It's ALIVE (again)!
I was able to solder the sheared off component back onto the bluray's board. Soooo frickin' teeny! I'm used to soldering thru-hole stuff. I threw a random disc in and it recognized it fine. Since I disassembled the board from the bluray drive, (I read that you can run the PS3 with just the bluray's board attached if the drive is bad) I plugged it in and fired it up. Instead of erroring out around 70%, it finished to 100% then restarted. I looked on with my mouth agape. 8^O
Amazing that it worked! I thought I would have to try and marry a new bluray board to the mainboard. Anyway, I installed Netflix on it and am going to go and enjoy an episode or two of House of Cards!
Thanks for your help and encouragement, everyone! I love this messageboard!
I was able to solder the sheared off component back onto the bluray's board. Soooo frickin' teeny! I'm used to soldering thru-hole stuff. I threw a random disc in and it recognized it fine. Since I disassembled the board from the bluray drive, (I read that you can run the PS3 with just the bluray's board attached if the drive is bad) I plugged it in and fired it up. Instead of erroring out around 70%, it finished to 100% then restarted. I looked on with my mouth agape. 8^O
Amazing that it worked! I thought I would have to try and marry a new bluray board to the mainboard. Anyway, I installed Netflix on it and am going to go and enjoy an episode or two of House of Cards!
Thanks for your help and encouragement, everyone! I love this messageboard!