Trying to Fix 60GB PS3, No video output

[Jamisonia]

My friend gave me her backwards compatiable PS3 to fix. She was complaining that it was working intermittently. She gave it to another friend to fix, and he wasn't able to, instead he gave it back to her with no hard drive or caddy. So I got into it, replaced the thermal grease put it back together to find that the ribbon cable holder for the Blu-Ray drive had been broken. The part that clips the ribbon into place on them motherboard is gone. I'm able to get the drive to work if I hold the cable in there, but I can't get it to stay permanently. Any suggestions on how to make the cable stay permanently would be helpful.

I tried testing the console. It powers up fine. If I'm holding the ribbon cable in place the drive works perfectly. I get a blue light on when its reading, and a green light for power. But I get no video. I tried a standard composite cable, and HDMI. Nada. I tried putting in a blank hard drive, and I get the same Nada. No video. I tried to do the video reset, by holding down the power button from standby until I get two beeps. Nothing, no video. As far as I can tell the console is working. I get a red light in standby mode, and a green light when its on. The eject button works correctly, but I get no video.

So one, any ideas on how to permanantely attach that ribbon cable?

Two, is there is strange reason I wouldn't get any video or audio?

[theclaw]

You should also know HDCP is mandatory on HDMI output from PS3. PS3 will under no circumstances output any video and/or audio from its HDMI port, if the HDCP handshake fails. Nothing. At all. Not even the XMB at 480p, not so much as a warning beep or message comes through the HDMI line.

[Jamisonia]

I hadn't thought of HDCP handshake failure, but all of my equipment is HDCP compliant. I also tried using compositie over the Sony Multi AV cables and that also didn't work.

[Jamisonia]

I was able to fix the ribbon cable situation. I stuck a piece of cardboard in with the ribbon cable and taped it. I still get to video with out without a hard drive inserted in the PS3. I am currently formating a hard drive to FAT32. I understand the PS3 cannot recognize NTFS. I'll try this with a firmware upgrade USB stick to see if that helps.