Comments on: Power and eject buttons: hidden uses

By: danimalmanimal

danimalmanimal — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:26:46 +0000

Do what Paul did to eject a disc that is stuck due to red blinking light. Turn the system completely off in the back. Then hold your finger on the eject button and turn the system back on. It will power up the PS with enought time to eject your disc. But, it will not fix the main problem with the PS.

By: lewis

lewis — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:02:42 +0000

yeah! i have recently bought the lego harry potter game aswell! it turned itself off half way through and now i cant turn it back on or eject the disc out

By: eidolon1138

eidolon1138 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:45:46 +0000

I never did, my GTA:IV is still stuck in there.

By: vampgirl

vampgirl — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:02:49 +0000

Ours did the same thing today, but I tried holding the ejecct button and pressing it and the back button at the same time and nothing happens. Our Harry Potter Lego game is inside.

Who did you call?

By: Mystress

Mystress — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:39:30 +0000

I’ve had a problem with my 80 gig backwards compatible ps3 for some time now because my loving dog (who’s overly energetic) knocked my ps3 off of the shelf and it landed on the floor with a nice crash, since then a disk has been stuck inside… I’ve tried everything and just recently got the courage up to take it apart after trying tweezers a license or a knife finding out that I have the stupid little gate and it was stuck. My ps3 will flash yellow go beep beep beep then turn red flashing light on, so finally I took the sucker apart and after reading magicmogwai’s idea I went to walmart to get an eye glass screwdriver, but it’s too small, and the other tiny screwdriver I have is too big, so I found at wally mart they sell those kits for tiny repair stuff the only bummer is like eye glass repair they’re flat heads not phillips anyhow you need one of those kind of screwdrivers they come in a pack of usually 4 or 6 and they are different sizes. It runs in mm size. They sell them in the hardware department I know that much too. So if I ever get this stupid disk drive apart I’ll come back and let you know if I actually was able to fix it since I’ve heard the reason mine does the flashy beep beeps is due to hardware malfunction or something maybe with the disc out it’ll go back to normal functioning.

By: Magicmogwai

Magicmogwai — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:16:02 +0000

Had the same problem,
Froze while playing game then switched itself off and got the red blinking light of death! No matter what combinations of power switch, eject buttons and swearing would release the disc so had no other option than to take the bugger apart….

Not hard but will void any warranties you may have on your machine.

First remove small torx screw from left side of unit (under warranty sticker and rubber plug) then slide cover left and remove, undo 9 or so screws from top which will release the top half of the machine, the Disc drive will simply lift out (there is a ribbon cable to detatch also) Under the drive there will be 5 small screws holding the metal cover on, take these off then remove the six or so screws holding the two halves of the drive together and Tadaaa you hostage can simply be lifted out.

Putting the thing back together is the reverse of above or you could find the nearest blunt heavy object and exact some sort of revenge!!!

By: timbob

timbob — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:33:00 +0000

I wanna see someone do that and the other person drop the ps3 on them which pushes the knife into their eyeball that’d be great.

By: joexps

joexps — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:07:52 +0000

Here’s how a country boy does it. I had the hated red light and yellow lightback to red lights of death trapping my Blue Ray movie inside which Sony said they would not replace. My PS3 is out of waranty. FIRST UNPLUG PS3. Get a dinner knife, not the sharp steak knife. Now take the fake chrome plastic cd cover off. Now wrap one layer of duck tape around blade of knife ( a popcicle stick might work also ). Locate disk in slot. Take knife and gently slide under disk. Slowly slide from right to left. When you feel disk is free. Keep knife inside and under disk. Have a friend carefully pickup ps3 and hold it up above you with slot facing down towards you. Now if done right the disk will slide out. Try again if not successful , this has worked for everyone who I told how when their ps3 died.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:23:44 +0000

No, that was with another way. Some people would do the same thing by turning the PS3 upside down, so the heat would go into the card. The way he suggested simply spins the fans faster – the worst you could do is wear out the fans faster.

By: Divaldo

Divaldo — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:27:07 +0000

Modern Warfare 2 is garbage.

Get a real game, then we’ll help you.