Taking apart PSP Need help!!!

**Apoklepz** · September 27th, 2006, 17:14

OK...Everything was fine last night, and today I stumble into some PSP problems again....

The thing is, last night I succesfully installed Zion's Motherboard, and I only tested homebrew...NJ's CPS2PSP ver1.01 with Street Fighter Alpha2 to be more specific...It seemed to work fine at the moment. Since it was very late, and I'd worked my butt off already I simply did a forced power-off within the emulator's menu, and went straight to snooze for a couple of hours.

Today, I turn on my PSP to test if all the features are working fine, USB/Photo/Music/Video/UMD/etc.

As soon as I turned it on the screen iluminated ok but it stayed pitch black forever, and I noticed that the PSP kept trying to acess the Memory Stick over and over...nothing else happened...hooo boy, I thought to myself...I forced a power-off on the sucker and turned it on again, but this time I put the power switch on hold to enable the custom firmware's recovery mode...BTW I need the files to be able to run the recovery...They are:

-index.dat
-recovery.elf
-vshmain.prx

Can somebody link me to a reliable source so I can download these files?

Another thing I've just noticed is that my UMD drive is taking forever to load a UMD...and further more none of my UMD games are loading at all...YIKES! this has me really nervous...I'm gonna have to double check on everything once again.

I really did take extreme safety precautions replacing this motherboard. I put on rubber gloves, everything fit perfectly in it's place, no scratched surfaces, used an air duster before closing...etc. etc....So I'm really pissed. Guys, I'm sorry but I need your help once again.

I'm really busy today at work, but I'll log on later...So feel free to either post here or PM me about your ideas.

Thanks again people, I don't know what I'd do without a lot of you around

**ACID** · September 27th, 2006, 17:25

Wow that really stinks. Sounds like wires are sending energy elsewhere so double check the wires connections first. Because it sounds like its sucking connection at least from one wire and transferring it trough the board and if thats the case i wouldn't turn the psp on again till you figure if this is the case.

**Apoklepz** · September 27th, 2006, 18:33

Thanks Acid, do you or anyone else know where I can get the 3 files for recovery?

I went back in and checked all contacts...now the UMD does spin inside the drive this time, but still no load...Meh...I'm stuck in the same place once again.

**Zion** · September 27th, 2006, 18:33

go on msn man, i had those issues when i did it too, il tell you how to fix it

**AvengedSevenfold Fan** · September 27th, 2006, 18:44

trade u something for ur 1/2 bricked mobo

**Apoklepz** · September 27th, 2006, 19:47

Oh, and what would that be?

**brainpan** · September 27th, 2006, 20:14

I am not sure if this helps but...once I tried switching out a TA-082 motherboard inside of a white PSP with a non TA-082 mobo and EVRYTHING was haywire. Maybe Sony has a couple of different mobo revision(besides the TA-082) and that is why your getting funky stuff. Also I noticed that when you were have trouble removing that one cable from your PSP you said somehting about pulling really hard to get it out. If memory serves me correctly, I think you can just lift up on that latch holding that cable in to remove/insert it. MAybe that cable isnt in correctly. Also, are you using acustom firmware?

If you are taking apart your PSP again anyway(I really feel for you), I would compare your old Mobo and your new one.

**M!ckeY** · September 27th, 2006, 20:33

@Apoklepz

those the little circle on the bottom left corner that indicates that a UMD is loading appear?

Does it stay there for a while and then go away without loading the UMD?

this happened to my other psp, never got it to work..

**Apoklepz** · September 27th, 2006, 22:34

Originally Posted by brainpan

I noticed that when you were have trouble removing that one cable from your PSP you said somehting about pulling really hard to get it out. If memory serves me correctly, I think you can just lift up on that latch holding that cable in to remove/insert it. MAybe that cable isnt in correctly. Also, are you using acustom firmware?

You HAVE to pull it out...It's the only circuit connector band in the whole unit that DOESN'T have a support latch...Zion told me that's also the same connector that's probably unabling the UMDs to load...It's probably not snug in enough...So one last time(3rd time's a charm) I'm gonna go in and jam that sucker in with my bare hands and rubber gloves.