Fitting a replacement UMD drive for a PSP 2003
On my retro-month journey, as I mentioned previously, I found a drawer with a broken PSP 1000, a working PSP 1003 and a couple of games.
I purchased a new PSU for the PSP 1003 device and a new higher capacity battery, when they arrived, I juiced them up and the PSP 1003 fire up and worked a treat. I even managed to get it connected to the WiFi (albeit to the "guest network" as it needs to have security turned off).
I downloaded the latest firmware, rebooted and it works great.
Then, whilst wandering through town over the weekend, I noticed a couple of PSP 2003 devices in one of those cash convertor shop windows. Whilst the missus was in the "knitting shop", I popped in asked to have a look. Naturally, it had no PSU and no UMDs to test it. For £15 I thought I'd take a gamble.... it looked to be in relatively good condition, no damage anywhere and the screen and buttons all felt pretty non-abused.
I got home, plugged in the PSU and charged up the battery. It booted up, things were looking good. I put a UMD in....it didn't make any whirring noises (as it should) and then reported it couldn't read the disc. I tried a few more. Then the reality sunk in. The UMD drive was broken.
I purchased a new PSU for the PSP 1003 device and a new higher capacity battery, when they arrived, I juiced them up and the PSP 1003 fire up and worked a treat. I even managed to get it connected to the WiFi (albeit to the "guest network" as it needs to have security turned off).
I downloaded the latest firmware, rebooted and it works great.
Then, whilst wandering through town over the weekend, I noticed a couple of PSP 2003 devices in one of those cash convertor shop windows. Whilst the missus was in the "knitting shop", I popped in asked to have a look. Naturally, it had no PSU and no UMDs to test it. For £15 I thought I'd take a gamble.... it looked to be in relatively good condition, no damage anywhere and the screen and buttons all felt pretty non-abused.
I got home, plugged in the PSU and charged up the battery. It booted up, things were looking good. I put a UMD in....it didn't make any whirring noises (as it should) and then reported it couldn't read the disc. I tried a few more. Then the reality sunk in. The UMD drive was broken.
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