Playstation 3 - Not Reading Disks

Rainagul

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I've got an older PS3 model (the fat ones with 80gb hdd) and out of the blue recently it stopped reading games. Currently, it will not read any games I put in, but it will play CD's/DVD's on occasion, which is leaving me stumped.

I've gone through a couple of guides I've found online, mainly to do with restoring the system and some other nonsense, but nothing has worked thus far.

My hunch says this is an issue with the hardware, but I had hoped that someone here could provide some advice.

Will it be easier to just get a new bluray unit for it, or is there a chance that taking it to pieces and cleaning the laser will help?
 
From past experience I've had to replace the laser in the drive, restoring the file system and taking it apart to clean had no effect.

You should be able to pick up a new lens for around £20, easy enough to fit just make sure you get the correct model number as there are a few different ones depending on your ps3 model number.
 
supercrewd said:
From past experience I've had to replace the laser in the drive, restoring the file system and taking it apart to clean had no effect.

You should be able to pick up a new lens for around £20, easy enough to fit just make sure you get the correct model number as there are a few different ones depending on your ps3 model number.
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Cool will look into that, thanks!
 
Same thing happened to mine a few years ago (fat model), it was a few months out of warranty too. Sony were awesome about it though, they extended the warranty for 6 months and organized pick up of the PS3 from my door and had it repaired and back to me in just under 2 weeks which cost me absolutely nothing, didn't even need to leave my house!

Best CS I've ever experienced and nothing will probably ever top it :)
 
The laser replacment is easy to do, but you could try taking the cover off the ps3, then take the cover off the drive and cleaning the lens with a cotton bud with a bit a bit cleaner on it.

When mine failed to reaed discs i done that and it worked good for few months of good use., done bother with these lens cleaner discs they are usless.

If you do replace the lens , when you put it back together, put the drive back in place with out its cover on, then feed the ribbon wires into the slots etc, then put the drive cover on. It makes it a heck of a lot easier.
 
Spinal2k2 said:
The laser replacment is easy to do, but you could try taking the cover off the ps3, then take the cover off the drive and cleaning the lens with a cotton bud with a bit a bit cleaner on it.

(if you do this you will also be able to find of the model no of your laser unit)

When mine failed to reaed discs i done that and it worked good for few months of good use., done bother with these lens cleaner discs they are usless.

If you do replace the lens , when you put it back together, put the drive back in place with out its cover on, then feed the ribbon wires into the slots etc, then put the drive cover on. It makes it a heck of a lot easier.
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Just for reference, I bought a replacement KES-410A + deck and swapped it with the one in my PS3.

Worked first time, and now I can read all types of disks again!
 
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