Originally Posted by the_lost_soul
Wow wow wow wait hare a min. the way i thought i was going to do is by soldering all 52/53 Pin's the the MB and on the E3 Linker.
you telling me when i downgrade using flash-fun mode i have to reopen my PS3 and de-solder all 5 GND Points + the Tristate?
i thought you can leave everything soldered in as a one time trip.
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and jeeze my E3 Kit + downgrade don-gal with E3 card reader comes in 2-3 days of purchase and the 20cm Tinned 100 pack wired from china is taking more then a week?
better get hare some time next week. (hope it get's hare b4 Christmas and not halted due to school holidays)
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some 1 give me a clear answer hare. my plan was to leave everything soldered on, downgrade the thing and leave the E3 Flasher in there permanently and leaving the PS3 HDD contented to the E3 SATA dock 4 ever (should i use the E3 SATA Dock or buy a better one?)
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You can solder the linker and leave it in your PS3. When you use the linker, the nor tristate is soldered to the sbe on the linker. This will make the first switch be able to halt the nor flash, by putting it up. Then put the first switch down to use normally.
All you are doing when soldering the linker, is soldering all the wires that are inside the ribbon clip.
So to install the e3 flasher for permanent use, you should either use the ribbon clip and solder 2 wires.
Or use the e3 linker and solder all the wires.
So if you are using the solderless way, and just want to downgrade, but then you brick. As an alternative you can solder a wire from the nor tristate to a ground (vss) point on the mobo. This does the same as sbe to nor tristate, but you do not have a switch to go back to normal. So after flashing, you would need to remove that wire so your PS3 will use the nor to boot.
Also the esata station works good. I have never had a problem with it.
If you are wanting to learn more about the e3 flasher, you should
read this.