Should be in the HELP section, since you are ASKING for help *MOVIED*

There is no way to determine if the BR-D matches the Motherboard.  You would need someone who has a stock 60GB, and they would have to check the BR-D board revision against what you now have.

Still, even if it did not match, it would NOT read GAME discs, but other discs would work; BR-D movies, DVD, and Audio CDs.  It not working at ALL means a total failure, and is probably a logic failure all the way around.

Do you get the ICON at the top right of the screen indicating it is TRYING to read the disc?  Did you rey DVD, or AUDIO CD?

Powerslave wrote:

Should be in the HELP section, since you are ASKING for help *MOVIED*

There is no way to determine if the BR-D matches the Motherboard.  You would need someone who has a stock 60GB, and they would have to check the BR-D board revision against what you now have.

Still, even if it did not match, it would NOT read GAME discs, but other discs would work; BR-D movies, DVD, and Audio CDs.  It not working at ALL means a total failure, and is probably a logic failure all the way around.

Do you get the ICON at the top right of the screen indicating it is TRYING to read the disc?  Did you rey DVD, or AUDIO CD?

Hi Powerslave

Thanks for your reply and I apologise if I posted in the wrong forum, i spent a while searching for similar threads before posting lol

Right, this PS3 does not play any discs (DVDs or PS2 games) but seems to recognise there is a disc in the drive, i get the spinning icon in the top right corner then nothing. I'm a bit more relieved that you say the blue ray drive would still read and play some discs as i had feared the board maybe from another machine. Hopefully this is a good sign?

What should I try now?

Keith

Powerslave wrote:

You have not answered what I asked, do Bluray movies work?  Do DVD movies work, and do AUDIO CDs work?   You keep stressing GAME discs, I get it, I asked about movies and audio.  If movies and Audio work, then that is NOT the drive it came with.  There is no fix except a send into Sony.

Right, this PS3 does not play any discs (DVDs or PS2 games)

I think he said. xD

Then the logic board of the BR-D is no good.

keith4444 wrote:

So my only option is to change out the main board and matching BR-D board yes?

Sure, but what you are going to pay for that, a 60GB model, with matching BR-D anything?  Well, It's $125.00 for Sony to repair it, and it's going to cost you 150 - 200, or more, to buy the stuff on Ebay.

If you don't want a 60Gb Backward compatible model, then maybe you can find a matching pair.  People aren't selling matching pairs, because anyone who is selling a broken PS3; usually means one of those two inportant items has FAILED...  All the items you find will be either a bad blu-ray drive, or a bad motherboard.

You would have to get lucky, and find a 60GB model that only has a blu-ray drive with a MECHANICAL failure (everything else works), that you can buy, and use your BR-D mechanics on the system.  You won't find a WORKING married pair, because a married pair means the system is WORKING; and there is no reason to sell it unless the chassis is broken, or they're just selling the console period.

GO look on Ebay dude, you'll see what I mean.

ur bluray laser is dead. replace the laser slead or whole drive but if u do that make sure u keep ur logic board from ur drive

nope. ps3 bluray laser is cheap and its a common problem for it to go but not the dvd/cd laser (there's 2 laser diodes in the sled) which is fixed by replacing the laser, sled, or drive. i dono what ur problem is tho, mb the sled u bought has a dead laser(where did u get it). also did this happen over night or after a fw update?

So, another update to my situation.  I'm really hoping I can get some help on this.

My friends PS3 laser died.  I tried the laser I bought in his machine.  Lo and behold it works like a hot damn.  So my laser was (or at least most likely) never an issue.

So we thought maybe it was a corrupt harddrive or something so we swapped his old harddrive into my machine (he also owns the same 60GB model plus harddrives shouldn't be an issue but at least this way we know it came from another PS3).

I managed to do all this and throw in a Blu Ray movie and it read that there was  disc and when I went to play it I got an 80099--- something error "invalid disc" and now it won't read blu rays or PS3 games again.

Joy.........

Is this a firmware thing or is my system just fried?  Please let me know.

prybar wrote:

.....My friends 60gb recently died (YLOD), and after we fixed it and pulled the info off, he gave it to me to use the BR from.  SO i swapped the whole unit out into mine.  No go.

People, again, you can't swap a drive from one PS3 to another, they're KEYED to the PS3 it was MFRed with.  This is common knowledge, and I am surprised I still see people doing that without one bit of researching it first.

all ou gota do is use ur original board with what ever part it connects too. any combo will work aslong as its from the same model and ur using ur original board

No they are not KEYED by revision.  The logic board is keyed to the PS3 it was put into, period.  IT has to match the CPU KeyVault, same with XB360.

prybar wrote:

So then, the ones are ebay are no good to anyone?  Are they re-keyable or are there "unkeyed" ones that grab the key upon installation?  I'm not as concerned now, but just curious for any future issues that may arise.

thanks

pry

NO the ones on Ebay are keyed, but you buy them to replace your Mechanics, if you have a good Logic Board.  There is no reprogramming the BR-Drives, so, people who buy them who don't anything about this, is a total waste. They don't tell you in the DETAIL most the time, that the drive won't work in your PS3, they just wanna sell it.  That's wrong, but then again, ignorance is no excuse.  If you are going to take on the self repair route of your PS3, you should know what you are up against, no matter WHAT.  All you need do it SEARCH the net for what you want to do (and here), and get your answer before buying something that will be a paperweight if you think it's simple plug-n-play.

People do this for the XBOX360 as well, more uneducated people...

There are no BLANK ones, and no they will not MARRY the motherboard upon installation, and nor will they ever do that.