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Need some help with E3 installation

Post by hitaxas » Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:40 am

I've been in the process (HOURS) of installing the E3 flasher on my cech-2001a 120gb PS3 slim and I am running into issues.

Mostly my issues seem to be unique, I have looked all over google and youtube with no real luck. I had some slight trouble disassembling it to start, had to dremel some screws to remove them (no big deal, screws are replaceable I suppose)

However, when I got the main board out, I noticed that the chip I need to clip the E3 Softboard to was facing in a weird way, I got it on and taped it down like so: [spoiler]Image[/spoiler]

I am hoping it will work just fine like that.

Then I noticed this, if you look in the picture here, where the harddrive bay is, there is a metal plate there that I have not seen on any of the tutorials I have seen, making it impossible to clip the softboard into the E3 flash board: [spoiler]Image[/spoiler]

I am not able to find any info about it online and cannot seem to remove it... I am tempted to cut it with the dremel I used on the screws I mentioned earlier.

And lastly, the tray that I need to put the E3 flash board into was lacking a slit that the harddrive tray had which was preventing me from inserting it all the way... I used the dremel on that to the best of my ability, and it now fits: [spoiler]Image[/spoiler]

My question is, is there a simple way to remove the metal shown in picture 2 so that I can clip the softboard in, or should I proceed to cut it with the dremel? =/

As I said before, I haven't seen these issues mentioned anywhere else, google and youtube were no help.
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Re: Need some help with E3 installation

Post by fate6 » Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:46 am

now I cant really help you with this since I dont have a PS3 and have never done any hardmod
but your pictures(at least for me) are broken and after looking at the link
it seems like you did not place them in the "Public" folder simply place them in public and change the links here then it should work

oh and please place big pictures in spoiler tags
any who good luck and im sure someone around here can help you
(sorry for off topic)
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Re: Need some help with E3 installation

Post by GrimFandango » Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:27 am

It's good to know that you keep your PS3 cleaned. Nice! ;)

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Re: Need some help with E3 installation

Post by hitaxas » Thu Apr 25, 2013 12:50 pm

I know, the pictures are huge. =/

So I realize that the shot in image 2 is incorrect, when watching E3 install, videos the cage does have the metal there, but not on the other side.

This is what I mean:
[spoiler]Image[/spoiler]

Should I just cut it so I can clip this thing and continue? Or is there another way?
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Re: Need some help with E3 installation

Post by chaosstar23 » Thu May 02, 2013 3:13 am

hitaxas, i cant offer help but i wanted to know where you got yours (the E3) did you get it from the actual site? or offsite? im asking becasue im going to get one too once my paypal account clears and i dont want to fork our 87 dollars for one, if i can pay a little less. thanks. Good luck i will be following this thread so i kno what to expect in a couple weeks. I have a checch 2001A 120 GB also.....
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Re: Need some help with E3 installation

Post by hitaxas » Fri May 03, 2013 2:50 am

I bought mine off of modchipcentral,got it within a week on standard shipping. I hope somebody can give me answers, I want to get this going. :(
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Re: Need some help with E3 installation

Post by hitaxas » Fri May 10, 2013 5:39 am

Bumping this topic a little to state that I went ahead with the cutting with the dremel tool, there was a few more spots than I mentioned that needed to be cut to fit everything in, but I got it and eventually got everything downgraded. :)
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