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I get an error 8001002B

My Playstation works fine for about 5-10 minutes and then it either freezes up when watching a Blu Ray or when I play COD 5: World At War. I notice during game play that my character has no sound (rifle makes no noise, I dont hear myself breathe when shot or running, when I call in recon/artillary/dogs, etc) but I can here the gun shots and everything from other players. Not sure why that is. And after the 1st match is over it goes to start loading for next match and thats when it feezes during the "Loading..." screen. I have restored/reformatted my PS3 and everything and still seems to do the same thing. Not sure what else to do. I've unplugged and replugged everything to try to reset the hook up and stuff. Any ?'s or advice would be appreciated. Thanks

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This is the code for disk error. Make sure the disc is clean and try again. If that doesn't work, try a different copy of the disk and see if that helps.

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