PS3 blu-ray drive dead

I just checked the link for the new laser assembly and the price has gone up AGAIN lol I checked it about 2 weeks ago and it was $65.00 and now it's $70.00 so I'm guessing they are selling a lot of them. This is a common problem the PS3's are having. Friggen Sony should be fixing this issue for everyone. The systems were so damn expensive when we bought them. The consumer shouldn't have to spend another dime to fix them when they break 14 months after buying one.

 

Please help after reading allot post im still confused. my ps3 is about 2 years old i bought the 40 gig ps3 that came with spiderman the movie on blue ray. now i have barly used my ps3 prolly total of 100 hours. and allways leave it off "main power switch off" and today i updated the ps3 and went to play a game and it worked then all the suddon froze. so i waited for about 5 mins then i figured it was not right. so i switched it off then back on, now it wont reconize any of my ps3 games and when i put in a ps3 game it goes in fine and is silent i coulda swore it use to make a spinning noise. now it was pretty dust. so im wounderin is there a way i can find out for sure if it is the blue ray drive broke. i read some post sayin it could possibly be the "blue ray controller chip" but u guys talk in wierd terms im not no geek i dont understand all this shit i would like to is there a way i can check befor i blow money on the blue ray drive when it was contreoller. i still have not even opened it up but from what i read im assuming sony gona want me to give them 150 bux to fix it , so they can suck it. im gona call to be sure tomaro. but i mean i dout they will do anything. but anyways its not makin any noise like it spinning when a cd is in and it dont even act like a cd is in it. but i have demo's and everything and all rest of the ps3 works and my game demo's n shit. thats what makes me think its the blue ray drive. but then again i litraly used maybe 100 hours of game time which isnt much at all. so how could that blue ray drive be broke when its barly used. also i had ps3 allways turned off"main switch" not sure if that helps. but anyways please help hehe my lizard

 

If I were you I would try a bluray movie and than a regular movie. If the regular movie works and the bluray doesn't work than it's for sure your bluray drive. That's what mine does. Everything works fine except the bluray drive, it no longer plays any of the games I bought and it won't play any bluray movies. So yeah, we pay $600.00 thinking it should last more than a year. I guess we were wrong. I've read so many other forums and tech support things about this same problem. You would think Sony would take care of their customers and fix such a common problem for free.

 

@maxhax, that happened to me. Same model with the Spiderman 3 bluray.
I posted on here before on what I did. I bought a new lens deck, meaning the whole thing new, deck with motor and lens.

But it has to be the exact same model blu ray lens. I had a trial and error and used just a lens and swapped it and all it could do was play dvd's.

So buy a new lens deck on ebay or where ever you trust sellers with the exact same blu ray lens model and you should be good.

I put in my Madden 08 and it recognized it right away. I think the blu ray lens is just a faulty model because I noticed a lot of users on here stating this model cechg01 with the exact or similar symptoms of what happened to their ps3.

Well if it doesn't work for you I wouldn't know what to say as it worked for me. hope this helps.

 

the 40gb CECHG0# had very poor lasers in them, i've been repairing them for a couple of months, and every 40gb with a dead laser has this model code

a new laser fixes all disc reading issues

 

ahhhh cool thnx guys sucks damn ps3 haha

 

Question about the bluray player, I recently got the dark knight bluray and it would freeze up between chapters 23-24. The rest of it plays fine and I tried random games and they seem to load fine. I tried a few other blurays by skipping through the chapters and they played ok too.

Could it be that a bluray movie actually shipped defective? I had an option for a full refund as the item is backordered so I ended up doing that but now I'm worried about my ps3 as it's a 40gb version. freakin sony..

 

could be the laser just having difficulties reading that bit of the disc, maybe it was the start of the second layer of info on the disc, or there is just a speck of dust on the laser, or as you said, a faulty disc, you could have tried it on another PS3 to see what happens

 

I have a 40gb Model CECHH01 it will not read any disc. I have tried dvd's, cd's and blu-ray. It spins the disc but never give any sign that it will play. I disassembled the ps3 and the laser deck has kem-400aca. I cannot seem to find this part anywhere. Is there another compatible? Any help or suggestions would be great. Thanks.

