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PS3 Repair Edinburgh

support — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:43:48 +0000

We are very experienced in Playstation 3 repair and although we cannot always provide a quote without looking at the machine, we canprovide prices for some of the more common issues.We don’t charge for unsuccesful repairs unlike a certain other ‘computer repair shops’………could name one or two !

Replacing BlueRay Drive: £69 3 month warranty – upgrade to 6 months for an extra £10 –

We only use original Sony PS3 drives and replace the complete drive (not just the laser) - There are a large number of ‘reclaimed’ and also ‘quality control failed’ lasers circulating – especially on eBay.

Full Sony ps3 Blue ray drive unit - complete mechanism

from our experience they have a very high failure rate – check out the sellers warranty – usually no more than 60 days. We have a source for good laser units , they are a little more expensive but we don’t want your Sony Playstation 3 bouncing back to us under warranty.

Firmware crashes: £45

The common symptom of a firmware crash is when there is no menu, only ‘wave’ on screen. We can format the hard drive, reinstate the file system and update the firmware to the latest version available. Your gamesaves and downloads should also be retained.

Replace hard drive: from £55 – upgrades available

There are many symptoms of this such as being unable to load games (writing game data to HDD), the machine not starting up, being unable to complete a firmware update, no picture, constantly being told the machine has a file system problem. We can replace the HDD and update the firmware – Drives come in 40G, 60G and 80G. Noticeably the 80G is more prone to failure.

Playstation slim units start at 120Gb up to 320GB – 250Gb drives seem to be most common to failure – cost is from £68 – this includes data salvage if possible , firmware replaced and tested.

No video output: from £55

Yellow Light Faults : read this page

Please contact us if you have any questions related to Playstation 3 repairs.

PS3 Yellow Light YLOD Fault

support — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:05:18 +0000

Some people try to repair this problem themselves, possibly using a quick ‘guide’ on the Internet , but unless you have a professional re-ball/re-flow set-up, you are almost definitely going to have a very short term fix, and will make a professional fix much more difficult in the future, if not impossible – also – if your going to attempt it , make sure you don’t heat the GPU to much as it will damage the onboard RAM.

If your Playstation 3 experiences a flashing yellow light, or the lights going from green to yellow, then blinks red, then we can fix it for you. This is usually a problem with the motherboard, it’s the PlayStation’s equivalent of the XBox 360 3 red light fault - the GPU develops ‘cold’ solder joints underneath , which we can fix for much less than Sony charges (£140) and also won’t lose all your gamesaves or downloads .

Ps3 Yellow Light of Death

Cost of work is £65

Yellow light problem, resulting in PS3 not working
Labour to eliminate yellow light problem.
Soak testing to ensure a reliable fix
90 day warranty on parts and labour.
Machine is completely stripped -reflowed – cleaned internally to ensure good cooling
Artic silver heatsink on CPU/GPU

Please note that you will find that some repair shops offer an express service for this repair. In our experience these provide the least reliable fixes that do not last long. We use the best reflow techniques and the most rigorous testing process to ensure that the repair is of the highest quality and most reliability.

As with XBox and PS3 there is no 100% success rate – occasionally the board has suffered ‘ circuit pads/tracks lifting ‘ – this problem is not repairable and the motherboard would be rendered useless. Again – cooling is the key to a long life .. always ensure a good airflow .. hoover out the vents every month or so .. if you’re using it for extended gaming , give the machine a break every now and then – press and hold the eject button while switching it on (not 60G) .. this runs the fans full until it’s cooled down.