I have a new bluray drive that i want to put in a ps3 that I was given that had no drive. I know the drive and laser is good but I can't get it to recognize the disk. When power it on it spins but nothing else.
I have tried resetting the machine and restoring the system and that didn't work.
Please if someone has any ideas shoot them mey way it would be much appreciated.
i have a similar issue. i am however in the process of troubleshooting it and throwing parts at it. my situation is as folows. 60gb unit bluray no worky. replaced drive with known good drive ensureing to keep the bluray controller card with the system. still no worky. moved supposed bad bluray drive into different system and low and behold it works. ive gotten information from a fellow afterdawn user to try to replace the bluray drive controller card IC that contains the drivers for the bluray drive. ive ordered it and have it in hand just waiting to find a person localy that can solder it because it is a hell of a job for a home use solder iron. its two sided with 54 j-legg surface mount solder contacts. it is no joke and not for an amature or an experienced tech with improper tools. anyhow the following link is what and where for the item im talking about. i can not as of yet tell you that it works but i can keep you posted
not trying to advertise for that site im just letting ppl know that i did recieve that part from them. copy and paste the part number to google to find it elsewhere if you want doesnt matter to me.
Originally posted by mraymer77: i have a similar issue. i am however in the process of troubleshooting it and throwing parts at it. my situation is as folows. 60gb unit bluray no worky. replaced drive with known good drive ensureing to keep the bluray controller card with the system. still no worky. moved supposed bad bluray drive into different system and low and behold it works. ive gotten information from a fellow afterdawn user to try to replace the bluray drive controller card IC that contains the drivers for the bluray drive. ive ordered it and have it in hand just waiting to find a person localy that can solder it because it is a hell of a job for a home use solder iron. its two sided with 54 j-legg surface mount solder contacts. it is no joke and not for an amature or an experienced tech with improper tools. anyhow the following link is what and where for the item im talking about. i can not as of yet tell you that it works but i can keep you posted
not trying to advertise for that site im just letting ppl know that i did recieve that part from them. copy and paste the part number to google to find it elsewhere if you want doesnt matter to me.
ARgh you are pretty much screwed from what I have heard.
On the underside of the drives you have a circuit board, these boards are specific to a console, so you cannot just get a another drive and place it in a console.
You have to remove the circuit board from your broken drive and transfer it to your new drive. But since you have bought one without a drive you probably dont have the old circuit board which means your new drive wont be recognised by the PS3.
Your only hope, a hacked PS3 which can support all drives, but the hack is still incomplete.
i may have heard wrong on this but someone told me that the drive and the motherboard have to match up which mean if you get a used one you will need to get one from a ps3 that's the same model as the the you have.
Originally posted by trip2182: i may have heard wrong on this but someone told me that the drive and the motherboard have to match up which mean if you get a used one you will need to get one from a ps3 that's the same model as the the you have.
Not necessarily the same model, it must be the same drive model...and these sometimes bridge PS3 models. Also, you do have to keep the original board, though some people have gotten lucky changing the board...so I think this depends on the model of your PS3.
The hard drive is configured to the drive you have when it is formated. The ONLY way to clear this is to remove the hard drive, format it to NTFS or FAT32, and then reinstall it and format it with the PS3...and make sure to remove the battery and unplugg the system while you are doing the NTFS format. Simply removing the battery or doing a format with the XMB utility WILL NOT CLEAR THIS DATA. While this does fix the issues on some driveswaps, it does not do it for all of them. I imagine that the repair techs at sony have some huge chart of what systems need new boards, what boards they need, the format procedure required, etc...but they are not about to share that information with their paying customers.
Originally posted by trip2182: i may have heard wrong on this but someone told me that the drive and the motherboard have to match up which mean if you get a used one you will need to get one from a ps3 that's the same model as the the you have.
Not necessarily the same model, it must be the same drive model...and these sometimes bridge PS3 models. Also, you do have to keep the original board, though some people have gotten lucky changing the board...so I think this depends on the model of your PS3.
The hard drive is configured to the drive you have when it is formated. The ONLY way to clear this is to remove the hard drive, format it to NTFS or FAT32, and then reinstall it and format it with the PS3...and make sure to remove the battery and unplugg the system while you are doing the NTFS format. Simply removing the battery or doing a format with the XMB utility WILL NOT CLEAR THIS DATA. While this does fix the issues on some driveswaps, it does not do it for all of them. I imagine that the repair techs at sony have some huge chart of what systems need new boards, what boards they need, the format procedure required, etc...but they are not about to share that information with their paying customers.
So if I understand it correctly, by doing a reformat of the hard drive this could possible marry the br drive board to the bluray drive?
