PS3 Disc Glitches and Errors: Problems seem to be rising
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: April 11, 2009 | 36 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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here is a description of my problem:
okay earlier today i was playing COD4 with no problems. system shut down without issue (this is probably 4 hours ago). i just tried to boot it up by clicking on the disc icon and it didn’t get to the “playstation 3 logo”, it gave me an error and said there was a problem with the start up process. okay, wtf. i exit out and there’s no disc displayed in the games menu. odd.
reboot the system (when it rebooted it made the little beep, beep, beep noise it makes when it doesnt shut down normally) and it comes back up…log into PSN fine, can browse internet, can browse my files…no disc listed in the games section. put in a dvd…wait for it…no disc loads in the video section. i notice that the little circle in the top right hand corner is active, so i wait for it and eventually my system locks up. reboot again and this time try a regular CD. same thing. i have not tried blu ray discs though as i do not own any
launch day PS3 (first in queue too) 60Gb boosted to 250GB, had problems early on in it’s life but since i swopped the drive i’ve had no issues at all. for the record the original drive is now in an external caddy and it still plays up every now and again so the issue for me at least seemed to be related to the harddrive.
HI MY PS3 60 GB STOPPED READING ANY DISK,IV ONLY USED IT FOR NO MORE THAN 20 HOURS SINCE NEW,ANYWAY I PHONED SONY THEY WERE GREAT EVEN THOUGH MY WARRANTY WAS FINISHED 6 MONTHS OUT OF DATE THEY STILL AGREED TO REPLACE MY PS3 GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE HERES THE NUMBER 0870 5998877
Bought a 80gig and in a little over a year have sent it back to Sony three times for the same reason, disc read errors. Game freezes, and then bites the dust. Keep getting the same one back even though the rep tells me will be a diff one. Can’t get the reason from Sony as to what is causing it to screw up. Spend 500 bucks on something that you don’t have half the time sucks.
They will not replace mine and it is out of warranty by 14 days.
I think we should call them and each spend a total of 40 hours on the phone over time to waste $400 of their money.
I’ve had similar problems with nearly all my consoles except xbox1 and Gamecube, in most cases i managed to fix them by adjusting the laser beam focus or lens position, this worked fine on 3 different dreamcasts (2 of mine and a friends), an xbox360 and 2 PS2s although they eventually developed other drive related problem and had to be replaced.
My PS3 has just started to develope some disc read errors but since it is still under guarantee and the Blu-ray drive is likely to be expensive, i’ll send this one back.
Should you have an out of guarantee model though, it might be worth checking out whether adjusting the laser beam focus or lens position is possible, i’ve not had the PS3 apart but in every other case it was a relatively easy adjustment of 2 very small scews.
I’ve got the disappearing game Disc on XMB problem. My PS3 is having issues now. Its a 60GB and I use playTV as my primary TV connection. My ps3 is on most of the day so this could be causing heat problems OR the hdd could be struggling now that it’s knocking on a bit. I’m going to try a backup and restore soon but it’s such a chore! HDD replacement soon I think!
Have PS3 I purchased from BB. After 15 months, I get audio but no visuals. Sony wants $149 to repair. UGH! I only use it to watch DVDs. I had heard there are other problems with overheating, so I kept it off when not in use. It’s not the Sony quality that I’m familiar with. I’ll toss it out before investing another $149 in a $300 product after such a short life span.
I’ve had a PS3 for just over a year and yesterday it stopped recognizing any disk/game.
It is really frustrating and now the machine is essentially worthless.
This seems to be a big problem that is fairly common and should be getting much much more info.
I sure wouldn’t buy another PS3 since they are so prone to failure.
I’ve owned my PS3 40gig 22 months and it wont read my games. I did a Restore Defaults, Hard drive Format, and a total System Restore which takes 2.5 hours. Then and only then does it work. However when I turn it off, it stops working again when I try to play. I need to do another System restore which of coarse takes another 2.5 hours. Sony said to send it in for $149 and they’ll send me a refurb with a 90 warranty. This is obviously a bad option wen a new one is only $50 more. Is anyone else having this issue, and or do you know how I should go about fixing it?
I’m very disipointed in the PS3 line and how Sony is dealing with so many people having the same exact issues. Especialy how they’re charging so much to fix it. Now they are more reliable than the XBOX, its way to expensive to be so flakey of a product. My first gen NINTENDO still works as long as I blow in it!!