Hello everyone. I've reached my wits end. But time and time again, the community of Tom's Hardware has aided me in the pits of despair and brought me back. So now, I come to you all again.
I recently came into possession of a broken PS3. I've got plenty of repair experience regarding game consoles so I eagerly take on the challenge of repairing it.
It had the yellow light of death, and evidently had never been serviced before. I was excited. I knew there was hope for this fat old 80 gb CECHE PS3! I disassembled it, and woah.
There was rust, dust and bugs alive and dead. I cleaned it up, gave it a nice scrubbing with CRC QD Electronic Cleaning spray and a nylon brush. It cleaned up nicely. Then I reflowed the motherboard with a heat gun and applied from nice new thermal paste.
After reassembling, I fired it up and there you have it. A free, working PS3. My wife and I were so elated! We always wanted one, and we didn't have a blu ray player so the prospect of having the PS3 was very enticing.
However, the next problem was this. The Blu Ray drive had a disc in it. I quickly disassembled again! Removed the disc, reset the drive mechanism and reassembled! Bam! It worked! Terrific! We're in business!
Now, we proceeded to remove all the previous owners data. We formatted the system and cleaned all the data off.
Now it turns on and won't let us enter the system unless we have a DS3 Controller. SIGH.
So we go buy a brand new DS3 Controller, plug it in to the system and continue on our way! We set it up for it's update and now we're really excited.
Here's where the story goes bad.
The update downloads, and it begins to install. It gets all the way to 100% and gives a 8002F14E error.
I did some research and found that this is a hard drive error. I take the hard drive out and format it according to the instructions I found. I install it back into the PS3 and now when I turn on the PS3, I get no video output. The light stays green for a moment, then the system goes back to standby mode (solid red light)
The only way I can get ANY response out of the PS3 is by going to safe mode. None of the options in safe mode do any good for me. I've taken the drive out, reformatted it as FAT32 several times and tried again, I've removed the CMOS battery for an hour and tried again, all of this involving me assembling and disassembling the system several times and going to safe mode, trying every option to no avail.
As I said, I've reached my wits end. I know there's hope for this system, I just know it!
The hard drive can't be corrupt! Because in my PC, I can write and delete files from it at will. It functions as a drive should! Why doesn't the PS3 just format it automatically upon realizing there's a clean HDD in there? Why don't any of the safe mode options do anything except put the system into standby mode? What is going on?
I know it was a lot to read. But I just thought I'd give the full story before anyone attempted to give a solution. I've exhausted all of my ideas. Please help. Thanks for your time. And no worries, I will give a best answer to the one that saves the day.
I recently came into possession of a broken PS3. I've got plenty of repair experience regarding game consoles so I eagerly take on the challenge of repairing it.
It had the yellow light of death, and evidently had never been serviced before. I was excited. I knew there was hope for this fat old 80 gb CECHE PS3! I disassembled it, and woah.
There was rust, dust and bugs alive and dead. I cleaned it up, gave it a nice scrubbing with CRC QD Electronic Cleaning spray and a nylon brush. It cleaned up nicely. Then I reflowed the motherboard with a heat gun and applied from nice new thermal paste.
After reassembling, I fired it up and there you have it. A free, working PS3. My wife and I were so elated! We always wanted one, and we didn't have a blu ray player so the prospect of having the PS3 was very enticing.
However, the next problem was this. The Blu Ray drive had a disc in it. I quickly disassembled again! Removed the disc, reset the drive mechanism and reassembled! Bam! It worked! Terrific! We're in business!
Now, we proceeded to remove all the previous owners data. We formatted the system and cleaned all the data off.
Now it turns on and won't let us enter the system unless we have a DS3 Controller. SIGH.
So we go buy a brand new DS3 Controller, plug it in to the system and continue on our way! We set it up for it's update and now we're really excited.
Here's where the story goes bad.
The update downloads, and it begins to install. It gets all the way to 100% and gives a 8002F14E error.
I did some research and found that this is a hard drive error. I take the hard drive out and format it according to the instructions I found. I install it back into the PS3 and now when I turn on the PS3, I get no video output. The light stays green for a moment, then the system goes back to standby mode (solid red light)
The only way I can get ANY response out of the PS3 is by going to safe mode. None of the options in safe mode do any good for me. I've taken the drive out, reformatted it as FAT32 several times and tried again, I've removed the CMOS battery for an hour and tried again, all of this involving me assembling and disassembling the system several times and going to safe mode, trying every option to no avail.
As I said, I've reached my wits end. I know there's hope for this system, I just know it!
The hard drive can't be corrupt! Because in my PC, I can write and delete files from it at will. It functions as a drive should! Why doesn't the PS3 just format it automatically upon realizing there's a clean HDD in there? Why don't any of the safe mode options do anything except put the system into standby mode? What is going on?
I know it was a lot to read. But I just thought I'd give the full story before anyone attempted to give a solution. I've exhausted all of my ideas. Please help. Thanks for your time. And no worries, I will give a best answer to the one that saves the day.
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