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funkymoth
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10. January 2010 @ 14:01 |
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Ok the problem began when my ps3 got the YLOD. Did some research and found how to reflow the chips on the motherboard. Put it back together and it worked fine, but I did not have any thermal compound for the chips and the heat syncs. Ordered some online and applied it, but when I put it back together the case was not aligned properly and it was blocking the mouth of the blu-ray drive. I didn't notice this and I hit the eject button since I forgot to take the disk out before I took everything apart. When the disk didn't eject I noticed the mouth was blocked and fixed the case. When it was all fixed I hit the eject and the disk came out fine. When I went to put a new disk in the ps3 wouldn't take the disk in. The blue light flashes when the disk is inserted and even turns it self on when I try to put a disk in when it's off, but still the drive doesn't pull anything in. The games and movies on the HDD work fine. There's usually no noise coming from the drive when I try to put a disk in except for an ocasional high pitch sound. The gears in the drive seem to be fine and where they should be. Is this a problem with the motor? The board for the blu-ray? Or something else? If its a mechanical problem I was just going to order a whole new drive from psxboy or should I cut my losses and just buy a slim? I have the original 80g model.
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Nerve_89
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10. January 2010 @ 20:31 |
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Originally posted by Godslash:
Hey guys, I've recently found a problem with my ps3. After I download games off the psn network and install them they won't play. The ps3 goes to a black screen and just freezes. The system also doesn't seem to read any blu rays and DVDs. I've formatted the hard drive and it didn't work I also tried to restore the hard drives system file because the ps3 tells me it's corrupted. That still didn't resolve the issue, and everytime I try to restore the file system it keeps telling me the hdd is corrupted. Do you guys think replacing the hard drive could help?
I have the same problem just press the the eject button when you first start your ps3 like 2 or three times and you will see the hard drive indicator light up
Ernestlilavoisjr
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tonetheti
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14. January 2010 @ 10:58 |
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Originally posted by cheesytot:
All of a sudden it would not take the discs at all and it would make this clicking noise. Like the motor keeps spinning to the little white clip that goes against the rails of the motor stick is all the way at the end and it cant go any farther; yet the motor keeps on turning it like it has space or something.
I dont know what to do... can someone help me?
Maybe I put it back wrong or something?
Yes there is a youtube video but here is what you do to reset the drive:
1. When looking at the gears and the lens and tray, there are 4 little guide wheels attached to a receiving mechanism that is held in place with (1) screw at the center of the front of the tray. Remove this screw. Under this mechanism, in the tray you will se three gears that lead to the black left slotted control arm thingy. Chances are right now if you try and move this black thingy up and down it will not move: so here's whatyou do....one of those 3 gears is held in place by a screw. remove this screw. Remove the gear and the contracption will reset (as long as this gear is removed, the black sliding arm thingy will move freely up and down. Okay so now that you did this, replace the gear, screw it back in, and replace the mechanism with 4 guidewheels by screwing it back in place. Okay one more thing now...before you put the black lid back on the tray, look at the lid: there are some white and grey trigger arms and these need to be set in place before you screw the lid back on the tray...the proper config is simple. first ensure the arms fall loosely into the most natural place. then when attaching the lid, do so while holding the lid and tray vertically so the part where the disk would slide in if facing down. Look at the lid, to the left top trigger arm thingy there are two holes, and they not be blocked by the loose white trigger arm thingy. If these holes are blocked, gently separate the lid from the tray and the piece will trigger arm will fall into the proper place. Then close it up, screw it shut and attach the control board. Now the drive should take your disks and spit them out as well.
"Everything has beauty in it; not everyone sees it."
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flatline1
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18. January 2010 @ 10:43 |
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I'm trying to diagnose what the problem in my ps3 is as well. Of course calling Sony was no help as it is now out of warranty.
