[robh]

Originally Posted by a8r9b You need to call acekard. That site is completely effin worthless. They didn't ship mine until I called. I ordered mine somewhere in September. Just got it yesterday... I am now gettting there e3 "Dog".... morons... then I will install it. Good luck to me.

So did you get the esata station with yours?? Cuz like I said their site says they no longer will be including it. Mine just shipped like 2 days ago and it better be with it, or else I'm asking for a partial refund because probably won't be worth shipping it back and then they probably charge a restocking fee.

Also whoever asked about someone trying it on a phat...I may do that. I have 2 ps3s stuck on 3.56. One is a 80gb phat and the other 120 gb slim. The slim however is still sealed and I could send it to get fixed. I'm afraid to try it now and brick one or both of them. Idk.

[aristabrandon]

Originally Posted by zwagger Woeheee!! I received my e3 tuesday and started reading the manuals etc.. But the English was so bad I was afraid to try installing immediately. I found this thread and became even more sceptical if this would work at all.. This morning I found the installation video by Christech which made me decide to give it a try this afternoon... I have a slim cech2104a with mobo SUR-001. Opening etc went fine, also installing the clip and the e3 board in the supplied case didnot give any problems. I installed the MOBO with the e3 allready installed in the esata port. Took some fiddling to get it in, as normally you first stick the mobo back-side in the bottom casing and now I had to put the frontside in first ( this as the e3 card sticks out slightly) I put the ps3 back together and put the HDD in the esata cradle( had to remove the casing, otherwise wouldn't fit), didnot attach the front panel of e3 yet, I first wanted to check if my ps3 would still boot.. Crossed my fingers and booted without problem. I turned off again and installed front panel with the switches and switched on again. This time all LEDs turned on to my relief.. I then tried to make a backup to micro sd , but all that happened was 1 blue led which blinked constantly.. AAAGH I was afraid I didnot install correct, but before reopening the ps3 tried another micro sd . This time it looked like nothing was happening, only it took about 1 min for the first blue light to appear, followed by the other 7.. After the last light went on all leds started blinking 4 by for. so first 1,3,5,7 and next 2,4,6,8. Took the sd to my PC and on it was a file called bkpps3.bin and also a .log file in which it stated "Backup PS3 BIOS OK." I then realised I was still on OFW 3.60 instead of 3.7* and updated to 3.73 via USB stick. After this I backed up again and the put the e3_downgrade.bin file on the SD.. put all the switches down except nr 6(lock/unlock) this one up and pressed start.. Again nothing seemed to happen but after a minute first blue light came up, followed by the other 7 again..after that again the blinking 4x4 .. Shut down the ps3, booted again and received the message to connect controller, only in dutch .. Switched the ps3 off with the power switch for slim which was in the e3 packaging . Put in my eclips3 dongle and started ps3, followed by eject . Dongle lit up and ps3 switched off. I then took USB stick and loaded the files from step 1 onto it. Put in the usb port closest to the Blue ray drive and switched on. Saw the HDD led and also USB led flash and after few minutes PS3 switched off.. Took the usb stick, deleted content and loaded file from step2 onto it. Put it back in the USB port, switched on and after 30 sec PS3 switched off again.. Took the usb stick out , crossed my fingers again and switched on. I was again asked to connect controller via usb, did this and went through the startscreens! yesss, was so happy that it booted normally, then finally I ended in the XMB, wit Rogero on it..? however still needed to check the system version.. OMG it said 3.70 wtf. Didn't know if this was good yet... On the xmb there was the text I wanted to see "Install package files.." Installed manager and all is working!!! Even my blue ray is still working ! Only thing which was very strange was updating the e3, I tried this before making the 2nd back up of 3.73, booted and all blue lights turned on immediately, so either update went very quick or update didn't happen... However, made the back up and when I put this on the PC the upgrade file was no longer in the sd card, so either it got installed, or when making back up card is erased first, can't tell... Soo quite a long story, but after being very afraid and sceptical I can confirm it it working ( at least for me)..

I need to see if you can make a backup of your 3.73 bios and send me the bin file, you think u can help me please??

[aristabrandon]

Guys, I erased by accident the backup of my bios 3.73 and I bricked my ps3, I need the backup bin (bkpps3.bin) but I need it from someone that made the backup and had ofw 3.73 at the time that the backup was made, can anyone please help me?? My ps3 is dead and without that bin I can't bring it back to life, thanks guys.

[loller]

man u need your own bin, you cant use the bin from another console

[aristabrandon]

Originally Posted by loller man u need your own bin, you cant use the bin from another console

So my console is bricked for life!!!!!!!!!!!!?????

[dszuecs]

Originally Posted by aristabrandon So my console is bricked for life!!!!!!!!!!!!?????

That's a "YES" for now..

[aristabrandon]

Originally Posted by dszuecs That's a "YES" for now..

I'm pretty sure that if I flash a bin from someone that has 3.73 I can at least install the firmware again, I have access to the recovery menu of the ps3 but when I try to upgrade the firmware to 3.73 it tells me data is corrupted and I know it's not, what happened is that I was in the process of downgrading my console with e3 flasher and when I flashed the e3_downgrade.bin the power went out so when I tried redoing the whole process again i tried installing 3.73 again and it wouldnt let me, I believe its because the e3_downgrade.bin prepares the console to take a lower firmware so in order to flash firmware 3.73 I need the bios backup from 3.73 so i can restore the console and then reflash the firmware.... I never tried this before but for some reason it makes sense that I could use someone elses backup bin, I mean its the same console and the same nor flash memory... can someone send me their backup bin from 3.73, I take full responsability if anything wosrt happens to the console...

[loller]

Originally Posted by aristabrandon I'm pretty sure that if I flash a bin from someone that has 3.73 I can at least install the firmware again, I have access to the recovery menu of the ps3 but when I try to upgrade the firmware to 3.73 it tells me data is corrupted and I know it's not, what happened is that I was in the process of downgrading my console with e3 flasher and when I flashed the e3_downgrade.bin the power went out so when I tried redoing the whole process again i tried installing 3.73 again and it wouldnt let me, I believe its because the e3_downgrade.bin prepares the console to take a lower firmware so in order to flash firmware 3.73 I need the bios backup from 3.73 so i can restore the console and then reflash the firmware.... I never tried this before but for some reason it makes sense that I could use someone elses backup bin, I mean its the same console and the same nor flash memory... can someone send me their backup bin from 3.73, I take full responsability if anything wosrt happens to the console...

Again, you need your own dump, you cant just flash the .bin from another console or u will brick for real.
Atm your inst a brick, a bricked console cant access recovery menu

[aristabrandon]

Originally Posted by loller Again, you need your own dump, you cant just flash the .bin from another console or u will brick for real. Atm your inst a brick, a bricked console cant access recovery menu

ok but what if I dont have my own dump, I erased it by accident and now I don't know what to do, any thoughts?
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do I need to access the xmb for the flasher to work or as long as my console turns on i can do the whole process? do I for sure need a dongle to enter service mode or can I use another method?

[mirogster]

If you had it on SD card, or HDD maybe you could give a try with some data recovery progs.