ps3 wont read disk

turn it off, hold in the power button until it beeps once twice and then a 3rd time, take your finger off. then hold it in again you will here it beep once then a short time after a second beep and a short time after that two close beeps take your finger straight off, ur system will turn on it will give u a list starting with restart your system, go for rebuild data base hope this help, u can try them all if this doesnt work

I have found a cure! On my system everything but the optical drive worked fine, no overheating and good picture. But the optical drive eventually would not read discs! At first I had to put it on its side (opposite side to screw-in vertical stand) and keep it there. That's ONE temporary fix..another that I soon discover when that eventually stopped working was MANUALLY SLIDING OPTICAL DRIVE TO LEFT POSITION BEOFRE STARUP. Found that it was very stiff and the motor wasn't able to move optics to "read" position and where simply stuck in open!

So I have this ps3 for a year and it will spin the games and stuff I clean the disc and blowed in the plug in hole and I tried it again and it did the same thing.I have and old ps3 but I don't want to buy a new one........what do I do???

You can try a firmware reset, but this does not always solve the problem. My PS3 stopped taking and reading disks, it was dead. Now my disk goes in a continues to spin thanks to a donor drive, however this does not result in the disk being read. Being a PC technician the simple solution which has not been tried yet, is to replace the ribbon cable as over time the fine wires inside can degrade due to heat. (Everything has a lifespan) So I am going to try and find a new cable. I will let you readers know if this solves the problem.

My PS3 slim is also doing the double click when it's trying to read a game. The PS3 stopped reading my WWE 2K14 and Skyrim saying that it could not read the Blu-ray content. So I put in Monopoly and it worked. It also plays WWE 2K13 still. However it now is at the stage of hit or miss. If I here the double click I know it won't work regardless. It still plays DVD's but not Blu-ray DVD's. Gonna try the troubleshoot suggestion. I'll let u know what happens.

lightning damaged ps3 super slim i thought it was just power supply problem then i replaced it it swithed on but now disk not spinning or reading not sure what could be the problem after 5mins of switching fan starts spining hard and making noise any diagnostics

my ps 3 plays only standing up vertical and only plays SOME discs now it cycles once or twice to read the game and then by magic it plays . it used to play flat for years now no help from sony at all