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Hello anybody! I've been repairing consoles for quite some time at present and the usual enigma that i come beyond 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 blackness screen when they attempt to enter a game, and since helpful tips and solutions are scattered all over the internet i thought i'd make a guide that explains everything, and so that hopefully you can finally prepare your looped PS3! At present before we start i should mention that this guide is mainly regarding PHAT models of the PS3! I've also made a YouTube video where i explain all virtually the PS3 and which PS3 should you lot buy in 2022, you lot tin can find the video on this link:
If you can stop by and maybe toss a like i would greatly appriciate it! At present lets go back to dealing with a cleaved BD!
Now, if you already didn't know, in order to preclude people from swapping out the original drive from the console, Sony designed the BD in a way that just that specific original bulldoze that came with the PS3 from the manufacturing plant is able to piece of work properly significant that only that specific bulldoze will read discs and etc. Nosotros unremarkably say that the drive is MARRIED to the motherboard. Then if anything happens to that orignal drive you'd have to pay a visit to ane of their licensed repair shops. At present the mode that the PS3 recognizes the original bulldoze is that the actual bulldoze has a trivial printed circuit board that is attached to the lesser of the drive , this board is chosen a daughter/logic board and trough this board the PS3 communicates with the actual bulldoze, all data that is read by the laser from a disc goes trough this lath, and as you tin can see this lath is super important, as trough this board the PS3 "knows" that the right drive is inside of the panel. Now every time you lot launch game the PS3 sends multiple signals to the logic board to ensure that everything is alright with the BD, so if something goes wrong, for an example, the laser gets faulty or the motor of the laser stops working, trough the logic board the PS3 will see that something is wrong with the BD and y'all will get a blackness screen. So lets try to separate the actual drive to two parts:
the logic board and actual body of the drive(light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation assembly, mechanical parts, disk sensor..).
At present if any of these things get faulty, the PS3 will meet that there is a faulty drive and requite you a black screen.
The same affair happens when you update the firmware, at effectually 60%-70%, the PS3 will send check signals to ensure that every thing is okay with the drive, and if it isn't you won't be able to become laissez passer this bank check and the PS3 will continue to restart information technology self and neglect at the exact same spot.

If, by whatever gamble, the mistake is not on the logic board just instead somewhere within of the torso of the drive, all you gotta do is find a compatible BD, and bandy the logic board found in that working drive, with the logic board of the original drive and boom, the problem is solved! The way that you tin can observe a compatible BD is trough the PS3 devwiki bluray nautical chart: https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Bluray_Drive
The logic lath of the compatible drive, needs to have even so ribbon connectors that the original logic board of the original drive had. Commonly, all BD410 drives have compatible logic boards, fifty-fifty if they have unlike ribbon interfaces(PATA 60P or SATA 24P) the actual guts of the bulldoze are the same all trough the BD410 range, the aforementioned goes for BD400 range. Be aware that yous CAN'T put a logic board from a BD 400 drive inside of a BD410 bulldoze as the entire laser assembly is vastly different, which means that the ribbon connectors on the logic boars are different.

Simply what happens if the logic board is faulty? Well, then the problem gets a fleck more complicated, every bit now y'all actually have to become a whole new replacement drive rather than just swapping logic boards. The way that you can be sure that the original logic board is faulty is by doing all the steps from to a higher place, and if y'all nevertheless keep getting the same results, then yes, the org. logic board is faulty. Now that you accept to get an entire new bulldoze, in social club to brand that drive able to read discs, yous have to REMARRY that replacement bulldoze to the motherboard. In order to do the remarry process, your console HAS TO Exist JAILBROKEN! The reason why is that in order the remarry a drive you have access something that'southward chosen "factory service way". As the name implies, this was fabricated for servicing PS3'southward in repair shops, and in society to admission it you'd need a jig that contains signed code by Sony that volition allow you to access FSM. At present with CFW yous practise not need a jig as you tin can access FSM very easily but in theory its supposed to exist done this way! Anyway, back to the topic at hand, equally i said your PS3 needs to jailbroken in order to do the remarry process.

Now if your console is already jailbroken, well that'south very good news for you, as all yous gotta do is download a specific slice of CFW that's called NOBD CFW, and so put information technology onto your USB and and so wack information technology onto your PS3! This piece of CFW actually disables all of the Blu-Ray drive checks so even with this y'all can play games off of your HDD no problem, merely our end goal is to remarry a new working drive. Once yous have NOBD installed, all you now need is a spare working drive, now this is quite interesting, equally you can remarry Any Uniform Bulldoze TO YOUR PS3! The nifty part about this is that the simply criteria that makes a bulldoze uniform, is the interface that it uses, or rather the ribbon cable. And then if we await at the chart we can encounter that models from CECHA all the way to CECHK take the same ribbon cables(PATA 60P), which makes all of the drives that employ this ribbon cable compatible with motherboards that have this ribbon socket, and so if i have CECHG panel i can easily remarry a drive that is from CECHH panel even though the CECHG uses a BD400 drive and the CECHH uses the BD410 bulldoze. So, now that you take everything you need, you are set to the re-marry procedure, and i volition link a tutorial for the remarry process that was made past great Louay:
https://world wide web.psx-place.com/threads/how-to-remarry-blueray-bulldoze-on-cfw-ps3-step-by-step.26913/

Don't be intimidated, just follow all the steps patiently and yous will get your PS3 to its full glorious working country in no time!

