I have had a playstation 3 for over a year and a half now, worked perfectly and now it is giving me problems. I need some help to figure out the problem. I have the original 60gb model.
Symptoms:
-I can put in any blu-ray based disk, start running it, and within a few minutes, the disk drive will cease to be able to read the disk, and thus, my game/movie freezes. [now I can do 1 of 2 things]
-1: If I push eject, it will take about a minute for the disk to come out of the drive (that's pretty long). If I put the disk back in, It will give me a disk error when I try to start the disk immediately.
-2: If instead of ejecting the disk, I switch the console off then on (back switch) for a quick reboot, It will not recognize a disk is in the drive when I go to try to start the disk.
-If I then wait for about fifteen minutes or so, I can start the game/movie up again and watch it for about the same amount of time, and then the disk drive stops again.
I can play ps2 games with no problems as long as I want. (I beat MGS3 on my system AFTER I started having the problem.)
I can watch DVDs with no problems as long as I want.
I have tried this with different games and this "theme" keeps reoccurring: Blurays give me problems, DVDs do not.
I can obviously assume that this is a overheating problem..... Right? (that would explain waiting making the problem go away temporarily) Anyway, that's what I thought it was, so, I did a little googleing, and I decided That I would replace the thermal paste on the cpu and gpu with arctic silver 5. I opened it and saw all the dust. NASTY! so I cleaned it all very nicely with some canned air and then replaced the paste, and....... It didn't help. same old garbage, but now the dust is gone =D
after that, I did some more scientific observation.
I popped the big fella open after a blu ray ceased to be read by the disk drive, and felt some stuff. I first felt the disk drive, and it felt a little warm, but nothing special, then I put my hand on the power supply and I said, "Woah!" It was pretty hot! Like when something's warm enough to the touch that it seems it might burn you if you keep your hand on it too long. I could keep my hand on it though, and it was definitely not hot enough to be painful.
CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, but I think that my power supply may be going bad :/ If Blurays always use more power than DVDs, would that not fit the symptoms and be the reason that DVDs work and Blurays do not?
I thought that I blew the dust out pretty good of the power supply, but could the problem be just dust? I have heard that it is dangerous to open power supplies, so I haven't.
Has anyone ever heard of this problem? I can't find anyone who has. Can I fix my power supply? If I just get a new power supply, will it fix the problem? Is my power supply not the problem? Experience???
