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Old 04-05-2009, 02:22 AM
Nuwisha Nuwisha is offline
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Default Blue PSP 2001 Scanline Error

Hi! So, I got one of the limited edition blue PSPs. I picked it up on black friday from a woman outside of gamestop. There wasn't a receipt with it, but I offered cash on the condition that I was able to inspect everything first. And, well, everything was fine.

Along comes new Years, everything has been working fine and I love the PSP. When I took it to a party, and modded it. Everything was going fine, and I set it down while out adventuring for breakfast at 2am. When I returned and turned on the PSP, after about five minutes of use, scan lines started appearing all over the screen and garbling the video. With video fading away, and hoping to prevent bricking, I reflashed the original latest firmware onto the PSP. I thought it was dead then, as I had a black screen, but sound coming on. Two reboots later, and not even that much.

I then took the PSP to a professional repair shop (Starland), who claimed they had never seen anything like it before. After a week, they returned it with no charge, not being able to find a thing wrong with it.

Yesterday, holding out against luck, I put it back on it's charger, and it turned on. Everything was working, music was fine, video was fine, it even read the memory card without problem...until about ten minutes later when the screen garbling happened again.

So, now I can turn it on, and get a short bit of play out of it before it garbles (Only the video, sound works fine), and the version from the menu claims it's 2.6, not pandora. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

Remember.

A) I don't have the receipt, even though the system HAS to be under the 1 year marker, since the blue limited editions have only been out since early November.

The way I got it, and the quality of the system were good for a long while. I suspect the party I was at may have had something happen while I left it unattended for nearly an hour. (It was safe so I thought on a table.)

C) The system 'works' fine now for awhile, it's only after a period of time before it bugs out again.

Thanks!
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