Firmware 2.42 Killed My BD Drive

[Xerious]

Originally Posted by Rike255

Weeks or week doesn't matter. I'm saying the fw is not the problem because it wasn't immediate. Your PS3 just broke, timing was a coincidence. Many people have had this problem PRIOR to the firmware update.

and you know this, how? the Sony DID recall 2.40 when it first came out because it was OFFICIALLY ACKNOWLEDGED that it was bricking consoles. 360 consoles had a notorious fall update that bricked their systems. Any changes to the BIOS can render whole systems useless... and I don't believe this is just coincidence considering the tract record of the sony products I have owned (save my VAIO which died 1 year after i had it). I couldn't tell it was immediate because it happens to discs after 45mins+ of watching... i had not watched a movie or played a game since I had updated it... so who could tell? as far as I'm concerned, it was immediate.