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A friend has a console which was broken due to bad soldering on the chips and was stored somewhere.
Then a bright fellow decided he needed the motors on the bluray drive and has thrown everything else on the trash.
Now I think I've made the console bask to working shape, but since I have no drive, I can't figure out if it needs the drive to really work.
It currently powers up and down as it should, but I get no video at all.
If you could test on yours, just disconnect the flat cable and the white power cable. Let me know if you get image.
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You should get an image. Try a different video cable, also attaching a controller to it. What ever you do don't let it update like that.
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 ABCellars crwdne2934271:0
As much as I apreciate all answers so far, no one has done what I humble asked for.
So, until someone tries it, I won't validate any answer.
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Luis Correia, I do not think that this is a humble request. Nobody is going to tear their console apart and disconnect a cable, to answer your question. The goal on here is to assist others, not to get validated answers, so you are not harming anyone by not validating. I do wish you the best of luck.
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 oldturkey03 crwdne2934271:0
I have a ps3 that my dickhead brother had decided to throw onto the tile floor everything but the blue ray drive works I have removed the blue ray drive and can still use everything but the discs
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 Tshep crwdne2934271:0
I know it's been like 5 year but I tried it now, it will turn on and all but if have multiman or webman (to play your backups) it will just freeze and show you a black screen. Anything else seems to work
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