Recent content by Davewatts

It shouldnt be an issue. I formatted mine in the process of figuring this out and it still works.

Wow, central Florida, you are really close by lol. I'm in Bartow. As long as you laser is in good condition to read the original disk you should be good to go. You will need a freemcboot memory card and I have the files needed to copy over. Send me a message and Ill get you some links and walk...

The hard rive from hx900 won't work, it's just a standard drive. I've already tried lol it's not recognized by a psx.

So far I have tried 2 drive board swaps but 1 would never start up fully and the other killed the spindle motor. So it would need the service data and identical hardware lol. Both drives I tried were physically identical. What I want to learn to do is dump a drives controller/firmware and see...

just curious if there was ever a working kernel clock payload for 6.72. i have a pro that i always have to run todex on to get it to do anything

i do lol

when the hard drive is connected to a pc does it show up in device manager or under computer management (dont initialize it)?

theres a chance you wont even need my help once you get that cable in. you may have a functional hard drive already. ahh ok good i would have offed my spare up if you couldnt find one lol just sucks theres safe way to power it up without that cable. it controls everything, IR disk insert power...

hey sorry ive been out of state for awhile. just caught up reading here and yep that will definitely be the issue. the powering on when plugged in is normal so that a plus. first things first is replacing that ribbon cable and then checking the smart data on that drive and getting a raw copy if...

anyone have this compiled lol or can teach me how to?

I'm in search of anyone with a psx2 console that has a functional xmb that has or can dump the hard drive with freemcboot

Yeah give me a few minutes and I'll send you the one I have

I just made this quickly in paint lol but it saves from soldering onto the legs of the chip other than SX on pin 1 which is super easy

Hmmm more than mechapwn? You have my interest now lol. If you are able to still copy to and from the hard drive then it's mostly working still and probably some curruption on it causing the black screen. I would definitely try to boot an update disk (I have plenty of images to burn). You...

im working on a write up on how i fixed my desr 5000 with a scph 20401 and restored dvr functions. So im looking for people that have a 5000 or 7000 with a dead hard drive access to sony hard drive and the ability to install a modbo on it (atleast until mechpwn supports it) and a memory card...