I have more or less the same problem. (I didnt wanted to start a new thread for a similar actual issue)
I was able to save my CECHC with broken BD port on the motherboard and installed a noBD versions of Rebug 4.84.2 D-Rex and 4.91 Evilnat Beta 8 PEX (converted it to Dex), but I cannot start any...
I still have not repaired by mainboard and I havent plugged in a BDDrive. I dont know if I was lucky or not or did something special.
As I mentioned, I tried to update from 4.81 to 4.91 and had the loop. To get out off it, I formated the HDD and did the steps I mentioned
You could have tried to...
Ok after trying several things the whole night, I am now able to boot to XMB without the drive.
I did the following:
1. Formated / Deleted the HDD on PC
2. Created a FAT32 partition with 30GB
3. Downloaded my actual system Firmware (4.81) and put the .pup in the PS3/Update folder on my USB...
Hello all,
I got a used PS3 CECHC with OFW 4.81.
Unfortunatley the BD port on the mainboard is toast and cannot be repaired.
Unluckily I tried to update the system to 4.91 but it fails with 8002f14e (no BD) Error.
There is no way to get the BD reattached to the mainboard, because the connection...