Post: Guide: How To Unbrick PS3 (Few Ideas)
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04-21-2012, 07:29 PM
#1
Red
Life In Technicolor
-60% forever loop - Gets to between 59% to 62% displays an error.
Your bluetooth/wireless/card reader modules is either loose (not the original ones shipped with your machine), or they are broken or non-working in parts. Try removing them, and replacing or cleaning the ribbon cable, if that does not work, unsolder the 8pin EEPROM containing the mac/bluetooth/usb info, and solder onto a new working module.
Brick Type Number 2
-65% forever loop - Gets to between 64% to 68% displays an error.
Your Blu-Ray drive is either loose (not the original one), or part of the drive board is dead, even though it was playing discs before. Try removing it, and replacing or cleaning all the ribbon cables, if that does not work, unsolder the 48pin BGA firmware chip and solder onto a new working drive board.
Brick Type Number 3
-99% freeze loop - Gets to 99% and just freezes.
Either your HDD is damaged or has a bad boot sector, or the reset signal on your motherboard is not working. Try another power supply, seems to work in many cases, or replace the small eject/reset/power board in the front of the motherboard.
If all else fails:
And the final answer, if all the above fails, normally due to bad download via wireless, or HDD corrupts the update, in these cases you will normally see fails at 10% or 20%, and definately before it reachs 50%, in all cases, say goodbye to your HDD, and your save files, because if you try again with the same HDD you will be back in a loop, and will need to redo the below fix again:
The definate final un-brick fix (if all the above fails on your unit):
1: Remove the looping HDD, and throw it away.
2: Disassmble your PS3, and unplug the battery.
3: Find another PS3 HDD that is from working machine which is using the same firmware that you were using before.
4: Wait about 30 minutes for the removed battery to drain from your PS3.
5: Reassemble your PS3.
6: Turn on your PS3 with the new HDD, but go straight into Recovery.
7: At the Recovery menu, pick the option 'RESTORE PS3 SYSTEM' (Number five on the list, not sure).
8: Answer all the appearing prompts, for language/date/time/internet, etc.
9: You now should have a working PS3 again running on the older firmware.
At this stage, you can decide to try the update again, but if it fails, again you need to throw away the HDD, and get another one, or use your Computer to ZERO-FILL it to get back into the recovery menu, after setting up the ZERO-FILLed HDD on another older firmware PS3.
04-21-2012, 07:45 PM
#2
xEnhancer
Cracking WI-FI
Originally posted by AnyOneDay
Brick Type Number 1
-60% forever loop - Gets to between 59% to 62% displays an error.
Your bluetooth/wireless/card reader modules is either loose (not the original ones shipped with your machine), or they are broken or non-working in parts. Try removing them, and replacing or cleaning the ribbon cable, if that does not work, unsolder the 8pin EEPROM containing the mac/bluetooth/usb info, and solder onto a now working module.
Brick Type Number 2
-65% forever loop - Gets to between 64% to 68% displays an error.
Your Blu-Ray drive is either loose (not the original one), or part of the drive board is dead, even though it was playing discs before. Try removing it, and replacing or cleaning all the ribbon cables, if that does not work, unsolder the 48pin BGA firmware chip and solder onto a now working drive board.
Brick Type Number 3
-99% freeze loop - Gets to 99% and just freezes.
Either your HDD is damaged or has a bad boot sector, or the reset signal on your motherboard is not working. Try another power supply, seems to work in many cases, or replace the small eject/reset/power board in the front of the motherboard.
If all else fails:
And the final answer, if all the above fails, normally due to bad download via wireless, or HDD corrupts the update, in these cases you will normally see fails at 10% or 20%, and definately before it reachs 50%, in all cases, say goodbye to your HDD, and your save files, because if you try again with the same HDD you will be back in a loop, and will need to redo the below fix again:
The definate final un-brick fix (if all the above fails on your unit):
1: Remove the looping HDD, and throw it away.
2: Disassmble your PS3, and unplug the battery.
3: Find another PS3 HDD that is from working machine which is using the same firmware that you were using before.
4: Wait about 30 minutes for the removed battery to drain from your PS3.
5: Reassemble your PS3.
6: Turn on your PS3 with the new HDD, but go straight into Recovery.
7: At the Recovery menu, pick the option 'RESTORE PS3 SYSTEM' (Number five on the list, not sure).
8: Answer all the appearing prompts, for language/date/time/internet, etc.
9: You now should have a working PS3 again running on the older firmware
At this stage, you can decide to try the update again, but if it fails, again you need to throw away the HDD, and get another one, or use your Computer to ZERO-FILL it to get back into the recovery menu, after setting up the ZERO-FILLed HDD on another older firmware PS3.
-60% forever loop - Gets to between 59% to 62% displays an error.
Your bluetooth/wireless/card reader modules is either loose (not the original ones shipped with your machine), or they are broken or non-working in parts. Try removing them, and replacing or cleaning the ribbon cable, if that does not work, unsolder the 8pin EEPROM containing the mac/bluetooth/usb info, and solder onto a now working module.
Brick Type Number 2
-65% forever loop - Gets to between 64% to 68% displays an error.
Your Blu-Ray drive is either loose (not the original one), or part of the drive board is dead, even though it was playing discs before. Try removing it, and replacing or cleaning all the ribbon cables, if that does not work, unsolder the 48pin BGA firmware chip and solder onto a now working drive board.
Brick Type Number 3
-99% freeze loop - Gets to 99% and just freezes.
Either your HDD is damaged or has a bad boot sector, or the reset signal on your motherboard is not working. Try another power supply, seems to work in many cases, or replace the small eject/reset/power board in the front of the motherboard.
If all else fails:
And the final answer, if all the above fails, normally due to bad download via wireless, or HDD corrupts the update, in these cases you will normally see fails at 10% or 20%, and definately before it reachs 50%, in all cases, say goodbye to your HDD, and your save files, because if you try again with the same HDD you will be back in a loop, and will need to redo the below fix again:
The definate final un-brick fix (if all the above fails on your unit):
1: Remove the looping HDD, and throw it away.
2: Disassmble your PS3, and unplug the battery.
3: Find another PS3 HDD that is from working machine which is using the same firmware that you were using before.
4: Wait about 30 minutes for the removed battery to drain from your PS3.
5: Reassemble your PS3.
6: Turn on your PS3 with the new HDD, but go straight into Recovery.
7: At the Recovery menu, pick the option 'RESTORE PS3 SYSTEM' (Number five on the list, not sure).
8: Answer all the appearing prompts, for language/date/time/internet, etc.
9: You now should have a working PS3 again running on the older firmware
At this stage, you can decide to try the update again, but if it fails, again you need to throw away the HDD, and get another one, or use your Computer to ZERO-FILL it to get back into the recovery menu, after setting up the ZERO-FILLed HDD on another older firmware PS3.
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07-06-2013, 05:39 PM
#4
DazedModding
Grunt
07-06-2013, 06:34 PM
#5
DarkPassenger
Do a barrel roll!
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