[rabidfan70]

Originally Posted by SogeKingOP First post here and I'm looking for some advice I recently sent in a PS3 (CECH-2501) to get downgraded. When I got it back, system was downgraded but the Blu-ray drive didn't work. Disc cannot be inserted or ejected. No noise from the motor or lens moving. No Blue LED. Pressing eject results in a beep. Packaging wasn't so great so I assumed there would be some loose ribbon cables. I disassembled the PS3 and reseated all the cables a dozen times now and still no luck. I even checked the internals of the drive and everything looks good. So I'm thinking it could be the firmware maybe? I attempted to restore the firmware via Recovery but it got stuck at "Checking... Please wait." No other option but to pull the power plug from the back. This resulted in corrupting the system files on the HD and I can no longer go to the XMB without restoring firmware. Upon further research, it looks like the system cannot process the update file on the USB because it checks these devices in this order: PS3 HDD - Bluray laser - CD laser - USB 0 - USB 1 Since the Blu Ray drive isn't working, it won't bother looking for the UPDATE file in the USB. So my only option right now is to try to fix this Blu Ray drive. Not sure what else I could do besides reseat and check the ribbon cables... Any advice is greatly appreciated

Hi, I have the same problem with you, with the same model. I have the board ( bought off flea bay) with latest firmware, non working bluray drive. I thought downgrading it to 3.55, would solve the problem, it didn't. Tried to remarry it even though the bluray board is built in ( just experimenting ), didn't work. some of the hard drive games worked though (probably don't need disc to play). BTW I tried the bluray drive in another ps3, it's working.