PS3 Repair
As I mentioned in an early blog post my PS3 died with a Yellow Light of Death(YLOD). It was an upleasent experience, but I ended up purchasing a new PS3 slim and all has been well.
Even before I purchased the new slim I thought about trying to find a used ps3 with a broken blu-ray drive so that I could attempt to get one ps3 working without wasting a lot of money. I just recently purchased a broken ps3 and managed to get it working using the blu-ray drive from my old ps3.
There was one trick to this though. Apparently the ps3 blu-ray drive has a controller on it which is tied to the motherboard on the ps3 by some kind of hardware identifier or something. So to swap the blu-ray drives I had to also swap the controller out on the drives.
I ended up with a fully operation backwards compatible 20gb ps3 for $75.00. I think things turned out nicely.
*I also replaced the 20gb drive with a 500gb drive
