Some developers have released a RSOD fix via GAMEOS. Now keep in mind if you truly have a hardware problem then this will most likely not help you. also there was a RSOD fix via debain installer. so for those of you that have linux on your ps3 and wish to fix like that can use the linux pup.
The RSOD Fix
Observations about RSOD:
- Seems to appear mostly on consoles with Samsung NORS (CECHL**-CECH20**)
- May be caused by an error being thrown while writing to NOR (this is theory)
- Mostly caused by a corrupt area of flash called VTRM
The original RSOD “fix” was actually a CFW patch to bypass the RSOD.
basic_plugins.sprx was modified to ignore the error condition to allow the console to boot.
While this worked, certain things like trophies still didn’t work correctly.
The actual RSOD fix occurs by the VTRM area on flash being rewritten.
The ability to do this is already built into the firmware, it just needs to be called.
Steps from GameOS:
- 1) Install the NORSOD patched PUP so that you can boot.
- 2) Install the rsodfix.gnpdrm.pkg package, and run it from XMB.
- 3) Run rsodfix.
- 4) Reboot and install whatever firmware you want
Thanks go to: ‘dospeidra, an0nymous, nikitis, robs’ for their efforts to help improve this PS3 ‘scene’!
File #1: NORSOD patched PUP (170mb)
File #2: rsodfix.gnpdrm.pkg (616kb)

Next we need to re-size the video to 320×176 to do this click Filter Settings from the top tool bar then click setting… in the size section. Change the width to 320, the height to 176 and add black bottom to 0. Click update then ok.
Click ok to finish with filter settings. Now we need to adjust some settings so the PS3 reads the file correctly so click video enc setting on the top toolbar then adjust the settings to match these
Click advanced to change some more settings that match these (don’t forget the Entropy Coding it’s important)
Click ok to finish with video enc settings. We are ready to run the program but first we need to check/tick Create EP Map. To do this go to run in the menu bar and click Create EP Map (again really important to this process).



