Originally posted by bightchee: I've seen plenty of replies here with problems similar to mine and I haven't seen a suggested solution yet. Please allow me to share what I am experiencing and hope someone can tell me what I could do...
What I know before opening it:
-PS3 inherited from a friend of a friend. Appears to be a 20GB model (no silver trim, 4 USB ports, no WiFi)
-I knew it didn't work when I took it. "Blu-Ray player is dead" I'm told. The system boots up fine, I upgraded to firmware 3.10 (not certain of previous firmware version).
-Disc drive takes DVD disc fine, spins, and the icon in the top right of the XMB moves while it appears to be reading the disc... then nothing.
-Hard drive completely formatted
-Option #3 used in Recovery Menu to restore system files
-System downloads PS3 demos from PS Store and plays them from hard drive.
Then I open it...
-Part KES-400A verified. Replacement on eBay ordered. Part received and replaced in unit. PS3 behaves just as before, detecting disc insertion but not reading it.
-All cable connections have been checked and re-checked. The only thing I haven't done is trace every pin on every cable with a multimeter to verify they're intact.
-Opened PS3 and powered it...
*movie DVD inserted: spins sporadically in very brief bursts. Repeats sometimes a dozen spins. Multiple discs tried.
*PS2 DVD inserted: spins more rapidly but not for long duration. Quits spinning shortly after. "Kill All Humans 2" tried.
*Blu-Ray inserted: spins very rapidly for a few moments and then stops as if it's satisfied. "Motorstorm" borrowed from friend, tried.
*All of the discs activate the top-right icon in XMB, none show up anywhere else as being available.
-Inserted clear plastic "protection" disc from CD stack and removed the magnetic top spindle from the DVD disc drive. Upon inserting the clear disc I can see the blue laser shines once, then the red laser shines repeatedly as it tries to read the "disc". The laser is able to move up and down as it tries to focus. No height adjustment on the rails was made to alter the focal distance.
-The worm gear that operates the KES-400A position operates. I can push it far from the disc spinning motor and it will return to the center position. Also I can see the laser moving back and forth while attempting to read the clear disc.
-The "hold down the eject button for 15 second" trick doesn't change anything for me. The drive does a mechanical dance and that's all.
I wish to think it's the disc-spinning motor because that's the cheap and easy fix. I do not wish to consider it may be the controller board with its limitation of being virtually irreplaceable.
Things I'm going to have to resort to soon: trace the ribbon cables with multimeter and test disc-spinning motor voltage. But the motor can spin and at a good speed... what am I doing wrong?
Im having the exact same problem except my disc doesnt spin at all but i do get the loading sign on my ps3? did u figure out if its the motor or not yet?
A continouos loading sign means bad LASER and not the controller card that is attached to the blu-ray drive. I know this because when I originally tried to just swap blu-ray drives without removing the controller card it would start loading but the STOP. (the controller card attached to the blu-ray drive is married to the ps3 motherboard.) Whereas a blu-ray laser is out it would still continously load.
Originally posted by bightchee: I've seen plenty of replies here with problems similar to mine and I haven't seen a suggested solution yet. Please allow me to share what I am experiencing and hope someone can tell me what I could do...
What I know before opening it:
-PS3 inherited from a friend of a friend. Appears to be a 20GB model (no silver trim, 4 USB ports, no WiFi)
-I knew it didn't work when I took it. "Blu-Ray player is dead" I'm told. The system boots up fine, I upgraded to firmware 3.10 (not certain of previous firmware version).
-Disc drive takes DVD disc fine, spins, and the icon in the top right of the XMB moves while it appears to be reading the disc... then nothing.
-Hard drive completely formatted
-Option #3 used in Recovery Menu to restore system files
-System downloads PS3 demos from PS Store and plays them from hard drive.
Then I open it...
-Part KES-400A verified. Replacement on eBay ordered. Part received and replaced in unit. PS3 behaves just as before, detecting disc insertion but not reading it.
-All cable connections have been checked and re-checked. The only thing I haven't done is trace every pin on every cable with a multimeter to verify they're intact.
-Opened PS3 and powered it...
