Master Yoda
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Firstly, I would just like to say that I love my PS3 and so far have been extremely impressed with it...
However...
1. The machine has crashed on me a few times... last night it crashed 2 hours into playing motorstorm online, during a race, the image and sound froze and the console/controller was completely unresponsive. The PS button didn't work and holding the power down button on the console brought a black screen and caused the green led to flash continuously. Eventually I had to reset the machine from the back. Anyone else had this happen yet? Anything I should be worried about? Everything was fine after rebooting it...
2. The noise coming from the blu-ray drive doesn't seem normal to me...
Most people on this forum are only talking about the fan noise as being a discussion point but to me the fan noise is not that bad at all (I can cope with that easily)... it's the bluray drive that's by far the most irritating thing, when its accessing data... It's unbelievably loud in my opinion...
I find that the noise coming from the drive is worst when playing and loading levels on Motorstorm... It sounds more like it's eating discs rather than reading them... Is it normal for it to constantly make grinding noises and be so loud when it constantly spins up/stops/spins up etc. is this normal??? It almost sounds to me like the drive is having difficulty reading the disc??? It doesn't sound healthy. You can hear something moving back and forth continuously until the level loads, as if it's working to the limit. The loading times for games also seem quite long, but I am guessing this is normal(?) The disc itself is perfect... Anyone else experiencing this??? It is definitely the loudest optical drive I have ever heard - I have owned plenty of games consoles and have built many PCs over the years and never heard anything as loud as this one... If it's not normal, then I need to know asap, so that I can exchange it before the 28 day period runs out...
(My PS3 is UK spec and has the latest 1.60 firmware)
However...
1. The machine has crashed on me a few times... last night it crashed 2 hours into playing motorstorm online, during a race, the image and sound froze and the console/controller was completely unresponsive. The PS button didn't work and holding the power down button on the console brought a black screen and caused the green led to flash continuously. Eventually I had to reset the machine from the back. Anyone else had this happen yet? Anything I should be worried about? Everything was fine after rebooting it...
2. The noise coming from the blu-ray drive doesn't seem normal to me...
Most people on this forum are only talking about the fan noise as being a discussion point but to me the fan noise is not that bad at all (I can cope with that easily)... it's the bluray drive that's by far the most irritating thing, when its accessing data... It's unbelievably loud in my opinion...
I find that the noise coming from the drive is worst when playing and loading levels on Motorstorm... It sounds more like it's eating discs rather than reading them... Is it normal for it to constantly make grinding noises and be so loud when it constantly spins up/stops/spins up etc. is this normal??? It almost sounds to me like the drive is having difficulty reading the disc??? It doesn't sound healthy. You can hear something moving back and forth continuously until the level loads, as if it's working to the limit. The loading times for games also seem quite long, but I am guessing this is normal(?) The disc itself is perfect... Anyone else experiencing this??? It is definitely the loudest optical drive I have ever heard - I have owned plenty of games consoles and have built many PCs over the years and never heard anything as loud as this one... If it's not normal, then I need to know asap, so that I can exchange it before the 28 day period runs out...
(My PS3 is UK spec and has the latest 1.60 firmware)