my ps3 died

[mikepologti]

my ps 3 has met the orange light of death. has anyone here used the heat gun trick ?

[The_Hawk]

The brother in law had a busted PS3 and I hunted up this mob for him: http://www.globalconsoles.com/ps3_repair.html

Never ended up trying them out and don't know anything about them, but thought I would mentions since they look like a reasonable option.

[mikepologti]

The brother in law had a busted PS3 and I hunted up this mob for him: http://www.globalconsoles.com/ps3_repair.html

Never ended up trying them out and don't know anything about them, but thought I would mentions since they look like a reasonable option.

cheers thanks , ill throw them an email. the scary thing is after trolling a number of forums now, when this happens to a ps3 (which is quite often apparently) it is 90% of the time the cell processor or the gpu chip desoldering away from the main pcb. ive now had 2 ps3's die on me in just over 2 years. (my waranty ran out 2 weeks ago ffs!).............not happy with sonys performance of late. ( 2 of there dslrs died on me as well 4 years ago)
are there similar problems to this with the xbox 360? and/ or as frequent?........ to all you 360 owners out there?

[Buller_Scott]

jesus christ have they already been out for 2 years? im getting too old.....

[Preen59]

Just buy a 360. Heaps better.


The early ones had the red halo of doom (mine did it) but they fixed them out of warranty for free and everything. It was the disk drive on them. I ended up acquiring another later one anyways and never had a problem. Ever.

[mikepologti]

im going to try that link that hawk gave. to repair it i have been informed by sont that it cost 250$ plus postage , and i wont even get my own machine back , youll get one back but it wont be yours itll be another refurbished one.
if the 360 came out with blue ray compatability id buy it in a heart beat.

[The_Hawk]

You can try hitting up Sony under a statutory warranty...
Is it *reasonable* to expect that your PS3 lasts for 54 weeks??

The answer is clearly no, so they should fix it...


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[mikepologti]

talking to sony australia is like beating your own head into the pavement. i went down that path with both of my dslrs i got from them (that died might i add). the only interest sony has is with its self, it cares lil to nothing for there customers. so ive devised a small list as to which companies i buy from in future.

laptops - i will avoid laptops all together in future after bad dealings with toshiba , hp , sony (no surprise there), and hyper sonic (us based company that builds custom laptops ) of all laptops ive never had one last longer then 3 yrs (admitedly that was a toshiba )

desktops -ill build my own , its cheeper and at least you know your components are interchangable when you want to upgrade (im going to avoid dell at all costs, there power supplys and cases are built to go hand in hand and wont fit 3rd party products )

phones - ill go know where near cheep chinese phone products all together even if they are sold in a telstra shop , i wont buy motarolla after having 2 phones from them that have also died (bare in mind i absalutly baby my electrical goods , no rough treatment) , nokia is so far the only compay that has helped me with hand held replacments and actually helped me with product support and ive never owned a nokia that died,....ever ....i still have my original.

dslrs- thats easy canon or nikon , both have beautiful product support and products in general , ive never had a beef with either company. sony brough all there technology from minolta and are still playing the catch up game with every other imitation dslr.

when ever i buy a electrical product i read review after review, i dont buy willy nilly. yet time and time again i keep getting cheep inferior products that offer very little product support, or simply send you in that happy loop that telstra puts you in when they hand you from department to department till you just give up. what baffles me most is sony used to be a good compay that had awsome technical support? what the hell happened? honestly if more and more companies are heading this way , what the hell is going to happen to the consumers? ......... i hope we are all lubed up people cos i have a feeling in the future were all going to be bending over.

k ive had my rant and my winge for the day,...........oh and one more thing my microwave blew up yesterday happy happy joy joy!

back on topic , i have contacted the company in your suggestion hawk, there located in vic , and seem to be not to bad to deal with . (time will tell)

[Henri]

Just buy a 360. Heaps better.


The early ones had the red halo of doom (mine did it) but they fixed them out of warranty for free and everything. It was the disk drive on them. I ended up acquiring another later one anyways and never had a problem. Ever.

I had the red ring of death with my 360 as well. Mine too was in warranty and they fixed it for free. Now out of warranty and just last week i got the red ring again. Don't think they ever really resolved the problem, there were numerous reasons for them dying but all to do with them overheating. Really makes me mad as now I have to fork out $150 if I want it repaired by Microsoft. Thinking I now want a PS3, however hadn't heard of the above problem. Just a few tips to anyone thinking of buying a 360. Make sure you buy a fan for it, make sure you turn it off when you stop using it (don't leave it on if you want to play it a few hrs later) and also keep it in a relatively dust free environment.

[mikepologti]

same with the ps3 's 90% of the problems from the orange light of death is over heating. obviosuly these companies know the problem exists? why not fix it ffs........ k now im trolling my bad peeps