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Awesome thanks I will look into that laser cleaner and hopefully they sell it local, Frys should carry it they got everything electronic.Ill also have to look at the AMshop, I'd rather buy from here for sure over amazon and what not since I dunno the intelligence of the seller. Then all i need i to get a controller (bastard took it with his other ps3 >.> lol) and its game on.Thanks for the responses and tips, time to see if I can fix this haha.
but do you guys really think it is worth fixing it?the laser will cost around 75$ and then the ps3 is also a 80Gig so it will YLOD soon and then reflowing will also require a heatgun and thermal paste and that too will be temporary.
actually is its hackable sitting on 3.55 firmware or lower you actually wouldn't need to fix the bluray drive just flash the no-bluray needed custom firmware to the ps3 and load all your games off the internal harddrive and spend the $75 for the laser on a controller and you got a sweet ps3 lol
no it will not play online, and if he updates after installing no brcfw he will brick his console.
Ok so I did a test tear down of the PS3, which I swear took me ~5min, all the way to the blu-ray laser assembly. The assembly is the KEM-400AAA according to the sticker on the drive. Unfortunately the AMshop is showing it as -1 (back ordered I assume). It didnt look much more difficult to just replace the laser itself. Is there a place to see which laser it takes? the AMshop has the KES-400A but only show 1 or so in stock. I just need to now if the inventory is just out dated or if the assembly is really out of stock but that laser will work, the extra work is minimal so either is a viable option for me.Thanks