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Home PS3 repair for dummies.
Chance
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So my older brother's launch 80 gig is crapping out on him. He described what sound like a bunch of disk read errors (not recognising there is a disc in the drive, freezing up when the game needs to read from the disc, etc), and at my prompting called Sony support to describe the problem. They quoted him $180 for repair (we're in Canada), and he decided to take it apart and clean the lens on the BR drive - since that tended to extend the life of his PS2s when they behaved the same. I did not suggest this to him.
Of course, Sony won't take it back, and apparently now he's researching BR drives online, trying to find a way to repair it himself.
Personally, I think the best thing for him to do is to see if GameStop will take it in trade, and just buy himself a new Slim. Unfortunately, that's out of his price range. I feel really, really bad for the guy, so I thought I'd ask here and see if the collective wisdom of the internet has any sage advice.
Of course, Sony won't take it back, and apparently now he's researching BR drives online, trying to find a way to repair it himself.
Personally, I think the best thing for him to do is to see if GameStop will take it in trade, and just buy himself a new Slim. Unfortunately, that's out of his price range. I feel really, really bad for the guy, so I thought I'd ask here and see if the collective wisdom of the internet has any sage advice.
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
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Maybe you could suggest he buy a YLOD 80gb and swap its drive into his system/
Unfortunately, the new lens stopped working a couple of months after being installed.
They fixed my BC ps3 and it's still ticking. The dammed thing is runnning 24\7.