So like everyone else Blu-Ray discs are not being read. I tried the easier things first such as Formatting the HD via the ps3's format utility and also the 'Restore PS3 System' option. Neither seemed to work. Sometimes after running Restore File System, from the Recovery Menu (it says I have corrupt files and 'fixes' them but when I do that option again it says there are corrupt files again) I can see the Blu-Ray disc and can play it w/o issue. As long as I leave the PS3 running when I get it to work and don't remove the disc I can play it for hours without issue, until I turn off the system.
The fact that I can get it to sometimes work (no luck today though) and can play the game for hours without issue makes me think that it isn't the blu-ray drive itself but that's just a guess. But then I would think formatting the HD would fix it if its a software problem, unless of course the PS3 doesn't actually completely wipe the drive clean.
(After doing a full format via the ps3 utility and then running Restore File System it still says there are corrupt files. ???)
Anyone know what might be causing this problem?
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cpt_jack7
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19. January 2010 @ 12:59 |
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I am having somewhat the same problem and as you can telll, am rather new to this site. My blu-ray drive drive died shortly after Thanksgiving and I tried all of the usual fixes. Reformat, check system files, etc. Nothing. But it is the older 60gb model and it will only play ps2 games. No cds, dvds, or blu ray games/movies. Is it actually the blu ray drive or is this problem easily fized and I'm just not looking in the right places. I havent opened it up yet, as I'm still debating on sending it to sony or fixing it myself. Might I have some help please?
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photonic
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19. January 2010 @ 13:35 |
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hi..
i've changed a few bluray modules, and once tried swapping the diodes.
unfortunately they are aligned at the factory and there is no way to repair that once messed up (even knocking the laser diode mount will break them)
On the flip side, the spare diodes are handy if you have a bad module as typically failure of any one diode will result in the infamous Disk Read Error.
Watch out though as the beam from these is somewhat hazardous (near UV)
and the diodes are incredibly overload/static sensitive. I have blown one just by powering the red and blue diodes at the same time.
the optics in these are handy for making white lasers as well as the beam splitters work in reverse.
if you happen to have a broken one or 3, feel free to PM me and i am happy to pay postage etc.
the hd-dvd ones are slightly tougher but not by much. if you are playing with these its well worth buying a proper driver module and testing with a sacrificial diode (or luxeon) and 'scope it to look for overvoltage spikes.
"Bother" said Pooh, as Vista failed at 99% install...
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setherd14
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21. January 2010 @ 20:08 |
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One thing I learned recently is that if the laser is unable to focus for some reason (bad laser, smudge or dirt on laser, etc...) then the motor won't spin up and it may seem like a bad motor when it's just the laser.
The drive checks the laser first and if the laser doesn't pass it's test then it basically gives up.
I had one that would pull the disk in then not spin up. Replaced just the laser (not the whole laser assembly) and voila! It's fixed.
Everyone who has problems with a drive not accepting discs please read:
In order for the drive to function at all, EVERY teeny little sensor and gear has to be in the right position before you close it up.
The sliders on either side: The one on the right should be all the way toward the front of the drive and the one on the left should be all the way toward the back of the drive. The one on the left should actually be far enough "up" that the round gear is not making contact with the straight gear on the slider.
The laser: Should be as close to the front as possible. Just turn the little metal rod/gear on the right til you get it one "click" past as far as it can go.
The little "disc grabbers": they should both spring back to their middle position, and you should check the teeeeny springs on the outer sides to make sure they're not hanging loose.
This is a big one:
Make SURE that the little white swingy thing on the inside is NOT covering these holes as you close it up.
If your drive still won't accept disks then you should double and triple check all this stuff. If it still doesn't work, you may have a bigger problem!