*movie DVD inserted: spins sporadically in very brief bursts. Repeats sometimes a dozen spins. Multiple discs tried.
*PS2 DVD inserted: spins more rapidly but not for long duration. Quits spinning shortly after. "Kill All Humans 2" tried.
*Blu-Ray inserted: spins very rapidly for a few moments and then stops as if it's satisfied. "Motorstorm" borrowed from friend, tried.
*All of the discs activate the top-right icon in XMB, none show up anywhere else as being available.
-Inserted clear plastic "protection" disc from CD stack and removed the magnetic top spindle from the DVD disc drive. Upon inserting the clear disc I can see the blue laser shines once, then the red laser shines repeatedly as it tries to read the "disc". The laser is able to move up and down as it tries to focus. No height adjustment on the rails was made to alter the focal distance.
-The worm gear that operates the KES-400A position operates. I can push it far from the disc spinning motor and it will return to the center position. Also I can see the laser moving back and forth while attempting to read the clear disc.
-The "hold down the eject button for 15 second" trick doesn't change anything for me. The drive does a mechanical dance and that's all.
I wish to think it's the disc-spinning motor because that's the cheap and easy fix. I do not wish to consider it may be the controller board with its limitation of being virtually irreplaceable.
Things I'm going to have to resort to soon: trace the ribbon cables with multimeter and test disc-spinning motor voltage. But the motor can spin and at a good speed... what am I doing wrong?
Im having the exact same problem except my disc doesnt spin at all but i do get the loading sign on my ps3? did u figure out if its the motor or not yet?
A continouos loading sign means bad LASER and not the controller card that is attached to the blu-ray drive. I know this because when I originally tried to just swap blu-ray drives without removing the controller card it would start loading but the STOP. (the controller card attached to the blu-ray drive is married to the ps3 motherboard.) Whereas a blu-ray laser is out it would still continously load.
ok but i changed my blu ray assembly (laser and everything including the metal tray attached to the laser)and its still having the same issue, loading sign but the disc will not spin at all. all the lens does move up and down.
Originally posted by bightchee: I've seen plenty of replies here with problems similar to mine and I haven't seen a suggested solution yet. Please allow me to share what I am experiencing and hope someone can tell me what I could do...
What I know before opening it:
-PS3 inherited from a friend of a friend. Appears to be a 20GB model (no silver trim, 4 USB ports, no WiFi)
-I knew it didn't work when I took it. "Blu-Ray player is dead" I'm told. The system boots up fine, I upgraded to firmware 3.10 (not certain of previous firmware version).
-Disc drive takes DVD disc fine, spins, and the icon in the top right of the XMB moves while it appears to be reading the disc... then nothing.
-Hard drive completely formatted
-Option #3 used in Recovery Menu to restore system files
-System downloads PS3 demos from PS Store and plays them from hard drive.
Then I open it...
-Part KES-400A verified. Replacement on eBay ordered. Part received and replaced in unit. PS3 behaves just as before, detecting disc insertion but not reading it.
-All cable connections have been checked and re-checked. The only thing I haven't done is trace every pin on every cable with a multimeter to verify they're intact.
-Opened PS3 and powered it...
*movie DVD inserted: spins sporadically in very brief bursts. Repeats sometimes a dozen spins. Multiple discs tried.
*PS2 DVD inserted: spins more rapidly but not for long duration. Quits spinning shortly after. "Kill All Humans 2" tried.
*Blu-Ray inserted: spins very rapidly for a few moments and then stops as if it's satisfied. "Motorstorm" borrowed from friend, tried.
*All of the discs activate the top-right icon in XMB, none show up anywhere else as being available.
-Inserted clear plastic "protection" disc from CD stack and removed the magnetic top spindle from the DVD disc drive. Upon inserting the clear disc I can see the blue laser shines once, then the red laser shines repeatedly as it tries to read the "disc". The laser is able to move up and down as it tries to focus. No height adjustment on the rails was made to alter the focal distance.
-The worm gear that operates the KES-400A position operates. I can push it far from the disc spinning motor and it will return to the center position. Also I can see the laser moving back and forth while attempting to read the clear disc.
