repair

I need some advice. I have a CECH-2501B and want to buy a new fan for it, as well as redo the thermal paste on it. What's the best replacement fan and thermal paste to order off Amazon or somewhere online though for that model?

Hi everyone! My first post here, I tried to search for my answer but couldn't find anything more than a single comment about my issue. I bought CECH 2504 B. It worked fine, but It looked heavily used, so I decided to clean it. After examining the amount of burned dust inside I decided to ditch...

So I bricked my PS3 slim with ps3xploit. I think I pressed something accidentally during "apply patch" process, browser jumped to playstation.net homepage and hang. Now console doesn't launch, just some beeping after power button press and shutting down. Can I repair it now with E3 NOR Flasher...

I am replacing one of the vibration motors on my controller. I will need to solder wires from the motor to the DS2 circuit board, and it will be my first-ever soldering repair. Is there a chance that I will break the vibration fuse inside the console if somehow I solder poorly? I believe the...

Hello I recently just got a a01 ps3 and when I turn it on there is no picture for either HDMI or AV I've even tried to reset the display settings and nothing. I can leave it on for a minute until it beeps green then yellow then flashing red and if I press the flashing red it goes back to normal...

Anyone noticed that distributors of PS2 repair parts on Aliexpress and Ebay have been selling complete trash lately? I don't know where they're getting them from but it ain't the other stuff they sold for years before. KHS-400C lasers with awful hand soldered flex pcbs covered in flux. They've...

Greetings everyone, hopefully all of you are doing well and healthy! I've been repairing PS3's for about a year now and its mostly fat systems with either a YLOD or a broken BD drive, however I've bought a very unique PS3 that i need help with as i am not really sure what's wrong with it...

Hi guys, I just wanted to replace thermal paste for both cpu and gpu. I removed the gpu’s ihs lid easily but it couldn’t do the same for the cpu. Now, my ps3 is only blinking red light. After some research, I think I completely destroyed my cpu but I just want to be ensure that if there is any...

I've been given a broken PS3 slim, 2503a, which has previously had the optical drive forcibly removed by an angry gorilla in a hurry. Cables are missing and the front panel was torn right off. I've bodged the front panel back in, pared new ends onto the lead, and now get a red LED, pressing it...

Hey folks, so, my PS3 has the ol' YLOD. I bought this used, and hadn't realized that the previous owner had had it modded, to cap the fan speed, so, it more or less overheated. I took it apart and tried repasting, and when putting it back together now, the fan screams super loudly on power on...

Hi, so I have a fat 40 gb PS3 with a CFW installed on it. I've got it second hand (it was barely used though) and put the CFW myself, and it's been working fine for the last half a year or so. But just today I sat down to play Darkness, then randomly the screen froze, covered with artifacts and...

Ok so here's everything I've tried so far and what symptoms I'm getting: I was having MAJOR trouble getting my scph-77001 to read any kind of disc, getting a successful read roughly 1/25-30 tries/boots. Tried adjusting pots in ~25Ω increments, both up and down in regards to the stated factory...

Greetings! I recently picked up a PS2 39001 series to hopefully play some of my PS2 games I have. Sadly either the PS2 sits on 'reading disc...' for a very long time, or I get 'Disc Read Error'. Now, I've already disassembled this PS2 to clean the laser lens, top and bottom lens. As well as...

Hello I'd like some help and advice on a repair project I've been working on with this model PS3, I don't expect it's anything major though regardless I'd like to know exactly what is going on.I'm not asking for much and I don't feel up to modding the software, I simply would like to be able to...

Hey all. So the title speaks for itself. I tried to fix the random button presses problem(by covering that styrofoam thing w/ a layer of tape), and well I did, but D-pad left stopped working since. What could the problem be? No pieces fell out or anything, I touched no contacts, I didn't even...

Hi, I had acquired a couple years ago a modded ps3 cech-20xxx with rebug dex cfw, which I cannot precise what version it was, and recently the HDD died and now I am unable to fix it :( I purchase a new HDD 2,5 (500gb) which I had formatted to fat32 before install into the ps3, also got an usb...

Hello a friend gave me a Ver-001 board with the pad B0 completely destroyed. I couldn't find any schematics/diagrams of this model thus i'm in need of help. I need to know where to jump the nor chip pin A16 to. The only thing i know is that it seems to be going to the South Bridge chip true...

Hi everyone, I'm quite new in the PS3 world, so I don't know much of the stuff you guys control. Yesterday I was trying to downgrade my PS3 so that I could install Multiman and some other shops. The thing is that my PS3 version is CECH-3xxxB. It was late when I saw that that version wasn't...

Like many other users, and collectors, keeping you console clean its the number 1, priority, specialy when you own a Backwards-Compatible PlayStation3, which its a very neat machine to own, but can bring problems in the long run if not mantained properly. One of the main concerns for any user...