But wait, what if your panel isn't jailbroken?! Well than you are in a bit of a pickle, cuz in order to exercise the re-marry process you will have to do the famous PS3 Xploit which will jailbreak your console and and then after yous've washed that, then you tin can install NOBD CFW, and then you can re-ally a new drive. Yous tin find the PS3 Xploit guide that was made past crawly MrMario2011 hither:

You are probably wondering, how volition i exist able to the xplot if i can't update my firmware, i volition just get stuck in the update loop right? Well, unfortunetley you are right, but if I told you that there is a style to bypass all the BD checks during the update? Yeah, there is a style you can bypass all the checks, and the way that you can do that is by putting a specific replacement drive, and that specific replacement drive HAS TO Have the exact same, logic board version that the original drive had, and ofc information technology needs to be in working order! If you pay attention to the Blu-Ray bulldoze chart you volition meet that all daughter boards have model labels like this, BMD-xxx. So yous will have to accept your original faulty bulldoze, dissasemble it, and take a look at the logic board and find the actual logic lath model that is written on the back of the logic board, so come back to the chart and determine which replacement bulldoze you volition demand (from what model) to find. The reason why this works is that during the update, the PS3 doesn't really bank check for the actual married drive, it just checks for the EXACT SAME version/model drive that was originally married to the motherboard, and then if you get the same version equally the BD that is married to your PS3 you lot will get laissez passer this check without whatever problems. If you look at the chart again you will see that logic also take dissimilar controllers on them, so your replacement bulldoze HAS to also have the exact same controller version on its daughter lath. This gets a bit more complicated when you lot realize that PS3'south are also region based, so equally you tin see on the chart, a CECHG for an examp., has two different versions of the logic boards in the actual bulldoze, CECHK besides has different logic boards versions even though the BD bulldoze model is the same! This is due to region policies as these logic boards have different controllers which would probably prevent yous from playing certain games. At present if you have CECHH way, then its a flake easier for you every bit in that location are no differences in the logic boards trough out the model range! Nonetheless, your console might have a different drive in it than the one that's displayed on the chart because somebody else could have re-married a completely different bulldoze before y'all got the console, or mayhap you did!
The only style to be 100% certain of which model of the logic board you need to find is past disassembling the original bulldoze and checking the model number of the board! Now, all of this has been said without taking a sure factor into account, and that factor is that it could be very hard to notice a proper replacement drive equally people could accept remarried different drives to their consoles and you could buy a certain panel model hoping to save the Blu-Ray bulldoze merely the drive that is within that model is from a completley dissimilar model! As i said, if your console isn't jailbroken, the problem can get a lot worse since it could be very painful to notice a proper replacement drive, only it's a run a risk you take to accept in order to set up your console!

Now if you cannot find a proper replacement drive, that meets all the criteria, and then all you can actually do is employ a Hardware Flasher, and flash the NOR/NAND chip which in result will make your console fit to accept CFW, and and so put NOBD CFW on it and and so do the remarry process with any compatible blu ray drive.

Unfortunately, at that place aren't any other ways for you to gear up your looped console, and you do have to rely on a bit of luck. I have seen people swapping hdd's between a looped PS3 and a normal working ane, but since i cannot vouch for the reliability of that fix, i won't be quoting it, just if you guys had any other positive experineces or if there is a method that i have missed, please comment it down below and then that information technology helps out other people including myself! I've fixed 6 consoles that were looped so far and i am ever open to learning new things!

I am sorry for such a long mail service, and i know it could take been shorter without my narrative tone but it is what it is, i apologize once again please dont hate me! Also if you can check out my video that i mentioned it would reallyyy hateful a lot to me! Thanks and have an awesome solar day!

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Hi, thanks for the info!
I simply obtained a CECH-K03 fat PS3 OFW 4.86 with a replaced motherboard. Information technology is unknown what variation the source ps3 was - it was an UK 80gb fat. The console boots fine, accepts and ejects discs only doesn't read them since the drive and mobo are unmarried (potentially also incompatible).

What are my options for CFW?

In particular:
1. Tin I figure out if the controller of the drives is the aforementioned? Should I just endeavor to update and run into if an update loop happens?
2. Tin HFW assistance me in somehow getting CFW on the console and somewhen re-marrying the drive and mobo? If not, can I at least play games with a HFW?
3. Is a hardware flasher the only hope? Which one to try to buy?
please post your question ONE fourth dimension in ONE thread...then give time for people to reply.
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For future reference - this is what solved my outcome: https://www.psx-identify.com/threads/modified-rebug-four-86-i-calorie-free-for-cleaved-ps3-nobt-nobd-rsod.28922/
The drive and mobo are married, the panel has latest rebug and reads discs perfectly!
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This doesn't seem to apply to the 2xxx series. I switched out the PCB on a 3xxxx series (hfw uniform) into a working drive from a faulty console (same model plainly), and that was fine - but this CFW 2xxxx series doesn't seem to accept a daughterboard, just a laser. I just switched the entire drive out of another 2xxxx series and plugged it in and blast.
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Depends on the model.
20xx and 21xx take married bd controller boards.
The 25xx model, every bit y'all've noticed, is on the motherboard itself.

https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Talk:SKU_Models

Then it'south super simple to swap drives. You lot can also merely run the system with no bluray drive at all.

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One affair to annotation, the Sony refurb CECHA01 I have ended up using the afterward split up dvd and blu ray laser deck, it the single light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation assembly version. Sony must take discovered like we all did that the combined laser is very unreliable, and ended up marrying the revised bd drive to refurb units.