[LemonHead2089]

Hey everyone. My friend has a fat ps3 60gb CECHA01 running OFW 2.53 and we're trying to update it to a newer firmware. Let me make sure I say this now, the Blu Ray Drive doesn't work (I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it).

When i put the update in the PS3/UPDATE folder, & attempt to update through the recovery menu, the screen is stuck on the "Checking... please wait" screen, for ever, and doesn't do anything.

The update is found through the XMB and seems to work, until the PS3 is done copying the update files to the Hard Drive. Once the PS3 boots up again, I'm on a black screen that looks like it will finish the update, but only the X and O show up on the bottom with a scroll bar on the side. I can't get any response from the controller on this screen. Every time I turn the PS3 off and back on, it comes back to that screen, until I format the Hard drive on my pc, then the ps3 is able to boot back into the 2.53 system.

Its very frustrating. IDK what else to do now. Any ideas or maybe a step I am missing?

Thanks for your help
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Could it be that my HDD is failing? I'm going to take that into account also and try it with a different HDD

[Bigbones87]

You need to be installing a mfw with no bd check. Should update then.