Finally Remarry BD Drives To Other Consoles

[acebusa]

Can someone tell me what hex to use with my x3 max to enter service mode on a fat a01 with 3.30 firmware.

[ordimans]

Simple answer is you don't.
If you have a 256meg fat, your going to have to figure out the DRL's.
If you have a 16meg fat or slim, you have nothing to worry about. BluRay will just work without the correct DRL's.

I need 16Meg to get correct DRL.
But i tried with TANGLED bluray, and it's 19 level DRL.

Every that give me a big headache

Because when i need to remarry drive with console, it's always on 6GB with 256MB, and like i don't have the correct DRL which is read on drive, it's very hard.

here is a list of the ps3's with 256 and 16mb.

Ordimans: how much was your BGA reballer because i have been looking for something to do that with because a heatgun just isnt cutting it anymore...

BGA Machine cost more 1200$
But when there is a YLOD, it's very easy.
To be honest, it's more hard to repair a problem in drive or with drive, than a YLOD for me.

[voxleo]

all the series should spin up, eject and all functions, the only issue is it will not load a disk on the screen, If you get nothing you have a bad drive board.

REALLY? Do you mean the game or whatever won't show up on the XMB or shows up but won't play or what? i had assumed my A2 board was good and just didnt' show any life because my original A1 board was the marrried NAND and had weak laser as why it wouldn't load. Could this mean I don't actually have the pair? I did get a cd to recognize as being an audio cd, but it wouldn't play it - bave a data corrupt error message. Now I'm really confused and I can't tell if I've even eliminated any possible causes nymore - This is so frustrating with so much conflicting information out there...

[PRiME2010]

So it seems the best way to do this is use another console as the remarrying donor in order to get access to Dev_flash (since you cannot on a console with wrong board etc..)

I am wondering if instead of using a 16mb one is it possible to use a 256mb as the donor console? I don't see how it would be a problem?


PS. To post above, if the console sees a audio CD then I think that means its the correct board but you Bluray laser is busted. Perhaps you have couple dud lasers.

[Mark Webber]

REALLY? Do you mean the game or whatever won't show up on the XMB or shows up but won't play or what? i had assumed my A2 board was good and just didnt' show any life because my original A1 board was the marrried NAND and had weak laser as why it wouldn't load. Could this mean I don't actually have the pair? I did get a cd to recognize as being an audio cd, but it wouldn't play it - bave a data corrupt error message. Now I'm really confused and I can't tell if I've even eliminated any possible causes nymore - This is so frustrating with so much conflicting information out there...

If you have an unmarried board but working drive you will get:
Disc can be inserted/ejected
If a disc is inserted the disc icon will just spin
An audio cd will eventually be detected but not able to be played
Black screen when trying to launch anything from the XMB
Can upgrade/downgrade firmware (it only checks a board is attached, not that it is married up)

If you have a dead/dodgy board/cable/drive you will get:
No way to load/eject a disc
No way to downgrade without a bypass firmware
Black screen when trying to launch anything from the XMB


If you have a married board, but dead laser you will get:
The ability to play/install homebrew
Can play anything installed on the HDD providing it does not require a disc to be inserted (discless booting)
Can upgrade/downgrade as normal per the guides

[Mark Webber]

So it seems the best way to do this is use another console as the remarrying donor in order to get access to Dev_flash (since you cannot on a console with wrong board etc..)

I am wondering if instead of using a 16mb one is it possible to use a 256mb as the donor console? I don't see how it would be a problem?


PS. To post above, if the console sees a audio CD then I think that means its the correct board but you Bluray laser is busted. Perhaps you have couple dud lasers.

This was covered before, but it was a fair way back so...

If you have a 256meg PS3 the process is:
DRL stored on console, HRL stored on drive
DRL & HRL are compared
Match - Movie plays
Do not match - Exits BD player and gives you a naughty boy message

If you have a 16meg PS3 (later fats and all slims)
The DRL is updated on the console if the drive sees a higher version.
The HRL on the drive is NEVER updated
The DRL & HRL are NEVER compared
Therefore the movie just plays

Moral of the story. If you own a 256meg fat and do not know the DRL-HRL matching set, your screwed.
If you take a new drive from another machine and put it into a 256meg PS3 you do know the DRL-HRL your still screwed. You need to change the DRL (PS3) to match the HRL (Drive) of the new drive, not use the one the PS3 already has.

