Bad DVD drive board. Changing the board shall be less costly, but will need soldering.

If every one of the connections to your DVD drive are safe, it is possible that the board in the DVD drive has a quick inside it or even a blown surface-mount fuse. Take away the DVD drive and change it by having a brand new someone to see if that actually works. You can either replace the entire drive, or try to find a replacement board if it does.

Bad motherboard

Then it may be a bad motherboard if the cables and the drive are not the problem that cause the DVD drive not to turn on. It is hard to check this without finding a motherboard that is new testing your DVD drive on a known working console. Then you will have to replace the motherboard if the drive still works on another board.

DVD drive shall perhaps perhaps not read discs. The drive takes discs, but will not read them

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