-The "hold down the eject button for 15 second" trick doesn't change anything for me. The drive does a mechanical dance and that's all.
I wish to think it's the disc-spinning motor because that's the cheap and easy fix. I do not wish to consider it may be the controller board with its limitation of being virtually irreplaceable.
Things I'm going to have to resort to soon: trace the ribbon cables with multimeter and test disc-spinning motor voltage. But the motor can spin and at a good speed... what am I doing wrong?
Im having the exact same problem except my disc doesnt spin at all but i do get the loading sign on my ps3? did u figure out if its the motor or not yet?
A continouos loading sign means bad LASER and not the controller card that is attached to the blu-ray drive. I know this because when I originally tried to just swap blu-ray drives without removing the controller card it would start loading but the STOP. (the controller card attached to the blu-ray drive is married to the ps3 motherboard.) Whereas a blu-ray laser is out it would still continously load.
ok but i changed my blu ray assembly (laser and everything including the metal tray attached to the laser)and its still having the same issue, loading sign but the disc will not spin at all. all the lens does move up and down.
I hate to say this but go ahead and double check if all your connections are connected such as ribbons cable is all the way in..etc.
Originally posted by bightchee: I've seen plenty of replies here with problems similar to mine and I haven't seen a suggested solution yet. Please allow me to share what I am experiencing and hope someone can tell me what I could do...
What I know before opening it:
-PS3 inherited from a friend of a friend. Appears to be a 20GB model (no silver trim, 4 USB ports, no WiFi)
-I knew it didn't work when I took it. "Blu-Ray player is dead" I'm told. The system boots up fine, I upgraded to firmware 3.10 (not certain of previous firmware version).
-Disc drive takes DVD disc fine, spins, and the icon in the top right of the XMB moves while it appears to be reading the disc... then nothing.
-Hard drive completely formatted
-Option #3 used in Recovery Menu to restore system files
-System downloads PS3 demos from PS Store and plays them from hard drive.
Then I open it...
-Part KES-400A verified. Replacement on eBay ordered. Part received and replaced in unit. PS3 behaves just as before, detecting disc insertion but not reading it.
-All cable connections have been checked and re-checked. The only thing I haven't done is trace every pin on every cable with a multimeter to verify they're intact.
-Opened PS3 and powered it...
*movie DVD inserted: spins sporadically in very brief bursts. Repeats sometimes a dozen spins. Multiple discs tried.
*PS2 DVD inserted: spins more rapidly but not for long duration. Quits spinning shortly after. "Kill All Humans 2" tried.
*Blu-Ray inserted: spins very rapidly for a few moments and then stops as if it's satisfied. "Motorstorm" borrowed from friend, tried.
*All of the discs activate the top-right icon in XMB, none show up anywhere else as being available.
-Inserted clear plastic "protection" disc from CD stack and removed the magnetic top spindle from the DVD disc drive. Upon inserting the clear disc I can see the blue laser shines once, then the red laser shines repeatedly as it tries to read the "disc". The laser is able to move up and down as it tries to focus. No height adjustment on the rails was made to alter the focal distance.
-The worm gear that operates the KES-400A position operates. I can push it far from the disc spinning motor and it will return to the center position. Also I can see the laser moving back and forth while attempting to read the clear disc.
-The "hold down the eject button for 15 second" trick doesn't change anything for me. The drive does a mechanical dance and that's all.
I wish to think it's the disc-spinning motor because that's the cheap and easy fix. I do not wish to consider it may be the controller board with its limitation of being virtually irreplaceable.
Things I'm going to have to resort to soon: trace the ribbon cables with multimeter and test disc-spinning motor voltage. But the motor can spin and at a good speed... what am I doing wrong?
Im having the exact same problem except my disc doesnt spin at all but i do get the loading sign on my ps3? did u figure out if its the motor or not yet?
A continouos loading sign means bad LASER and not the controller card that is attached to the blu-ray drive. I know this because when I originally tried to just swap blu-ray drives without removing the controller card it would start loading but the STOP. (the controller card attached to the blu-ray drive is married to the ps3 motherboard.) Whereas a blu-ray laser is out it would still continously load.
ok but i changed my blu ray assembly (laser and everything including the metal tray attached to the laser)and its still having the same issue, loading sign but the disc will not spin at all. all the lens does move up and down.