 

i wouldn't worry about that P/N on the laser deck, does it have a single or dual laser lens ?

a single lens laser and deck is P/N KEM 400AAA, or laser on its own KES 400AAA

a dual lens laser and deck is P/N KEM 410ACA, or laser on its own KES 410ACA

the reason i ask which laser you have is, that model 40gb should have a dual lens laser fitted, as they changed over at the end of the CECHG0# run of PS3s

 

On the laser it has kes 400a. It's on a sticker under the ribbon cable that connects the laser deck to the control board. Or is this the wrong place?

 

as i said, don't worry about anything that is pressed or printed on the laser or drive, the only thing you need to know is whether it is a single or dual lens laser, and from what you've said, you have a single lens laser

 

So I need "P/N KEM 400AAA, laser KES 400AAA" ?

 

yes, either you buy and fit the complete laser/drive unit, P/N KEM 400AAA,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SONY-PS3-LASE...s_VideoGameAccessories_JN&hash=item2c54550900

or just buy and fit the laser assembly, P/N KES 400AAA, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Playstation-3...s_VideoGameAccessories_JN&hash=item519230a67d

 

I have a ps3 model CHECHL01 it looks to be dual to me so i would need KEM 410ACA?

 

I actually made quite a discovery, and I'm not sure if it will solve everyone elses problem, but it is worth a try.

If you have tried absolutely everything to try to make your BD Drive work, run through this check list first.

1. Replace the ribbon cable that connects the drive to the motherboard.
2. If that doesn't work, replace the laser lens for your BD drive.
3. If that STILL DOESN'T WORK, as it appears with many others, then try heating your PS3. I left my PS3 on overnight because I fell asleep, and I woke up and my Blu ray games worked. Now, after going through a series of tests, I noticed that the PS3 only read Blu-ray games when the power unit (the metal box thing next to the drive) is hot. When it is cooled, and you try playing a game, it doesn't work, but after leaving it on for a bit until it gets hot, turning it off, then turning it back on, it works. See if you guys can make it work this way. If it does, then we might have isolated the problem. It could be the heatsink.

 

i'm having trouble with my blu-ray drive also. i have a CECHL01 PS3, the 80gb without backwards compatibility. the PS3 has all original parts and the blu-ray drive won't read discs. i put in any kind of disc and nothing happens, no loading icon or anything. the blue light in the front of the PS3 lights up when there is a disc inside. the laser is a dual lens KEM-410ACA. i bought a laser with deck on ebay which is supposed to be working with a new lens and it didn't fix the problem. the drive takes and ejects disks, it doesn't spin them, and there is no lights coming out of the laser. the only thing it does is moves the laser up and down and that's about it. i've been reading many posts on different forums and i can't find a solution. i need help guys! thanks

 

I can only assume that since you've bought a new lazer deck that's supposed to be working that you simply haven't installed it right. Watch some How to videos and make sure you put everything where it was supposed to go. I remember when I fixed mine, I put the new deck in but I forgot to put the small white spindle back on top and so i thought it hadn't worked until I realised my mistake.

Also, is the new lazer deck that you bought the exact same model as the original? if not then it may not work.

 

yeah, i installed it correctly. its only 4 screws for the deck and it is the same model laser. everything is in place, also that white magnet for the spindle. maybe i just got a faulty laser. its the 2nd 1 i get. well the 1st 1 was a whole drive and the seller said it was working. i returned it because i thought it was the laser, but now i have the same problem again. Maybe 2 faulty lasers from ebay?

 

So, I have the 60gig. I went about 2 years without my disk reader and just played media and downloaded stuff from PSN. About a week ago I received and installed (properly, I triple checked with different videos all for the same model) a new blu-ray drive. It worked, I ran all disc types, etc. I tried the "option 3 fix" before this just to make sure getting a new drive wasn't necessary as well as cleaning my original. About a week after install and the drive working, I was in the middle of a Blu-Ray and it crapped out again. Same error as I had before which was the loading icon going on forever. Is there anything else I can do when I get my replacement drive from the guy I purchased it from to help prevent this from happening a 3rd time? I plan to reformat and update and all before I reinstall. Should I put on an old firmware and negate myself the chance to play anything online? Not sure what you guy's may recommend. Any help at all would be awesome.