Editing Unlocking the 8th SPE
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You should be familiar with the fact that the playstation 3 has 7 enabled SPEs (one is dedicated to isolation) and 1 disabled SPE to increase the yield effectiveness during manufacturing. | You should be familiar with the fact that the playstation 3 has 7 enabled SPEs (one is dedicated to isolation) and 1 disabled SPE to increase the yield effectiveness during manufacturing. | ||
Upon startup, the syscon firmware will read the Syscon's EEPROM value located at 0x48C30 (You can read/write to that offset through the Update Manager) and will set the cell config ring accordingly. | Upon startup, the syscon firmware will read the Syscon's EEPROM value located at 0x48C30 (You can read/write to that offset through the Update Manager) and will set the cell config ring accordingly. | ||
That value is initially set to 0x06 on all consumer consoles which means 7 SPEs are actually enabled (The count starts at SPE0). Incrementing it will unlock the extra SPE. | That value is initially set to 0x06 on all consumer consoles which means 7 SPEs are actually enabled (The count starts at SPE0). Incrementing it will unlock the extra SPE. | ||