Repair guide : Blu-Ray daughterboard (PCB) Playstation 3 Fat

Lift off the small silicone cover to release the screw that's holding the smart plate in place.

This screw, circled in red in the photo, secures the smart plate on your PS3.

Delicately push the smart plate cover down towards the bottom of the console.

Then grasp it in order to remove it from your Playstation 3.

Now lift the smart plate and remove it completely.

Now lift the top cover in order to remove it from the PlayStation 3.

Using a nylon spudger, delicately lever up the latch that secures the cable for the memory card reader in its connector.

Now remove the cable from its connector. To do this, delicately pull the cable. No resistance should be felt.

You can now completely remove the top cover from your PS3 Fat.

Disconnect the power supply cable for the Blu-Ray reader.

To do this, delicately pull the cable up to remove it from its connector .

Now delicately lift the Blu-Ray reader.

As indicated in the photos, use the nylon spudger to delicately lift the latch.

This connects the Blu-Ray reader to the logic board.

Now delicately pull on the cable in order to remove it from its connector.

No resistance should be felt.

Using the flat edge of the nylon spudger, lift the latch to unlock the Blu-Ray reader cable from its connector.

Delicately pull on the connector cable to remove it from its placement.

The cable should come up without any resistance.

The Blu-Ray reader of your PS3 Fat is now removed.

As indicated in the photo, grasp the Blu-Ray lens cable, and then pull up delicately.

This cable should lift out of its connector without resistance.

Using the iSesamo spudger (or nylon spudger) delicately flip the latch in order to release it.

This hold the data cable for the Blu-Ray reader in its connector.

As indicated in the photo, grasp the cable and delicately lift it. The cable should release from the connector without resistance.

Using the iSesamo spudger (or the nylon), delicately lever up the latch to lift it and release it.

This secures the cable for the motor of the Blu-Ray reader in its connecter on the daughterboard.

As indicated in the photo, grasp the cable and delicately lift it.

The cable should release from the connector without resistance.

Using the iSesamo spudger (or the nylon), delicately lever up the latch to lift it and release it.

This secures the cable for the infrared sensor of the Blu-Ray reader in its connector on the daughterboard.

As indicated in the photo, grasp the cable and delicately lift it.

The cable should release from the connector without resistance.

These secure the Blu-Ray readers daughterboard to the frame of the disc reader of your PS3.

Using your fingers, delicately pull the metal edge on the front of the Blu-Ray reader down slightly.

This is to make the removal of the daughterboard of the Blu-ray reader easier.

Lift the board up and flip it over to the right as indicated in the pictures.

With either the iSesamo spudger or the nylon spudger, delicately disconnect the plug for the infrared sensor cable.

Delicately pull on the Blu-Ray reader power supply cable in order to remove it from the plug on the daughterboard.

The daughterboard of the Blu-Ray reader on your Playstation 3 is now removed.

You can now replace it with a new daughterboard if necessary.