Hey everyone, I have been a long time modder of xbox 360's. I have went through my share of adventures and stories with them for about 5 years in the modding scene. Yesterday I picked up a PS3 from a friend for $50. He said it had YLOD and he fixed it and it seemed to work now. So I thought why not give Sony a go.
Well I got it home hooked it up and everything seemed to be okay. I first tried to connect to the internet and for some reason it wouldn't find my home wifi or wouldn't recognize that I had an ethernet cable plugged into it. It would also sometimes give me some error code number. At the time I took that to Google but couldn't find anything useful.
Next step, I thought it might fix the problem if i download the newest 4.41? I think update and install that from a usb. Lawdedaw put it on the stick and all that jazz. Go into update and hit update from usb. The first loading bar goes to 100% no problem. Then once the console resets and it goes into that second loading for the update this is when we get problems. Every time it would load to 83% and fail giving me some error code that ended in F1F9 i believe (probably would help if I wrote these down :/). Then it got stuck in the stupid update loop of failing at 83% every stinking time.
Back to Google I go! Still nothing useful. I decided to give the hard drive format a go. So I ripped the hard drive out of the PS3 and hooked it up to my PC. Went into device manager and formated the drive with NTFS Im almost sure of. Plugged the drive back into the PS3 and to no avail. When I turn it on the green light comes on for a few seconds then the console shuts off again.
Ah Ha! Safe mode! Up into safe mode I go. Try every option in there. When I press rebuild database I get the hard drive could not be accessed or not readable or whatever (seems like the hard drive was formatted into the wrong format?). So I tried to do the system update through safe mode and it goes to a loading screen trying to read the usb and after a few seconds it gives me a major error that tells me to call tech support LOL (maybe this one ended in F1F9? idk).
So yes. Im just about ready to take the thing to the street with a sledgehammer:devilish:.
My next move in the morning is to format the hard drive again and try updating through safe mode with firmware 3.73 which is what was on the PS3 when I got it. I have no idea what's going on! so any help to get this thing back from the grave would be very appreciated because I just want to play GOW and Last of Us!
Thanks!
Hope to have many adventures in the Sony scene.:cool:
Well I got it home hooked it up and everything seemed to be okay. I first tried to connect to the internet and for some reason it wouldn't find my home wifi or wouldn't recognize that I had an ethernet cable plugged into it. It would also sometimes give me some error code number. At the time I took that to Google but couldn't find anything useful.
Next step, I thought it might fix the problem if i download the newest 4.41? I think update and install that from a usb. Lawdedaw put it on the stick and all that jazz. Go into update and hit update from usb. The first loading bar goes to 100% no problem. Then once the console resets and it goes into that second loading for the update this is when we get problems. Every time it would load to 83% and fail giving me some error code that ended in F1F9 i believe (probably would help if I wrote these down :/). Then it got stuck in the stupid update loop of failing at 83% every stinking time.
Back to Google I go! Still nothing useful. I decided to give the hard drive format a go. So I ripped the hard drive out of the PS3 and hooked it up to my PC. Went into device manager and formated the drive with NTFS Im almost sure of. Plugged the drive back into the PS3 and to no avail. When I turn it on the green light comes on for a few seconds then the console shuts off again.
Ah Ha! Safe mode! Up into safe mode I go. Try every option in there. When I press rebuild database I get the hard drive could not be accessed or not readable or whatever (seems like the hard drive was formatted into the wrong format?). So I tried to do the system update through safe mode and it goes to a loading screen trying to read the usb and after a few seconds it gives me a major error that tells me to call tech support LOL (maybe this one ended in F1F9? idk).
So yes. Im just about ready to take the thing to the street with a sledgehammer:devilish:.
My next move in the morning is to format the hard drive again and try updating through safe mode with firmware 3.73 which is what was on the PS3 when I got it. I have no idea what's going on! so any help to get this thing back from the grave would be very appreciated because I just want to play GOW and Last of Us!
Thanks!
Hope to have many adventures in the Sony scene.:cool: