How To: Replace the Fan in your Playstation 4!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- We have all seen how essential the fan is to your game consoles (example YLOD). So it's important to keep that guy in good working condition. Whether your fan is not working like it should or it just needs a good clean, today I’m going to show you how to remove the fan in your PS4.
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What a smart move by Sony. The most important piece that everyone should clean every once in a while is basically shielded by all of the other PS4 components. The fan should be the most accessible imo, I hope they put that in mind in the next ps given the fact that there's atleast 7 years gap between each gen (most ppl's warranties are expired anyway).
Was I the only one that thought how funny this was because of how calm she is throughout the video completely dismantling the crap out of the PS4 just to get to the fans?
Wasn't her own PS, so no wonder, lol
I know I would be there panicking the fuck out
LazAffects I like how easy she pulled the ps4 fan connector out. this ps4 was deff. taken apart before she did it because I broke my connector trying to get it off for 5 min. now I'm deciding Wether or not to solder each wire to the 3 parts
I broke mine too,
as long as the inside plastic piece separating the wire ends is still intact you'll be okay.
just get a pair of tweezers and carefully put them back in.
The problem was that you were supposed to pull up on the connector instead of pulling sideways, It's a unconventional connector and it's misleading.
no need to solder it.
Same story trying to remove,the Right cover off the ps4, after removing the harddrive and two security screws.. Shes like,Remove the front than push it backwards..And was able to remove it without effort.. I was here tryna do the same,And This bitch is stuck on and didnt want to come off..She also doesnt mention that the Metal plate,Beneath the MotherBoard,has 3 little Screws in the center that you have to remove,before taking it off and getting to the fan.
why didn't they just label this video as "how to completely disassemble a ps4"
i kept looking at the title if i had clicked on the wrong video.
John Gooch a new fan
I know right
I watched that video, but they didnt go all the way to the fan, so here I am
thats literally the only way to replace it did you think it would be easy lol its literally changing a fan on a ps4 its not a pc
Dam, A total tear down just to replace the fan.
+MrGamerOfThe1980s I know, it's completely unnecessary.
+Cairo Murphy the first models had and still have the fan on the bottom, but the new ones have it on the top
it's worth it! saves money
Rite yo like wtf
What an awful ill thought out design. What the heck sony!
I can't believe you have to remove everything else just to get to the fan. Was considering doing this but not anymore.
If you want to replace it, you have to take everything apart. If you just want to clean it, I guess a compressed air duster will do the job.
banescar This fuck taking whole thing apart just to clean. You don't really need to open it unless the fan isn't working. My ps3 slim is like 4 or 5 on default paste.No overheat or shuts downs.
Aku79 Even when I opened my 4 year old ps3 there was no dust inside it. If you make sure the room is clean and dust free inside the console will be clean.
@@marcr110 every house will get dust in it at some point
she failed to mention when you take out the flat ribbon cable that connects the motherboard to the bluray drive you have to push down on the metal clips &pull to release it. Don't do what i did & yank out the cable, damaging it in the process & being forced to buy a new one. 😤
did you buy a new one???
You are just as much of a life saver as this video. Thank because I was about to rip them out too.
yeah i noticed this too, pretty poor imo. they also forgot to mention a whole bunch of screws that just weren't in that one during disassembly.
Can someone sticky this comment? My butthole shot into my stomach after pulling it out and noticing the tiny tabs on either side were broken. Nice heads-up, iFixit [while letting you break it].
@@Eltramicst my broke off to buy my ps4 still works fine
This is TOOOO MUCH, I'll just put it in the freezer...
Lol
Yeah Im going to use it as a window accessory
Best comment ever =))
vniga well that's just genius. I'm tempted to buy a dorm fridge just to test it.
85dime When i had ylod on PS3 i put it in freezer, it started working for half hour so i could remove disc and say proper bye.
Would it kill Sony/Microsoft to develop a console that lets me clean it out without voiding my warranty? because at this point i feel like its a loss/loss for the consumer, you either void your warranty to clean it out or let it burn out due to all the dust building up.
companies get more money when you send them to get repaired or cleaned
They want us to break it so we can pay them more money
Its the same issue with laptop computers you cant truly access and properly clean the dirt plug built up between the fan and the heat sink without disassembly , blowing air backwards through the heat sink fins just blows the dust ball back into the fans vanes (as soon as the fan runs it blows the plug of lint and dust and fine hairs back into place) preventing its true extraction they should have designed a snap open door in the duct between the fan and the heat sink for cleaning access.
I seriously hate that too. I didn't get the warranty anyways but I've had mine for 4 years! And that was a shit ton of dust to clean.
Maximus Decimus Meridius pretty sure that’s not the issue, unless you’re dumb enough to leave it plugged in. They want you to send it in to the shop so they can milk you for cash.
Such a poor design, forcing you to take the entire machine apart to replace a fan that will fail one day! It means you fiddling for ages trying not to break anything, or paying more for someone else to repair it.
Take that easy to remove bottom plate off and full access should then be given to the fan.
+marksapollo
Poor design for the consumer, sure, but I'm sure this was specifically designed to be this way. They don't want people to be easily able to fix this. I couldn't believe that the fan is literally the hardest thing to access on this thing.
+BKofficer23 Actually its not only because of that but to provide the smallest design possible, and yes the fact that its not meant to be replaced by costumers.
+marksapollo You don't even need to replace it.
If your PS4 sounds like a turbine, the fan most likely has a TON of dust on it. I almost couldn't see the fan from that much dust lol. After I cleaned it, it's much quieter now.
***** Yeah it's probably dust build up.
I was thinking of cleaning my playstation's fan but after watching this video i changed my mind
Hope this helps. once top is removed you can see intake for the fan impeller- you can use canned air and straw to blow out dust from fan blades. Since all that dust will go into power supply, I would recommend taking it off first. You might be able to see back into duct from power supply end to see main heatsink fins, and whether or not they are dusty, and blow from fan or power supply end until clean.
Now!!! This is the right way to make a video, simple and straight to the point, THANK YOU!!!!
For the people having trouble getting the PSU out, be careful, on the lower left corner there's two long power "posts" so DON'T bend the power supply, just wiggling it directly up bit by bit.
This is a really excellent guide, clear and detailed. Thanks for putting it together. The fan in my PS4 didn't need to be replaced but it was working very hard all the time because the heat sink cooling fins were clogged with dust. I knew that I would need to gain direct access to the inside of the cooling fins in order to clean them properly. This video showed me how to do that.
Great video that's not 45 minutes long!
To the point and no having to wait for the screws to be taking out.
Great video, helped me get mine open. Bit stressful watching the vid backwards to put it all back together haha. But it really helped!
All that just for the fan
My sons ps4 sounded like an aeroplane taking off so I followed this video and stripped it down.
I could not believe the amount of dust clogged inside. Quite straight forward and not as daunting as it looks.
It took about 1.5 hours to strip down, clean and put back together.
His ps4 is now absolutely silent.
However, this video fails to tell you that you must clean the heatsink and cpu and reapply new thermal paste.
“Taking apart your PS4” is the proper name for this video
Game over for me at "disconnect power supply from the motherboard" To the shop I go.
why did they design the ps4 like that.. really making it long to get to that fan.
Because if it was so easy lots of uneducated people would break their ps4
Azure. I’m pretty sure it’s so folks who don’t have the patience or don’t want to deal with the inconvenience of fixing it themselves would have to pay significantly more to have it fixed in the shop.
@@TopShelfKay how
@@TopShelfKay that's literally the dumbest thing I've ever read. How does making things more complex prevent uneducated people from breaking them? The more complex the are the easier they are to break genius.
Valamaria the PS4 pro cover comes off leads you straight to the fan just open the cover and you will see the fan
Its unbelievable you have to disassemble the whole PS4 only for getting to the fan. It seems like Sony planned this so if the fan breaks and the PS4 overheats you have to take apart the while console.
And if that happens only choice for normal people but a new PlayStation
Mabirc Min An insane amount of engineering went into building this system, keeping the components cool, ect. You seriously think they built it a specific way just so people couldn't replace a fan? Do you know what percent of their consumers would ever even think to do something like this? There's no way that they demanded their engineering team purposely create a difficult fan replacement scenario because 0.2% of the future owners would ever want to try replacing it.
