broken ps3

snarloas1982 · 7 Sep 2008 at 09:37

guys my ps3 has just packed up, the laser has just given up after about 5 months and its was hardly used during the week. i looked through the site to try and find out how i return it to sony but i cant find it. does anyone here know where to find the info from

Soulja · 7 Sep 2008 at 09:40

08705 99 88 77

Taken from the sticky at the top of the forum.

snarloas1982 · 7 Sep 2008 at 09:49

cheers

brakeinup · 7 Sep 2008 at 09:57

Same thing happened to a mate of mine - he called Sony CS who arranged a 1 for 1 swap via courier.

snarloas1982 · 7 Sep 2008 at 11:49

brakeinup said:
Same thing happened to a mate of mine - he called Sony CS who arranged a 1 for 1 swap via courier.

yea its arranged for thursday, was doing so well at tiger 09 too.. ah well. seems to me that the 60gb versions are more reliable than the 40gb revisions i mostly read about the laser failing in forums

Loosecannon · 7 Sep 2008 at 11:53

My 60Gb died due to laser failure. The replacement is much quieter howeer so I'm happy.

Noel Gallagher · 7 Sep 2008 at 11:54

LFoD
(Laser Failure of Death)

Has a nice ring to it.

fobose · 7 Sep 2008 at 12:07

If its 5 months old could you not just take it back to the shop you got it from? Refund, and then buy the 80GB one?

snarloas1982 · 7 Sep 2008 at 12:44

fobose said:
If its 5 months old could you not just take it back to the shop you got it from? Refund, and then buy the 80GB one?

dont have a recipt, also have a 320gb drive anyway

Rameses · 7 Sep 2008 at 12:56

Noel Gallagher said:
LFoD
(Laser Failure of Death)
Has a nice ring to it.

lol. I see what you did there!

Noel Gallagher · 7 Sep 2008 at 13:24

AmTechFox said:
lol. I see what you did there!

Now that you mention it..

rp2000 · 7 Sep 2008 at 13:30

snarloas1982 said:
dont have a recipt, also have a 320gb drive anyway

Seems really obvious, but make sure you swap the drive back to the 60gb you had.

rp2000

McManicMan · 7 Sep 2008 at 15:25

do you have to deactivate the system when you swap out, never really understood that option, is it for your downloads?

rp2000 · 7 Sep 2008 at 15:27

McManicMan said:
do you have to deactivate the system when you swap out, never really understood that option, is it for your downloads?

Yes, you should de-activate it (Some ppl say Sony do it from their end, but if the console is really knacked, I dunno how).

You can have 5 systems activated with your account at one time that can all download the content you have paid for, on said account.

rp2000

Streeteh · 7 Sep 2008 at 15:27

McManicMan said:
do you have to deactivate the system when you swap out, never really understood that option, is it for your downloads?

Yes, definitely deactivate it.

When you buy something on the PSN you are given 5 credits, every time a new system downloads it it takes a ticket, deactivating it returns the ticket. So basically, at present you have 4 tickets on your account and your PS3 has one, deactivating it will return the ticket to your account thus giving you all five again.

McManicMan · 7 Sep 2008 at 15:36

i see, nice idea, thanks

snarloas1982 · 7 Sep 2008 at 17:04

i never thought about that, i will format the 40gb thats back it it and delete all my settings

Vengance · 7 Sep 2008 at 17:12

make sure the disc isnt in your wii

roddypoddy · 7 Sep 2008 at 22:54

My ps3 is also bricked,phoned the number in the "sticky" on Saturday morning,a replacement is being delivered on Tuesday via courier.
Thats damn good service.

Kreeeee · 7 Sep 2008 at 23:06

rp2000 said:
Yes, you should de-activate it (Some ppl say Sony do it from their end, but if the console is really knacked, I dunno how).

The ticket system will just work by a serial number style method so the tickets could be switched without ever turning on the old console. It's how Nintendo do it with their VC anyway.