Psp 2000 (88-v3) stuck in Initial Configuration

[Mewster]

After some years of inactivity, I decided to boot up once again my old psp... just to find that I couldn't go past the "Initial Configuration" (the one with the date) screen; this means, when I press "X" nothing happens.

Since the d-pad and the system buttons works, i can't tell which could be the problem.

After some research, I found out that someone had a similar problem, but after entering the cfw recovery menu and doing something here and there, he could unlock the buttons.

But I have a 88v3, I don't remember the firmware i'm in (but more probably it's the 5.xx, the one that was used with chick-Hen), with a cfw installed but that needs the loader to get boot up.

I have available also an old phat, on 6.60; is there something I could do (pandora? memory stick? dunnowhat?) to get the 2000 in a situation where I could confirm that the problem is software and not hardware?

Or someone has suggestions?


Thanks in advance!

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[ruyor]

If the person that had the similar problem formatted flash1 via recovery to fix it, you can do that with a button combo at startup on OFW. Try holding Square + Triangle + Select + Start while powering on (they must be pressed before flicking the power switch and held until the setup screen shows)

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[Mewster]

Thanks for the tip;

It seems it does nothing though (the boot time doesn't change), so maybe it's really an hardware problem if it can't read the buttons combo...