ps3 trouble

wwe · 16-04-2009, 21:21

hi all my ps3 is not reading any of my games i tried a dvd and a music cd nothing it crashed on my last night while i was playing a game, so i just turned it off and try last night but nothing so i thought i'll give it a rest but it still not is there anything else i can try?

Graham M · 16-04-2009, 21:36

You could try a CD lens cleaner

wwe · 16-04-2009, 21:38

just been on phone to ps3 carline they want 99 pounds for it

Graham M · 16-04-2009, 21:39

For what sorry?

wwe · 16-04-2009, 21:41

for them to repair it any one know any where else i can get it repaired

Tezcatlipoca · 16-04-2009, 22:00

Moved to the PS forum.

How old is it, wwe? As Sony want you to pay, I assume it is over 12 months old?

icestar2 · 16-04-2009, 22:09

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Originally Posted by Matt D

Moved to the PS forum.

How old is it, wwe? As Sony want you to pay, I assume it is over 12 months old?

It was announced a couple months back that they were no longer giving free repairs for out of warrenty Faults (They were before which was good of them tbh) Sometimes its luck of who you get on the phone to cause I still know some people are getting repairs done free.

To the OP there is one thing that you can try. It fixed my friends ps3 when he had the same problem. No guarantee but worth a shot.

1. Turn off Playstation3
2. Hold The power button down; The system will turn on and turn off once again
3. Once the System has been shutdown, re-press you finger until you hear 2 consecutive beeps
4. When you hear the 2 beeps take finger off power button
5. You will be promted to plug in your controller via usb and then hit the PS button
6. The Recovery menu will pop up.

After this you will be given a menu. choose the Rebuild Database option. This worked for my friends PS3 when a crash cause his disc to stop being read. after doing this it worked fine again.

If that fails you could try the other options to but beware you may lose saved data so backup anything you dont want to first.

wwe · 16-04-2009, 22:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt D

Moved to the PS forum.

How old is it, wwe? As Sony want you to pay, I assume it is over 12 months old?

yer i got it on the 1st day it came out in uk

icestar2 · 16-04-2009, 23:32

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Originally Posted by wwe

yer i got it on the 1st day it came out in uk

Try what I said above m8 and let me know if it makes any difference.

ThunderPants73 · 16-04-2009, 23:45

My friend had the same problem, he just held his finger on the eject button for about 5 secs until movement inside was heard (with no disc in it), it resets the laser mechanism or something. I think he ended up having to do this every time he wanted to use a BD so it wasn't a permanent fix.

jab1990 · 18-04-2009, 19:59

sign up to continous play, wait a couple of weeks, then claim that it is broken. Then you can cancel it after they fix it

wwe · 26-12-2009, 20:21

hi all i just turned my ps3 on and under photo, music and videos it got this logo that says windows media player it wasn't there yesterday when i click 4 more info it says windows media player sharing
what is this?

D_Skids · 26-12-2009, 20:49

You must have set your PC/Laptop to stream media and it was switched on when you switched the PS3 on. Its a means of streaming pictures, videos and music to your PS3.

wwe · 26-12-2009, 20:55

how do u turn it off

Stephen · 27-12-2009, 00:19

Is it really a problem if its there? Just an extra menu option if your PC is on at the same time as the console.