PSP died

[msailg]

Hello
I have a dead Japanese PSP, the power light comes on but that is all, I suspect that the previous owner tried to load a new bios but failled, is there any way I can flash a new bios to the psp?
thanks in advance for any help.

[Drakonite]

Don't cross post. All it does is piss people off so they don't feel like answering your question.

[Thanhda]

no. all you can do is use it as a paper weight =P.

[Guest]

No. If you are in Japan, you can pay sony to fix it. But so far, Sony doesn't seem equipped to do so in the US.

And again, no, there is no known way, yet, to fix it. Don't have too much hope there ever will be a way without sending to Sony.

If you acquired it knowing in advance it was dead, I hope you didn't pay too much for it, but you got what you payed for.

[Drakonite]

SCEI (Sony of Japan) is the only ones that can fix it currently. If you call SCEA they will tell you to talk to SCEI, and SCEI supposedly won't repair PSPs for anyone outside of Japan.

So the only other choices you really end up with are attempting to sell it for parts (not likely to get much of anything even if you succeed), donating it to one of the people here who have a use for a dead PSP (only a couple of us fit that description), or having an expensive looking paperweight.

[fashidus]

or if you were sold a dead unit advertised as a working unit....

you can return the favor and resell it under the same false pretenses. heh.

[th0mas]

or if you were sold a dead unit advertised as a working unit....

you can return the favor and resell it under the same false pretenses. heh.

that's not returning the favour, that's passing the buck. Big difference, you end up just as evil as the person that screwed you.

[byg]

or if you were sold a dead unit advertised as a working unit....

you can return the favor and resell it under the same false pretenses. heh.

I suggest reading this thread:
http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?p=12796

(of which this thread seems to be following a strikingly similar path)