[Nichibotsu]

well, a friend of mine borught in a ps3 with busted blu ray drive, but as the most common problems are two, i can't get which one of em is, as i have no experience in this field. The blu ray shows the blue light when i insert a game disk, but it won't show any icon... i'm going to try with some other disc, like cd or dvd... But what's the problem, in your opinion? Busted lens or broken logic board?

[carldenning]

do u have any psn games , psn demos installed on the ps3 ? is so do they boot up and are u able to play them ?

[Nichibotsu]

i have none of those... the ps3 came without HDD and i had one of my old ones formatted and put in there
Edit: lemme put back together the blu ra drive, i'll log in psn and download a demo

[carldenning]

Originally Posted by Nichibotsu i have none of those... the ps3 came without HDD and i had one of my old ones formatted and put in there Edit: lemme put back together the blu ra drive, i'll log in psn and download a demo

ok , if u are able to play the demo then its not the logic boared for sure becuse if the logic board was broken then no psn games would boot they would go to a black screen

[Nichibotsu]

i downloaded pixel junkie sidescroller demo and loads fine... So i guess it's the lens? or could it be anything else, like the motor of the drive?

[carldenning]

Originally Posted by Nichibotsu i downloaded pixel junkie sidescroller demo and loads fine... So i guess it's the lens? or could it be anything else, like the motor of the drive?

it more than like the lens , but it could be that the drive is aligned proper

look on you tubefor p3 blu ray drive alignment. becuse once i brought a ps3 with broken laser , i got new lazer but some times it played some times it didnt untill i aligned it all propley .

[Nichibotsu]

ok i'll give it a check.
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oh, could it be the motor not spinning? i'll give it a try with the open blu ray drive so i can see if it's spinning