What should I do with my broken PS3

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angusmcgeady

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I have a broken ps3 (2 actually) and don't know what to do with them don't want to just throw them in the bin because that seems like a waste any ideas
 
sandungas said:
Throw them out of the window (but tell me where you live before doing it) jk :D
What is broken exacty ?
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Hard drive failed on both on was cfw and one was ofw bought another hard drive but that didn't fix anything hard drive seems to be working fine and I have tried everything I can think of to fix them so I've just given up trying
 
angusmcgeady said:
Hard drive failed on both on was cfw and one was ofw bought another hard drive but that didn't fix anything hard drive seems to be working fine and I have tried everything I can think of to fix them so I've just given up trying
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First thing you should do is to connect them to a TV and try to boot them without hdd. If you see a text warning screen in the TV it means the hardware is not much damaged, and the software is working partially

Is the kind of test needed to do incase of serious problems, if you see the text on the TV screen is really a good sympthom
 
sandungas said:
First thing you should do is to connect them to a TV and try to boot them without hdd. If you see a text warning screen in the TV it means the hardware is not much damaged, and the software is working partially

Is the kind of test needed to do incase of serious problems, if you see the text on the TV screen is really a good sympthom
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Yea it says cannot start storage not found
 
It just means that hardware wise, your ps3s are good and working correctly.

You have to re-install firmware after a hdd swap though, it's not just plug-and-play.
Download the CFW/OFW update pup that matches the current version installed.
Create folder structure on USB drive (usb://PS3/UPDATE)
Copy/paste the update to this directory (rename update to "PS3UPDAT.PUP" if needed)
Install HDD.
Insert usb drive into right most usb port on ps3 (the one closest to the BD drive)
Boot ps3, it will state there is no ps3 software found and search for the update on USB.
Follow onscreen instructions to re-install CFW/OFW
 
Fin9ersMcGee said:
It just means that hardware wise, your ps3s are good and working correctly.

You have to re-install firmware after a hdd swap though, it's not just plug-and-play.
Download the CFW/OFW update pup that matches the current version installed.
Create folder structure on USB drive (usb://PS3/UPDATE)
Copy/paste the update to this directory (rename update to "PS3UPDAT.PUP" if needed)
Install HDD.
Insert usb drive into right most usb port on ps3 (the one closest to the BD drive)
Boot ps3, it will state there is no ps3 software found and search for the update on USB.
Follow onscreen instructions to re-install CFW/OFW
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I have tried this many times with different updates hdd usb everything I can think of. The only I can think might be wrong is the hdd I have tested it as much as I can and it all seems fine I also bought another hdd but it was completely fucked so I don't want to waste more money
 
For repair purposes (and to hack them later) you can simply install 4.86OFW
But if you dont want to make an effort by using a different hdd then you are sol

hint: the problem seems to be in the hdd
 
sandungas said:
For repair purposes (and to hack them later) you can simply install 4.86OFW
But if you dont want to make an effort by using a different hdd then you are sol

hint: the problem seems to be in the hdd
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I have a working ps3 but I don't know if I should try the hdd from it as I don't want to break it aswell as having to format it
 
angusmcgeady said:
I have a working ps3 but I don't know if I should try the hdd from it as I don't want to break it aswell as having to format it
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Have you tried to connecting the 2 broken hdds to a PC?
As long as you dont care about the contents on them, you could try a format and then retry installing firmware on ps3.

Also, the superslim ps3 has an onboard 12gb EMMC. So it should work fine without a HDD.
 
Fin9ersMcGee said:
Have you tried to connecting the 2 broken hdds to a PC?
As long as you dont care about the contents on them, you could try a format and then retry installing firmware on ps3.

Also, the superslim ps3 has an onboard 12gb EMMC. So it should work fine without a HDD.
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The two hdd that where originally in the ps3s are long because I thought I could just reinstall the firmware on the two new hdd I have at the minute when I plug one into my computer the whole computer crashes the other hdd I have seems to be working fine and it's the one I've been using to try and reinstall the firmware I've have tried different formats on the hdd and none have worked.

I didn't know that about the super slim so I'll do some research on that and see what happens
 
angusmcgeady said:
The two hdd that where originally in the ps3s are long because I thought I could just reinstall the firmware on the two new hdd I have at the minute when I plug one into my computer the whole computer crashes the other hdd I have seems to be working fine and it's the one I've been using to try and reinstall the firmware I've have tried different formats on the hdd and none have worked.

I didn't know that about the super slim so I'll do some research on that and see what happens
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These new HDDs, are they brand spanking new? Or used?
 
angusmcgeady said:
...at the minute when I plug one into my computer the whole computer crashes
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This is a hardware problem located in the circuit board of the HDD, probably it have one of the voltage pins connected to a ground pin (so it have a short curcuit), and when you connect it to PC the shortcircuit is detected by the ATX PSU and it cut all voltage outputs for safety reasons
Maybe that hdd "killed" the SATA ports (or the PSU's) of the PS3's ? hmmm

Be careful with that hdd, as you could see the PC ATX PSU's resists this kind of short circuits, but not indefinitivelly
I mean... if you do it 3 or 5 times probably the PSU and motherboard are going to survive... but if you repeat it 30 times there is going to be a point where something is going to be damaged

So if you want to repair that hdd "at home" do it with a very old PC (kind of thing that you dont care it it explodes), or even with a old PSU not connected to any PC, this way you only risk the PSU used in the tests
By now dont connect that hdd to the PS3's ever... just store it somewhere and forget about it for some months, maybe is easy to repair but is a bad timing to try it in my oppinion

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Do you have a multimeter to meassure the voltage in the PS3 SATA connector ?
At this point i think this is the first thing i would try to check... now that you explained the problem of that hdd it makes more sense.. that hdd is a killah
 
angusmcgeady said:
Both used one I had laying around and one I bought off eBay that's was apparently brand new but yet doesn't work
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Hmmm... So the "new" hdd you purchased. What happens when you attach it your PC? It just doesn't show up in windows or device manager? Sometimes when I attach drives to my PC, I need to refresh the list on "Device Manager" for it to be picked up.

Open "Computer Management" in windows, click the "Disk Management" part of the tree. In the main window , does your drive show up?
 
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