corner of the XMB screen until the last sound i mentioned where it goes back to showing the time.

Not sure if my descriptions are accurate as to what is actually happening but that's how i envisaged things. :)

Edit - The issue first started a few weeks ago when the disk wasn't read when i turned on the PS3 but i had to just eject and re-insert and it was fine. After a week or two it got worse and took two or three attempts to get it to spin up and read. This gradually took longer and longer up to the point of it taking me 20 mins to get it going. Once i actually got it to read the disk though i could start the game no problem and could play for hours with no problems with games crashing or anything....unless i turned off the console for a while....then i would have to start again.
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Music CDs work right?

There are three different diodes in the mechanism, but a single lens. Infrared for CD, Red for DVD, and the Blue-violet for BD. So the issue can be down to many things. The BV laser diode clearly still functions, as you said that after a while it works. If CDs and DVDs work, then the optical head is obviously moving correctly at the definition those two require (size of the pits on the disc that need to be focused upon). So, either the problem is that there is something on the lens restricting the wavelength of light that the BV diodes output, something on the reflective pickup that does the same, or the head mechanism is having problems aligning with enough precision to allow the reading of the much smaller pits on a BR disc.
 
WeasteDevil said:
The BV laser diode clearly still functions, as you said that after a while it works.
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This was the case but not anymore. From reading around i've seen people with the same issue mention that the diode is faulty but i have no clue what it is or does.

So i take it that it's not as simple as a dirty lens then?
 
It's an LED, as simple as that, just that it emits a light of a particular frequency. It doesn't turn on and off, it's either on or it's not. The light from the three LEDs is focused through a lens to create a laser, and this is then reflected off the disc in a particular way and picked up by a sensor that tells the system whether there was a 1 or a 0 on the disc. If the azimuth of the head is off however, then you have a problem.
 
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