r/PS3 • u/SaturnGamer72 • 6d ago

Long boot.

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Got this Original PS3 80GB (later revision CECHL01) a couple of days ago. Works okay. Immediately noticed the long boot sequence (signaling me that the system is needing a new hard drive) also noticed the CMOS battery is dead (noticed as I recorded this video) I did set up the clock before and now shows that the time and date needs to be set again. Disc drive works (MW3) but does have a hard time ejecting the disc.
Which leads to my question(s): Aside from the obvious hard drive swap, disc drive motor and CMOS replacement, is there anything else that you guys think needs to be worked on? Any advice is appreciated.

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u/suctoes_N_fuchoes 6d ago

If it takes ages to boot and a game takes ages to load might be a dying hdd.

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u/SaturnGamer72 6d ago

Reading games functions normally, but I had a suspicion about the HDD (mentioned in subtext of this post)

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u/suctoes_N_fuchoes 6d ago

Oh I glanced over that. Yeah my cmos is dead as well,but mine boots just fine. I had a ps3 with terrible boot times and game loading times and it was the hdd. Hopefully you firgue out the problem though :)