Grinchy Granch
Please inform about "Planned Obsolescence". Thats anything i can tell you to see why i say this. Nobody tries it cause Sony wont let you do that. So they will try to make the repair process more difficult
+Mabirc Planned obsolescence is when all models of the product will eventually fail. All ps4s will not fail, not even 0.1% of them. Stop talking crap.
*****
Planned Obsolescence is when a certain amount of gadgets fail after a specific time which was planned by the engineers. Also you said "all models of the product will eventually fail" A bit contradictive eh...
Stop talking crap.
Your video helped a lot. There were four additional screws that you did not mention. Three on the bottom tray under the motherboard. And another one holding in the tray on the top of the motherboard.
Best video made on TH-cam of how to disassemble a ps4.
Just replaced mine about 3 minutes ago and have 7 screws leftover ;-'p which is just about right when I take things apart. Now it's lighter and works even better! Took about 1 hour with interruptions so it should really take about 15-30 minutes. Make sure you take pictures along the way as to where the cables fit and "snake". Don't be intimidated just do it.
Very well explained, I particularly liked the attention to detail! My "fan" definitely needs a good clean!
YLOD could be avoided in the PS3 by simply changing the thermal paste. Sony uses poor quality paste. Unfortunately PS4 uses the same low quality paste which is why your system sounds like a jet engine. it's because the paste is already drying up so the fan kicks faster to compensate for the heat that isnt being transferred to the heat sink. When I bought my PS4, before plugging it in for the first time, day 1.i took it apart and cleaned off the junk thermal paste and applied top quality paste. my fan then never went past stage 2. I've changed tbe thetmal paste in 15 PS4s and 9 PS3s all with the same great results. you dont need to replace the fan, theres nothing wrong with the fan. the issue is the stock thernal paste.
Thank you! my ps4 was running very loud. It would give me an error message sometimes while I was playing a game to turn off the ps4 and let it cool down. I replaced the fan and cleared the dust out, especially near the heat sink which had a thick black layer of dust covering half of it. PS4 is running practically silent even while the game is running and no error messages. *Note I did damage the plug on the old fan where it connects to the mother board, I pulled the three wires straight out of the connector... It connects from the top down and does not "slide in" like the other cable connections (do not pull on the wires but lift them up away from the motherboard)
This is an old video and a pretty good walkthrough btw BUT, don't you need new thermal paste for the reassembly?
I like how u actually mentioned the exact tools !!
The only reason I would do this is if I could replace this with a quieter fan.
+cpthemonstergamer defualt fan is a wind turbine xD
+cpthemonstergamer I can't even hear mine with my headphones on.
+Zunkey The Dino Can you recommend a decent quieter fan?
+Zunkey The Dino Remember the Jet Engine 360?
Yeah good point.
Thank you so much I found where all the dust was clogging up and now it runs quietly and doesn't heat up every time I started to play a game the always turned red but now its like its brand new,❤
Thank you! With this video I have repair my PS4 and now the PS4 run very smooth 👍
Didnt realise you needed thermal paste to reassemble it, god damn... gotta wait a week with a ps4 taken apart
doesn't a magnet wipe a hard drive ? the hard drive was put on the magnetic pad ?
The magnets probably to weak, besides it looked like she put it just below it. Not that they've used that PS4 before, looks brand new.
Ok cheers
Yes, but not an off the shelf one. You need a powerful magnet.
i was thinking the same. i still wouldnt be putting a drive of any sort near any magnets lol
Vex Pez she didn't put it on the magnet she put it to her left the magnet is on the right
Thank you very much for walking me through replacing my ps4 fan. :) happy holidays and live long and prosper
Thanks for helping me take it apart, sooo how do I put it back together...
Brilliant video well spoken you made my wife a proud Ps4 engineer :))) excellent.
