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The PlayStation 3 (or commonly known as the PS3) is the third home computer entertainment system produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the successor to the PlayStation 2. It was released November 11, 2006

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Replaced Faulty Drive Still Can't Read Discs

I have several PS3's and most of the issues are the that they won't read any games, movies and so on. I have some that do read the above. So what I did to try and narrow the problem is used one of the bluray drive out of the PS3s that work, same exact model. However when I put these working Bluray drive in the non working PS3's the bluray drive won't work there either, and when the one's that don't work in the ps3 that work, it don't work, could it be the data cable or something worst, I appreciate any help

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You have to swap the board electronics from the underside of the drive, as the electronics board contains a chip with the key married to the console. If you swap drives into another console, you have to use the board from the drive you swapped out.

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