Good for you coffee dude. Mine being struck with the same problem but cannot solve

Need some help here.

Mine is a 320g MY set PS3 slim, update 4.46 through the PS3 internal processes. I leave it to update but was surprise to see the 8002F1F9 error message at 8X% progress .

Tried for 3 nights already, most of the time it will stuck around 8X% but once it did stuck at 99% which I thought sudah ok but it end up with the same error message

Among the approach I tried:
1. Boot into recovery mode but it will still directly goes to the Update screen and stuck at 8X% again. (~ 10 attempts)
2. Swap with another 2.5 120GB HDD from another PS3, it will boot into safe mode but PS3 says I do not have the correct firmware (4.31 or above). (2 attempts)
3.1 I formatted my 2.5 120GB HDD to FAT32 using
3.2 Prepared another external harddisk with FAT32 and put the downloaded 4.46 Update file (PS3UPDAT.PUP) in \PS3\Update\ folder.
3.3 I boot up and press Select and Start 5 second according to on screen instruction to format my 120GB HDD in PS3.
3.4 reboot of PS3, and I am being prompt with the user agreement for updating the firmware and have to choose agree, then the update System Firmware starts again.
3.5 This time, the update process failed at 40% !! making less progress then before.

The thing I not yet / not dare to try:
1. Format the 320GB hard disk to FAT32 and try to update using the external hard disk.
2. Open up and swap parts with another PS3 I have.
3. Send to sony centre

Any suggestion from the forumers?

This post has been edited by kygoo: Sep 13 2013, 02:41 PM

Warranty for PS3 is 1 year? then no more.

But the sticker at the bottom not yet removed.

To complete my story:

At last I choose #3 send to Sony Centre

After checking from Sony, they say is Main board failure.

So I guess that's it for the life of this PS3. :'(

And it goes with the saved games that i didn't backup