Playstation 3 Drive Failure

[killman360]

A few days ago, I was playing my Playstation 3. For some weird reason, during gameplay, my vehicle(I was playing Burnout at the time)suddenly stopped and would not move. At first I thought that I lost my internet connection for a second as I was playing online but that was not the problem. I then proceeded to quite out of the game. While it was saying please wait, the system would not do anything. I had no choice but to shut it off with the hard switch on the back of the console. After that, I turned the system back on. I noticed that the game icon was not showing up on the XMB menu so I ejected the disk and reinserted it. Nothing happens. This was the case with all of my games. I read on another forum that it was because of the drive within the PS3. It has died. I have called Sony and my warranty is out. I now must pay 150$ for a new warranty, which is only 90 days, to get the system repaired. This is a very annoying event and especially with me having to pay 150$.
Ring any bells?
Time for a new name.

The Blu-Ray Drive of Death.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

 

[Sousanator]

You can probably get away with saying it was a problem with the 2.40 update (even if you have 2.41), since they will fix that for free, even without warranty.

 

[Johnhg7]

You can probably get away with saying it was a problem with the 2.40 update (even if you have 2.41), since they will fix that for free, even without warranty.

When they go into it to fix it they will know your lying

 

[Sousanator]

They couldn't prove that your lying.
They know 2.40 had problems, so no one knows the consequences it could have done.

 

[Johnhg7]

I guess your right but if they plug it in to a tester they may notice.

 

[zombienation]

i had this problem about 2 weeks ago the ps3 was 8 days old and it broke while playing
fifa 09