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naznatips on 08 June 2010
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phinch1 said:

Your pretty lucky dude that it didnt do more damage

actually changing the blu ray drive is pretty easy Ive litterally just took apart my old 40gb to see what im doing (the blu ray lense died) you can find many guide/tutorials on youtube that are very detailed, its more about being carefull and patiant, if you want to fix the lense then it starts to get complicated, but just replacing the drive is fine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qztw_aUBQhI

heres one that helped me most , hope it helps!

Oh and edit: WFT how the hell did a leaf manage to get in there ha ha?

When you buy a replacement drive you don't get a replacement motherboard or lens with it (unless you wanna pay twice as much), so I'll have to change out the lens and board too, installing them from my old one. Aslo, I'm not really lucky at all lol. It was in the drive, it couldn't really damage anything but the drive, and it did damage the drive.

I ordered a new one but it won't come till next week during which time I'll be at E3, so it'll be a couple weeks till I've got my PS3 working again.