I hate to say this but go ahead and double check if all your connections are connected such as ribbons cable is all the way in..etc.
Hey wassup well while taking out my blu raydrive while ps3 was on it cut off I cut it back on some screen popped up saying I shut down the ps3 the wrong way way well ever since then the ps3 won't even accept the discs its like the whole drive is dead now. All plugs are plugged in but now it won't even take discs at all it make some crazy buzzing noise but won't accept discs. I'm bout to throw this thing away and buy a new 1
Hello all. I have a PS3 (Model CECHH01) that has a dead blu ray, nothing happens at all when powering up and turning on PS3 - no light and no moevement at all. To those with the knowledge, is there a snowball's chance in hell of just replacing the current disk disk mechanism with a new one (including the laset and motor)? I also hear that the control board may be the problem since there is no movement at all and that I am S.O.L. due to the control boards being married to the motherboard. No chance of finding a replacement. Have any of your experienced the same thing with your drives and replaced just the laser and motor and had success?
Originally posted by tfloyd75: Hello all. I have a PS3 (Model CECHH01) that has a dead blu ray, nothing happens at all when powering up and turning on PS3 - no light and no moevement at all. To those with the knowledge, is there a snowball's chance in hell of just replacing the current disk disk mechanism with a new one (including the laset and motor)? I also hear that the control board may be the problem since there is no movement at all and that I am S.O.L. due to the control boards being married to the motherboard. No chance of finding a replacement. Have any of your experienced the same thing with your drives and replaced just the laser and motor and had success?
No movement meaning no icon on the upper-right corner ? It should display on the upper-right corner a timer going continously. If that is case then you need a new laser/motor assembly kit. Or you can ship it back to Sony and they will charge you 150 bucks.
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 a 40GB ebay ps3 with me now that i am trying to source the problem on!!
It was bought with a faulty blu ray drive that wont read disks!!!
I have already fixed more that one but this one is being stubborn. I suspected the laser at first (obviously) but i have another working 60GB ps3 that i am using for testing parts and have already tried replacing the laser to no avail. I have since done numerous tests including swapping lasers, decks and circuit boards just to find out more about whats going on with this unit.
When it came to me the laser would try to read the disk but the disc would not spit indicating a laser problem and swapping lasers from my working one did not work(although the disc would now spin but not show up) so i tried putting the drives circuit board of the NON working ps3 into my working ps3 to test the theory of the drive being married to the motherboard and what surprised me was i got the exact same reaction from my ps3 as the ebay one. ie: the disk would spin and seem like its reading ok but would not show up on the home screen.
What scares me about this is the fact that if my working ps3 acts the same with a foreign circuit board on it, could i of just bought an unrepairable ps3 that's missing the drives original circuit board and is now useless??
Im just posting in case anyone can gain knowledge from this or possibly pass some on :) cheers guys
I more thing before i go though, Has anyone had a working ps3 drive go wrong on them and a replacement laser didnt fix the job? The reason i ask is that anyone could of bough a ps3 from ebay with a unmatched drive(like me) and claimed that replacing the laser did not work but to eliminate the possibility of it being my circuit board i need to know if anyone has had a drive that was working and then broke down and a laser replacement didnt fix it?????
One more thing to add as ihave been reading above posts.
The drive not spinning at all should indicate laser problems as when i replaced the laser in the non spinning ebay unit, it did start spinning up but nothing would show up in what i call the dasj board. Then when i tried the ebay units laser in my working ps3 and it did not spin up either so a dead laser if definately indicated by a drive not spinning up at all!!!
NOTE : I do not see any signs of the disk loading on the ps3 dashboard. is this normal?
