PS3 Disc Glitches and Errors: Problems seem to be rising
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: April 11, 2009 | 34 Comments
While we love our PS3 system for testing and reviewing games (One of the first released and still working fine), we have also heard an increasing number of Playstation 3 owners complaining about Disc read issues.
This seems to be on multiple sites across the web, in our own Problems section we have had a few reports on different disc problems as well.
Back in February of this year we had a user post information here about their 40GB PS3 having disc read issues. They said that their “PS3 stopped reading any disc, CD, DVD, Games and Bluray”. This was followed by other users reporting similar problems.
More recently, we heard reports of users having their Disc icon not appear on the xmb of the ps3 from a few users. They said that the PS3 game discs did not show, but Blu-ray movies worked fine.
One user even formatted their PS3 hard drive and found after doing so that the game discs started to show again. This showed that it was a software issue and not hardware.
Have you had any PS3 disc read issues, and more specifically the game discs not showing?
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I have a 40gb ps3 and I have absolutely no problems. I am a trucker and this thing rides with me and has bounced down the road for over 100k miles and it still works fine. It even had my 2 year old jam a bunch of nickels in the disk drive and then press the buttons up front a bunch of times. I just cracked it open took the nickels out and the thing still works great.
Lol this is actually quite funny,
I have a launch 60GB model and i have had ZERO problems with it…
What is possibly going on with all these new found PS3 problems? lol
Go Sony
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Hi chaps, if you have FW 2.50 or later, when the console is in standby hold down the power button, the console will beep once and then turn off after 10 seconds, when its back in standby do the same again but this time after the first beep it will beep times and a restore menu will come up, select restore file system and all will be ok, it will say that the HDD will be formatted but it will keep all your data, hope this helps.
sorry, should add that it fixes the blue ray game logo not showing on the XMB, and any currupt data on the HDD.
I bought a 60GB PS3 when they first came out and I am starting to have this disc read problem now. I put the disc in and nothing!!! it’s as if there is no disc in at all, but when I turn off the PS3 and turn it back on it reads the disc fine. All other DVD’s, Blu-Rays and CD’s are working fine though.
I just had this problem last night. I have a 60gb and take extremely good care of it. If you google the 800 errors you will see it is a widespread problem. I honestly hope soe gest sued. Ive had my ps3 since 4/07 so it is way out of warranty. I will be paying $150 dollars for it to be sent off. I am getting ripped off. Hopefully, it never happens to you but if it does, be prepared to be disappointed and open up your wallet if you don’t have a receipt or have had it longer than a year.
I have a 40g PS3 and it recently fell victim to the quite common disc read issue. Rang Sony who were aware of the issue and even though my PS3 was out of warranty they collected it and repaired it free of charge in 1 week. Good show.
i’ve had ps3 since launch [stayed of skwl] and the only errors i’ve had is occasionally the hdd needs to be rebuilt. and a few times its reformatted without my permission, good harware, poor software.
I had this disc read error just after christmas. When I rang up about it to get it fixed I did get the impression that it was a wide spread fault.
They took a few details and quickly realised my PS3 was out of warranty, and instructed me that I would have to pay for any fault with the unit, however as soon as I told them that it would not read any discs they immediately changed their tune and told me it would be repaired for free.
This would lead me to beleive that the problem is more well known to sony than they are letting on, the guy I spoke to on the help desk was adament that he had not heard of any similar problems but there seem to be plenty of cases on various internet sites.
They did however fix it and send it back to me within 2 weeks, so not too bad, but does leave me a bit worried that it might crop up again.
I had the PS3 disc no read problem a week ago too, I got the 40Gb PS3 in December 07. Fair enough it is 3 months out of its warranty but when I called sony, initally the call centre guy said I would have to pay £99 GBP for a refurb. I argued it after seeing others had received a replacement free of charge from Sony after theirs were out of Warranty, the inital person I spoke to at Sony careline said that it was my only option and I should take it. I was a little but annoyed by that (it seems they are following a script!!) so I asked for a manager. No manager available but they would call me back next day, manager calls me back and said that on this occassion (thanks soo v much sony!) they would replace the PS3 with a refurb. I have a feeling that this is a problem that is going to get a whole lot worse over the coming months for Sony. It seems the blu-ray drive in the PS3 is a major weak point from what I can tell so far from my research into this. I may have to get the sony care warranty now (even though it is expensive long term!)