PS3 Ps3 blu ray drive swap

to me it's not worth the hassle since full working bluerays on the second hand market are so cheap,i can buy them locally,and i can test them before paying.just needed to know what i should buy and do after.thanks again.
 
I might've been lucky that a disc (Nintendo land) was still in the drive. it may have been holding the sd card in place. I only had to push the eject button once and both the sd card and the disc came out.
 
I forgot to mention that both the sd card and the disc still work. in fact, I still use the sd card with my wii u hacks, and Nintendo Land is in my system and is being read without issues. ;)
 
umart666 said:
to me it's not worth the hassle since full working bluerays on the second hand market are so cheap,i can buy them locally,and i can test them before paying.just needed to know what i should buy and do after.thanks again.
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Then order the BD-400 thats the identifyer of the whole bluray drive, is compatible with your CECHC
http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/BD-400

And when you get it, take a look at the parts inside both and dont throw the laser lens to the trash bin before checking if are ok
If you are lucky and both laser lens are fine keep it as a replacement :)
 
i'll bust it out tomorrow and disassemble it just for hell of it.if i get bd-400 do i need to use my daughterboard or i can use new one and then remarry drive?
 
umart666 said:
i'll bust it out tomorrow and disassemble it just for hell of it.if i get bd-400 do i need to use my daughterboard or i can use new one and then remarry drive?
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By now what you can do is to separate the daughterboard from the drive, take a look at the photos on the link i posted, the daughterboard is hold in place out of the drive (like outside of the metal drive case)

You can disconnect all that ribbon cables, and put the whole daughterboard inside a plastic... or cover it completly with tape... or inside a letterbox (to avoid shorcuts)
And mount it inside the PS3 like that, only the board... your PS3 should continue working in the same way is working now

What i dont know is if your actual daughterboard is married with your mainboard... or even if your daughterbaord works (but i guess yes because the drive was doing the "click" noises)

So not sure if you are going to need to remarry

Btw, you did not mention it, but why are you using a noBD firmware ?, which problem you had before deciding to use that kind of firmwares ?
 
i don't even remmeber when i started to have problems launching stuff...i googled and someone said i maybe need noBD cfw,i think it was old habbib one first...i flashed i think 4.78 rebug or something like that not long ago,regular version by accident and couldn't launch anything,flashing noBD cfw solved all again and since then i never touched anything and always i was on noBD.so i'm pretty sure my bd is shot.

but you are right,i never used BD all that much,so maybe laser is still good.so i can't just swap whole drive,even if it's same bd-400 model?
 
Maybe the problem is you have that flat wide ribbon cables that goes in between bluray drive and mainboard disconnected
...or bad connected
...or the connectors are broken

In that case then the bluray is fine and you dont need to buy anything

That connectors are a bit tricky, all them has like a mobile "clip" that allows to move it to two positions: opened or closed
You need to use the fingers nails to open/close the connectors
There is people that forces the flat ribbon cables by pulling or pushing with force (without knowing that "clips" exists in the connectors)... so the clip breaks and after that point the flat ribbon cable is not hold in place with the correct pressure

You should start looking at all this... but as mentioned before we know the drive is at least partially working because it does the "click" noises, so is not completly disconnected
 
i completely cleaned and checked this ps3 not so long ago,and i think that's not it...i'm pretty sure i did put it back as intended,i'm not hardware sawy for ps3 but i have a lot of experience with laptops so i know how to operate ribbon cables...

but thanks anyway for tips,i'll check everything again before buying BD.
 
umart666 said:
i completely cleaned and checked this ps3 not so long ago,and i think that's not it...i'm pretty sure i did put it back as intended,i'm not hardware sawy for ps3 but i have a lot of experience with laptops so i know how to operate ribbon cables...

but thanks anyway for tips,i'll check everything again before buying BD.
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I mentioned it because the way you told the story is like if the bluray drive stopped working suddenly and you started to have black screens when booting games/apps
But you did not mention if that started to happen around the same days you did open the PS3
Having the ribbon cables loose, disconnected or partially disconnected is a very usual problem

If you was not opening the PS3 at that days... then i guess it could be a electrical problem on the daughterboard, a fuse or capacitor burned or something like that
This is the kind of problem that appears randomnly and without previous advise... this could match with what you told but then you are going to need to use the new daughterboard and remarry it



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And btw... if the problem is the daughterboard then you dont need to buy the whole drive, the daughterboard is enought (we are supposing the laser lens is ok)
But well... if you can get the whole drive for 10$ then better buy it entirelly, this way you have replacement parts
 
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we didn;t undenstard each other,sorry for my bad english.bd was problematic years ago,long before that last cleanup.i know it's securely connected because always when i'm doing maintenance i follow guides just to be safe.
 
umart666 said:
we didn;t undenstard each other,sorry for my bad english.bd was problematic years ago,long before that last cleanup.i know it's securely connected because always when i'm doing maintenance i follow guides just to be safe.
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If it started happening years ago is even harder to know because probably you are not going to remember if you did open the PS3 around that days (for some thermal paste change or whatever)

After that i guess you have opened it again at some point, and if there was something bad connected you would have noticed it, but still i think it worths to take a look at all that connectors just incase

Also, im thinking the ribbon cables sometimes breaks internally... in any point of his legth
This happens while bending them (or unbending them), the thin copper lines inside the plastic breaks and is like if there was a pin of a chip disconnected

If you have a multimeter you can check this, by removing the ribbon cables, and laying them over your desktop with the copper extremes aiming to the cellar, use some weight (coins, a book, whatever) to keep the ribbon cable hold in that position
And when is ready use the multimeter to meassure continuity in between the 2 extremes of every copper line of the ribbon cable

If the mulltimeter "beeps" (or shows infinite continuity) then the line is ok
If it doesnt "beeps" (or shows zero continuity) then the line is broken

By now... because you are on a noBD firmware you can open the top cover of the PS3 and remove the drive and ribbon cables entirelly, the PS3 doesnt cares about the presence of that parts now, and is going to improve a bit the airflow :D
 
yes,i'll do that,i'm not sure about connection on the drive itself,but i am sure on the connection on the mainboard.i think that bd getting bad it's not related with my messing with the ps itself...i'd only be doing this because bd's are so cheap these days.
 
I opened the console to find its in a unloved state and a little dusty bad news is drive is definitely dying from the board I reckon plus side is its had a nice clean inside the ps3 housing.


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TOM1211 said:
I opened the console to find its in a unloved state and a little dusty bad news is drive is definitely dying from the board I reckon plus side is its had a nice clean inside the ps3 housing.


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Did you open the bluray drive ?, you are able to install firmwares and boot games/apps and you said your problem was related with the insert/eject
I think is going to be the disc mechanics on top, there are a lot of small plastic pieces, gears, levers, springs... all them are located on top, with the shape of a ninja shurikane or a biohazard symbol

All that "shurikane block" can be separated easylly, to inspect if there is some piece out of position or broken, watch some videos and move them carefully with the hand to see how it moves

The good thing is a PS3 with that mechanics broken cant use the laser lens... so maybe you are lucky and after fixing that the whole bluray drive will be usable

If at some point you make it work, you need to test if is able to read this media, in this order:
-Audio CD
-Video DVD
-PS3 game BD


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You can make tests with the PS3 working and bluray drive top cover opened... and without that "shurikane block"
For that test you need to place the disc with the hand, and "stick" the magnet on top of it
But prepare it before turning on the PS3... and be carefull with the laser beam... dont let it hit your eyes ;)
 
This was ages ago but I've just tested this and all I did was swap the laser carriage from a spare parts lot I had into this drive and it's working perfectly
 
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