broken ps3

New to PSX so bear with me. So I have this broken CECHA01 that’s been collecting dust and I’m considering using a syscon diagnosis to figure out what is truly wrong with it (and hopefully bring it back to life but that’s wishful thinking). For context, I bought it off Mercari and the seller...

I have a very strange issue with my PS3: it's on standby mode with a red light. When I try to switch it on, it beeps just once, and then the red light disappears. There's no video output, and I get no response from the console. I can barely hear a very faint vibration, so I have to put my ear...

Hello. So I've been trying to deal and fix my ps3 slim for a couple years now and I've had this issue for around the same time 2-3 years, although it's much worse now, to the point of rendering the console not usable. The problem consists of not being able to boot the console. When I try, it...

Hello everyone! I've been repairing consoles for quite some time now and the usual enigma that i come across is people getting stuck in "infinite update loops" due to their BD being broken, or if the bd gets faulty people usually come across a black screen when they try to enter a game, and...

Dear PSX-Place Community, I recently installed rebug 4.82.2 rex with cobra 7.55 on my ps3. Later I went on and installed some homebrews like multiman, webman, sen enabler, and psnpatch. Everything was fine, until I decided to install psnpatch plugin. I was being very careful no to break my...

hii so i formatted my ps3 hdd yesterday and it wouldn't start anymore so i thought a update file will work but it doesn't because it hangs on 98% (preparing) could somebody pleaze help me (my ps3 isn't jailbroeken)

Here is a type of CFW for PlayStation 3 consoles with a broken BD Logic Board/Drive and contains an issue of not being able to boot anything from the PS3 XMB. It does not matter if the content is stored on the DISC or HDD, you can not launch anything from the XMB with PS3 Console's contain this...