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I was playing playing GTA Online happily one night, turned system off via controller menu after closing all applications, went to bed. Went to work the next day, got home, turned system on, tried starting GTA, and got a disc read error. Powered off the system, waited a few minutes, and powered back on. This time I got a message that the disc wasn’t inserted, even though it was. I assumed the optical drive crapped out on me, since it wouldn’t eject or read the discs… In fact, the optical drive was making no noise at all. So I ordered a new optical drive from eBay. While I was waiting for it to arrive, I tried all the fixes I could find… Booting into safe mode and rebuilding the database, reinstalling the system firmware, to no avail… I haven’t tried restoring to factory settings yet, as my wifi is painfully slow, and I don’t want to have to wait weeks for the rest of my digital collection to re-download. Got the new optical drive in, and replaced it using ifixit’s handy guide. :) I made sure all the cables were firmly connected, reassembled, plugged in, and prayed… new drive made no noise, and wouldn’t feed the disc in. Crap. $100 wasted. I tore EVERYTHING apart this time, and looked over the motherboard, all the ribbon cables, etc… The ribbon cables all LOOK fine to me, no folds or damage other than the usual “guiding” folds. Checked out the motherboard, I see no missing or loose pieces, no scorch marks as if something overheated, nothing… Granted , I don’t know EXACTLY what I’m looking at, but everything looked okay to me… I’m at my wit’s end… I don’t know why 2 optical drives are dead in the water… Do I need to just suck it up and order a new motherboard, or is there ANYTHING else I can try before shelling out more money? Help, please!
Unfortunately there is likely nothing else you can do but buy a new motherboard. The one thing I will say is to look very closely at the part of the motherboard that is used for the disc drive. It is the part where the ribbon cables plug in. I’ve fixed several of these that have corrosion in this area and made the disc drive not work. If that area looks nice and clean it sounds like you’ve checked everything else that would cause this type of problem so it may take a new motherboard to fix it.
Is not quite that simple you will need the old drives oem board to come over to the new Blu ray drive the board will tell you if it is a BDP 10 or BDP 20 you will have to order the corresponding part and use the existing board in your new disk drive as the Board is married to your motherboard. You said you followed the directions exactly, so I’m guessing you swapped out the board on the optical drive, right?
Try replacing the eject button you can get them for pretty cheap so even if it doesn’t work at it won’t be to much trouble.
I have unfortunately the same problem with reparing this week already. Really frustrating.
so is this not a blown fuse on the motherboard stopping getting to the drive
My son’s PS4 just recently started not accepting discs. Most of the games he plays now are all digital downloads but he got a new game for xmas and when he went to eject the previous game in the console,……nothing. No sound, no clicking, no lights, nothing. Restarted multiple time, had to manually eject the disc. Tried putting it back in manually but no engagement by the system at all. Once the disc was inside the system, it would not power, read, or eject. I am now debating on whether to order a new motherboard, a new drive, an eject mechanism, or just say F’it and order an entire new PS4 and save the hassle. LOL. I certainly don’t feel like spending 80 dollars here, and 80 bucks there only to find out I have 160 bucks of wasted parts that can’t be returned. Any thoughts on what might be the most likely culprit?
Actually fixed my problem it was my own miniscule error.. but there’s a board that only controls the ejection of the disc. Maybe the ribbon to that board has been compromised.? If not that board has everything to do with that disc not ejecting. I’ve only heard of this board going bad a few times before this but I’d definitely check it out. Without it operating properly the drive motors won’t engage. Hope it helps!
I have ps4 and have 4 games that are digital out of the 4 ps4 will read 1 the other 3 says disc read error ive done all the steps even sadly Initialized ps4 back to factory use USB to download software from computer and into ps4 re did the settings when it turned on and yet to no avail the same 3 games wont read any ideas? Can’t be the eye if it reads 1 game right?!? The other 3 still look brand new