This procedure will make your ps4 much more suspectable to overheating, unless you know about the the thermal compound you need to replace on the apu
I was just about to buy a New ps4 because the fan was so loud. Then i checked This video and i saved alot of money
FORGOT TO MENTION THAT REMOVING THE MOTHERBOARD REQUIRES YOU RE-APPLY THERMAL PASTE
You dont need the thermal paste if you dont touch all over the motherboard its not good for all the little receptors anyways... You can apply thermal paste again but i didnt need any so far. Maybe after a couple tear downs you should apply some
Instructions unclear my cat is now in the toaster
Shit man, i dont haver THese tools, had to tryhard with the ones that i have but worked!
I feel you
Thumbs up!!! Worth the time and effort to stop my PS4 sounding like a jet aircraft. Silent as a mouse now.....it needs a proper stripdown to sort it, no point in just removing covers and blowing it out or hoovering.
This looks soooooo stressful😭
This video is awesome, but where do I buy a fan??
You probably don't need it anymore, but try ebay or something.
Amazon, just got one myself. Have to make sure it's the right fan for the right model though.
thanks for the video and guide... was able to fix my overheating problem without changing the fan
Now my fan is even louder I have 2 extra pieces and 2 screws not in the system and touch buttons won't work
Did you put the Thermal paste?
David Cho tbh they don’t
Mention it in
This vid
That means you're fucked
She called it the yellow light when it’s a red light of death
If you pull the MB don't forget to replace the thermal paste when reassembling it.
Thank you so much
I benefited a lot from your explanation
I had a Playstation device cause me a headache after a short period of operation restores operating
Thanks for the millionth time:)
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كان عندي جهاز البلايستيشن مسبب لي صداع بعد فترة قصيرة من التشغيل يعيد التشغيل
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Helpful vid short and to the point not like every other vid on TH-cam nowadays
Is it possible to skip right to removing the hard drive/motherboard and get to the fan that way? I'm not comfortable at all with completely gutting my ps4 to replace the broken fan.
My fan died like 6 months ago I use a common house fan too blow directly down on the top with out the top cover on it. Still works great haha
Thanks for the step by step. Though there are screws that was not mentioned but all is good. :-D
great job you didnt mention thermal paste at all in this video. and now since it lists it in the reassemble video im sort of fucked here being that its 1 am. thanks guys.
Great for a deep clean. Found a big ol ball of dust on the heat sinks which was causing the fan to sound like a jet.
Thanks, my PS4 has been overheating and turning off! Will be replacing the fan myself instead of paying 150 to Sony
+Michael Clift did replacing it stop the issue of overheating and turning off?
It's not the fan that needs replaced it's the thermal compound
+Arron Q-Sick
how long did you have your ps4 before needing to replace the thermal paste ?
I had it over a year and I didn't need to replace the thermal paste I wanted to, its called preventive maintenance
She makes it look easy so gonna give it a go. ......wish me luck mx4 here i come
Was it a good try ?
Cool video made my ps4 louder and almost exploded, spend 2 hours doing this and now having to get new one....
Thank you very much for the beautiful explanation of maintenance
ok great attempt or rough guide however you want to say it, i had a launch version of the ps4 and there were like 5 extra little steps i had to do which she did not show and some parts you could tell it was done before hand then shot for video which i understand but is frustrating when you skip a tiny step and im sitting here trying to get the bottom metal casing off and she forgets to mention 3 little screws. so use this video as a rough guide but take caution when working through a step
They designed this to make people Just buy a new on because they clearly didn't want fan replacements to be easy. Good thing I have experience with fixing consoles.
I have one of the original models of PS4. It is documented that these models are actually louder. Would replacing the fans make it any quieter? I might just open and dust otherwise
Thank you because if it wasn't from you I wouldn't know how to get to the fan👍😁
There's so much I can be accomplishing in my life during all the time it takes to do this. 🤔
I can see why you choose the fan replacement, in the process you remove all the components in the machine, thus making a guide that be used for all most all the repairs.
So are cars the same. I need to change my brakes. So I'm gonna start with taking out the interior then the body pull the motor etc.....
Lol this is similar to replacing a lock cylinder in a vw
All this just to clean the fucking fan 😐😐
I know my ps4 got the red light and all I have to do is clean out the fan I will be so mad
Jpeak97 can of air and spray it down...
