Blu-rays / physical PS3 games stopped reading immediately after installing cfw. What's the deal?
*Edit 3: I've fixed it. WebmanMOD was somehow conflicting. Uninstalled, PS3 discs now run perfectly. Thanks to everyone who offered ideas!
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I've seen a few posts about this already, but usually the answers are outdated, deleted, or kind of unhelpful.
I'm aware that these blu-ray drives are old and eventually do die, but mine worked flawlessly just a matter of hours before I put cfw on the thing. And I keep seeing forum posts describing the same issue. I'm not convinced this is a coincidence, or that my laser just died of natural causes. I've tried this with multiple discs. PS3 games, Blu rays, PS1 games, DVDs. All that reads now are CDs. CDs work fine. Surprised DVDs aren't working.
If I re-install the latest version of Evilnat, I can see my disc pop up on the home screen like it should. This is not the "noBD" version of Evilnat. The PS3 recognizes the contents of the disc. But if I try to play that disc, the system seems to crash. Black screen, no fan noise to suggest it's doing anything. Eject button works. Power button will flash the power light until it finally does a force shutdown. On reboot after that force shutdown, the fan spins up fairly loud for a moment, and the game is again gone from the home screen. Eject, pop it back in, nothing. Re-install, there it is again, crash.
Do we know why this occurs?
*Edit: One quirk I've noticed is if I'm playing a downloaded game while a Blu-Ray movie is in the drive, I can see that disk. If I try to open the movie while in-game, of course the game has to close first. Once the game closes the movie vanishes. It won't reappear until I open a game.
*Edit 2: I've confirmed that the laser itself does work. Under specific conditions. Both lasers actually.
If I go to ★ Custom Firmware Tools > Service Tools > Check File System, click that. I'll then be told that the system didn't shut down correctly and it needs to do a whole verification thing. Then once I'm back at the XMB, I can see my disc. If it's a game disc then it'll just crash my console as soon as I click it, but a Blu-ray copy of a movie will actually play perfectly fine in these circumstances. I can pop it out and put another movie in, still works. Blu-ray, DVD. PS1 games work now too.
But if I pop a PS3 game in after, it'll show up, but running it still crashes my system. After that crash, no disc is gonna pop up until I either re-install Evilnat (which doesn't actually render the disc playable), or do the Check File System thing (which fixes all discs except for PS3 discs).