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danielp
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14. March 2010 @ 15:30 |
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hi everyone.
my ps3 doesn't read any disc. The problem started at the end of December, last year. I had to insert and eject the bluray disc several times before it would read it, but it read immediately all the dvds and cds. After a month the problem dissapeared until last weekend. Now it doesn't read any disc. I cleaned the lens but it did not solve the problem. I made some tests considering what you all wrote in this thread. The laser doesn't light up at all. If i insert a disc, nothing is moving. I moved the laser farther and started the ps3: still it doesn't light up, but the bluray moves it back to its place. That magnet in the center is not spinning up whatever i do. I can spin it manually though without any trouble.
I can do all the other things: i can watch movies, listen movies, play downloaded games or demos, surf the net.
Does any of you tell me exactly what is the problem? Is it only the laser?
Daniel Puiu
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Soundwave24
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18. March 2010 @ 01:07 |
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Hey Tech Gurus.
So, I recently started getting errors on my out-of-warranty PS3 (40GB model CECHG01) during, what most of my friends consider, the WORST POSSIBLE TIME (Heavy Rain, FFXIII, GoW3 and DragonAge Expansion all sitting on my table). So far, I have encountered 2 separate error codes. First, I would only receive the 80010514 code which states there is a problem with the disc. Shortly after that, I received the 80028F08 code, which Sony DOES NOT HAVE IN THEIR DATABASE. They created a code for something they don't have record for.
Anyways, the main issue is the fact that any game will FREEZE after a certain period of play. Sometimes after 5 minutes, sometimes after 10, it varies. The drive has no issue accepting or ejecting discs. However, when the game does freeze, I can hear the drive "whirring" very quickly, then getting slower and slower until you hear only a few clicks. I am still able to eject after that, and every other function (as far as I have tested) works fine. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the issue could be? Is there any other information I could provide to give better insight? I really don't feel like shelling out $150 when I bought my system for $400+ and I should expect it to last more than a couple years.
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Sasophonix312
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26. March 2010 @ 15:51 |
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I repair ps3s and i have one unit right now which was not spinning discs.
After changing lasers, mechs, every ribbon cable, the disc drive power cable, disc drives i cannot get the disc to spin.
I was not able to figure out why the whole mech was not raising up to the disc when it was inserted. When i did some more realigning it would raise but then jam and the disc would be stuck.
So after days of working on this single unit i went from inserting and ejecting discs fine but no mech raising and no spinning. The two white arms on the top which surround the white magnetic cap were not moving. Now i have everything aligned properly but when the mech raises i hear a springy snap.
The metal arm on the bottom of the drive which connects the two black sliders that move the mech up and down pops out. This leaves the disc stuck inside.
My opinion is that the logic board ic is bad. Could anyone chime in on this? I have gone through all the possible causes as i listed at the beginning. I believe the board is telling the motor to keep turning and it moves the black sliders so far that the little metal arm pops out and causes the drive to get stuck with the disc inside.
If any of this is still unclear please let me know. I hope someone can help me out here. I have never had this problem and have always been able to fix stuck drives but this one is a nightmare. I have spent 3 days working and diagnosing it. Nothing has worked.
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DeadBluray
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11. April 2010 @ 12:44 |
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Originally posted by Sasophonix312:
I repair ps3s and i have one unit right now which was not spinning discs.
After changing lasers, mechs, every ribbon cable, the disc drive power cable, disc drives i cannot get the disc to spin.
I was not able to figure out why the whole mech was not raising up to the disc when it was inserted. When i did some more realigning it would raise but then jam and the disc would be stuck.
So after days of working on this single unit i went from inserting and ejecting discs fine but no mech raising and no spinning. The two white arms on the top which surround the white magnetic cap were not moving. Now i have everything aligned properly but when the mech raises i hear a springy snap.
The metal arm on the bottom of the drive which connects the two black sliders that move the mech up and down pops out. This leaves the disc stuck inside.
My opinion is that the logic board ic is bad. Could anyone chime in on this? I have gone through all the possible causes as i listed at the beginning. I believe the board is telling the motor to keep turning and it moves the black sliders so far that the little metal arm pops out and causes the drive to get stuck with the disc inside.
