[plastek]

Originally Posted by plex Oh right. Instead of making your own FW, Have tried installing another FW; Kmaew / Rebug etc....

My concern was that I would brick the console if I ran one of those through MFW builder.
Whole reason I'm making my own FW is because this ps3 has no blu-ray drive, and when you run a standard update, even kmeaw or rebug it will fail because it checks the blu-ray. I believe the reason it checks the blu-ray is so it can update something on the disc drive itself.

It's looking like I'm going to have to try to run kmeaw through mfw to test it.
I will let you guys know how it goes sometime tomorrow after I get off work.

[DeViL303]

My concern was that I would brick the console if I ran one of those through MFW builder.

You definitely wont brick if you use Kmeaw and only use the BD FW removal patch. Cant say for sure about Rebug .

[plastek]

Tried running both Rebug, and Kmeaw through MFW with only the Blu-ray patches.
Good news is it didn't brick me, just like was suggested.
Bad news is it does the same thing.
Even messed around with all the different blu-ray settings inside Rebug.

A buddy is going to let me see what happens when I plug in his bdrom logic board. I will post back, and let you guys know how it goes, but I'm pretty sure it's going to work.
I have a bunch of logic boards, but they're all from 1st gen 60s, and 20s.. None have the same connector as this CECHL01.

[acidevil]

Originally Posted by plastek Tried running both Rebug, and Kmeaw through MFW with only the Blu-ray patches. Good news is it didn't brick me, just like was suggested. Bad news is it does the same thing. Even messed around with all the different blu-ray settings inside Rebug. A buddy is going to let me see what happens when I plug in his bdrom logic board. I will post back, and let you guys know how it goes, but I'm pretty sure it's going to work. I have a bunch of logic boards, but they're all from 1st gen 60s, and 20s.. None have the same connector as this CECHL01.

Have you try to install BDEMU3.55.pkg?? or try other payloads wiht LV2-v9_Patcher.pkg?

[plastek]

Originally Posted by acidevil Have you try to install BDEMU3.55.pkg?? or try other payloads wiht LV2-v9_Patcher.pkg?

I tried BDEMU earlier today. It installs fine, but I got the same black screen when running homebrew.

Just tried lv2-v9. It installs fine, but then when I go to run it I get the same black screen as I do with all other homebrew.

I appreciate the suggestion greatly though!

[acidevil]

Originally Posted by plastek I tried BDEMU earlier today. It installs fine, but I got the same black screen when running homebrew. Just tried lv2-v9. It installs fine, but then when I go to run it I get the same black screen as I do with all other homebrew. I appreciate the suggestion greatly though!

When you are on 3.55 they giv a method to downgrad to older FW !
when you downgrad to a older so maybe your Bricked BD Driv wil work agin!?

[plastek]

Ok, my friend stopped by, and I convinced him to let me open his 80gb ps3 (not sure of the model).
Unfortunately it doesn't use the same logic board as this CECHL01 i've been fighting with.

Getting pretty frustrated. I've literally got 6 other half/fully broken ps3s laying around, and none of the logic boards on those fit this one either.
Most of the motherboards I've seen have a ribbon connector that sits under the psu that's about an inch wide. The one giving me problems has a smaller ribbon that's about 1/4-1/2 inch in width.

The fact I can install homebrew, but none run it is even worse! I would be happy if I could just run emulators at this point.

[plastek]

Originally Posted by acidevil When you are on 3.55 they giv a method to downgrad to older FW ! when you downgrad to a older so maybe your Bricked BD Driv wil work agin!?

My BDROM isn't bricked. I don't have a drive, or logic board for a drive for this unit at all.
I got the console cheap because of that. I figured I could just create a MFW with the BDROM patch, and use it to play homebrew.

Again to reiterate I THINK the reason it won't load the homebrew I've installed is because the logic board for the BDROM isn't present. The reason I think this is because I saw where someone had that issue on another forum.

[Toufik]

Try 3.41 Hermes

[plastek]

Originally Posted by Toufik Try 3.41 Hermes

Uhm.. I can't downgrade if I can't run homebrew. Right?