Also has the red light of death as they call it. rang sony they now want £128 or they told me to go buy the new ps3 slim for £250



Nice service you bunch of wankers both ps3's died after 13 months

 

almost as if they planned it good way to keep them in business during the recession. its not like you have much choice as youll already have loads of games etc

 

Where do you keep the PS3, is it in an enclosed cabinet?

 

No its on a shelf, was fine one min then the next it just turned itself off

 

there are a few things to try on the net i think if its out of warrenty and you dont mind taking apart.

 

Na mate its going on ebay as they seem to sell for £50-£80 poxy things lol

 

they always seem to be around 13 months old. just out of the warranty. bbc watchdog repaired them on the program the other week, takes half an hour to do apparently.
im sure someone will do it cheaper than £128

 

Doh, least Xbox got 3 years warrenty. Got my bros PS3 atm hope that dont break on me

 

you tube tells how to sort it..

 

Yeah if you know what your doing etc , i might get the new slim one as they say they have sorted all the problems with this one

 

if you want me to then drop it round and ill see what i can do.

Up to you mate.

 

Mine went tits up after 10 months and sony replaced it FOC, nine months later it went again and sony wanted £149 to replace it... wankers. I then sent it to console doctor where they have repaired if for £70.
The simple fact is they just get to hot and fuck up that why i have just bought a mini air cooler to sit behind it so hopefully i wont have the same problems again.

The slim line PS has problems also, i have been told by a friend who has just replaced his 60Gb that they run alot slower so on line gaming is effected

 

Its proper busted mate , making all sorts of weird sounds now . fan sounds weird and it just shuts down so im getting rid .

Thanks for the offer tho mate

 

hi mate mine packed in a few months ago and that was my second one after my 1st Ps3 lasted 4 months so rang up PS3 and got the same shite as you blah blah out of 12 month warrenty £128 to fix then i saw a thread on here where some one said you get 24 moth warrenty with the place you buy it from no matter what they say they have to obide by this as it is some sort of Eurpoean law, anyways i rang HMV who in turn put me through to there Head office and spoke to a lady and when explain problem (mine being HD fooked) she said no problem take it to computer store to diagnose problem and get letter from them and send it to HMV HO and they will send out replacement no problem.

give a try if you still have reciept mate saves £250

 

its fixable dont just bin it

 

The store chain i got it from (choices video) went bust about a year ago, ive now got the slim with 1 game and a months free games rental from blockbuster, the old machine is now on ebay

 

6 days 20 hours left on ebay and theres 2 bids already . £50.26

 

tell them its 10 months old, then they will swap it.

 

They wont as when they replaced it last time they take the serial number off the barcode on the back .

 

sony are shit, i remenber when the psp's came out and people were complaining the pixels were dropping out, sony said they wouldn't do a thing till at least 5 were gone !!!
images having 4 pixles gone a wanting it to break more

 

Well they ended saying to me today , by me paying £450 for the ps3,then £128 for them to fix it they would be making a loss as the have to repair the machine >>>>>>> total wankers and i hope i dont have to call them again.

Oh and the guy didnt say much when i replied To his loss claim, i shouted im the one at loss giving you bunch of C!!!! £578 for a ps3 lol

 

So last night i went and got the ps3 slim.........




Sony have just called me to say sorry and there sending me out a new 60gig machine tuesday .Anyone want to buy it as i dont want 2

 

I think they are fixing them FOC after a programme on TV last week, the power supplys are burning up
see if anything here helps

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...failure-report

 

There sending me a new one mate so il just sell it

 

keep it for when the new slim one breaks.

 

Good idea mate

 

my original ps1 and ps2 still work no problem, it must be a deliberate scam as the xbox360 has the same problems.

 

Anyone know if they have problems with the hdmi port as mine doesn't work, had it about 3 years now and only got a HD tv last year, so never knew it didn't work till then! Tried reseting the machine but nothing so must be the port?

 

you mean to say that people are calling sony who won't fix their xbox 360's?

 

you mean it doens't work on the telly or it doesn't work on the ps3?

there are some settings oyu need to set up to get it to work propelry

 

no, why would sony fix the xbox? i meant its suspiscious that both have the same problems and tend to break just after the 12 month warranty.

 

How are you finding the new slimline one m8 ? Any pics of it ? Can the hard drive be changed as easily ?

 

The tv doesn't receive any signal using the hdmi cable, spent hours pissing about with the settings and nothing, tried on my mates tv too and still no signal from the hdmi. When I try to change the setting to hdmi the screen goes black for 30 seconds then reverts back to using the component lead.

 

To be fair Dave you do hammer the fucker though, everytime I go on mine you can garantee you're online

 

so you've obviously tried a different lead and plugged it in properly yes?

if so, then you are fucked

i was playing it he other day and hadn't changed the imput from the scart to the hdmi2 setting and the picture was horrendous

 

if i remember correctly you do have to change some settings when switching over to hdmi on the PS3 or you do get a blank screen cos mine was the same

 

Sad as it seems, take a lookie on youtuber, there is a video of some chaps from a gaming mag telling you how to best set your PS3 for HDMI

 

Its better mate, you cant even tell its on. now loud fan noise etc .

Im going to sell the 60gig one for £200

 

Jesus why not just by an XBOX in the first place, at least if it goes wrong you know you've had the best games console, best online and with the best selection of games etc.

At least the one time I've missed mine whilst they were sorting it I knew what I was missing!!!!!!!

 

I would get an x box but the pads feel like bricks and they got a stupid little joystick .

Plus you have to pay to go online . suckersssss