Alas, the PS3...
...She is dead. Succumbed to the dreaded Red Screen of Death. ;_;
Got the new replacement hard drive. Put it in, reformatted and re-installed to a certain point (about 40-45% installation) before jumping to 100%, resetting... And Red Screen again. Dad figured it was a ROM issue, that something screwed up the ROM to prevent from working properly. Because both the old and the replacement hard drives do the exact same thing: they get up to the same point from safe mode or reformatting before the Red Screen appears.
The only way to really get to the PS3 flash ROM is through some complicated Linux code, and that's a headache in itself.
Time for the last option: check and compare prices of buying a new one and/or taking it somewhere for repairs and diagnostics.
...I should've known that naming video games consoles after sunken White Star/Cunard Ocean Liners would be a bad idea. Ironically enough, Lucitania and Britannica still work (PS2 and old PS1, respectively.) Although, Lucitania was named for the Cunard Liner, RMS Lusitania. Still got torpedoed by German Subs though, and the White Star Britannic was hit by an old naval mine after being commissioned as a hospital ship for WW1. o_o I suppose in a grimly ironic sort of way, Britannica's the "luckiest" in terms of her life span because the majority of the original ships passengers were safely rescued, give or take 30 people.
Got the new replacement hard drive. Put it in, reformatted and re-installed to a certain point (about 40-45% installation) before jumping to 100%, resetting... And Red Screen again. Dad figured it was a ROM issue, that something screwed up the ROM to prevent from working properly. Because both the old and the replacement hard drives do the exact same thing: they get up to the same point from safe mode or reformatting before the Red Screen appears.
The only way to really get to the PS3 flash ROM is through some complicated Linux code, and that's a headache in itself.
Time for the last option: check and compare prices of buying a new one and/or taking it somewhere for repairs and diagnostics.
...I should've known that naming video games consoles after sunken White Star/Cunard Ocean Liners would be a bad idea. Ironically enough, Lucitania and Britannica still work (PS2 and old PS1, respectively.) Although, Lucitania was named for the Cunard Liner, RMS Lusitania. Still got torpedoed by German Subs though, and the White Star Britannic was hit by an old naval mine after being commissioned as a hospital ship for WW1. o_o I suppose in a grimly ironic sort of way, Britannica's the "luckiest" in terms of her life span because the majority of the original ships passengers were safely rescued, give or take 30 people.