The incident
At the weekend I was playing LittleBigPlanet but after I had completed a particular level, instead of the next one loading up the screen went totally white and the system seemed to freeze. The PS3 then restarted and spat out the disc. I’d had enough gaming for one night anyway, so I turned the system off and went away.
I came back to the PS3 the following day only to find that none of my PS3 disks would load. It was the same with DVDs and CDs. I have to admit, I then panicked. But it was weird because apart from that, the rest of the PS3 worked totally fine. I could play games that were on the hard disk, connect to the PlayStation Network, and browse the PlayStation Store. But what use is a PS3 that won’t load game disks?
Continue reading An insight into how faulty PS3s are dealt with