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Old 24-04-2008, 05:50 PM
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As above me fookin PS3 has decided to stop reading discs.... Any ideas what I can do before trying to call their customer care?!

I've already tried formatting the disc, inserting CD/DVD and another game, run the system update so now on firmware 2.30 and now i'm stuck!!!

Help!! Just fookin reserved me copy of GTA5 today as well!!!!

Chris

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Call them mate had this and they replaced his system in 4 days and 2 of those was the weekend!!! So much better than all the xbox problems
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Happened to me.

Called Sony on the Thursday, had a new one delivered the Tuesday.

Common fault apparently. Only had mine 4 months too
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Originally Posted by cfoster
As above me fookin PS3 has decided to stop reading discs.... Any ideas what I can do before trying to call their customer care?!

I've already tried formatting the disc, inserting CD/DVD and another game, run the system update so now on firmware 2.30 and now i'm stuck!!!

Help!! Just fookin reserved me copy of GTA5 today as well!!!!

Chris
buy a xbox 360 its GTA 4 aswell its all over the internet now and the there some great videos of it knocking around
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My friends PS3 died of the same fault, his was a 40GB model. It seems quite a common fault now. Did they change the blu ray drive in the ps3 with the model switch
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Originally Posted by rs_turbo_ant
buy a xbox 360 its GTA 4 aswell its all over the internet now and the there some great videos of it knocking around

No thanks mate!!!!!


Well tried a full 3hour format and still no luck so phone call this morning to them!! I take it they will replace my 60Gb one with a 60Gb one??
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