00:00All right, guys, welcome back to Nerdy Gaming with Rad Beaver, and today we have a little bit
00:05of a problem presented to us. A customer has brought PS4 to studio to be worked on,
00:13saying that the fan does not work, and surely it does not. So this is his fan, and as you can see,
00:20he ripped the connector right off of the fan. So there's two ways to fix this. You can either
00:29A, replace it with another fan and pull the switch out, or B, you can try to solder this back in the
00:34way that it was originally wired into the connector and let it do its thing and go. I think we're
00:41going to try to replace it with a donor PS4 today. So I think that's what we're going to do is we're
00:48going to open this up and try to get it replaced. Bear with me. We'll be back shortly. All right,
00:54guys, welcome back to Nerdy Gaming with Rad Beaver, and after some much-needed surgery from
01:00this PS4, we got the fan out, got it replaced in the new one, and I've got it downloaded in some
01:07games right now. I did run into another problem that I'm going to have to fix on this. I noticed
01:11that the eject button, the contact is not meeting where the eject button hits on it, so I'm going to
01:17have to open it back up here shortly and fix that eject button and get it running good, but it will
01:22eject a disc. If you put a disc inside of it, it will reject it from your controller by using the
01:31controller on it and telling it to eject it under the options menu, so that's good, but as I told
01:37you, we've got it running here, and we've got it downloaded, and it's been downloading for quite a
01:42while, about 30 minutes, and normally this thing was on fire hot, too, because of where the fan had
01:49been broken inside of it. It just would not roll very well, and it wasn't moving very good. While
01:55we were inside, I did a deep clean on it. I took and cleaned everything, dusted everything out, sprayed
02:00it out, and put some new thermal paste on it as well. It's still hot, but it's not nowhere near as hot
02:08as it was before, so I'm extremely happy with the way this turned out. Like I said, I'll just have to
02:14get inside and fix the contact on this one, and I can kind of show you in this other case
02:19here. Let's flip back over to the big screen here once I get this in my hand.
02:25All right, so your contact for your eject button is right here, and it's got to stick out a little
02:32bit, and then there's another contact point that goes around the side that measures your pressure
02:40that you're putting on to it, so if either one of these contacts are out of place or bent or moved,
02:45it will not eject, so that's what we're going to go through next. You'll have to take the three
02:50screws out on the back of the bottom of the console in order to do it, and then pull what's
02:55the two major pieces off, and then just check and make sure that you have this not bent or touching
03:02anything or that it's not destroyed in any way, but both of these contacts have to be,
03:08you know, have to be met there. So that's what we're going to be doing here in just a little
03:15bit as soon as this is done downloading. You know, it says it's got about 50 minutes to download.
03:19It's actually got a little bit longer than that because it's going to download the online section
03:22to it, too, to this eGate, but once that's downloaded and everything, and we got everything
03:27running, and we'll get it to play a few games to see how well it's doing, but it's been running
03:33for roughly about an hour and 15 minutes, and it is not burning up at all. Now, like I said,
03:41I did put new ThermoPaste on it. I want to give a shout out to Corsair for their ThermoPaste. The
03:46TM30 is what we used today putting on it, and I'm not going to lie to you. That heat sink is huge on
03:52this, even though the GPU chip and CPU chip that is used on the inside is not very big. That heat
03:59sink that's on the inside of these old fat ones, and I can actually show you if I can pull it apart
04:05here, if it'll allow me to pull it out, but the heat sink that is right here, it starts right here
04:12and goes all the way across, and it's at least two and a half inches wide, and it covers where that fan
04:18is, but that heat sink there is huge, and it needs ThermoPaste on it as well, not just enough
04:26to put it on the CPU and GPU chip. You need to put a little bit on that heat sink so that it can keep
04:32it a little bit cooler as this console runs, and as these get older, you know, they burn up a little
04:38bit more. The fans don't move as fast. You know, you got to keep them clean, do some maintenance on
04:43them, open them up, and keep them clean, but shoot, I think that that's going to cover it for today.
04:48I think we've done a good job. Thank you guys for coming in and being here. I will post some video
04:53of it in the future of how you open these up, how you get inside, how you make sure to clean these
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