My PS3 was giving me disc read errors (wouldn’t read PS3 BDs at all, however it would read PS2/PS1 games just fine). Luckily, the extended warranty on it was still active from three years ago (the original 80Gb with Backwards Compatibility) so I sent it in and got it back a few days later, supposedly fixed.
I put a game in and played it for a while (about ten minutes), and then it froze; it wouldn’t do anything. Turned the PS3 off and then back on but as it was booting up it froze again. After about 20 min of repeating the previous process (turning the PS3 on/of), I finally got it to work for another 10 min, but it once again froze on me.
When I booted up this time, however, these weird psychedelic tripping-balls colors and shit were on my PS3, which was completely froze:
Luckily enough for me, the company that ‘fixed’ it gave me a 90 day guarantee, so I can send it in as many times as I need to withing the next 85-ish or so days. I just hope next time it’s completely fixed.
I’ve heard of companies sending people money to reimburse them for fucked game systems, if it doesn’t get fixed after a few times sending it in, however in that case I’d have to buy a PS3 slim and lose all my Backwards Compatibility with PS2 games, and then I’d have to buy another PS2 on top of that, since I got rid of mine years ago.
Ahh, well here’s to hoping this shit gets fixed the second time around.
