Then I thought, that maybe the firmware is not good, so I tried to update it via external memory (1 gb Kingston USB stick). I tried to re insert the disk, or to restart the system, or to turn off the main power, and unplug the power cable, or to clean the disk with alcohol, but without success… It red everything but blu ray (actually I had the chance to try out only the Gran turismo 5 proluge, because I don’t have any other blu ray, nor film, or game) After a while the rotation of the little clock stopped, and nothing happened. So problems were starting when I first time put in the gt5 game, and the console did scan the disk(the little clock at the upper right corner was rotating), but the game did not start. The seller told me, that the ps3 is not capable of connecting to the internet, but I didn’t really care about that… How I fixed the 8002F1F9 error on my 60 gb (fat) Ps3 (European version, PAL)įirst of all I bought the ps3 for a very charming price, with two wireless controller and one game included( Gran Turismo 5 Proluge). Hope this helps any of you without costing you the 6 hours it took me. Tried it again using 3.40 on usb drive and had to repeat this procedure. Anyway, after doing all that, my ps3 works exactly as it did before, but I cannot update to 3.40. Be nice if sony bothered to research and include the actual steps required to fix this stuff. I thought I was completely screwed here too, but at least got back to having a functional ps3 instead of a brick.

another screen (i think) later, press select + start.

put hd back in ps3, put usb stick in ps3.

shut down pc, take out hd, take usb drive too.

copy that rom to usb drive in folders PS3 => UPDATE => put rom named PS3UPDAT.PUP here.

get the rom of whatever version you were on before you upgraded - i had to search, but i found the us 3.30 rom.

format in NTSF - that's right, NTSF - don't use quick format.

open up disk management - in win7 it asked me to make a master book record, so I did.

connect hard drive to pc (running windows 7 64bit, but any windows os should work without other software).

If that's what you have, this fixes it (or did on my 80 gig ps3). Here's quickly what I did to end the endless loop.

Ps3 bios errors