Will a new motherboard help me out?

[hooliganbandit]

My psp is bricked beyond repair even with pandora's battery. When i insert pandora and run the downgrader, it formats my flash drives and is about to move on the next step, but then it just returns to pandora's startup menu. I think I may have flashed a 1.5 nand to a 3.52 m33 psp which, if i did, is most likely the cause of the problem. Will a new motherboard fix things? Are there any other parts of the psp i could replace to fix it? Thanks.

[hacksparrow]

have you done pandora before?

if so then check the battery. it must be 50% or more on a charge

it doesnt take long for pandora

[pt9087]

You can send me your PSP for repairs if you wish, many people have done! all you have to do is pay for delivery there and back. PM me!

[alexvander]

thats weird since the pandora is supposed to unbrick any psp so u must be doing it wrong or dont have all the right files. this is just a guess as i dont completly know how to use pandora since i dont have it yet but i will as soon as i get my 1gb memory stick off ebay

[hooliganbandit]

thats weird since the pandora is supposed to unbrick any psp so u must be doing it wrong or dont have all the right files. this is just a guess as i dont completly know how to use pandora since i dont have it yet but i will as soon as i get my 1gb memory stick off ebay

I tried the battery out on a different psp pretty soon after it failed to work on mine, and it worked fine. I think flashing the wrong nand messed with the idstorage since i know that can brick the psp for good. However, I really have no idea what idstorage is, so thats just a guess...


have you done pandora before?

if so then check the battery. it must be 50% or more on a charge

it doesnt take long for pandora

I'm charging it right now, but I really don't think anything different will happen.

Thanks for all this advice, but could someone please answer my original question too =P

Just ran charged pandora again: It says formatting ok - continuing in a moment, then the orange light blinks, goes off, and blinks again 3 seconds later. Then the menu pops up again. ...Which is what's been happening ever since the nand thing.

[Gene]

Try using the new bootmenu. It has options to run programs like xflash, or I suppose even the 3.52m33 eboot. Doesn't hurt to try, right?

[hooliganbandit]

Try using the new bootmenu. It has options to run programs like xflash, or I suppose even the 3.52m33 eboot. Doesn't hurt to try, right?

What do you mean by the new bootmenu?

[NoQuarter]

I think a new version of the pandora boot menu is up on the front psp page.
It allows for more options than the standard pandora menu.
I wonder if key cleaner will work from it?

[hooliganbandit]

Wow, thanks so much for the extended boot menu suggestion. I am now able to run 1.5 of my memory stick. However, I am now experiencing an error trying to install custom firmware via the CFW installer on the menu.

The preparations for the upgrade go as planned and the upgrader loads. After I run it, it says something about PSAR and then says error: unassigning flash0 and then quits.

Any ideas?

Thanks again btw