Playstation 3 Boot Loop problem 8002F14E

[Retrowire]

Hey everyone,

So here I am, repairing and setting up this old fat 80 gb PS3. I wiped all the previous owners info, I cleaned rust off the motherboard, I fixed it's yellow light of death issue!

It lives! Another problem came up though, where I had to reset the mechanisms inside the blu ray drive and I fixed that.

Finally, my wife and I bought a PS3 controller so that we could get past the newly formatted initial setup screen. We're in the console and we set up the system update.

It get's all the way to 100% and then BAM! 8002F14E error code. A boot loop begins. The PS3 attempts the update all the way to 100% and fails every time.

I looked the error code up everywhere and found that it's a hardware failure. Could be anything. So I'm looking for solutions here and there and someone recommends removing the hard drive, plugging it into a computer and initializing it.

I do so, and when I plug it back in the PS3, I suddenly have no video output from the machine. None whatsoever. I put it into safe mode and "Restore File System" and "Restore PS3 System" do nothing for me. They start, then the system cuts video output, then turns off. Nothing.

Needless to say, I'm frustrated. It seemed like we were on the road to success and then this happens.

Any help is appreciated! Thank you.

 

[getochkn]

usually see that error when the bluray drive is dead or sometimes even the laser. a non-functioning laser can cause this.

could be the hard drive, bluray controller, anywhere. i don't usually bother with these ones in my shop if it's not the drive/laser. Controller chip also dies on the bluray drive. do you have a ps3 game to test with? put it in. it will pull the disc in, spin itself up, and spin the disc regardless of the system working or not, as soon as the drive gets power, and providing the drive/laser/controller chip are working, it should spin the disc.

 

[Retrowire]

usually see that error when the bluray drive is dead or sometimes even the laser. a non-functioning laser can cause this.

could be the hard drive, bluray controller, anywhere. i don't usually bother with these ones in my shop if it's not the drive/laser. Controller chip also dies on the bluray drive. do you have a ps3 game to test with? put it in. it will pull the disc in, spin itself up, and spin the disc regardless of the system working or not, as soon as the drive gets power, and providing the drive/laser/controller chip are working, it should spin the disc.

hello again getochkn!

I can confirm that it does spin the disc.

Does that mean we can rule out the blu ray drive being the corrupt piece of hardware here?

I'm thinking it's the hdd, any advice there?

 

[Retrowire]

The scary part is, I can remove the hdd and start up the console, I still have no video output, hdd or not. The only time I get output is in safe mode.

 

[Pirate_3]

I have the same problem however my disk won't spin in my drive and it does the same thing wether my bluray drive is plugged in or not stops at 97% i recently just tried it without the bluray drive plugged in and it stopped at 95%. Im a PC guy so i don't quite understand what is going on please help.