PPC, okay it's a PS3, but technically a PPC, right?

#31 Thu, 2 Oct 2014 - 02:48

IPalindromeI said:
How will it be a media /server/? PS3 Linux got killed, and I don't think Netflix works on an older OS.

Stock OS plays just about everything, just dump it from a flashdrive. I have a lot of videos on mine that I put on that way. I had some music but use my Cube for that now.

#32 Thu, 2 Oct 2014 - 03:37

It's ALIVE (again)!

I was able to solder the sheared off component back onto the bluray's board. Soooo frickin' teeny! I'm used to soldering thru-hole stuff. I threw a random disc in and it recognized it fine. Since I disassembled the board from the bluray drive, (I read that you can run the PS3 with just the bluray's board attached if the drive is bad) I plugged it in and fired it up. Instead of erroring out around 70%, it finished to 100% then restarted. I looked on with my mouth agape. 8^O

Amazing that it worked! I thought I would have to try and marry a new bluray board to the mainboard. Anyway, I installed Netflix on it and am going to go and enjoy an episode or two of House of Cards!

Thanks for your help and encouragement, everyone! I love this messageboard!

#33 Thu, 2 Oct 2014 - 04:30

Awesome! Great job getting it working and congrats on a successful resurrection of a dead device! Now it has some significant personal value, and its something you can take pride in!

This thread helped me get my brother in-law's ps3 working on his sdtv. I remembered someone posting that the video settings had to be reset for it to work. Great timing!

#34 Fri, 3 Oct 2014 - 07:25

techknight said:
you can probably use a TSOP flasher/downgrader and reflash the unit and take it back to 3.55 This will let you jailbreak/hack it and run linux plus some other stuff.

This is really the best route.