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<blockquote data-quote="Coto" data-source="post: 4265384" data-attributes="member: 255070"><p>I just got into PS3 brew world last month since I've bought a SLIM CECH-2001 (buggy PSU, and 65nm RSX yay) so I put a fan as soon as I could. Anyway, since I wanted to enjoy homebrew on it, I had to research and all that..!</p><p></p><p>So (small story):</p><p></p><p>[spoiler]</p><p>When I bought it, I took an USB pendrive , and put inside x:/PS3/UPDATE/ an app called "MinVerChk". It'll tell you the base firmware you PS3 can have (mine was 2.70 iirc). It'll work on any OFW since it launches as a local update (through USB).</p><p></p><p>Then I had to pay to softmod it, I believe those guys used rogero v2 3.55 spoofed to 3.70. Anyway, a day like any other, I decided to switch to kmeaw's by installing OFW 3.55 through service mode. My ps3 was in mint condition since I've had played GTA IV the whole day. Well, when the upgrade reached 51% it simply "shut off", leaving a blinking pseudo standby red led.</p><p></p><p>Took out the power plug, popped it in, pressed power to turn it on. green led blinking, after 3 seconds, <strong>ylod</strong> then <strong>rlod</strong>. Dead PS3.</p><p>I had to take it to those guys who did the downgrade (mine was in 4.11, the method was through an E3 Flasher). Hopefully I had a copy of my NOR (16MB) when they did the downgrade.</p><p></p><p>When they rewrote the corrupted NOR (ylod can be because of flag_hardware returning error upon bootup, be it rsx,cell,nand,nor,sysconf,etc), it'd YLOD again on my face.. So yeah, a week-old just bought PS3 was dead because of a bad OFW restore (even rogero says you can do it anytime you want, since he removed LV2 checks), or maybe worse, a poorly performed downgrade.</p><p></p><p>I had to get an E3 flasher, solder to ground-point "tristate" on PS3 motherboard, so it'd return glod (green led of death) and let you access physically NOR/NAND without the system turning off...</p><p></p><p>Then, I had to byte-swap the NOR backup (because E3 flasher backup NOR mode writes on-reverse NOR/NAND headers), use a PSP as a jig-stick PS3 service mode enabler (it'll send special commands through USB), so my PS3 didn't ylod on me anymore.</p><p></p><p>Upon power up again, I had no longer ylod then rlod, but glod (contiuous green led of death, without nor tristate soldered, which meant the hardware was initialized correctly and waiting) but I had no video output or anything... but USB access! (ylod/blinking rlod can't reach that state, because of failed initializing some of ps3 vital chips). So, I could enter service mode (btw psp-jigstick is known to do NOT work on 6.xx fws, which is false because I have 6.20 nightly-permanent), psp sent some data, then after 20 seconds...</p><p>[/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>My ps3 is alive! I hope this could help someone out there who frankly don't wish to see a $250-300 doorstop paperweight</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coto, post: 4265384, member: 255070"] I just got into PS3 brew world last month since I've bought a SLIM CECH-2001 (buggy PSU, and 65nm RSX yay) so I put a fan as soon as I could. Anyway, since I wanted to enjoy homebrew on it, I had to research and all that..! So (small story): [spoiler] When I bought it, I took an USB pendrive , and put inside x:/PS3/UPDATE/ an app called "MinVerChk". It'll tell you the base firmware you PS3 can have (mine was 2.70 iirc). It'll work on any OFW since it launches as a local update (through USB). Then I had to pay to softmod it, I believe those guys used rogero v2 3.55 spoofed to 3.70. Anyway, a day like any other, I decided to switch to kmeaw's by installing OFW 3.55 through service mode. My ps3 was in mint condition since I've had played GTA IV the whole day. Well, when the upgrade reached 51% it simply "shut off", leaving a blinking pseudo standby red led. Took out the power plug, popped it in, pressed power to turn it on. green led blinking, after 3 seconds, [b]ylod[/b] then [b]rlod[/b]. Dead PS3. I had to take it to those guys who did the downgrade (mine was in 4.11, the method was through an E3 Flasher). Hopefully I had a copy of my NOR (16MB) when they did the downgrade. When they rewrote the corrupted NOR (ylod can be because of flag_hardware returning error upon bootup, be it rsx,cell,nand,nor,sysconf,etc), it'd YLOD again on my face.. So yeah, a week-old just bought PS3 was dead because of a bad OFW restore (even rogero says you can do it anytime you want, since he removed LV2 checks), or maybe worse, a poorly performed downgrade. I had to get an E3 flasher, solder to ground-point "tristate" on PS3 motherboard, so it'd return glod (green led of death) and let you access physically NOR/NAND without the system turning off... Then, I had to byte-swap the NOR backup (because E3 flasher backup NOR mode writes on-reverse NOR/NAND headers), use a PSP as a jig-stick PS3 service mode enabler (it'll send special commands through USB), so my PS3 didn't ylod on me anymore. Upon power up again, I had no longer ylod then rlod, but glod (contiuous green led of death, without nor tristate soldered, which meant the hardware was initialized correctly and waiting) but I had no video output or anything... but USB access! (ylod/blinking rlod can't reach that state, because of failed initializing some of ps3 vital chips). So, I could enter service mode (btw psp-jigstick is known to do NOT work on 6.xx fws, which is false because I have 6.20 nightly-permanent), psp sent some data, then after 20 seconds... [/spoiler] My ps3 is alive! I hope this could help someone out there who frankly don't wish to see a $250-300 doorstop paperweight [/QUOTE]
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