PSP 3K Disassembly Guide

There are 4 external screws on the back side of the PSP. There are two exposed and the other two are under the battery cover. One is hidden under the warranty sticker in the battery compartment. (Keep all your screws we will be reusing them.)

There are 2 screws to remove from the top of the PSP shell.

The last external screw can be found on the bottom of the PSP shell.

If you have a plastic pry tool you can now pry the front of the shell from the back There are small clasps that can break. We do not need the front cover and hopefully you are using a broken PSP so if those clasps break its ok. 

There is a small tab to pry up on the left side of the select/start strip at the bottom of the screen. Once that tab has been lifted you can push the whole bar to the left which will free it from the other clasp on the right side. 

There are four connectors to unhook for the screen and menu buttons. If you click on the picture you can see the full picture if you need to zoom in. 

There are 6 internal screws holding down a few different parts. You can remove them all at once. Remember to save these we need them as well.

Please also save the small white part that holds the right bumper in place. We will need that part as well. 

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Some 3000 models do not have all these screws they only have 3 and the white parts do not have screws holding them down. If that is the case you will not need that small white part.

Remove the top trigger buttons and disconnect the remaining highlighted connectors. We will only need the power connector, none of the  other parts for this project. Feel free to put them in a bag if you wish to hold on to all your OEM parts.

The power cord has a small tab to push aside letting you lift it out. Set this aside we will need it for later. This is the only part we will be modifying  permanently. You can always buy a new one of these if you wish to revert your build to the original PSP.

1. Make sure you pull out the SD card if inserted and the cover should be in the pulled out position to remove the left plastic piece. Look at the picture from the last step for an example.

2. The right button pad can be pulled up; it is taped to the board so use a bit of force to pull up on it.

1. Once the rest of the top layer parts are removed. You can remove the corner screw holding the gray plastic in place.

2. Once removed, press up on the gray plastic part you should hear a click as you push up on it. Set this part aside we will use it to secure the board again later.

Before you lift the board make sure to disconnect the analog stick ribbon cable and the last lower ribbon cable on the board. You can also disconnect the last ribbon cable going to the disk drive if you would like to remove the board all together.

With the board lifted you should be able to pull the analogue stick out as long as you removed the ribbon cable and screw keeping it in place.

Return the board to the shell connecting the 2 ribbon cables from the UMD drive. As well as the internet pin at the top right.

Click the gray part back in place. Clipping the board down and replace the small black screw keeping that all in place on the inside of the PSP.

Hold on to your screws and your PSP Yours should look like the picture below minus the right bumper just the white part screwed back into place to keep the motherboard held down. 

 we are ready to move on to the next step. Click the button below to move on directly to the 3k build guide.