All i get normally when a game loads is the disk sing when you go to the controller shape in the dash board??
still no answer to my problem. maybe anyone can help me. mine sometimes work (bluray disk spins). but if i turn off the ps3 doesn't work anymore. I did everything posible(whitout changing components) cleaning, formating and system reset. awaiting solutions. forgot to say: i have ps3 60 Gb, ps 2 disks works, all of them
I inherited my brother's broken PS3. The games he was playing started to freeze frequently after 1-2 hours of play (not a dust problem, probably DRE), so he took it apart to clean the blu-ray lens, but he somehow screwed it up. The system itself still boots just fine, but the drive just doesn't do anything: it won't take a disk inside, won't eject and won't read anything. Furthermore, any of the demos he downloaded don't work anymore. It seems that I can buy a new drive (or simply the lens) or send the PS3 to Sony for 150$. How can I make sure that it is only the drive that is busted and not something else, therefore I'll be able to buy another drive and the console will work just fine?
Hi everyone! I'm hoping someone can help me out, I just got given a 60gb PS3 (cechco3) and it won't read discs at all, I tried DVDs PS2 games etc and nothing. I get the little spinning disc in top right of screen but if allowed to it would sit there for hours, as far as I can hear the discs aren't spinning, before I make any purchases or open the case I just wondered if anyone knows what my best first step would be, I have rest the system and re-formatted the hard drive but it doesn't make a difference. As it was given to me I don't have a receipt or warranty so it's either DIY or sell I think...
Any advice will be greatly appreciated, thanks.
I'm going to try to be specific for anyone helping me diagnose my problem.
I have the 80 GB CECHE01 with 4 USB ports and backwards compatibility.
My system is about 2 years old. The problem started a couple months ago when I noticed that sometimes upon turning on the machine it would not detect the disk inside it, but when I ejected and reinserted it, it would start up just fine.
This problem became more frequent, and sometimes I'd have to eject/reinsert a disk a few times for it to read. After inserting a blu ray game, it would spin for a while with the indicator bubble in the corner of my screen, then I'd hear a click from the drive and it stopped without reading.
Then it started happening to dvds/PS2 games. It got to the point where I might have to do this 10/15 times before it would read.
Now it won't spin at all, I hear no noise, even thou I have the blue indicator light and the continuous spinning bubble in the corner.
Can anyone give me a SURE diagnoses, and perhaps my cheapest option?
Also, I don't think it's a software problem, as I've never gotten the disk read error code, it has only frozen in games a couple of times, and has never froze with movies or ps2 game.
It only freezes frequently in the web browser(which I am using to post this and why I had to double post), but as I understand it, freezing in the browser is common.
Well i have a problem too, maybe you guys can help.
I have the 80 GB CECHE01 with 4 USB ports and backwards compatibility too.
A while ago it stopped reading discs. Like i would put them in but nothing would happen. No sound like it if was loading or anything.
I bought a replacement the KEM - 400AAA and i tried installing it yesterday. 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?
Originally posted by grazyc: Hi all, need some help which I'm sure someone here can assit me.
I have a PS3 which won't read any disks. Having brought a replacement drive (complete laser assembly only, no external houseing or boards) which didn't fix it. Having removed the cover etc I can see that the disk spins and stepper motor (holds the lens) moves when a disk is inserted. Sometimes the drive stops spinning after 10-20 seconds and other times it just continues (normally with CD in). I get the blue LED on the console front panel to light which I believe indicates that a disk is inserted but I never get the 'bubble icon' on the TV screen. The same happens with both drives.
Is there a easy way to see if the laser are working?
What does the lack of the 'bubble icon' mean?
Is the controller board damaged?
Any help would be appreciated
Graham
I would say it is still a defective laser where did you ge the replacement from? Most on ebay are refurbished lasers of qustionable quality lucky if it plays over a couple of weeks to a month some die out again within hours.....
The lack of the bubble is that it isn't even trying to (or can't) read the disc you just inserted inside it. Blue light on the front panel means a disc is being inserted/is inside.
You can open the console, take off the sliding cover & top then open the blueray drive taking off the top metal cover of the drive and load in a disc this way you can see if it spins or the laser flashes meaning the ps3is making an attempt to play the disc, also
Check All Of The Connections the plug powering the drive the laser's ribbon cables and the big cable to the motherboard. maybe that will fix it. Also the replacement laser MUST be the same model as the original.
okay, so if your not sure of my issues, check back at my previous threads, but I wanted to update all on my problem. It has been fixed! I had to dish out the 150 for sony to fix my lens and so far after about a week or two, its still running fine. You get a 90 day warranty and they send you the box and instructions to send your ps3 back to them, they gave me my original console, not a refurbished one. so anyone thinking of doing this, i would recommend it, save your money and time and just do it right the first time. Again, thanks to those who helped me at the time. Happy New Year!
