Saving a PS3 in 2023! Junk Restoration & Repair: Complete Disassembly Overhaul! + RLOD Thermal Paste 

Great video.... I have a couple of different PS3 models I picked up recently that I need to do this to so very useful thanks! 18:33 for foot reveal!

I don’t get why some consoles are so dirty, do people not regularly clean their things? Ive never had a console break on me. My Ps1 still going strong.

Update on my PS3: After the thermal paste arrived this morning, I used your video to disassemble the console, get the new paste in there, a new 2032 battery, and to put it back together! Only had to drill out one screw! Thank you so much

I got a ps3 from a pawn shop for 50 dollars. It was an orginal ps3 model that can play ps2 games. The pawn shop said it didnt turn on so i bought it and brought it home. When i got home and plugged it in, i turned the switch on the back on and it booted up. It was on the orginal firmware from 2006. I put a game in it and the disk drive laser was broken. I bought a new disk drive and opened the ps3 (this ps3 has never been open) and there wasnt a single piece of dust in this thing. I changed the disk drive and now it works. I put a 1tb ssd in it and it plays ps1, ps2, and ps3 games. What i can tell some bought this on launch or close to lauch and the disk drive broke and then they just put it in a closet and left it there until they pawned it in. When playing the last of us, the fan doesnt even ramp up. This thing is silent.

its not a dirty ps3 its just something a kid used to have the best memories of their lives

Yo from dust you transformed it to a console right again! Good job!

i would always recommend connecting the hard drive to a PC and checking the health using crystal disk info

Just the video I needed! I just bought a CECHL PS3 and I've got to remove all the dust and replace thermal paste & the CMOS battery

my ps3 is jailbroken with evilnat 4.89 and a 1tb ssd and my fan set to 50% to help keep it cool i also tore my ps3 completely down like you and repasted it

Found a decent condition ps3 slim in an electronics recycling bin, refurbishing it rn and looking forward to playing some red dead redemption and final fantasy XIII 😊

Good god, was that PS3 dug out of Pompeii!!? And that human slime on the hand controller😅. Looks like it was a big job but successful in the end. Great job.

This looks like DK oldies consoles 😳

Submerge as much as posible in very warm dish soap and water to get the console clean with less effort, then you can just air dry it for a day. Also nowadays you can buy electronic spray cleaner for car parts to clean all the electronic components without a problem, so long as you give them some time to dry.

Other than the motherboard needing more of a clean its great for a first time. My OCD/perfectionism is just hectic

Awesome strip down and refurbish video, very helpful thank you!

I once got a ps3 from a dodgy pawn shop for cheap. When I tested the console it had the yellow light so i returned it and when the guy tested the ps3 it displayed the yellow light on the first attempt but then worked on the second. I reckon it had dying NEC Tokins that finally got going after a few attempts but I still got a refund anyway

You should have opened the power supply to check the capacitors condition because after power ON your play station 3 was working fine for few minutes

Nice video, watched from start to finish. Have you ever tore it apart since and replace the paste on the actual processor die etc? Just curious as my Fat PS3 is original and never had any work done on it and i think it's running hot.

i bought cechk a bit of time ago, and it was pretty dirty, but it was checked inside, anyways the worst thing was that it wouldnt read any discs at all, now i just use an CECHL

Great job

Really amazing video. That was a lot of work. Congrats 😊

Awesome video ! Bit of a strange question though. I was cleaning my old ps3 awhile back, but noticed after I unclipped the ribbon cable for the USB Controller/Blutooth board from the Motherboard (The one with the brown clips) I haven't been able to get them to clip back and was wondering if I've broken them. Is there any specific way to clip them back or just use a bit of force ? Just worrying about damaging it, if I haven't already 😅

I would have gotten out the handheld vacuum and a can of compressed air.

Yes a long time ago I took one apart and replace the Blue Ray Drive need someone to go deeper

I'm the 300 like ❤ love the video

Solo dos anotaciones, por el tiempo que tiene esta consola, no se debió hacer un delid? Y por otro lado, por la misma naturaleza del metal liquido... no destruirá el disipador que creo que es de aluminio? Según tenía entendido todo lo que no sea cobre termina comiendoselo.

Good job but one thing try next time clim more the but in 22m41s you see the dust in the board you tike a big shower for a perfect clim just one advise for help 😆

if you think one of the capacitors is borked, why wouldn't you either replace the power supply or either fix it, or have someone fix it for you. that is a massive fire hazard.

Is that the right way to apply thermal paste?

Foot reviel at 18:34 time stamp.

Bloody hell those controllers XD...

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It's better if you really disassembled everything. Too bad you completely disassembled it but never really put an effort to clean every spots.

Mate great vid ..PLEASE Lose the tunes so we can Hear You clearly .. totally unnecessary

I have a PS3 in alot better condition I can’t get to work. Anyone want to buy it from me to repair?

All that dust....!

@18:34 🦶

Are you Australian?

That is considered console abuse. 😮

that looks horible inside.

You didn’t repaste the cpu and gpu. You did all that for nothing.

bad job..bad cleaning..

18.34 is foot love too tlk to u about my 5 pcs of crap ps3s cleaned the eye but still not wrkin don't KNOW why sony made the damn thing so hard to take care of PLEASE HELP

What the model of the PS3 pls

what model of ps3 fat please