Seriously.. That tiny heat sink does all the cooling ... i would rather put it in a freezer
This video help me so much now i now how ti clean the whole ps4
I'm never doing this I'm too afriad of breaking it. I'll just do standard maintenence on it I just wanted to find out how I clean it properly becuase my fans are running loud and I have no idea how to clean it but this is too much
Get a can of air spray
My battery screw (long screw with the tabs) is completely stripped. Tried super glue, rubber band, Needle nose pliers. Am I screwed now?
There is only 1 screw holding in the hard drive if you watch a video you only need to remove one screw with the shapes on it iniacting that's the screw that holds the hard drive
Gwen, how did you remain so calmed while taking this thing apart? I made it as far as taking out 4 screws and starting flipping out! Haha. I cleaned the vents and the fan in my PS4 but kept having the same issue. I guess I have to replace the fan, do you or anyone knows how to look for the correct fan for the console?
Thank you so much this was very very helpful thank you
2 year in with my ps4. have never opened a ps2 and 4 still F***IN works. except my last gen xb360.
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She looks so calm doing this, i cant get thr cables off that easy fuk that im using my ps4 as garbage instead
What kind of fan would you recommend for replacement that can hold out till the ps5 comes out
When she yanks the power cord at 2:31 my heart dropped
If u bought one looking exactly the same shape and style would it still work on the ps4?
They should have named this video "breaking apart a ps4 and giving you stress"
My PS4 has mountains of dust inside it, thanks for the video. Gonna take a while to get the hardened dust.
+Awayze My power supply cable wouldn't detach no matter what, i didn't want to break it so I just left it and cleaned the PS4 with it still attached.
so I use the tweezers for the three last wires and it ripped
Which wires?
the last 3 ones...
Sorry for your loss
Lmao. Better luck next time.
Press F to pay respects
I just wish you or someone would make a video about replacing the Uncharted Edition PS4... I promise it’s not similar to the PS4 in this video at all... im genuinely, desperately trying to figure out to replace my fan. And now Im just an anxious mess of not being able to figure out how to get to the original fan out... I hope you guys get this...
Thanks you the video really help 👍🏽💯
so when doing this do I have to replace the thermal paste cause you separated the mother board from the heatsink?
Did everything my PS4 sounds great now! Just a problem, my disc player doesn’t work anymore :)
I got that, did you work out why?
thanks, is the ps4 built around the fan???
I think mines beyond the good cleaning. I heard theres some bearing or something that is causing the incessant rattling and the sound like my PS4 is having a stroke. Or maybe that second noise is the anger and blood pressure in my head. But still.. god dammit
SxEshawn it happened to me I fixed it somehow . Difference is my fan stoped working completely . I cleaned it nothing happened then I plugged in the ps4 while open to see the issue didn’t see nothing I just applied pressure to the fan to jump start it and boom works
oh fuck it was the fan after all. Finally gave out completely and just stopped running (after really atrocious sound). And yeah Sony's ineptitude and mores the customer support was truly pushing me towards an aneurysm. Ill tear it down just for the fuck of it at this point
@@SxEshawn mine is making those same noises even after taking it apart and cleaning.
I have the exact same problem my fan started rattling & within 10 mins it COMPLETELY stopped working
What is the silver cable she takes out after removing the power supply called, I had to replace my disc drive and my dog managed to chew up the silver cable with the blue ends
My fan shut down yesterday so i can't do anything without its getting overheated, can't u just buy a standing case with a fan build in it? If i try this i WILL break something...
Sooo... after watching this, who else is just skipping all this bs and getting a new PS4? 🙋🏾♂️😂
Me
This help me a lot and my playstation is way quieter
Thank you for being awesome
Does it save your data
Having so much trouble taking out the mother board power line. Afraid it will break
lol get a xbox
king I fixed it. No i'm not buying that trashy console. Sorry but no lol.
***** You really have to pull it. Wiggle it out.
Sean Hill that's easy compared to taking the fan connector out. I fuckin broke it
DABBS 1987 Damn that sucks. I might have to clean mine again lol
You don't have to remove the optical drive to get to the fan on my PS4.. unless they changed the internal lay out ? That's extra work
Great video!!!