Just wondering if anyone has managed to figure out the optical drive stuff that keeps you from swapping in just any drive into a console? I don't know much about this console and how it works, so I don't know if the issue is a real technical/incompatability one or just some DRM ***.
...or at the very least figured out a way to bypass whatever check prevents the console from updating when it detects that there is no optical drive installed.
You can replace it, but for some reason they decided to screw a part of the motherboard on to the optical drive, and some people just throw it out thinking it's actually part of the drive itself. When they buy a new optical drive and see it doesn't have that board is when they realize they scr..ed up.
In my case, I bought a ps4 on eBay, but the daughter board that came with it doesn't seem to be the right one for the motherboard. A consequence of this is that, aside to not being able to play disc-based games, the system itself can't even update to play digital downloads (or even connect to psn).
That's what has me suspicious. I don't know if that's just some *** DRM to keep people from tampering with the hardware, or if there's actually a technical reason why the boards aren't interchangeable.
I'm sure it's just a way to prevent consumers from being able to fix their own products. They want you to buy new or ship your console to a service center.
Does it quit? If not, then it's legit... Too legit.