e3 flasher, now black screen, help.

Hello, I'm new to this forum seemed best to post this here.
I'm quite new to playstations and have had nothing but trouble from the start, have flashed and modded plenty of xboxs
Never seemed to get into this sorta trouble before. I did all the research I could do before the e3 flasher got to me and it seems I still made a mess of it.
e3 flasher installed on 3.70 ofw was under 3.55 before I updated, I know I'm stupid. So stupid. I've had the ps3 appart 3 times now I can't see anything wrong with install, all I get now is black screen, before it was taken appart the second time it would say unable to read hdd when esata station switched off. Can't get recovery mode, this is driving me nuts
I did have a lot of trouble with the ribboon cable under the blu ray drive it is in , are those sorta cables easy damaged.
Help would be nice but not expected I know I'm a noob

The flasher is giving fault code 1,5,6 blue leds flashing, means not able to initalize ps3 bios
any ideas. Should take appart again and reinstall the clip again, or is it just broken.
this maybe in the wrong spot I'm sorry I did post over in the general area after reading this isent
a trouble shooting fourm post but it seems it no longer there, also sorry for the double post.

Are you talking about an actual ribbon cable (gray rubber looking flat cable) or the (sort of) gold and yellow "soft board"?

I have never had any real issues with ribbon cable getting messed up.
If you are talking about the "soft board", yeah they are pretty sensitive to bending.
When you installed it, did you make a 180 degree flat bend or did you gently loop it back over?
If you made a hard bend with it the it may very well be damaged.

Thanks for the reply.
No, I made sure I dident squash bend it when first installed. Its been apart another 2times and I think now the clip is on properly. The solder points on the other side of the board are really not that small would have prefered to solder, as I can do that. At least it not failing to read ps3 bios but am still having touble, ill sort it eventuly it just more reading and sorting out bad info and good. At least e3 themselves have offered some help.
what I'm wondering is does anybody know where I can get 3.70 ofw I've looked web, torrents ect. I'm gonna need it.
thanks

If you're still on 3.7 ofw, then back that up first ?

I'm needing ofw 3.70 on usb with lv2,diag, I have lv2 file but can't find ofw 3.70, the instructions ask for this.
I want to add most real infomation and uesage instructions for this product was only realised a day or so before I got
the product, excuses aside I still have a non booting ps3. The next time I take the ps3 appart I will be taking the chip out and
If it is bricked from what I've read I'm gonna need those files to unbrick.
I miss my many broken 360,s meh

Since reading the e3 website it seems I have found my problem. Yes at first I had not got the clip on properly but now
all good, is reading bios. But this device is unable to downgrade a slim with a samsung nor.
the thing that is starting to piss me off is the frequent last minute infomation, how did they not know this before putting
it on sale, yes I'm sure they did. They must have had more than a few ps3s to test there design. It was the same deal with the dual boot bull that they canned last minute. I should have canned my order when I had the chance.

hi mate, sorry about your troubles with it.. hopefully if I ever get time to use mine, I won't get into such troubles ! Anyway, there is a firmware update that should let it flash samsung nors on the e3 website (www e3-tech net / download html) -- replace spaces etc.

Hi,

yes, with this upgrade of the E3 Flasher, you can downgarde even if you have a Samsung NOR.

I've made it yesterday on my CECH-2504B and it worked !

But now, i can access my 32 Gb USB key nor my external 2"1/2 hard drive (NTFS or FAT32) but it works with my 2 Gb USB Key ...

Best regards,
Eric.