IE: If you have a good system now, and the controller board dies, you need to swap the controller from another PS3 and remarry them.
You then need to know the DRL to match the HRL of the new drive, not the other way around.

There is a lot of confusion over the initial talk about "the highest DRL the PS3 has played" from when downgrading first started. It is infact the highest DRL needs to MATCH the highest HRL the drive has played.

Edit:
When a downgrade is done, ALL PS3's reset the DRL to a version 1. It is just a case that 16meg units do not care about the match. Why it is like that only Sony engineers know since they are indeed breaking the BluRay security guidelines they themselves helped to create.

[voxleo]

If you have an unmarried board but working drive you will get:
Disc can be inserted/ejected
If a disc is inserted the disc icon will just spin
An audio cd will eventually be detected but not able to be played
Black screen when trying to launch anything from the XMB
Can upgrade/downgrade firmware (it only checks a board is attached, not that it is married up)

If you have a dead/dodgy board/cable/drive you will get:
No way to load/eject a disc
No way to downgrade without a bypass firmware
Black screen when trying to launch anything from the XMB


If you have a married board, but dead laser you will get:
The ability to play/install homebrew
Can play anything installed on the HDD providing it does not require a disc to be inserted (discless booting)
Can upgrade/downgrade as normal per the guides

OMG thank you for consolidating that info! Too bad I didn't know that before as it now appears I've actually returned a working laser by mistake since it has exhibited all the signs as the good board/unmarried Nand!

So this also means that perhaps I have somehow had a brain fart and confused the two boards I did have, and the orignal was suffering from the board crapping out and/or has in fact been tinkered with despite the claim it had not been which also means I have potentially purchased the incorrect model of board to replace it thinking it was the board that was the problem and not the NAND

But also means that there is still hope since there is, at least, this thread, and I have to go back now to the start of it and figure out how to remarry the nand! (Oh I really hope this isn't prohibitively difficult for me)

Appreciate much this response, THANK YOU!! Gives me a much better starting point than completely in the dark or erroneous assumption of where I am... Wish me luck then!

[herbert1234]

If you have a married board, but dead laser you will get:
The ability to play/install homebrew
Can play anything installed on the HDD providing it does not require a disc to be inserted (discless booting)
Can upgrade/downgrade as normal per the guides

And what happens if you have a married board and no drive at all? Is it even possible to marry a driveboard (for example an ordered BMD-006 for a CECHK04) without a drive?

[Mark Webber]

And what happens if you have a married board and no drive at all? Is it even possible to marry a driveboard (for example an ordered BMD-006 for a CECHK04) without a drive?

It can be done. The problem you will face (not always) is that a bare board can think a disc is inserted. When the remarry process starts it checks for a disc in the drive and tries to eject it. If there is no drive of course, it cant.

The soloution is to attach the sensor board to the drive board and to operate the switches manually. The board is small with 3 contact switches and the motor (eject) is normally connected via a red and black wire (soldered on)

If you connect the board up and have no blue light (disc inserted) you should be ok though.

[voxleo]

Okay so it looks like I have a working board but unmarried NAND, so I must begin the process of assimilating all necessary information to rebuild this machine.

I have a 60gb fatty with 3.50fw and a new unmarried board, but I run into a problem already with the "first step = downgrade to fw2.30 (you know how)"
as it says EVERYWHERE, because the thing is that actually, no I don't know how. And directions for that always seem to start with something called a service dongle which I don't think I have, because I don't know what that is.

First and foremost - DO I NEED TO BUY SOMETHING? Is this dongle (or anything else required to accomplish remarrying) some piece of specific hardware, like the game shark I had to buy to monkey around with my PS2? (If so, what and how much and where can I get it?) Or is this something I can make with a USB Thumb drive by downloading appropriate files and instruction?

Basically I want to know if can tackle this project tonight or do I need to wait for something to arrive in the mail before I can proceed? Are there any how to guides for the adventurous nerd who is willing to try it even though they don't understand what the hell they are doing?


I have been collecting various bits of this ps3 in hopes that replacing one or the other might restore it to functionality, and now I have I think 3 working drives and only one mobo - I will happily donate a kem-400aaa drive to someone who can walk me through the process of introducing the drive and mobo to each other successfully and with baby steps by assuming I know nothing but can follow directions exactly and precisely enough that I don't need know anything =)