Blu Ray Disc Drive - Error CE-35888-2

Hello! I know this is 5 years later but I believe I hold a solution that requires you to spend £0.00!!

All you need to do is the following

Boot your PS4 into safe mode

**INSERT A DISK INTO THE DISK DRIVE IF YOUR CONSOLE IS ACCEPTING DISKS! THIS IS A CRUCIAL STEP IN THE SOLUTION IVE FOUND**

You will hear it start to whir and spin

Select option 3 and update it from the internet

This has worked for me the past 3 updates and I'm pretty sure it will continue to work!

Worth a shot

After the update, you may have issues inserting disks when the console is booted up

Boot into safe mode and insert, and restart :) you may need to do this a few times.

I believe the issue with updating arises when the disk drive is idle /not doing anything

I'm not 100% sure this is the solution, but it's working for me and I've updated fine to 7.50 today

No fix that I found I replaced board and cable was willing to fork over for Blu Ray drive. I can to conclusion that the ps4 chips and Blu Ray were married after digging in forms aND you cant just replace them easily. I ended up trading in my ps4 getting newest version.

Sorry all maybe you can fix it but being IT Tech and DIY'ing a ton of stuff with eletronics I saw this as an issue worth more trouble then it's worth.

FYI Sony charge 160 $ to fix it + shipping. Gamestop will give aprox 200$ trade in I suggest the trade in.

Hi. From my understanding it sounds like you may have an issue with the data cable from the blue-ray to the motherboard or the blue-ray lens cable that connects to the daughter-board. You’re correct in saying that the PS4 daughter-boards are married to the main board and a different daughter-board will cause the CE-35888-2 error. As you still have the original daughter-board then this suggests an issue with one of the cables. I’d maybe check that both are properly seated and that there’s no broken legs in the connectors from the data cable on both the main board and the daughter-board. Its a common occurrence apparently and I’ve done this once or twice myself. If both are fine it could be an issue with the firmware as I’m aware that being on an extremely low revision has been causing problems from what I hear. I think there’s a couple of vids out there that might help as you will need to disconnect the data cable before updating, and re-connecting it once the update has completed but I know this won’t work for every one but worth a shot