PS3 not reading disc?

nah, mine was from best buy. i mean jeezz. i cant return mine anymore since its im past the deadline and they said i need to call sony and stuff but sigh.... what a hassle. it only froze once and it didnt after that. right now im reformatting it and hope that it will be back to normal afterwardsplzpassdarice

Hey guys this doesn't happen as often as you might think... I've had mine since launch and I haven't had any problems. However I had some freezing issues with assassin's Creed but it was a problem with the game itself and there is a patch to solve this problem. COD4 worked fine thou...

There was also an issue with one of the updates that certain people experienced i think it was with update 2.00 so i just skippoed that one and updated diectly to 2.01 and I haven't had problems either.

If none of the above help or solves the problem it might be a bad batch that got damaged during shipping or something and yoiu should be able to exchange it without any hassle but like I said out of everyone I know with a PS3 (all of them the original 60G one thou) haven't had any problems.

Hope you guys come right.:)

this does actually happen MORE than you think..
it happened to mine its a really sad story..
it was a *** ps3 no warranty in australia or japan!!
and i was playing cod4 also..its wierd..
the re-format didnt work for me..3 hrs wasted time :evil:

I KNEW IT!!! I KNEW IT WAS COD4!!!!

THAT GAME BREAKS PS3s MAAAAN!!!!

your the fourth person to say that their blu-ray driver died cuz of CoD4 (including me, one more week for my replacment)

This happened to me too. I was watching Blu-ray movies one sunday and they just started freezing for no reason. It was like one minute everything was fine, the next my PS3 was dieing. I'd restart the PS3 but it lost the ability to load the disc. The screen would go black then I'd get an error message and told there was a problem loading the disc.

I phoned Sony. They told me to format the hard drive. That didn't work. The next day it stopped even recognizing a disc had been put into the BD drive. I live in the UK so this problem isn't just limited to a bad batch from Best Buy as someone said earlier.

PS2 also had problems early on with the dvd drive dieing. You'd think Sony would've learnt from their mistakes. I wonder if PS4 will have the same problem.

AHHH!!! Mine just died yesterday.

PLAYING CALL OF DUTY 4 .

W. T. F.

Seriously, I loved my PS3, this sucks. At least its under war.

Do you guys think I could just buy another one from best buy and swap out the units, or the boxes (i just bought it 45 days ago)

I KNEW IT!!! I KNEW IT WAS COD4!!!!

THAT GAME BREAKS PS3s MAAAAN!!!!

your the fourth person to say that their blu-ray driver died cuz of CoD4 (including me, one more week for my replacment)

3zoozM

AHHH!!! Mine just died yesterday.

PLAYING CALL OF DUTY 4 .

W. T. F.

Seriously, I loved my PS3, this sucks. At least its under war.

Do you guys think I could just buy another one from best buy and swap out the units, or the boxes (i just bought it 45 days ago)

separatethis

NUMBER 5

IM TELLING YOU GUYS, COD4 KILLS PS3s

This happened to me as-well, and I was playing COD4 but I don't think the game caused the failure, probably it's just a matter of luck, plus a lot of people play COD4, that's just a coincidence. Just get a new one from sony.

This happened to me as-well, and I was playing COD4 but I don't think the game caused the failure, probably it's just a matter of luck, plus a lot of people play COD4, that's just a coincidence. Just get a new one from sony.

ituarte84

it COULD be a coincidence. who knows. but just incase

NUMBER 6

I TOLD YOU GUYS

:P

Seriously- I wonder if COD4 pulls the laser to a point where it jams the disc rotor....because thats the problem, the disc doesnt rotate.

did you stopped playing COD4 after getting your new console? because I´m sacred but I can´t stop playing it.

did you stopped playing COD4 after getting your new console? because I´m sacred but I can´t stop playing it.

ituarte84

im still waiting for the replacment...one more week. and i wont stop playing COD, but i will buy Warhawk so it could take most of my time until i forget COD :D

the same thing happened to me

i wouldnt read any of my games thats because the BLUE RAY READER IS SHOT

we had to send it back on february 1st after we waited a week for a box sony sent us and now we are waiting to see wat will get they said that we are getting a used referbrished ps3 ut we might get ours back but fixed

i hope they dont delete our memory if we get ours back but i saved our memory on a mp3 player and a memory card for the computer

Mine just stopped reading discs last night when I was playing TUROK. Just wouldn't come off the load screen, so switched it off and it hasn't read discs since, tried every disc i've got. No luck. Got mine from Toys r us, Going to try and take it back tomorrow, had it just over a month.

