PS3 blu-ray drive dead

If the other two are YLOD and you don't feel like fixing them, just bring one of the drives with the sisterboard from one of the YLOD systems to the system with the issue. Like I said, it won't play the disc, but everything else should function properly

 

Did that too. Still nothing. I guess the issue has something to do with the board then.

 

Sounds like it. Boards are like $26, but obviously paying the 26 is the easy part, because then you have to remove the firmware chip on your board and resolder it to the new board. That really is about the only way to fix a board though outside of replacing individual chips on the board which is even more tedious and not really that much cheaper than just buying the entire new board.

 

thanks for the reply....

i'll tell you that what i actually did that made this problem occured....

i opend up my ps3(80 gb us)to fit in some led's in it.
to check the power from the blu0ray drive connector on the motherboard, i used a mutimeter and it read 12V d.c. b/w the 2nd and the 4th connector. i dont know what the other two terminals(the 1st n the 3rd)are for.

when i switched to ammeter to check the current in those, i dont know what hapnd and since then my ps3 is not taking in any discs, whenever i try to put in discs, only the blue light blinks n nothing else hapns....bt rest of my ps3 works fine since i can watch movies n play saved demo games...

i think tht this info may b can solve the problem..

pls let me know it u find mny solutions....

thanks

 

you do know that to measure current you must break the circuit , then use the meter as a patch. if you tried to measure amps in parallel then youve probably toasted youre board or maybe a defence diode. doh!
oh and just to update ive had about 5 hours play on my new laser so all seems well.

 

Awesome to hear about the laser. Keep us posted, but yeah, the worst part of the wait and see is out of the way for sure.

As for the electrical issue. This does make a whole lot more sense now. You had said you had tried new cables and such so I didn't want to beat that horse into the ground, but it did sound like it wasn't getting connection from the drive to the motherboard. How did you check for ampage?

 

Boneyard - I have the same problem and just read your fix. When I looked at the pins on both the BR and mainboard conectors they all look OK or inline with the marks on the connector using x10 lens. How bent was the pin you found? The connector is similar to a ZIF style and I find it hard to imagine how one would get bent by the ribben. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong connector but it's the only ribben one that connects to the main board from the BR player. Any further assistance/ things to look at would be appreciated.

 

That's actually a bit what I was getting at. Bending it with a ribbon is unlikely if not impossible, but he was testing voltage. I'm assuming he was testing from the pins, and not from the end of the cable. I wonder if he bent a pin and shorted it out while testing the power output

 

Just read that u bought laser kit form consolebiz, is it still alive?
I need one for myself?
I have no motor spinning and laser shines 3 times on disk with red beam.
Is that what you had before?

 

I never mentioned anything about testing. I was actually replacing a laser and after replacement i noticed the bubble was missing on screen... after removing the ribbon i look in and noticed that one pin was overlapping another. the system was like this when i purchased it so i don't know how it happened..but the ribbon had dent marks where the pin was stopping it from going in all the way flush.. Thats what made me look at the actual pins..

 

I never mentioned anything about testing. I was actually replacing a laser and after replacement i noticed the bubble was missing on screen... after removing the ribbon i look in and noticed that one pin was overlapping another. the system was like this when i purchased it so i don't know how it happened..but the ribbon had dent marks where the pin was stopping it from going in all the way flush.. Thats what made me look at the actual pins..[/quote]

I know, but wasn't this bent pin stuff all stemmed from the question that sunnysmat was asking about his drive not pulling discs in? He did voltage testing, which I'm assuming he did on the pins themself, and they could have been bent in a way to cause a short.

I don't know, I could be lost at this point lol

 

I know, but wasn't this bent pin stuff all stemmed from the question that sunnysmat was asking about his drive not pulling discs in? He did voltage testing, which I'm assuming he did on the pins themself, and they could have been bent in a way to cause a short.

I don't know, I could be lost at this point lol[/quote]

yeh.. you got it right.... i ws actuly testing the voltage so that i could connect som led's in it... bt it worked fine after testing the voltage directly from the pns while the drive was connected.

bt when i used my multimeter as ammeter, as said by "SHARKEM", i actually connected it in parallal by mistake n since then it is not working....

guys. plz help me out.... plz tell me how can i or any one els can fix it...

 

yeh.. you got it right.... i ws actuly testing the voltage so that i could connect som led's in it... bt it worked fine after testing the voltage directly from the pns while the drive was connected.

bt when i used my multimeter as ammeter, as said by "SHARKEM", i actually connected it in parallal by mistake n since then it is not working....

guys. plz help me out.... plz tell me how can i or any one els can fix it...

 

i had no visible light at all plus not spinning.
new laser still works fine . about 10 hrs play.
make sure you need the 400 and not the 410 as consolebitz are nil stock i think.

 

not too sure if this is possible but those outputs (4 pin white plug) should have diodes on the main board somewhere . no doubt small black surface mount type. if you can follow the track and locate them they may be visibly scorched. test them .
im sure that plug works like a pc plug with 12v+- and 5v+- and the transport motor needs the 5v i reckon.
let me know what you find.

 

I sent back the drive I got on eBay. To recap, I could get it to play CDs and PS3 games, but not PS2 games. I didn't have a DVD on hand to test. The guy I got it from tested it and got PS3 and PS2 games to play, but it wouldn't play DVDs. I'm not sure what that means--possibly a slight voltage difference?

Anyway, since $45 repairs are no longer possible and I'm leery about getting another drive on eBay, I'm throwing in the towel on this machine and sending it to Sony. If they reject it for whatever reason, I'll buy into the assembly order.

 

the only way they refused it is if you illegaly modified it, which i doubt, or been abuse. other than that. you're good. i sent mine today for repair, should take a week & half. not much than that.

 

Hey everyone I am having trouble w/ my ps3 (CECHG01) not reading discs. I acquired it for free and the drive would not read discs. So I ordered a new ps3 laser w/ deck KES-400aaa.

Once the new laser was installed the drive will now take and eject discs sometimes, most of the time though it will take the disc half way and stop or it will take the disc in and not read it. And then the only way to get the disc out is to unplug the drive while ps3 is running and it might reset the memory and eject it or manually remove the disc, holding down the eject button for 10 sec does not work most of the time.

When taking apart the ps3 i did damage the ribbon cable clip that connects to the motherboard however I did hot glue the cable in, I think that is the problem but am not quite sure how to replace the daughter board because of the chip. I've gotten it to play motorstorm once for less than 5 minutes and it froze.

Any suggestions on how to fix daughter board to make it work on my system?

 

i tested the 4 pins again for voltage....
the 12 v pins read 2.4 volta only and the 5 volt pins read 0 volta... not able to trace and test the diodes till now....

here is the pics of my board and the drive

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/sunnysmat/Ps3?feat=directlink

 

Hi all!

I'm just gonna see what u guys think. I got a problem with the blue-ray not reading the discs properly. It reads dvd, cd everything else works fine.

The thing is sometimes the games start and i get so far as to the menu but i have never been able to play the game and it will always get stuck in a loading screen.

My hypothesis is that the lens isn't broken, but only dirty. (I haven't disassembled the ps3 yet). I wanna know what you guys think.

Is it just dirty or is it broken?