PS3 PS3 CECHA00 optical drive doesn't take discs in

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spikeyAMK

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Hello there,
I bought a PS3 CECHA00 Phat from Japan with a BD-400 optical drive that doesn't take discs in. When I insert a disc halfway in, the blue LED starts blinking, so I'm thinking it detects a disc is being inserted in, but the motor just doesn't fire up and doesn't spin up the gears and nothing happens pretty much. So I suspect the optical drive is getting powered on from the power supply and it can even communicate with the MB, so it can show the blinking blue LED.

When I press the eject button, I hear three rapid beeps, that's it.

I took the optical drive apart and don't see any obvious damage to it. I reseted the gear feeding mechanism, so it thinks the drive is empty and tried to put a disc in. No luck
I tested the little motor with a 9V battery outside the optical drive and it spins even in the opposite direction when I apply the opposite voltage on the wires. It even has enough strenght to spin the gears inside the optical drive.

I honestly don't know if I did anything wrong or what's wrong with the drive. I heard that it is pretty tricky to put the back plastic cover on because you have to allign the posts perfectly into these traces. I tried my best.
I don't know where to go from here.

I haven't checked any fuses or the control circuitry because I don't even own a multimeter, but I plan on buying one tomorrow. There isn't anything faulty other than the optical drive. I tried booting it up works fine, altought it runs pretty hot even when idling in main system menu. Wifi, Bluetooth, video playback off a hardrive works.

When it first arrived I couldn't put the disc in. I took it apart and I'm suspecting some kind of a mechanical fault, not saying there couldn't be anything wrong with the electronics.

Here's what I tried to do:
https://imgur.com/gallery/plvh0Oj
 
Hello.

Have you tried to hold the eject button for 7-8 seconds? By holding it the PS3 resets the BD mechanism.
The second thing i suspect is that if the disc is getting feed in and doesnt spin it means the laser needs replacement.

Can you make a video of what the problem is?
 
duffsman said:
I have had a repair shop replace this, but to no avail. Same fault occurs.
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Check if 5v and 12v are going into the drive. If not, you must find where it's lost. Fuses are important to check. There is also a Q6010 transistor which is used for syscon communication to issue command for taking disc in. Someone also just posted another cause for 5v being lost in the frankenstein thread, which could be a capacitor. It seems it is on a case by case basis.

But it would have been also helpful if you had a spare drive to confirm the fault is on the board and not in the drive.
 
DeadEnd said:
Check if 5v and 12v are going into the drive. If not, you must find where it's lost. Fuses are important to check. There is also a Q6010 transistor which is used for syscon communication to issue command for taking disc in. Someone also just posted another cause for 5v being lost in the frankenstein thread, which could be a capacitor. It seems it is on a case by case basis.

But it would have been also helpful if you had a spare drive to confirm the fault is on the board and not in the drive.
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I have already replaced the drive to see if it was drive related but both the drives (OG and replacement) I used both work fine. It's got to be board related at this point… possibly logic board issue?
 
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duffsman said:
I have already replaced the drive to see if it was drive related but both the drives (OG and replacement) I used both work fine. It's got to be board related at this point… possibly logic board issue?
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A couple of ther threads have documented this, and there is a video on YouTube on how to replace the Q6010 chip. Replacement parts are about $1 from Mouser or DigiKey, but you have to pay for shipping. Ends up at about $11 for a pack of 10 parts (to get the quantity discount). Look for the thread "Melted component on CECHA"

Unfortunately, it requires tearing the thing apart, so have some good heatsink compound on-hand to repaste the processor chips to the heatsink.
 
surferdudemi said:
A couple of ther threads have documented this, and there is a video on YouTube on how to replace the Q6010 chip. Replacement parts are about $1 from Mouser or DigiKey, but you have to pay for shipping. Ends up at about $11 for a pack of 10 parts (to get the quantity discount). Look for the thread "Melted component on CECHA"

Unfortunately, it requires tearing the thing apart, so have some good heatsink compound on-hand to repaste the processor chips to the heatsink.
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Also check C3247. Last week I replaced the Q6010 chip, but it didn't fix the problem. Last night I discovered that this cap was shorted (1 ohm). So if there is no obvious burn mark or damage to Q6010, measure the resistance across C3247. It should be fairly high.
 
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