harsh man.... but I know how you feel.. I'm on my 3rd 60gb in 2 1/2 years... lost one to BD failure, and the other to a complete system death. Luckily I signed onto to continous play before they stopped taking new members (Apparently they are starting it up again soon.)

Very important (In case you didn't know): If you get rid of your PS3, make sure you de-activate your account on that system first. I've just had a massive load of grief with Sony about using up all 5 of my account activations.. I eventually got them to reset it, but it took nearly 2 months.

Yo dk - You have all my empathy!
Looks forward to fly with u again.

Catemes's IL-2 disc is trapped in the drive of his dead PS3. If anyone knows how to open the disc tray (short of using a hammer) I'll pass it on.

3 options I know of.

1. Hold down eject for about 15 seconds, some models have a forced eject.
or,
2. Hold down eject (power on) switch power off at the back and straight back on again.. It may puke up the disk..

3. Go and get that hammer.

Thanks Winny. (Creasing at the third option) :grin:

Check smash my ps3 on YouTube for the third option. Was done on the original launch day. The comments of the waiting public are priceless!!!

Well... I guess this strategy is for the real tough guys with nerves like barbed wire, but what the He-111. If u'r desperate enough to consider a hammer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrdAH...eature=related

Best of luck!

And when nothing else works, and u go for the hammer-option; Don't use it on u'r ps3. Round up this guy and smack him in the forehead instead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1jB...eature=related

I had to do that on my other ps3 that died before Christmas. My son had been playing assasins creed 2 when it died completely. Tried all methods of getting disc out, hold power etc. Ended up taking it apart to get disk. I would only recomend as last resort if you have no plans to try repair option because I ended up bending the disk tray housing when I missed a screw not mentioned in tutorial. The area the blue ray sits on is so cheap it's no wonder they are failing. Mine was sat on a couple of cheap bits of sponge and the cable from blue ray to motherboard looked like it was attached with sticky back plastic.
I was shocked how much dust was in there too. Looked like insides of a Vax.
I hope the slim is put together a bit better!!

Edit:
So I had weekend horibilis. My main laptop did update for Vista service pack 2 and failed during restart. It wont boot at all now and I lost my recovery disks. While looking for vista bootup tips on my wifes netbook we managed to get an unshiftable malware that basically prevents any process running. All that and my PS3 has tested my faith in technology this weekend. I got so stressed by it all I forgot to get the Mrs a valentines card! I am going to take up the Luge