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Dug out my PSP to find it resembles a brick
been a while since I played on it but loco roco is generally fun on trains and stuff and I had an inkling that I might play it over the holiday but that didn’t transpire.
Still, went to start it up and I get a blank screen and a green power light and thats it. It won’t turn off save for pulling battery out – oh my. So, battery out for a bit and let it chill out – lets see what happens. This morning pop it in – same thing – buggered. In fact the common colloquialism is to ‘brick’ it – i.e. render it as useful and active as a brick. Sweet. So some google searches later and not much turns up save for ripping it apart and adding some funky hardware or replacing the mother board. I ring sony who want £65 for a new one as I’m 2 months out of warranty (suspicious says I).
What was I to do? Could I have unknowingly bricked my PSP? Apparently this is far far too easy to do. Is there no way of fixing it???
happy ending In my case it seems I hadn’t – a closer look revealed that the PSP was still looking at the memory card and the UMD disk was still spinning up! There’s hope – perhaps I could boot from something, some how?? On a whim I stuck a different game in the unit and hey presto, PSPs up and working again – yay. Hmm… wonder how many folks would have paid Sony the £65?
My del.icio.us links relating to the PSP – you’ll note recent ones are concerned with bricking it
