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So, I have a PS4 which took a hard fall on concrete. Amazingly, the hard drive was fine when I booted it up. However, I noticed a huge amount of heat dissipating and a lack of noise emanating from the console. I fear that the cooler is broken and after seeing one guy trying to disassemble the PS4, it would be sheer disaster if I were to do the same. 

 

Then, I had an idea. I noticed in this video that when you remove the bottom cover, the cooling fan is right there, facing downwards. If it truly is broken (which I will find out as soon as I find the right screwdriver part), wouldn't a laptop cooler work in the job of cooling the handicapped console?

 

So, my questions to all of you techies out there is this:

 

1. Would a laptop cooler cool my PS4 sufficiently if I were to expose the CPU with the broken cooler still attached?

2. What cooler should I get? (Currently, I have been eyeing this).

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The PS4 can be taken apart.

And knowing how Sony cools their consoles, the heat sink is in two parts and one of them may have shifted, or the fan may have been off balanced. 

I do not think that a Laptop cooler can fix that. 

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The PS4 can be taken apart.

And knowing how Sony cools their consoles, the heat sink is in two parts and one of them may have shifted, or the fan may have been off balanced. 

I do not think that a Laptop cooler can fix that. 

Would there be any way to fix it without having to disassemble everything?

 

 

Also, I am aware I can take it apart, but I fear that if I break it, I may not be able to recover precious data or even get a new one.

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Would there be any way to fix it without having to disassemble everything?

 

I would say not. If it really sounds like it is struggling, it is lagging or you see reduced performance, or shuts off because of overheating.

Then you have to take it apart. Think of it as a very compact well built PC. 

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Would there be any way to fix it without having to disassemble everything?

 

I doubt it. Your idea would be like blowing a small fan against the side panel of a case expecting it to cool an overheating CPU on the other side of that panel. It's just not gonna work.

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So, I have a PS4 which took a hard fall on concrete. Amazingly, the hard drive was fine when I booted it up. However, I noticed a huge amount of heat dissipating and a lack of noise emanating from the console. I fear that the cooler is broken and after seeing one guy trying to disassemble the PS4, it would be sheer disaster if I were to do the same. 

 

Then, I had an idea. I noticed in this video that when you remove the bottom cover, the cooling fan is right there, facing downwards. If it truly is broken (which I will find out as soon as I find the right screwdriver part), wouldn't a laptop cooler work in the job of cooling the handicapped console?

 

So, my questions to all of you techies out there is this:

 

1. Would a laptop cooler cool my PS4 sufficiently if I were to expose the CPU with the broken cooler still attached?

2. What cooler should I get? (Currently, I have been eyeing this).

 

 

How the hell does it drop onto concrete???

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How the hell does it drop onto concrete???

Ask TechRax, i'm quite sure he'll be able to answer you that, alongside questions like: "How the hell does it get run over by a car", "How the hell is it repeatedly hit by a metal baseball bat"... :P

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How the hell does it drop onto concrete???

The carrying bag for it broke (the strap snapped) and the bag plummeted towards the concrete ground beneath it. It was tragic.

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If I were you, I'd try to utilize the warranty on that thing.  The downside to this is that you may not have a console for a while as you'll have ship your current console back to sony and wait for a repair service to be performed and/or a replacement to be sent back.  Being that the PS4 is so new, I'm pretty certain that they'll have this type of service ready.  

 

You dont necessarily need to tell them about the em...  dropping incident.  But, even if you did, I would hope that they'd still give you the warranty coverage.   Accidents like that happen all the time and you could end up talking to a friendly service rep on the phone who would help out and decide to send you a replacement if needed.  Even If they don't cover it on warranty, it wouldnt hurt to try.  They may even help to troubleshoot the problem and find out if your console is really broken. 

 

Good luck with that  

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The carrying bag for it broke (the strap snapped) and the bag plummeted towards the concrete ground beneath it. It was tragic.

Thats WHY I NEVER TRUST BAGS. Nether with foods that are in glass or with computers. It doesnt matter that the bag is from diamond I still hold my hand under the bag in case.

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If I were you, I'd try to utilize the warranty on that thing.  The downside to this is that you may not have a console for a while as you'll have ship your current console back to sony and wait for a repair service to be performed and/or a replacement to be sent back.  Being that the PS4 is so new, I'm pretty certain that they'll have this type of service ready.  

 

You dont necessarily need to tell them about the em...  dropping incident.  But, even if you did, I would hope that they'd still give you the warranty coverage.   Accidents like that happen all the time and you could end up talking to a friendly service rep on the phone who would help out and decide to send you a replacement if needed.  Even If they don't cover it on warranty, it wouldnt hurt to try.  They may even help to troubleshoot the problem and find out if your console is really broken. 

 

Good luck with that  

Theres a high chance that when you take the console apart you will see that it was dropped.

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Theres a high chance that when you take the console apart you will see that it was dropped.

 

yea, well I should correct my statement as obviously it doesn't seem morally correct to try to use the support without telling them about the console being dropped.  So, I shouldn't be advocating that approach as it's something I wouldn't want to do myself.  Its just that, if sony support told someone to send the console back, the easiest thing for them to do would be to send a replacement back as its not worth their time to do anything else. 

 

really, my hope is that the support person may help in some way even if they were told the console was dropped.  But, I guess it could be unlikely that they would give the warranty coverage if they were told it was dropped.    

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If I were you, I'd try to utilize the warranty on that thing.  The downside to this is that you may not have a console for a while as you'll have ship your current console back to sony and wait for a repair service to be performed and/or a replacement to be sent back.  Being that the PS4 is so new, I'm pretty certain that they'll have this type of service ready.  

 

You dont necessarily need to tell them about the em...  dropping incident.  But, even if you did, I would hope that they'd still give you the warranty coverage.   Accidents like that happen all the time and you could end up talking to a friendly service rep on the phone who would help out and decide to send you a replacement if needed.  Even If they don't cover it on warranty, it wouldnt hurt to try.  They may even help to troubleshoot the problem and find out if your console is really broken. 

 

Good luck with that  

The problem was that the warranty had expired. I would not have had a problem had it not expired.

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The problem was that the warranty had expired. I would not have had a problem had it not expired.

waaaa? no way!..  the ps4 still seems pretty new to new to me.  Im sorta surprised that the warranty could be expired but if it is oh well I guess..   

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Yes, used a 5$ amazon laptop cooler to prevent bf3 from crashing and overheating on my ps3

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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waaaa? no way!..  the ps4 still seems pretty new to new to me.  Im sorta surprised that the warranty could be expired but if it is oh well I guess..   

Its a day one edition.

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