Recent content by Xenon218

Greetings everyone! So I used to play a lot of OG COD's online before the 4.87 update, which happened many months ago at this point. A few days ago I came back to see if there's a REBUG 4.87 version as i have a 4.86 REBUG Lite on my PS3, but i cant seem to find one. Since I always updated from...

Greetings everyone, hopefully all of you are doing well and healthy! I've been repairing PS3's for about a year now and its mostly fat systems with either a YLOD or a broken BD drive, however I've bought a very unique PS3 that i need help with as i am not really sure what's wrong with it...

Greetings everyone, I hope all of you are safe and healthy during these times. As you probably already know, Sony is being a very sneaky again and they released the 4.87 update. I am currently running 4.86 Rebug Lite CFW and a guy I met on reddit claims to also have CFW and that with a simple...

Hello everyone! I've been repairing consoles for quite some time now and the usual enigma that i come across is people getting stuck in "infinite update loops" due to their BD being broken, or if the bd gets faulty people usually come across a black screen when they try to enter a game, and...

Have you tried swapping the logic board of your faulty BD drive to a working one? If the logic board of your original drive is working this might help you get pass the update. You can find someone who deals in PS3 parts taht might help you out or find the same region CECHK model, this all...

Again, try swapping the logic board of your dead drive with a working drive which is a BD-410 model.

If you are still having problems identifying the daughter board of the orginal dead blu ray drive, find a serial number which is written in the back of the drive, use the lin You are really out of luck on this one unfortunately, all PS3 models from CECHH to CECHK(depending on when and where the...

Exactly just to narrow down the problem so that the op knows for sure that it's not due to incomadibilty with the drives and that its mobo problem

You are misunderstanding what I am trying to say, I am not talking about the remarry process, instead I am talking about the update process, since during the update, the PS3 checks for the exact same version of the logic board, and if you do get The exact same version of the logic board you...

Models from CECHA to CECHG have same bluray drives, they are all BD400, which means they have the same daughter boards if i am not mistaken. CECHK models have compatible BD since they use PATA60p ribbon cables, the drives after CECHK use SATA24P cables which have smaller sockets on the board...

When you plug in those other two working blu ray drives, do you see a blue light once you turn on the console or at any point during the whole update process? Do you hear sounds coming from the blu ray drive? If you do see a blue light, that means that the ribbon cable is making contact with the...

Daughter boards of the blu ray drive i mean, which are integreted within the drive, not the wifi/BT board

I do not think so, i mean if it is, you should be able to smell it or see it, i haven't encoutered a blown fuse resulting in the blu ray drive failure, the error code the OP is recieving is 100% for a faulty blue ray drive, which is why i suggested that he should compare daughter boards of the...

You probably need a working logic board from the SAME model of your PS3, here is a link of all BD models https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Bluray_Drive take your faulty BD from your current console, look at the daughter board (if you need to unscrew the cover, do it) and then compare it with the...

One question though, i am stuck in recovery mode when i format my hdd since its looped, in recovery mode it says that i need 3.56 update or higher, can i just put any NOBD firmware on it? I do not remember exactly what the firmware was before it got looped since when it did i had to format the...