PS3 blu-ray drive dead

oh forgot to add I can play DVD movied and cds fine..also burn some divx movies and they played fine too ....and i took it apart again and checked to make sure everything looked ok on BD drive put it back together still the same MGS4 is the only game it will read

 

It could be simply a dirty lens or a loose connector, I'd clean the lens properly use a can of compressed air to clean out the ps3 while you're in there and double check all the connectors.

 

what can i use to clean the lens with ??? would rubbing alcohol work?

 

This is great news!! I wonder if the controler board needs to be exactly the same as the one I am replacing. Can't wait for my board to come in to start the process.

Now this brings to question if the IC chip is not the problem and transfering the BGA chip to the new controller fixed the issue could it be something else on the board that is causing the problem or maybe one of the connections on the bga chip crossed with another? and would redoing the whole chip with new solder on the same board also fix the issue?

 

rubbing alchohol, nail polish remover, basically anything that evaporates easily and dosent leave streaks.

 

I dont think using acetone(nail polish) is the best thing to use as it will strips any special layer that is on the lense. Stick to rubbing alcohol.

 

Nail polish is what I used to clean the PS2's lense whenever it got gummed up. I suppose better safe than sorry with the ps3 though, but it never hurt anything with the ps2.

 

Wow, just WOW!

Federico, congrats man, I applaud your resolve and your guts to even try it. I've been unable to locate my heat gun (haven't had much time anyway), so I'll be making a run to Home Depot to buy one.

Also, Federico, was the board you put the BGA on the same rev as your original one? I have different ones (mine is A4, I have an A3 and A1 as well as another A4 from a YLOD 60gb board which I'm trying to fix), so if I can try this with the A3 or A1 that would be best!

I don't know if re-flowing the BGA back onto the original controller board would work, I believe something else is wrong....

Everyone, you're saying rubbing alcohol but you need to use a 90% mix, the usual one has too much water in it and is definitely able to leave streaks, so make sure it's a 90% blend.

 

Congrats Frederico!!! I think you just gave hope to alot of people!!!

 

Hi all......it looks like a major step has been made on the BGA chip, well done for doing that.
I have another question, the PS3 I got had already been opened so the controller board could be the original one & faulty or been swapped for one from another unit. Does this make sense why I never see the 'bubble' ?
If I swapped the BGA chip for another (if I can find a source) would that solve my problem?

 

in my case bouth controllers were A 2, but in mi reserch i find someting interesting about "same revision thing", i think that the revision number is not only given for the A X leter/number, the number in the back in mi case 1-871-575-XX must be the same too for the controller to be identical, i have 4 controllers all A 2 but in the back the numbers are the following:
1-871-575-34
1-871-575-34
1-871-575-24 (this one is the one from mi ps3)
1-871-575-14
and i found this:
if the number in the back is not the same the controller dosent have the same esact green background color, some controller are darcker than the others, but if the number is teh same, the color is esactly identical.
so mi conclusion is that may be the controller must have the same front and back numbers to be the same revision, and may be this is the reason because some people say that they can swap controller with the same A X number and some people cant.

by the way, i think that you can swap BGA chips with any other controller, so using any that you have at hand will work.

PS: tomorrow (if i have time) i will try to uploade some pictures and a little tutorial of the BGA desolder and resolder thing

Federico

 

This is a link of a video i made, the video is a tutorial for swaping the BGA chip of the Controller board (i use one of the non working controllers i have to do the video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zh46cR6k3s

by the way, it could take several trais to do it right, so if does not work for you the first time you must do all the prosses all over again, mi first atemp of swaping the BGA chip tooks me 3 tries to get the job done, i hope this video helps, Federico

 

Fantastic Federico, thanks for the video. I'm hoping to pick up a heat gun tomorrow and give it a shot. If I can resurrect the PS3 I'll be dancing in the streets!

 

For anyone that wants to repair 360's and ps3 board's or for swapping nand flashes on ps3 drive control boards it is costly but if you want to repair systems it is a must I use one it is great for my repair shop
here is the link

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...9407482&Category=109556null&_trksid=p3907.m29

 

Oh one more thing a heat gun will melt the solder but will destroy everything around the chip!!!!!!! and most BGA chip's can only be reheated so many times before they are no good

 

Great video federicob!!!!!

 

Yes, a heat gun can destroy the surrounding circuit board and de-solder chips in close proximity. It takes a keen eye and a heat gun with temperature settings to do it correctly.

It would be nice to be able to buy a surface mount solder machine, but that's just not in my budget, if it was I'd just buy a brand new PS3 and go from there

Don't even get me started about fixing 360's, towels are pretty cheap

 

that reballing video was pretty good. makes me want to try.. dont have the balls yet

you think you could do that with the xbox 360 gpu/cpu?

anyway coming close to buying a kem400 saw one on ebay NEW for 69.99 free shipping
and messaged someone who bought one from that guy and he said it worked perfectly.

 

when you did this was there enough formation of solder to get a good contact? was it the reason you had to try a few times? I have to find a place around my way that sells solder paste can wire solder also be used?

 

Rich,

I've seen numerous youtube videos with people using a thin tip soldering iron with wire solder, so yes. I really liked Federico's idea of using the paste, though, I have to admit I wasn't looking forward to 64 teeny tiny solders