Disc drive broken?

[Soapy]

So I was playing Dark Souls a while ago and turned it off to get a bite to eat. I come back, turn on my PS3 and and the icon for Dark Souls isn't present. I eject the disc, put it back in, no icon. I do this a couple more times, same thing. I try a different game and a Blu-ray, same deal. I read online that you can fix this by unplugging the cables and removing the HDD. I do this, and...success! It worked!

I'm playing Dark Souls again, waiting in a church to be summoned to kick some gargoyle ass. At some point while waiting, I noticed the sound had been mostly cut out of the game. The ambient noise is still there but my guy isn't making sound of any kind. I then muted my TV and could hear the disc barely spinning, or even just trying to spin. exit the church and then things really get ****ed up. Missing geometry, no textures, etc. "Welp." I said, and then shut my PS3 off. I decided to give it some time to cool down, came back, turned it on, no Dark Souls game icon. Back to square one.

Thoughts?

 

[KALEL114]

You could always go to the recovery menu and repair the file system.

1. Turn off Playstation®3.
2. Hold the power button down; the system will turn on and turn off once again.
3. Once the System has been shutdown, re-press you finger until you hear 2 consecutive beeps
4. When you hear the 2 beeps take finger off power button.
5. You will be prompted to plug in your controller via USB and then hit the PS button
6. The Recovery menu will pop up.


Go to:
Restore File System: Checks for corrupt/missing system files.

If this doesn't work, you might have to contact Sony or take it to a local repair shop.

 

[Incrediblejeff]

The same thing happened to mine,and I'm pissed.I tried the Restore File System and that didn't work.Soo...I don't know what to do.

 

[Soapy]

@KALEL114

Thanks for that, but it didn't work.

I think I'm going to have to perform some surgery on my PS3.

 

[KALEL114]

Well, good luck man. May you have the steadiest of hands while you operate.

 

[Soapy]

Heh. Thanks. It shouldn't be much of a problem though. I watched a guy do it on YouTube and it seemed like a very simple procedure. At least simpler than other electronics repairs I've had to deal with.

 

[KALEL114]

Thank goodness for YouTube. Are you going to replace the entire drive?

 

[Soapy]

I am. I ordered one off Ebay earlier.

 

[TheBat812]

Good thing you fixed it, good thing to know if that happens to me.

 

[KALEL114]

I am. I ordered one off Ebay earlier.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[Hotwire]

Mine just took a dump as well. Red Screen Of Death!! Would love to know how much you got the replacement hard drive for and how hard the job is to do yourself.

 

[Soapy]

The average price for a replacement Blu-ray drive seems to sit between 60 and 70 US dollars. And here is the YouTube video I mentioned earlier:

[YT]Qztw_aUBQhI[/YT]

Very simple.

 

[Hotwire]

The average price for a replacement Blu-ray drive seems to sit between 60 and 70 US dollars. And here is the YouTube video I mentioned earlier:

[YT]Qztw_aUBQhI[/YT]

Very simple.

Ok. Actually, mine is the hard drive. I did find instructions on that, and damn is it easy! Now, I just need to find a replacement HDD for cheap.

 

[Soapy]

Oh yeah. I misread your post. Sorry.

 

[Hotwire]

Well, I replaced the hard drive. Still getting the red screen. Looks like I'm going to have to send it to Sony after all.

 

[Soapy]

Well, my PS3 has been successfully repaired. The guy I ordered the replacement drive from sent me the wrong part. It was a disc drive of some kind, but not even close to what I ordered. He gave me the runaround about it for nearly a week, but I was finally able to convince him of his mistake after I took a bunch of pictures of the two drives.

Making the repairs was easy, but the hard part was remembering how it all fit back together since it's been so long since I took it apart. :P