Maruchan
Enthusiast
Hello all! So I have a darksoft board that I use I my blast city. When I first got it I had no problems rewriting games to which ever I felt like. During the course of maybe 2-3 years, I have changed the game on there quite a few times.
The problem I'm having is, (x) amount of rewrites later, the board let's me select a game to rewrite but it happens to stop usually around 33%-34%.
I wouldnt say its exactly freezing ? Because I can see the little guy dancing next to the cps3 logo. As I'm typing this , the last percent i saw it change was from the 33 to 34, and that took about an hour to do. Getting to 33 or 34% doesnt take long .
Question , has anyone experienced this kind of problem before? If so what is the solution?
Other info :
Image of screen at 34%
http://imgur.com/gallery/GP99951
IMAGE OF SIMM CHECK ON 2ND IMPACT
http://imgur.com/gallery/0SmVqaL
******EDIT , PROBLEM SOLVED******
So, upon further inspection and tests, I have determined it is the cd drive.
Here are some things I tried to figure it out:
Convert my cd drive to a scsi2sd!
The reason for this order of trial and error was simply because of my work schedule and time. I want able to go to my friends house and try out his cd drive until a week or two later.
The problem I'm having is, (x) amount of rewrites later, the board let's me select a game to rewrite but it happens to stop usually around 33%-34%.
I wouldnt say its exactly freezing ? Because I can see the little guy dancing next to the cps3 logo. As I'm typing this , the last percent i saw it change was from the 33 to 34, and that took about an hour to do. Getting to 33 or 34% doesnt take long .
Question , has anyone experienced this kind of problem before? If so what is the solution?
Other info :
- This same problem happened once before. How It happen to fix itself was , turning it off and letting it rewrite to 2nd impact on it's own, then changing it to whatever game I wanted.
- My cps3 board has the cd drive and not that little card reader thing if that matters.
Image of screen at 34%
http://imgur.com/gallery/GP99951
IMAGE OF SIMM CHECK ON 2ND IMPACT
http://imgur.com/gallery/0SmVqaL
******EDIT , PROBLEM SOLVED******
So, upon further inspection and tests, I have determined it is the cd drive.
Here are some things I tried to figure it out:
- Turn up voltage on power supply, my thinking was that the cd drive wasn't getting enough juice to keep on while it was rewriting.Tries writing other cps3 games before writing 4th strike. ( tried this with all cps3 games, about 10 times overall)
- Tried using my friends blast city cab, thinking maybe my power supply or something was up.
- Final thing was to try using his CD drive in replace to mine. It ended up working and loading fine.
Convert my cd drive to a scsi2sd!
The reason for this order of trial and error was simply because of my work schedule and time. I want able to go to my friends house and try out his cd drive until a week or two later.
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