this broken ps5 was sent to sony's
repair center for repair but they sent
it back and said it was unfixable but
we'll be the judge of that let's get it
apart and see if we can fix it this
video is sponsored by ifixit more on
them in a minute a viewer named leo sent
me his ps5 so i could make this video so
thank you to leo okay and i can see that
somebody's uh been into the disk drive
that makes sense because the person that
sent it said that their kid put a cookie
into the disk drive they said that the
disk drive itself is now fixed but the
problem they're having now
is that this cable has been torn from
the board
apparently this is what sony couldn't
fix that's no problem though i'll give
you guys a little training lesson sony
for this repair i'm going to be using
ifixit's protect tool kit this toolkit
is one of my favorites because it's got
all the basic things you need to open up
almost any device we've got pry tools
over here a suction cup right here
anti-static wrist strap and then
tweezers and pry tools right here along
with this pick set right here these are
especially useful for things like phone
screen repairs and then over here we
have my favorite part of the kit
this is the bit and driver set this has
all the common bits that you need for
most fasteners along with a lot of
specialty ones like we've got game bits
over here we've got a sim card tray
removal tool and then of course we've
got the security torx right up here
along with several other specialty bits
and then a nut driver set i love the
design of this whole set but the
functionality of the driver set is
probably my favorite you can just remove
it from the entire kit because there's a
magnetic back here and a magnetic back
here once we have it removed we can use
the top cover as a screw tray holder or
we can just set it underneath to get it
out of the way you can buy this protect
tool kit right on ifixit's website or
i'll also leave an amazon link in the
description ifixit also has lots of
repair guides on their website along
with parts and tools for most devices in
order to prevent this type of connector
from ripping off of the board we need to
pull on this white piece that plugs into
this off-white piece this off-white
piece is attached to the motherboard
this white piece is not so we want to
pull on this edge and this edge of just
the white piece making sure that the
pliers don't slip and damage these wires
so i will put my pliers
right there making sure that they're not
pulling on the off-white piece and then
we just pull straight up like that
and then same with this connector over
here if it's tight we can wiggle back
and forth as we pull up and then we can
remove
this black mid-frame piece
now that we have that removed we can see
the damage
on the disk drive board so this
off-white piece right here should be
still connected to the board clearly
it's not
so let's remove it
there we go and these little brown
patches right here are the copper pads
that were attached to the board and
these copper pads are where the current
flows from the various parts of the
board that need to give
the disk drive power so in order to
repair this we need to remove these
brown pads right here and then we need
to scrape off sections of the green
solder mask that cover the copper traces
that will enable us to solder these
little silver pins onto the parts of
these traces that we scraped off and
then we'll solder it all down we'll also
need to build some sort of mounting pins
over here to mount the connector too so
it's not just loosely flopping around on
the board i could probably solder this
on correctly without removing the disk
drive but i'm actually going to remove
the disk drive and disassemble it so i
can get to just this board right here
that will just enable me to be able to
access all the little places that i need
to on the board just to make sure i get
this soldered on as solidly as we can so
we just need to disconnect it from here
and then the disk drive just lifts right
off i also want to make sure that the
disk drive is working correctly because
there's no point in doing all this work
to fix this connector if the disk drive
itself is broken
i see some cookie remnants right here
let's remove this board first
now i'm going to just remove this bottom
metal plate from the disk drive with the
metal plate removed we can see the
inside of the drive and just make sure
everything's working correctly
everything looks good on the metal plate
itself don't see any problems there and
other than a few crumbs on this roller
i don't see any problems inside the
drive either so let's give this roller a
bit of a cleaning might as well clean
this one while we're here okay now we're
going to put this back together and get
to the hard part
so the normal position of this connector
is right about there
but since we need to make sure that we
have a good mounting plane for
each of these mounting pins over here
and then also in order to be able to
connect these four pins to the circuits
on the board what i'm going to do is
just move this connector back
right about
there or so
right against this capacitor back here
and then that will make it so we can
solder these pins right down to what's
left of these traces on the board and
then we can use this part of the board
to mount the connector to using the side
mounting pins although that could be a
problem here because there is that
little via so i may need to solder this
on a little bit crooked
in order to avoid that
so i'm going to get this all prepped and
then we'll do the soldering work
before i go to solder on the connector i
will remove these brown pads that were
torn up from the board and that will
enable me to solder this connector
right down onto these fresh new pads on
the board
so now with the solder mask removed the
solder will stick to it we're going to
put some flux on these pads first flux
just helps the solder flow then after
the flux is on i'll come through with my
soldering iron and add some solder to
each of these pins that'll make it so
when i go to solder on the connector the
solder from the connector will stick
onto the solder that's attached to this
board and now with this connector
soldered on let's get under a microscope
and just check all our joints and make
sure it all looks good
so this first mounting pin over here
that's mounted on there really nicely
got a really good connection of solder
right there so that's gonna be really
strong this first pin right here looks
