Sony ACY-BR81/OB - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

I can`t say anything about your psp without seeing it.i advice you to give to a good repair.

How long ago did it get wet?

First suggestion is to dunk it in rice (uncooked of course) for a period of 24 hours. Rice will **** the moisture out of it.

See if it works after that. If you, you might have to open it up to dry it with compressed air, if its motherboard hasn't been shorted already.

Good luck, and hope this helped...

PSP UMD Repair: Not reading UMD discs

I have seen many PSP's stop reading UMD discs and for the most part they are repairable with the least amount of opening your PSP.
First we will do some trouble shooting with what might be wrong with your PSP unit.
About 35% of the time I find that there is something stuck in the UMD gear. It is different every time, sometimes its a piece of dust, plastic, soda, and even hair.
Another 25% is the Disc Spinning motor. This will not let The disc in the UMD spin.
About 20% is the Laser motor, this might be hard to spot since it could be something in the gears.
About 10% is the actual laser itself. It will not focus the laser to read the UMD disc.
The Last 10% is the Motherboard. This is the worst outcome, since there is very little what we can do but replace the motherboard.
So first what we need to do is find out what is actually wrong with your PSP.
With your PSP in hand.
Turn on your PSP and remove any UMD that might be in there now.
If you open up the UMD door and look down inside you will see the Laser assembly.
If you look to the left there is a black tab that sticks up, this tells the PSP that there is a UMD in the drive.
If you press this down with a small probe, you should see the disc motor spin and the laser light up red
*** CAUTION DO NOT STARE DIRECTLY AT THE LASER ***

If the Motor is not spinning. is it moving slightly? Maybe a little twitch?
I would lean more towards the bad motor problem BUT would not say for sure, I would recommend that you take the parts out and see if there is another problem also.
If the laser is not lighting up then it could be the laser, I would try and check the cables to the PSP and see if there is a bad connection.
If both are running well then lets put a disc in and get your ear up close so you can hear what is going on in there.
On a working PSP you will hear the disc start to spin up, then you can hear the laser start to twitch, followed by the laser motor moving the laser down the rails.
Can you hear the disc spin up? If not I would take the disc out again and press the switch with your probe again. if the disc motor is spinning again, look around to see if the metal housing is obstructing the disc when you put it in.. there could be to much pressure for the disc to spin freely.
Can you hear the Laser focus? This might be hard to hear it will sound like a little tick. If you cant hear it tick I would move on and inspect this internally later.
Can you hear the Laser move down the rail? This will be a smooth sound of the gears, it should not be a really clicky sound.
If you can't hear it move down the track OR it is very clicky follow this.


It would look like this if your UMD door was off.
You should open the UMD door and carefully manually move the laser to the right side of the assembly.
Use a sharp THIN probe to manually move the WHITE gear under the metal housing. It is quite hard to see it in the photos so I put a red star around it.
I usually try and scrape the gears themselves to make sure there is no gunk or debris in the gear.
After this try and see if it is reading UMD again.
This fixes it about 35% of the time.
If none of this is working, it is time to open your PSP unit Or send it in for repair.
If you know what's wrong you can replace the problem here
Replace UMD Assembly
Replace UMD Disc Motor
Replace UMD Laser Motor
Replace PSP Motherboard

need any more help jst ask bro ... Symo02

Fix the Shaking Screen of the PSP First:Turn off your psp completely.
Second:Hold R Trigger,And turn on your psp.You will now be in "Recovery Mode"

Third:Go to CPU Speed.Then set Both Speed in XMB and Speed inUMD/ISO in 333

Last:Click Exit

YOUR DONE

get in toutch with sony thay will advise you wetther it can be fixed or if you need a new one

u just do wat i say......take ur psp and chuck it on the ground...maybe that will help.....

if the game is a umd i have no idea wat that is if its a downloaded game then probably the game has some bug attached to it ,or maybe u put some images or video/pics it has a bug/virus in it delete it if i were u then reset your psp........

Have you tried charging the unit? That exact thing happens with my PSP when it's not charged.

Hi,

Turn the PSP on. Slide the POWER/HOLD switch up and hold it for at least three seconds until the power indicator turns off. The system will be completely turned off. Then turn the PSP on.

Please post your feedback and Vote if the problem resovled as per your satisfaction.

which game you try to run?

check on windows control panel - computer management - disk management, you might find there is a hidden partition using all the space.
Try to reformat the whole flash disk , right click on it in MY Computer and click format. NB this will erase all data on the memory card

upgrade your system memory

Maybe the drive is partitioned into 2 or 3 partitions and only one is visible.
Try going into START -CONTROL PANEL - ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS - STORAGE and see what drives show up there. You may be able to assign a hidden drive a letter from there and it will be visible. NB Watch out though because changing the drive permanently may mean it wont work in the PSPwhen you put it back.

Follow this link to solve it, http://www.fixya.com/support/r4391734-usb_flashdisk_pen_drive_write_protect , and dont forget to report to me ... good luck

hi have you checked that you have the correct firmware installed as these will only run on certain firmware if you have updated to the recent 6.** then you might have a problem reading them, look for something called a pandora battery and you will find the firmware and all the information you need...hope this helps

Not sure is this actual PSP or play station. If it is Play station It is very possible that there is problem with laser that reads disks. Try to by PSP cleaner and run it and this might fix the issue.

Try plugging it into a new outlet, if that dosen't work go buy a new charger.

Open the umd door there is a small switch in the upper left corner if the tip is broken off of it it wont play umd's .The switch tells it the door is closed.

You have a compatiblity problem. You now cannot control your firmware version. You cannot back rev the firmware. I would suggest you get something called a Pandora Battery. They are cheap, and give you full control over what firmware you want to run, and can even run custom firmware.

bring it to sony because something is either dusty or it dropped. you dropped it or someone else did without telling you. It costs $89 plus tax to repair it at sony so buy a new one. u should get warranty if you buy a new one so this doesnt happen. make the warranty long or at a affordable price for you.