I got my hands on a 2000 PSP with a broken UMD drive.
I installed 3.71 M33-2 using the Pandora Battery and magic memory stick, but now I can't upgrade the firmware above that.
The problem is the sce updater, it causes the update to crash at 92% with an error (FFFFFFE), from checking this out I've found out that this seems to be happening to people with a common problem of the UMD drive not working, and this seems to be causing the update to fail.
Is there anyway to update without using the sce updater, hopefully bypassing whatever is causing the update to crash?
Xbox 360: Slim untouched with a faked 320 GB harddrive for XBL, phat with LT 3.0, played Halo early, so going on live would be an instand ban, also with a faked 320 GB harddrive
PS3: Untouched 160 GB Slim, 60 GB Fat with latest Rogero and 160 GB internal harddrive.
PSVita: hardly ever play it
GameCube: Black with a Viper chip installed. With gameboy player. Trying to get a Wavebird controller.
Xbox 360: Slim untouched with a faked 320 GB harddrive for XBL, phat with LT 3.0, played Halo early, so going on live would be an instand ban, also with a faked 320 GB harddrive
PS3: Untouched 160 GB Slim, 60 GB Fat with latest Rogero and 160 GB internal harddrive.
PSVita: hardly ever play it
GameCube: Black with a Viper chip installed. With gameboy player. Trying to get a Wavebird controller.
Eisherz, thanks for the help and I don't mean to sound ungrateful (seeing as my status says newbie) but I'm really looking for an alternative to buying and installing a new UMD drive, I'd rather just disable it altogether if that fixed my problem.
You have already used Pandora battery to install custom firmware. I would try installing the latest CFW with that Pandora battery. It could do the trick.
Xbox 360: Slim untouched with a faked 320 GB harddrive for XBL, phat with LT 3.0, played Halo early, so going on live would be an instand ban, also with a faked 320 GB harddrive
PS3: Untouched 160 GB Slim, 60 GB Fat with latest Rogero and 160 GB internal harddrive.
PSVita: hardly ever play it
GameCube: Black with a Viper chip installed. With gameboy player. Trying to get a Wavebird controller.
Actually never thought of that, will try it that way and see.
Some more info on the problem,
Drive clicks when ever I turn on the psp, even with door open and no umd in the drive, I tried installing the no umd plugin but it has no effect, also disconnected the laser, but the drive still clicks, took out the whole drive and it won't load the updater, just crashes on the psp screen when you run the update, if I turn off the psp the power light flashes green repeatedly, with or without the umd drive connected.
Also tried running a game on 3.71 M33-2 (Lego Star Wars II) and it loaded once and played perfect but then crashed on the psp screen when I tried it a second time. Tried Lego Batman it wouldn't work at all, these are both games that ran on other units perfectly, and using the exact same firmware I have put on other units.
Are you sure the drive is the only problem? When I got my PSP my drive was dead too, had no problems at all to play isos (and as far as I remember to update from 5.00 to 5.50 CFWs).
I would definitely use Pandora to reinstall a CFW, sometimes the installation gets screwed up during the process.
Xbox 360: Slim untouched with a faked 320 GB harddrive for XBL, phat with LT 3.0, played Halo early, so going on live would be an instand ban, also with a faked 320 GB harddrive
PS3: Untouched 160 GB Slim, 60 GB Fat with latest Rogero and 160 GB internal harddrive.
PSVita: hardly ever play it
GameCube: Black with a Viper chip installed. With gameboy player. Trying to get a Wavebird controller.
