[robh]

I thought I had this thing fixed because it just wasn't reading anything but after swapping bluray board to new drive, it reads stuff but freezes a couple minutes into playing games and watching dvds or blurays. At first I thought it might be a heat issue, so I took it apart and cleaned it plus new thermal paste. It's still doing it...my next thought was to do a restore or maybe the gpu needs reflowing. Just not sure, I don't want to do the reflow if it doesn't need it. Thanks for any suggestions.

Also it's a ceche01...and it looks like it was never opened before I did.

[stix17]

Try the ps3 lens cleaner

[robh]

Originally Posted by stix17 Try the ps3 lens cleaner

I've tried the drive on another system and it played fine, so it's probably nothing to do with the drive. Even after it freezes, you can still press the ps button on controller and it gives you option of shutting down..etc. If you press 'O' to exit it sometimes hangs. It's strange, I might try restoring and see what happens. I've seen other posts where this fixed issues but I think mine is a little different than those.

Ok so it's been a couple weeks...finally got a chance to figure out what's wrong. Yesterday I popped in a movie and then I took a small table fan and aimed it at the psu. Guess what the movie played all the way thru. So it's getting too hot but check this I took a psu from another unit and put it in without fan and guess what it ended up freezing again. So should I look at the system fan( I know it's working because hot air's coming out back) or is there maybe a compatible psu that I can put in this system that runs cooler...mod ceche01. Or can I stick something between the psu and motherboard so it doesn't overheat the cpu or gpu whichever the psu sits on? Thanks.