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Ok so, before I start this out with a rant, I will start and end this calmly with an open mind.
I was playing GT5 in B-Spec mode for about an hour today, when I looked over at the TV and I was like oh, the race is finished I better go over and hit accept and get my car, so I walked over and the controller wasn't on and the car was just driving around the track idly at 50 or so mph, and I turned the controller back on, and I couldn't press ok/accept or anything, so from then I hit quit game, it wouldn't, screen went black for over 5 minutes, I just hit the eject button, from there it went back to the XMB menu.
Now from there, there was no GT5 icon, I was like uh oh... so I took out the game put it back in, still no icon loaded. tried other games, same thing. turned off the PS3 via the controller and turned it back on, still nothing, I instantly came on to google some stuff and I came across this.
http://www.community.eu.playstation.com/t5/Gran-Turismo/GT5-BROKE-MY-PS3/td-p/11932751
http://www.community.eu.playstation...ay-next-morning-my-bluray-drive/td-p/11932036
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/...-to-GT5-Full-HDD-install-feature/m-p/46530712
There is A LOT more than just that about it, apparently its a big thing, now before people flame me and say "they aren't going to develop a game for 6 years that'll cause this sort of problem, they do massive testing on these things" well, I ask you all this, is it just a coincidence that my PS3 died while playing GT5? are all of the other people saying that GT5's load that it puts on the laser on the PS3 not true? I just want some answers from some real tech heads, throw some techy stuff at me, I'll take it all in, I've been doing computers/micro-processing for over 19 years, and I'm up to date on 95% of the newest tech on most things. I know how to solder, so if anyone needs me to do anything I can do most anything common sense related and then some.
So anyways back on the topic of what happened, I then contacted sony and talked to a semi not professional (I read from a book, and tell you whats wrong) sort of customer service, she ran me through some things, told me what error codes were what, clearing the error codes from the PS3, nothing, same thing, sometimes it would load the disc, and show an icon, and get halfway into the game and freeze (on multiple games after the incident), none would fully load, I then was told to reinstall the whole game and try again, I told her well... the game data file has nothing to do with the blu-ray drive not spinning, she told me to do it just incase, I then just went ahead with it and told her well, you know this install takes 20-30 mins right? shes like oh... I didn't, shoot.... So I tried to re install, the game hung at like 5% in, and it stayed there for 30 mins and the blu-ray drive had stopped spinning. At this point she basically gave me the "well you can send it in and get it refurbished for 130 dollars, or you can just trade it in and we'll give you a slim for 99.99" I said well... I'll just see what I can do then.
So now I'm stuck reading LOTS of people having the same problem, I know it's common sense to know that a system is obviously going to break while someone is doing something, it's not going to mysteriously not turn on one day without something having caused it. (although anything could happen)
So, now what do I do, take apart the PS3 and see what the PS3 arm for the laser is doing? where it's at? It does read the discs but it freezes halfway during an operation, or it just doesn't read the disc at all, is that a bad lens? did it get stuck on accident during B-spec mode and now end up needing to be pushed back into a position?
Do I buy a new slim (I have been eyeing that move/eye bundle) but I've heard mixed reviews about it, first off I know it only has 2 USB slots instead of 4, I also know it's not backwards compatible like mine is, I also know that it doesn't have a card reader and that it is slimmer, now with heat issues, smaller space/compact components = gets hotter quicker, as far as my thermal dynamics tell me. I also read that they had to make the RSX a 40NM for the slim version, and also the slim is "energy efficient" which means it uses less power than the old one put out, so that does in turn stress the system more, unless they've done something with how its power is displaced.
Anyways, I would love any suggestions on where to go from here, it's already bad enough I was 53% into GT5 with over 200 cars and had lots of awesome stuff going on ( I did read that kaz is going to implement a feature to backup save files ) if only my PS3 would of held out a little longer.
Any advice would be great, thanks in advance!
I was playing GT5 in B-Spec mode for about an hour today, when I looked over at the TV and I was like oh, the race is finished I better go over and hit accept and get my car, so I walked over and the controller wasn't on and the car was just driving around the track idly at 50 or so mph, and I turned the controller back on, and I couldn't press ok/accept or anything, so from then I hit quit game, it wouldn't, screen went black for over 5 minutes, I just hit the eject button, from there it went back to the XMB menu.
Now from there, there was no GT5 icon, I was like uh oh... so I took out the game put it back in, still no icon loaded. tried other games, same thing. turned off the PS3 via the controller and turned it back on, still nothing, I instantly came on to google some stuff and I came across this.
http://www.community.eu.playstation.com/t5/Gran-Turismo/GT5-BROKE-MY-PS3/td-p/11932751
http://www.community.eu.playstation...ay-next-morning-my-bluray-drive/td-p/11932036
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/...-to-GT5-Full-HDD-install-feature/m-p/46530712
There is A LOT more than just that about it, apparently its a big thing, now before people flame me and say "they aren't going to develop a game for 6 years that'll cause this sort of problem, they do massive testing on these things" well, I ask you all this, is it just a coincidence that my PS3 died while playing GT5? are all of the other people saying that GT5's load that it puts on the laser on the PS3 not true? I just want some answers from some real tech heads, throw some techy stuff at me, I'll take it all in, I've been doing computers/micro-processing for over 19 years, and I'm up to date on 95% of the newest tech on most things. I know how to solder, so if anyone needs me to do anything I can do most anything common sense related and then some.
So anyways back on the topic of what happened, I then contacted sony and talked to a semi not professional (I read from a book, and tell you whats wrong) sort of customer service, she ran me through some things, told me what error codes were what, clearing the error codes from the PS3, nothing, same thing, sometimes it would load the disc, and show an icon, and get halfway into the game and freeze (on multiple games after the incident), none would fully load, I then was told to reinstall the whole game and try again, I told her well... the game data file has nothing to do with the blu-ray drive not spinning, she told me to do it just incase, I then just went ahead with it and told her well, you know this install takes 20-30 mins right? shes like oh... I didn't, shoot.... So I tried to re install, the game hung at like 5% in, and it stayed there for 30 mins and the blu-ray drive had stopped spinning. At this point she basically gave me the "well you can send it in and get it refurbished for 130 dollars, or you can just trade it in and we'll give you a slim for 99.99" I said well... I'll just see what I can do then.
So now I'm stuck reading LOTS of people having the same problem, I know it's common sense to know that a system is obviously going to break while someone is doing something, it's not going to mysteriously not turn on one day without something having caused it. (although anything could happen)
So, now what do I do, take apart the PS3 and see what the PS3 arm for the laser is doing? where it's at? It does read the discs but it freezes halfway during an operation, or it just doesn't read the disc at all, is that a bad lens? did it get stuck on accident during B-spec mode and now end up needing to be pushed back into a position?
Do I buy a new slim (I have been eyeing that move/eye bundle) but I've heard mixed reviews about it, first off I know it only has 2 USB slots instead of 4, I also know it's not backwards compatible like mine is, I also know that it doesn't have a card reader and that it is slimmer, now with heat issues, smaller space/compact components = gets hotter quicker, as far as my thermal dynamics tell me. I also read that they had to make the RSX a 40NM for the slim version, and also the slim is "energy efficient" which means it uses less power than the old one put out, so that does in turn stress the system more, unless they've done something with how its power is displaced.
Anyways, I would love any suggestions on where to go from here, it's already bad enough I was 53% into GT5 with over 200 cars and had lots of awesome stuff going on ( I did read that kaz is going to implement a feature to backup save files ) if only my PS3 would of held out a little longer.
Any advice would be great, thanks in advance!