- Dec 20, 2005
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My one month minus 2 day old Playstation 3 is now "dead". Surprisingly, I am taking this quite well.
About 2 hours ago, I powered on my PS3 as usual, loaded up to the XMB, and started downloading the Devil May Cry 4 demo. After setting it to download in the back, I went to the Game section to load up Uncharted... "Where'd the icon go?" There was no icon for me to load the disc. So I thought "hey, it's a PS3, it's reliable, I'll just eject and re-insert"... nothing. Shocked, I load up the browser, google "PS3 not read disk" and bam.
Turns out quite a few people are having their PS3 drive die on them (**before certain people pounce on me, I am in no way saying this problem is very common, Sony sucks or whatever***). The pisser is that many of these people who had broken drives had warnings like disc-read errors or lock-ups just before discovering it. Me? The last time I had my system on was 3 days ago. After playing Uncharted from the disc, I quit to the XMB and then turned off the system. Some people suggested that there's a problem with the drive's motor so I did some more testing. I put in 4 different disks: Three Blu-ray and one DVD. None of which worked. Also, the usual 'chucking' sound of the drive was absent. I even did a "Restore Defaults", which did nothing.
In the ~28 days I owned it, I only used it on average 6 hours a day for 20 days due to school and lack of stuff to play. Just two weeks ago, our Xbox 360 died, I was talking about how Microsoft has crap Q&A and it is par for the course; at least it lasted 7 whole months. The "reliable" one lasted 1/7 that. W T F?
I'll be calling for a coffin tomorrow (hope their support line opens Saturday). I really hope that this is an isolated incident and that the number of people who also have the problem just got bad batches. And yes, I know thing's just break, I may have gotten unlucky. One last thing, I got my PS3 from Dell cause there was a great boxing day deal, knowing full well that "Warranty is covered my the Manufacturer" so I can't take it back to the store within 30 days for a new one. I thought Sony wouldn't give me issues, guess I got screwed. I'm getting more pissed as I think about it...
End rant.
Anyone else have their drive die on them? How long is the turn around rate after sending it in?
Also, is there anything I should do with the HDD stuff? I made a backed up of my HDD already.
About 2 hours ago, I powered on my PS3 as usual, loaded up to the XMB, and started downloading the Devil May Cry 4 demo. After setting it to download in the back, I went to the Game section to load up Uncharted... "Where'd the icon go?" There was no icon for me to load the disc. So I thought "hey, it's a PS3, it's reliable, I'll just eject and re-insert"... nothing. Shocked, I load up the browser, google "PS3 not read disk" and bam.
Turns out quite a few people are having their PS3 drive die on them (**before certain people pounce on me, I am in no way saying this problem is very common, Sony sucks or whatever***). The pisser is that many of these people who had broken drives had warnings like disc-read errors or lock-ups just before discovering it. Me? The last time I had my system on was 3 days ago. After playing Uncharted from the disc, I quit to the XMB and then turned off the system. Some people suggested that there's a problem with the drive's motor so I did some more testing. I put in 4 different disks: Three Blu-ray and one DVD. None of which worked. Also, the usual 'chucking' sound of the drive was absent. I even did a "Restore Defaults", which did nothing.
In the ~28 days I owned it, I only used it on average 6 hours a day for 20 days due to school and lack of stuff to play. Just two weeks ago, our Xbox 360 died, I was talking about how Microsoft has crap Q&A and it is par for the course; at least it lasted 7 whole months. The "reliable" one lasted 1/7 that. W T F?
I'll be calling for a coffin tomorrow (hope their support line opens Saturday). I really hope that this is an isolated incident and that the number of people who also have the problem just got bad batches. And yes, I know thing's just break, I may have gotten unlucky. One last thing, I got my PS3 from Dell cause there was a great boxing day deal, knowing full well that "Warranty is covered my the Manufacturer" so I can't take it back to the store within 30 days for a new one. I thought Sony wouldn't give me issues, guess I got screwed. I'm getting more pissed as I think about it...
End rant.
Anyone else have their drive die on them? How long is the turn around rate after sending it in?
Also, is there anything I should do with the HDD stuff? I made a backed up of my HDD already.