Local gadget amnesty day showed a simple fix for dead PS4s

Our community center had an electronics amnesty day last weekend. I went to drop off some old parts and ended up staying to help. There was a whole box of PS4 consoles people were tossing out. Every single one had the same problem, overheating from bad thermal paste. It's a ten minute fix with a cheap tube of paste and some isopropyl alcohol. I took a few home and had three running by dinner time. The others just needed a fan clean, which took another five minutes. It's kind of funny how often the easiest fix gets missed. Now I have extra consoles to give away or use for parts.

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jordans186mo ago

Actually, the bad paste was the main issue on most of them.

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walker.logan6mo ago

Not every console had the same problem... some just needed fan cleaning.

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sarah_harris5mo ago

You might be right about that.

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