great
second pin also looks great third pin
looks great fourth pin
also looks great so all these pins are
soldered on very well
these aren't going to go anywhere
this mounting pin over here doesn't have
quite as much of a solder connection to
the board but there's really not much
else i could do here because there just
wasn't very much material here on the
board for me to solder to so this is
about as good as we're gonna get and the
best news is that the connector is
soldered on very solidly so now we need
to put the disk drive back together then
we can install the drive back in the
console and start the console up and see
if the disk drive actually works and now
with the ps5 all back together let's see
if it'll turn on
good so far do we have eject
eject button works
let's see if it's going to come up on
the screen and if it does we'll try out
a disk
okay everything is looking good so far
i'm going to try putting a disc in and
let's see if the disk drive works
doesn't sound the best that's for sure
okay but it is reading okay there we go
so the disk drive is working great it
doesn't sound the best but it is fully
working so we know the disk drive fully
works but it's got that buzzing noise
and i think i know why so i've got the
cover off so we can access the disk
drive the first thing that can cause
that type of problem is this sticker
right here so this is a fairly rigid
sticker and when you put your
screwdriver down here to turn this
manual eject screw this sticker actually
can point in and stay there and just
kind of stay deformed and it will
actually the sticker will actually
contact these little parts of this
plastic it's kind of like a plastic
screw down here this plastic screw turns
very fast and when this plastic piece
contacts it and it's turning very fast
it can make a buzzing noise
so the easy fix for this
is just to remove this plastic piece
just like that and now you can see the
screw a little bit better and this
little tab right here is what was
rubbing against it and that's part of
the reason for the noise let's start it
up and see how much noise is still there
i don't think that got rid of all of the
noise but let's check
definitely a lot of noise there still
so since we still got a lot of noise
there we got to take the disc drive the
rest of the way apart so we'll get it
apart and have a look at those little
gears so right over here is the gear
train of this disk drive so let's remove
the laser assembly out
of
it and then we can see
just the motor and the gear train right
here
so on the top side is the manual eject
screw
and that should operate this whole gear
train
when we turn it
so if i put my screwdriver in here
it does not turn either way
it's just totally bound up in there
but at the same time i don't see any
problems with any of these gears so
there's either something going on with
one of the gears or we could actually
just have a bad motor as well
i think the next step is going to be
removing this whole gear train
and then we can check the motor and the
gear train and see what exactly is
causing this to bind up already gotten
that screw out down there so now we need
to remove this one
and there's one more screw right under
there so we need to remove this plastic
piece first and i've actually never done
that before on these things
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okay
that wasn't too bad
now we can get that screw off
also we can see a worm gear down here so
this worm gear right here
is what drives this entire gear train
that screw out we should be able to get
this whole gear train out now
okay and there we go
so first things first i don't see any
problem with any of these gears
there's nothing stripped i don't see
anything binding here so i don't think
the problem is in the gear train i think
maybe it's either with this worm gear or
possibly even the motor itself
so one way to figure out what exactly is
causing this problem is to just start
removing gears
and then
once we get all the gears removed we can
see if the motor is still having that
issue
oh i did get it to turn oh i had it
turning and then it just stopped
i think we have a motor problem here
because i can some there we go
it's turning now
but it won't turn the other way and then
it's locked up again it doesn't look
like the worm gear itself is damaged or
anything like that so i think the noise
we're hearing is these gears kind of
skipping
and
causing that noise
just like that
so if we look at a known good drive
which i happen to have right here
we can put our screwdriver in
and you see how easily that turns
and also how quietly so i think the
obvious answer here is to remove the
motor from this disk drive and put it
into the broken one
so here is
the manual eject and we can turn it very
easily both ways here it is from the
other side everything turns nice and
freely now i want to get the laser back
in and test it again i just want to kind
of test it at every step along the way
just to make sure that it's going to
work
once we get it all
put back together so now we can install
the bottom plate
and let's test it one more time with the
bottom plate on
okay
and that is all turning freely now i'm
just gonna get the rest of this disk
drive put back together and then we'll
test it once more before we get it put
into the ps5 and now let's test it one
more time i just want to make sure it
turns freely and doesn't make a ton of
noise
oh yeah
that's that's working great feels great
now i just need to get this disk drive
put back into the ps5 then we can test
it again
so we have our ps5 all back together
we've got it started up let's see if it
plays a disc and if it's nice and quiet
how it should be
and here we go
it's nice and quiet
but does it read the disc okay it shows
that there's a disc in it it's reading
it and it is still nice and quiet
okay and there we go
let's eject it and just make sure that
it's going to stay nice and quiet when
we eject it
there we go that's what it's supposed to
sound like so this ps5 is fixed and sony
just give me a call if you want me to do
some training for you if you like this
type of video you'll probably like the
video where i tried to fix a ps5 that
two other shops couldn't fix i'll put
that link up on your screen now so you
can come hang out with me over there and
see if i can fix it thank you again to
ifixit for sponsoring this video thank
you for watching it and i hope you have
a good one
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