Originally posted by Symbiox: Well it appears I've done something awful during my disassembly/reassembly process. Although the ps3 will boot up as normal and displays the demos I've downloaded from PSN, choosing to play anything results in nothing but a black screen and having to reboot. I have trailer videos saved on the HDD and I can view those fine, but no games... help!
Originally posted by Symbiox: Well it appears I've done something awful during my disassembly/reassembly process. Although the ps3 will boot up as normal and displays the demos I've downloaded from PSN, choosing to play anything results in nothing but a black screen and having to reboot. I have trailer videos saved on the HDD and I can view those fine, but no games... help!
I had this problem and still do what you have to do is just press the eject button becasue the ps3 is waiting for a cd to do something so the ps3 haults until the cd does something thats why it gives you a black screen after you try to play your demos.
so just press the eject buttoon it sucks cuz your gonna have to do that everytime your start it up from a shutdown.
Originally posted by timebomb1: okay, so if your not sure of my issues, check back at my previous threads, but I wanted to update all on my problem. It has been fixed! I had to dish out the 150 for sony to fix my lens and so far after about a week or two, its still running fine. You get a 90 day warranty and they send you the box and instructions to send your ps3 back to them, they gave me my original console, not a refurbished one. so anyone thinking of doing this, i would recommend it, save your money and time and just do it right the first time. Again, thanks to those who helped me at the time. Happy New Year!
by curiosity, what part did they changed ?? its written on your invoice. thnkx.
In May 2009 I changed Broadband suppliers and got a new router.
I never updated WEP code on the PS3 so no software updates.
Not sure what firmware it would have been on back in May?
23rd December 2009 ? updated the PS3 wireless setting to connect to internet
And updated the firmware ? again unsure what version would have been available on this date, anyway after updating, played Racedriver: Grid and the system froze.
After this, unable to read any discs ? DVD, BD or Games.
Stripped the PS3 down to clean the laser (Noted it was a KES 400A single laser).
Made no difference. Discs pulled in OK but would not spin. Loading Bubble appeared but got no further.
Ordered a new (refurb) Laser (including Deck) KEM 400aaa from GameXparts on Tuesday.
This arrived Yesterday (White Clip made in China if anyone?s interested). I replaced the Deck last night and the PS3 is now working again. My only concern is how long the replacement will last?
With all the other complaints about the firmware, it seems to be more than coincidence that after updating my firmware for the first time in over 6 months the drive fails within 10 minutes? But I can?t prove anything, it?s just heresay.
I will post further updates as to the reliability of the new laser.
@CHCEG03 - I also fixed mine this way and I too have a small concern in the back of my mind about how long the new drive will last. So far it's managed to play all games perfectly EXCEPT for Fallout 3 which gets really slow and laggy for some reason.
Resistance 2, MGS4, LBP, MW2 all work fine. I haven't tried GTA4 yet mainly because I regret buying it in the first place. Haha
The drive itself seems to be a bit noisier than the original which worries me a bit but it doesn't seem to have any ill effects on gameplay.
@cheesytot - I would guess that you've done the right thing to fix your problem but you've simply not put the drive back in properly. Try taking it out and putting it back again, follow youtube videos to make sure you're putting everything back where it should be.
Originally posted by pmrs88: @CHCEG03 - I also fixed mine this way and I too have a small concern in the back of my mind about how long the new drive will last. So far it's managed to play all games perfectly EXCEPT for Fallout 3 which gets really slow and laggy for some reason.
Resistance 2, MGS4, LBP, MW2 all work fine. I haven't tried GTA4 yet mainly because I regret buying it in the first place. Haha
The drive itself seems to be a bit noisier than the original which worries me a bit but it doesn't seem to have any ill effects on gameplay.
