PSP Slim Various Issues

[khy86]

OK i have a silver psp slim 2000 Japan model and it has some serious issues.

1. It refuses to read UMD's, and if a UMD in the drive when booting, the psp will freeze on splash screen.
2. If UMD is put in when the psp is turned on nothing happens, not even an error message.
3. When running a program from memory card, the psp will freeze on the splash screen when loading. (tested using 3.71m33 and 5.00m33)
4. when turning the psp off, the psp power light will blink for 20 seconds before turning off.

A few other problems, but just kind of fall under the same categories as above, I have tried dumping the nand and i get the following error "bad block at page 84864 block 2652".

I have re-installed the firmware do no avail and have tested my MMS on many psp's including my LE final fantasy version and they all work fine apart from this one

Any advice, because i am completely lost:confused:

[January39]

OK i have a silver psp slim 2000 Japan model and it has some serious issues.

1. It refuses to read UMD's, and if a UMD in the drive when booting, the psp will freeze on splash screen.
2. If UMD is put in when the psp is turned on nothing happens, not even an error message.
3. When running a program from memory card, the psp will freeze on the splash screen when loading. (tested using 3.71m33 and 5.00m33)
4. when turning the psp off, the psp power light will blink for 20 seconds before turning off.

A few other problems, but just kind of fall under the same categories as above, I have tried dumping the nand and i get the following error "bad block at page 84864 block 2652".

I have re-installed the firmware do no avail and have tested my MMS on many psp's including my LE final fantasy version and they all work fine apart from this one

Any advice, because i am completely lost:confused:


Have you ran keycleaner?

Otherwise i would suspect damaged UMD drive, cheap to buy a little tricky to replace, particulary in the slim.

Worry not about the NAND bad block- perfectly normal and almost certainly not related to your UMD issue.

[MaxMouseDLL]

Have you ran keycleaner?

Otherwise i would suspect damaged UMD drive, cheap to buy a little tricky to replace, particulary in the slim.

Worry not about the NAND bad block- perfectly normal and almost certainly not related to your UMD issue.

I agree, and to futher comment on the bad NAND block, i once installed CFW on a PSP with 400+ bad blocks, and it still worked with no issue.

[dim33]

I've had this problem before with a slim and a fat.

Both were due to the UMD drive itself not working.

On the slim there is a small white switch that detects the UMD when it is inserted. Make sure this is operating properly (it is spring loaded).

Also, you could clean the lens of your drive with a q-tip. Dip it in pure alcohol if you have any (but take care here a s certain cleaners may damage the lens).

If none of the above does the trick, you could try tapping the unit firmly into the palm of your hand. Enough to give it a thud but not to damage it (some common sense will help here). I fixed one of mine this way.

I think a corrupted key is unlikey as you usually get a region error message when UMD keys are corrupted.

[MaxMouseDLL]

If none of the above does the trick, you could try tapping the unit firmly into the palm of your hand. Enough to give it a thud but not to damage it (some common sense will help here). I fixed one of mine this way.

Good old "Technical Tap" it's been the staple of engineers since the dawn of electronics, "If it doesn't work, try smacking it about a bit" - My old college lecturer.

[khy86]

I cant use keycleaner anyway as when i run a homebrew app from my mem card the psp freezes

[khy86]

ok i just tried a few things that you guys said. I then put the UMD in the drive and turned the psp on, once again the psp crashed on the splash screen at the start and was unresponsive. I opened the drive and took the UMD out and could see the spinning mechanism wasn't stopping. I had to take the power out to turn it off as it completely crashed.

[MaxMouseDLL]

ok i just tried a few things that you guys said. I then put the UMD in the drive and turned the psp on, once again the psp crashed on the splash screen at the start and was unresponsive. I opened the drive and took the UMD out and could see the spinning mechanism wasn't stopping. I had to take the power out to turn it off as it completely crashed.

You can't start homebrew... that's weird, it does point to some kind of IDS issue, but the weirdness of the UMD drive... don't know, maybe you have multiple issues...

[dim33]

If it continues to spin after the UMD is removed something is wrong with the drive. My guess would be the switch that detectes the UMD is not working as it should, but without seeing it it's impossible to say for sure.

This problem is not the same as when unit does not detect the UMD as here the thing continues to operate with no disk which prevents the PSP from funcioning properly.

If it were me I'd open the unit up and take a look (there must be tutorials on youtube I would imagine). If you're lucky something simple may be obviously wrong.

[khy86]

but would the umd drive affect the running of homebrew applications, i don't see how the drive could affect this and cause the psp to crash

[dim33]

but would the umd drive affect the running of homebrew applications, i don't see how the drive could affect this and cause the psp to crashIf the drive is constantly active I believe that the PSP is trying to read data that it can't find. I believe it cannot perform other functions whilst it is doing this (I'm not 100% about this but I think it's right).

When I insert a UMD my PSP's drive comes to life and until the unit's read the initial data from the disc it won't do anything else.

[khy86]

the drive is only constantly active when i start the psp with a umd in the drive, if the psp is turned on already and then a umd is inserted nothing will happen and the drive will not activate, also there is no standby mode for the psp anymore, whenever i flick the switch, the power just flashes and then turns off

[dim33]

Ummmm..

Since you have reinstalled cfw it is fair to assume that this is not the culprit.

If it is some other software issue perhaps it could be IDS (but it doesn't sound like it). Do you have any unusual plugins installed? Have you tried disabling them if you do?

It might be worth formatting/resetting your flash 1 just in case there's some stray setting that's causing a problem. This is a long shot but we're just trying to exclude all possible issues.

My money would be on some form of hardware fault from the sound of things.

[khy86]

well ive clicked format flash1, but im guessing my psp has crashed, its been on that screen for hours

[dim33]

You seem to have done all the things you can do.

Unless anyone else has any ideas perhaps you should start looking into whether the hardware itself is at fault.

[jimger]

My friend have you found any solution?

[jimger]

Nothing yet?