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Going from OFW 4.91 —> CFW Evilnat 4.91 CEX, enabling QA Flags, and remarrying the bluray drive is enough to get the PS3 physical discs to read (in CFW). If I update to OFW 4.91 via recovery menu, then the PS3 physical discs no longer work. The fix I found - posting for others having this issue...

That results in the same error.

I bought a frankie’d PS3 which came with evilnat installed. I wanted the PS3 to be on OFW, so used the recovery menu to install the latest firmware twice. Since doing this (CFW—>OFW), the PS3 gives error 80010017 when reading a physical PS3 disc. PS2 games run fine off of disc. Things...

If you look in the PS3 service manual, you can find the circuit that supplies power to the BD drive. There is a transistor (Q6010) that, if it goes bad/burns out, makes it so the BD drive doesn’t get enough power to operate. Take a look at the circuit diagram to see it yourself, but it’s...

Hey guys, I ended up desoldering the bad transistor, grabbing one from a broken PS3, and soldering it in place. Used some flux of course. Just wanted to put this here in case someone else comes across this problem and wants direction. Peace.

Hi guys, I’ll cut to the chase at the top here and then the longer backstory will be at the bottom. The Q6010 transistor on my COK-001 (CECHA) motherboard is melted - picture is attached. As a result, the bluray drive will not accept discs (which renders the PS3 unable to play any games). I...