@cheesytot - I would guess that you've done the right thing to fix your problem but you've simply not put the drive back in properly. Try taking it out and putting it back again, follow youtube videos to make sure you're putting everything back where it should be.
I also did this and my refurb laser died within 20 minutes and my ps3 had the latest firmware, but i also believe the talk about the newer firmware killing single beam lasers are true becasue those firmwares are made to work with the dual beam laser and to my belief it make the single beam laser work twice as hard eventually leading to burnout and i ant talking about the game.
Originally posted by grazyc: Hi all, need some help which I'm sure someone here can assit me.
I have a PS3 which won't read any disks. Having brought a replacement drive (complete laser assembly only, no external houseing or boards) which didn't fix it. Having removed the cover etc I can see that the disk spins and stepper motor (holds the lens) moves when a disk is inserted. Sometimes the drive stops spinning after 10-20 seconds and other times it just continues (normally with CD in). I get the blue LED on the console front panel to light which I believe indicates that a disk is inserted but I never get the 'bubble icon' on the TV screen. The same happens with both drives.
Is there a easy way to see if the laser are working?
What does the lack of the 'bubble icon' mean?
Is the controller board damaged?
Any help would be appreciated
Graham
I would say it is still a defective laser where did you ge the replacement from? Most on ebay are refurbished lasers of qustionable quality lucky if it plays over a couple of weeks to a month some die out again within hours.....
The lack of the bubble is that it isn't even trying to (or can't) read the disc you just inserted inside it. Blue light on the front panel means a disc is being inserted/is inside.
You can open the console, take off the sliding cover & top then open the blueray drive taking off the top metal cover of the drive and load in a disc this way you can see if it spins or the laser flashes meaning the ps3is making an attempt to play the disc, also
Check All Of The Connections the plug powering the drive the laser's ribbon cables and the big cable to the motherboard. maybe that will fix it. Also the replacement laser MUST be the same model as the original.
Shadowz9 - I've been away from the PS3 scene for a while but due to the weather thought I'd have another play. I was interested in your response to my problem as i still have the unit. Both the original and new (ebay purchase) BR drives seem to work (spin/ light up and move) but I never get the loading bubble on the dash board. I recently tried a replacement hdd as I read this might work, again no luck. Apart from not reading any type of disc the unit is fine i.e you can download and play these games. The concern I have is could the problem be the DR controller board (the unit was 2nd hand so I don't know history). I have another 60GB which has an intermittent HDMI fault which drops out to a black screen for a few seconds intermittently but get more often the longer it's run (works fine over scart so is used like this). At the moment I don't want to break the seal on this one to swap the drives. Do you really think the problem is drive related and not anything else? (I have checked all cables several times and they all seem fine but have never tried to 'buzz them out' to check there 100%. Any response from any fellow PS3 fixers would be great......may be this year it will get fixed!
Originally posted by timebomb1: okay, so if your not sure of my issues, check back at my previous threads, but I wanted to update all on my problem. It has been fixed! I had to dish out the 150 for sony to fix my lens and so far after about a week or two, its still running fine. You get a 90 day warranty and they send you the box and instructions to send your ps3 back to them, they gave me my original console, not a refurbished one. so anyone thinking of doing this, i would recommend it, save your money and time and just do it right the first time. Again, thanks to those who helped me at the time. Happy New Year!
by curiosity, what part did they changed ?? its written on your invoice. thnkx.
Originally posted by timebomb1: okay, so if your not sure of my issues, check back at my previous threads, but I wanted to update all on my problem. It has been fixed! I had to dish out the 150 for sony to fix my lens and so far after about a week or two, its still running fine. You get a 90 day warranty and they send you the box and instructions to send your ps3 back to them, they gave me my original console, not a refurbished one. so anyone thinking of doing this, i would recommend it, save your money and time and just do it right the first time. Again, thanks to those who helped me at the time. Happy New Year!
by curiosity, what part did they changed ?? its written on your invoice. thnkx.
MY invoice only tells me the warranty info and my model number of playstation, which now you bring to my attention i guess I should have something about the work they did. I will check further. thanks
My invoice does not show any particular part, just lists the warranty info and my model number of playstation. thanks
