my FAT PS3 is reading disks again?

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ALEXSKINNERD

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Hello, About a year ago, my fat PS3 system stopped reading disks(although it still works with everything else), I've looked all over the internet and the only solution is to replace the cd drive or get a new PS3, so I got a new PS3. Today, I decided to to go on the fat PS3 just to go on it, while it was on, I thought maybe it can read disks again (I'm that type of person that when something stop working I constantly check and see if it works again) so I grabbed a game and inserted it and it read it! I played the game and it worked just fine like as if nothing happened to it, I tried 3 more games and it ran fine. I restarted the PS3 thinking maybe it only worked for just that moment, now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Is the laser dusty or is there something else wrong?
 
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The laser could be dusty...or it could be something else that is causing the laser to be aligned poorly or something else entirely. First try using a laser cleaning kit and see if it fixed the problems. Also, dust the air intake and outtake.
 
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Hey OP,
i had/ have this problem. Actually it started from a Sony update, so we replaced the laser so it worked perfectly for a day then stopped working again. I have now found every few months or whenever i can be bothered to turn it on it occasionally works. So im kinda tempted to say its not the laser itself, maybe the way it is reading it or the firmware? i dont know. If you find a genuine fix pleeaasssee PM me :)
 
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Thanks for the reply. Would this work?
http://tinyurl.com/o3pnfxx
I really want to try my best not to open the PS3 (I'll open it if I have no other options)

 
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Sure I'll PM you if i've got a solution. I thought at first it was the update that caused it too, but a friend of mine has the first model of the PS3 and has Ver. 4.65 and his disk drive still works.

 
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Sure I'll PM you if i've got a solution. I thought at first it was the update that caused it too, but a friend of mine has the first model of the PS3 and has Ver. 4.65 and his disk drive still works.
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The difference there, however im no expert, is that the very first PS3's were capable of reading ps2 discs as well, so there will be something different there so i wouldnt compare them. I got a second version ps3 (the fat one as well).
Though whether that is hardware or firmware related; that allows you to read ps2 discs as well i would have to look in to. I think it may be? i mean i guess it would be due to the disc formats being read by the ps3/ ps2 being different
 
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The ones that could read PS2s had PS2 and PS3 hardware in them, that is what made them so expensive.

Yeah, something like that should work. I don't know of what are top rated cleaning kits or now...they are mostly pretty similar. It not correctly reading discs also makes me think of something being loose inside and sometimes it will be positioned correctly to read the disc and other times it will not...but starting with cleaning it will at least knock one issue out of the way.
 
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Sorry for the VERY long reply, I've been very busy lately.
I got the bluray disk cleaner and it seems to work, It read it as soon as I inserted the game, one issue though is if I insert the disk but I don't play it and just leave it in there for about 20 minutes, it cant read the disk anymore and it wont eject until I restart the ps3
 
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It sounds like there actually is more wrong with the disc drive maybe. If you have already cleaned it a few times and the problem continues to persist, then it seems like a hardware or software issue. Money would be on hardware...maybe the drive is not reading discs properly (causing it to not register after it sits there, or register that a disc is inside when you try and eject it). Or maybe some internal connections are loose. Really hard to say.

So, you really are kind of stuck with just a few possible ways to hope for a fix. Which I think have already been covered.

1. Software updates

2. Use the disc cleaner more times

3. Open it up and check for loose connections or hardware defects in the disc drive.

Aside from those things, I don't know what to say. The problem could still be dust and such inside of the disc drive. Maybe when the disc goes in the dust is pushed to the back so it can be read, but after sitting there for a few minutes without being read the dust gets back on the laser? Who knows.
 
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