PS3 failure

[Seth=L]

I guess Sony products are not immune from failure either. The PS3 appears to have taken a dump. When discs are inserted the loading icon appears but nothing happens. I waited for several minutes and got nothing. We watched "30 Days of Night" last night on Blu-ray and I tried to get that same disc to load this morning. All I did was turn on the PS3 with the disc already loaded, it did nothing.

I tried a PS3 game, still nothing. I realized that if I loaded the disc, waited a few moments, and then removed the disc, it had not changed positions from insertion. This means the drive is not spinning. I can hear some mechanical activity inside the PS3 when a disc is loaded, most likely it's the linear drive laser trying to read the disc.

This is rather disappointing for a $400 gaming system. I believe it's under the manufacturers warranty and Wal-Mart might do the 90 day return policy on it.

 

[TLS Guy]

I guess Sony products are not immune from failure either. The PS3 appears to have taken a dump. When discs are inserted the loading icon appears but nothing happens. I waited for several minutes and got nothing. We watched "30 Days of Night" last night on Blu-ray and I tried to get that same disc to load this morning. All I did was turn on the PS3 with the disc already loaded, it did nothing.

I tried a PS3 game, still nothing. I realized that if I loaded the disc, waited a few moments, and then removed the disc, it had not changed positions from insertion. This means the drive is not spinning. I can hear some mechanical activity inside the PS3 when a disc is loaded, most likely it's the linear drive laser trying to read the disc.

This is rather disappointing for a $400 gaming system. I believe it's under the manufacturers warranty and Wal-Mart might do the 90 day return policy on it.

This might well have two Origins. Since this is new, it will gave this lead free solder, to be EEC RoHS compliant. This solder I find dreadful and won't use it. This lead free solder sprouts tin whiskers. This whiskers create shorts on the circuit boards. This RoHS rule was mandatory in the EEC July 2006. The trouble is like most of these daft EEC rules they have the force of law world wide.

These whiskers generally develop within two years of manufacture. I and a lot of others are expecting a tidal wave of failures.

The other cause of failure might be power problems. I have found that spinning disc electronics are adversely affected above other systems by power problems, especially low voltage.

 

[Seth=L]

Interesting, well it was purchased less than 90 days ago so we should be able to exchange it with no problems.

 

[TLS Guy]

Interesting, well it was purchased less than 90 days ago so we should be able to exchange it with no problems.

Let's open book on the next one!

 

[Seth=L]

Let's open book on the next one!

What do you mean?

 

[TLS Guy]

What do you mean?

A book to take bets on the date of failure of the replacement.

 

[Seth=L]

A book to take bets on the date of failure of the replacement.

Lets hope not.

 

[Jack Hammer]

Mine did something similar last week. I went to load a movie and nothing happened. I just got the little spinning logo in the upper right corner of the screen. After ejecting and reloading again, same thing. I just turned the power off at the switch and restarted it, been fine since. Now I'm a little paranoid.

Jack

 

[Tarub]

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40281&page=3

 

[BMXTRIX]

I guess Sony products are not immune from failure either. The PS3 appears to have taken a dump. When discs are inserted the loading icon appears but nothing happens. I waited for several minutes and got nothing. We watched "30 Days of Night" last night on Blu-ray and I tried to get that same disc to load this morning. All I did was turn on the PS3 with the disc already loaded, it did nothing.

I tried a PS3 game, still nothing. I realized that if I loaded the disc, waited a few moments, and then removed the disc, it had not changed positions from insertion. This means the drive is not spinning. I can hear some mechanical activity inside the PS3 when a disc is loaded, most likely it's the linear drive laser trying to read the disc.

This is rather disappointing for a $400 gaming system. I believe it's under the manufacturers warranty and Wal-Mart might do the 90 day return policy on it.

Consumer electronics have about a 3% failure rate. Often less, and the PS3 is no exception to this rule. Unfortunately, you are likely to see issues with a product or two you buy throughout your life, and this was your chance.

I gotta say that I had my PS3 lock up once - and it required a hard reboot of power. That was over a year ago though and I've had no issues since then.

If you have not tried a hard power reboot (unplug it!) then try that first.

 

[mike c]

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40281&page=3

yep, its most likely the lens. the warranty should take care of that.

 

[Seth=L]

I am pretty sure it's not a clean factor. The drive is not spinning, period. We have owned the PS3 for less than 90 days and has been kept clean. It is not full of dust.

That said, we can easily get it exchanged. My thread was not really meant for diagnosis but more of a description of the problem that was occuring. I have no intention of taking it apart and/or trying to repair it, even with lens cleaning devices.

 

[TLS Guy]

Consumer electronics have about a 3% failure rate. Often less, and the PS3 is no exception to this rule. Unfortunately, you are likely to see issues with a product or two you buy throughout your life, and this was your chan

I will be interested to see if this 3% rate is maintained with this new lead free solder. I suspect the failure rate by two years is going to be very high. You watch!

 

[mouettus]

I will be interested to see if this 3% rate is maintained with this new lead free solder. I suspect the failure rate by two years is going to be very high. You watch!

Hey! Don't give us bad luck. SHOU!

 

[Rickster71]

I will be interested to see if this 3% rate is maintained with this new lead free solder. I suspect the failure rate by two years is going to be very high. You watch!

I'm with TLS Guy on this one.
Lead-free solder is an accident waiting to happen.

Last year, Europeans barred the toxic metal from most electronics to prevent its being incinerated or accumulating in dumps after computers and other gadgets are tossed out.

Some companies say the EU rules threaten the reliability of their products, exposing them to unknown risks and possibly threatening people's safety.

The industry-accepted alternative to leaded solders is lead-free tin, which spontaneously can sprout single crystal hair-like growths, or “tin whiskers.”

These growths are electrically conductive, can grow in days or years, and can easily bridge between contacts, can touch each other, to cause electrical problems, and can break off to bridge board traces

I've read articles about these problems in military applications, like the Tomahawk cruise missile, Sidewinder air-to-air missile, and Joint Direct Attack Munition. Also satellites sustained partial or complete loss due to tin whiskers. These involved Galaxy-3, Solidaridad 1, Direct TV3, satellites.
Lead free solder problems also have been reported with the F-15 jet fighter radar, the Patriot missile.
I'll look for the story and post it in The Vent.