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PS3 Repair Edinburgh

support — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:43:48 +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.

Replacing BlueRay Drive: £99
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 £48

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.

No video output: from £55

Yellow Light Faults : read this page

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

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admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:57:25 +0000

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Wii Repair Edinburgh

support — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:35:34 +0000

There are a number of issues that can affect the Nintendo Wii, note that with the release of dual-layer Wii Optical Discs, some Wii systems had difficulty reading the high density software due to contaminated laser lenses, Nintendo has offered to repair this issue for free.

A couple of the common issues we can provide prices for are…

Wii DVD drive repair: from £35 -

Two discs jammed inside
Toys/cards ect jammed / inserted in by accident
Not accepting discs
Not edjecting discs
Grinding noise from drive (teeth broken)

Wii DVD failed mod repair: from £30 (corrupt firmware due to failed softmod not always repairable)

Failed Wiikey mods
Broken damaged tracks
Sync control not working

Regardless of the problem, if your Wii is out of warranty then bring it down for us to have a look at and we’ll provide you with a free repair quote. If you have any questions or want more information then please contact us.

XBox 360 Repair Edinburgh

support — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:14:45 +0000

The Microsoft XBox 360 console is subject to a number of technical problems that can render it unusable. Many of the issues can be identified by a series of red lights flashing on the face of the console; the three flashing red lights (nicknamed the “Red Ring of Death”) being the most infamous. There are other issues that arise with the console, such as discs becoming scratched in the drive and “bricking” of consoles due to dashboard updates.

Please bring your console in, we’ll take a look and provide you with a quote. The most common issues are priced below…

XBOX 360 3 red light repair:

ALSO APPLIES TO ;

1 RED LIGHT

2 RED LIGHTS

E74 REPORTED

E73 REPORTED

Work involves re-flowing GPU and RAM chips to rectify cold solder joints -

Our infra-red re-flow station and other service equipment required for Xbox360 service/repair

The unit is stripped down to motherboard and placed onto an infra-red reflow workstation – the board is fluxed and brought up to reflow temp (210 c) this action reforms the solder underneath the CPU and should ‘reconnect’ all the pins. Unfortunately this doesn’t always work as it has become apparent that the tracks underneath the GPU are sometimes damaged - hence the machine is beyond repair.

This happens in 10 – 15% of consoles. Occasionally we get machines that fail once they have been returned and are under heavy use - so we give a 3 month warranty on all re-flows … we will try the process again, if it fails to repair then we provide a full refund of repair costs.

Currently we charge £47 for this work – we don’t offer a ‘while you wait’ or 2 hr service like other repair companies … we like to test the machines for a full 24hrs to ensure it’s going to be reliable. Once the repair has been done – we don’t want to see it back ! =)

We are in the process of developing a re-ball service where the solder is replaced with normal leaded solder which flexes more – eliminating the 3 red light issue for good.

XBox 360 drive repair

We keep a stock of all drives that are found in Xbox360’s currently there are a number of different drives used.

Microsoft Xbox 360 original drive

Toshiba
Philips Lite-on
Benq
Hitachi
Samsung

On most occasions the drive can only be replaced with the make that’s originally been fitted – to make things more complicated the drives are ‘keyed’ to the machine i.e. you can’t just hop on to eBay and buy one and fit it – it won’t work! .There is a ‘Drive-key’ that has to be extracted first and then programmed into the new drive. This complicates things greatly, if for some reason the ‘drive-key’ is lost due to a fault in the drive or due to a bad ‘upgrade’ then the machine is worthless …. the key can’t be recovered from the motherboard (to date).

Cost of drive repair (for all makes) is £47

We can also mod your XBox to allow backups

XBOX 360 console mod: read this page

XBOX 360 mod upgrade: read this page

Please contact us if you have any questions about repairs, mods or more information.