i dont know if any of you guys have experienced this problem but my ps3 is a month and a half old already and i experienced my first problem with it... sadly its not reading my games all of a sudden like frickin out of no where. it was fine last nite then it just stopped reading it... sigh wut the heck... im reformatting it right now as we speak. just trying to gather people's thoughts on this. thanks... plzpassdarice

Probably you don't take good care of it or your games, or both.

i dont know if any of you guys have experienced this problem but my ps3 is a month and a half old already and i experienced my first problem with it... sadly its not reading my games all of a sudden like frickin out of no where. it was fine last nite then it just stopped reading it... sigh wut the heck... im reformatting it right now as we speak. just trying to gather people's thoughts on this. thanks... plzpassdarice

That is what truely makes all your stories BS. Everyone says the same thing "It was bran new and the first time I plugged it in." Come on, you don't good care of your stuff and it breaks. Juat admit it already. LOLShacks210

And I have had mine over a year now and not a single problem. Why, because I take good care of my machine and games.Shacks210

[QUOTE="Shacks210"]And I have had mine over a year now and not a single problem. Why, because I take good care of my machine and games.CosmoKing7717

Not my point, never said it had a 0% failure rate now did I? I am just saying I am tired of everyone trying to say that they kept their system in perfect condition and it was no way their own falt for the system breaking. I do not and can not believe that for one minute. Now that is not to say that is true with all people that has had problem, but I am 100% sure it is how most of them break.

i dont know if any of you guys have experienced this problem but my ps3 is a month and a half old already and i experienced my first problem with it... sadly its not reading my games all of a sudden like frickin out of no where. it was fine last nite then it just stopped reading it... sigh wut the heck... im reformatting it right now as we speak. just trying to gather people's thoughts on this. thanks... plzpassdarice

I've experience this problem before and had to return it. It's like RROD from 360 where your game system can no longer funtion when it comes to playing games. You'll know when it won't work is when all you get is a loading circle on the top of your right screen meaning that it can no longer play disks. It's best to call Sony to solve the problem. filiwian

Yea just 29.99% less frequent. But if you had to ask me I would say more like 39.99% less.

nah, mine was from best buy. i mean jeezz. i cant return mine anymore since its im past the deadline and they said i need to call sony and stuff but sigh.... what a hassle. it only froze once and it didnt after that. right now im reformatting it and hope that it will be back to normal afterwardsplzpassdarice

take it to the Sony Store, they will repair it for u/send it in for u and give u a replacement one in the meantime...or so i hear

Well after 36 days of owning a brand new 40gb PS3 bought from Gamestop, I have fallen victim to this as well. It happened just about an hour ago... Wasn't able to find the damn reciept but I bought it on a debit card. Planning to call them once they open up and hopefully they can pull that sale off their system and print off another reciept for me.

I left it on the XMB screen while i was browsing on my laptop after a long session of Oblivion. Decided to play Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 "I had already inserted the disc after I was done with Oblivion", started the game. Gave me a black screen for about 30 seconds then displayed an error reading the disc and jumped back on the XMB screen. But this time all the hardware icons took about 40-50 seconds to load. After seeing this I turned off the PS3 through the controllers "PS button" and turned it back on. From then on the PS3 wouldn't not load ANY discs and only gives a "loading bubble" in the very top right corner. I've tried backing up/reformatting the PS3 to no aval. I've treated the PS3 and all of my games very well. "Not a single smudge mark on ps3, dusted ps3 daily, 10ft. of space for PS3 to vent in back, no fingerprints or scratches on game discs, etc..." and I still recieved this error.

Almost $1,000 worth of equipment, games, accessories, and the PS3 for 36 days...
36 days.....KuroiSLI

u have a god damn 1 year warranty from Sony...USE IT, if they cant fix it theyll just say sorry, heres a brand new PS3 enjoy

I KNEW IT!!! I KNEW IT WAS COD4!!!!

THAT GAME BREAKS PS3s MAAAAN!!!!

your the fourth person to say that their blu-ray driver died cuz of CoD4 (including me, one more week for my replacment)

3zoozM

Wow. I thought I was missing out on buying CoD4... but I want to keep my PS3 alive!!!!

For like the 100 time already, COD4 dosen't freacking break your PS3! yeah, PS3s eventualy kick the bucket, put it not because of COD4, Its because it THE MOST played game on the PS3 that it seems like this, but its not.

It going to be the same issue with MGS4, people will start to say, OMFG MSG4 BREAKS MY PS3! chill people..., and play the damn thing, and if it burns up, you can always send it to sony, remember the failure rate of a PS3 is around 3% ;)