Recent content by sierranighter

Okay, I got it to work by using something inspired by this method. It turned out that the black part of the BD connector, meant to hold the flat cable in place had been snapped off and the connection wasn't good enough. Fixed that issue by sticking a thin piece of cardboard between the flat...

Okay, so I managed to get the console out of the "data is corrupted" error messages by formatting the HDD again and trying to install OFW 4.87 which I downloaded from the psxhax forum, however, I am back into the update loop with the 8002F14E error message. I opened to see if something could be...

Yeah, this was the first thing I tried to do but to no avail. At this point I think I'll have to bring it to someone who can do something at hardware level as the update software option in safe mode now freezes the console. I tried the rebuild database option too but that's endless wait on the...

I was wrong. When I try to install the OFW it gives me an 8002f2e4 error message. I thought it might be my USB stick, but I tried multiple ones and it was still the same.

Hello all, today I decided to bring out my old phat PS3 to play some classics. The PS3 was running HFW 4.86, however, when I tried enabling HEN it either freezes or it reboots itself. After struggling with this for a couple of hours, I decided to try and update the FW. I downloaded HFW 4.88 and...