If any of this is still unclear please let me know. I hope someone can help me out here. I have never had this problem and have always been able to fix stuck drives but this one is a nightmare. I have spent 3 days working and diagnosing it. Nothing has worked.
the easy answer here, is try another drive in the PS3, obviously swapping over the board, if it now operates ok, then the mechanism is faulty in the original drive unit
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DeadBluray
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11. April 2010 @ 12:49 |
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Originally posted by Soundwave24:
Hey Tech Gurus.
So, I recently started getting errors on my out-of-warranty PS3 (40GB model CECHG01) during, what most of my friends consider, the WORST POSSIBLE TIME (Heavy Rain, FFXIII, GoW3 and DragonAge Expansion all sitting on my table). So far, I have encountered 2 separate error codes. First, I would only receive the 80010514 code which states there is a problem with the disc. Shortly after that, I received the 80028F08 code, which Sony DOES NOT HAVE IN THEIR DATABASE. They created a code for something they don't have record for.
Anyways, the main issue is the fact that any game will FREEZE after a certain period of play. Sometimes after 5 minutes, sometimes after 10, it varies. The drive has no issue accepting or ejecting discs. However, when the game does freeze, I can hear the drive "whirring" very quickly, then getting slower and slower until you hear only a few clicks. I am still able to eject after that, and every other function (as far as I have tested) works fine. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the issue could be? Is there any other information I could provide to give better insight? I really don't feel like shelling out $150 when I bought my system for $400+ and I should expect it to last more than a couple years.
you need a new laser, when they fail gradually they can give error codes and freezing issues
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DeadBluray
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11. April 2010 @ 12:53 |
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Originally posted by danielp:
hi everyone.
my ps3 doesn't read any disc. The problem started at the end of December, last year. I had to insert and eject the bluray disc several times before it would read it, but it read immediately all the dvds and cds. After a month the problem dissapeared until last weekend. Now it doesn't read any disc. I cleaned the lens but it did not solve the problem. I made some tests considering what you all wrote in this thread. The laser doesn't light up at all. If i insert a disc, nothing is moving. I moved the laser farther and started the ps3: still it doesn't light up, but the bluray moves it back to its place. That magnet in the center is not spinning up whatever i do. I can spin it manually though without any trouble.
I can do all the other things: i can watch movies, listen movies, play downloaded games or demos, surf the net.
Does any of you tell me exactly what is the problem? Is it only the laser?
yes, just a laser should fix your issues
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tef70
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11. April 2010 @ 14:28 |
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Hi,
Does anyone heard about a procedure to reconfigure the blue controller board to any PS3 ?
Seems like official repair guys have one !!
Regards.
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DeadBluray
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11. April 2010 @ 17:39 |
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Originally posted by tef70:
Hi,
Does anyone heard about a procedure to reconfigure the blue controller board to any PS3 ?
Seems like official repair guys have one !!
Regards.
the Sony guys might know how to do it, as it will be just abit of reprogramming, but i don't believe anybody else has been able to do it this way
this thread mentions swapping a chip over between boards, i think there is a link to a video of someone doing it in this thread
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11. April 2010 @ 18:43 |
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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.
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maxhax
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13. April 2010 @ 21:35 |
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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:)
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14. April 2010 @ 00:08 |
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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.
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Gryphon77
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14. April 2010 @ 01:24 |
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@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. ;)
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DeadBluray
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14. April 2010 @ 02:17 |
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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
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maxhax
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18. April 2010 @ 20:55 |
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Originally posted by DeadBluray:
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
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bludd
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1. May 2010 @ 16:24 |
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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..
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DeadBluray
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1. May 2010 @ 18:34 |
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Originally posted by bludd:
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
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gl2814h
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7. May 2010 @ 16:54 |
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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.
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DeadBluray
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7. May 2010 @ 18:22 |
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Originally posted by gl2814h:
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
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