Thread: Dead PS3
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Old 09-03-2010, 11:05 PM   #15
Hack&Lube
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I tried updating the firmware via USB flash but the red screen remained. The next thing I thought of doing was zero-filling the harddrive to fix any possible corrupt boot sector which I did on my PC with the utility @ killdisk.com

Unfortunately, I am still faced with the red screen of death and I am out of ideas. From my research online, the problem may be due to someone trying to update the firmware but then pulling the power or having a power outage which corrupts the Nand flash on the PS3. Unfortunately, I'm guessing that like the Blu-Ray drive, the Nand flash is uniquely paired to the PS3 unit and I can't simply replace it with one from another board (there are plenty of dead PS3s on ebay).

I don't know what to do. Any ideas fellas? It seems Sony doesn't do out of warranty repairs to Canadians. Canadians have to ship their systems to a company Sony contracts out to and they charge about $200 total (parts, labor, GST, shipping) to repair a PS3.

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