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Use this guide to replace a burned-out fan on your PlayStation 3.
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Use the tip of a spudger to remove the black rubber screw cover from the side of the PS3.
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Remove the single 8.5 mm T10 Security Torx screw from the smart plate.
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Pull the smart plate toward the hard drive bay, then lift it off the body of the PS3.
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Remove the following seven screws:
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Six 52 mm Phillips screws
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One 30 mm Phillips screw
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Lift the top cover from its rear edge and rotate it toward the front of the PS3.
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Remove the top cover.
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There is a plastic hook located in a hole on the top back right hand side corner. Carefully push the plastic hook a bit front the rear of the machine with a spudger to release the rear right of the casing.
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Disconnect the Blu-ray power cable from the motherboard.
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Lift the Blu-ray drive from the edge nearest the power supply and rotate it away from the chassis enough to access its ribbon cable.
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Use your fingernail to flip up the retaining flap on the Blu-ray ribbon cable socket.
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Pull the ribbon cable out of its socket.
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Remove the Blu-ray drive from the PS3.
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Pull the control board ribbon cable straight up and out of its socket on the motherboard.
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Remove the two 12 mm Phillips screws securing the control board to the lower case.
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Remove the control board and its attached cable from the PS3.
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Remove the following eight screws securing the motherboard assembly to the lower case:
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Seven 12 mm Phillips screws (ph2)
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One 30 mm Phillips screw
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Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the hard drive bay cover away from the lower case.
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Remove the hard drive bay cover.
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Lift the motherboard assembly out of the lower case.
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De-route the fan cables from under the plastic finger molded into the heat sink.
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Disconnect the fan from the motherboard.
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Remove the three 5.7 mm #0 Phillips screws securing the fan to the heat sink.
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Remove the fan from the heat sink, minding its cables that may get caught.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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Im guessing its not possible to flip the device over in order to get to the fan... Im genuinely asking this.
Super tutorial but my ps3 fat look a little bit different inside but after all I was able to replace the 12v fan inside to an third part one which was definetly very quite even if I set it up to 100% (using a web exploit)
Remember fellas - the PS3 shown in this tutorial is most likely (almost 100%) the launch backwards compatible model. Meaning, the later FAT models without backwards compatibility WILL LOOK DIFFERENT INSIDE.
Be aware of that as to not wrongly disassemble your precious old PS3.