Clean Your PS4 Safely!!!

does your playstation sound like it's about to take off when you're playing your playstation and your game starts going to a loading screen or a part of the gaming sequence that requires a little bit more from PlayStation does it sound like the neighbor down the street starting a lawnmower ready to cut the grass if so then I'm gonna show you how to clean your PlayStation so you can alleviate that loud Rumble noise so it doesn't sound like your PlayStation came from American Airlines so stick around [Music] what is up everybody speak even it Finn's are six here and I'm back with another video and today I'm gonna show you how to clean your PlayStation 4 if it needs a cleaning or if it's really loud chances are if it's really loud it's causing the PlayStation work harder and the fan to work harder and so that's why it's a lot louder so the video I'm going to cover is the 1215 series PlayStation 4 so it's very similar to the first generation but there are a few small differences that really impact the teardown of the system so as we get into this is assembly to clean it I'm gonna show you what those are most notably is how to take off the bottom cover but for the most part it's relatively the same and especially King the cleaning part itself is not hard you don't have to be tech savvy you're not going to be disconnecting any wires or anything like that you just need to have a Torx attachment of Phillips and I'll explain the tools whenever we start this disassembly so for that further ado let's get to it alright so for this I have a Swiffer brush a tool kit an exacto knife a toothbrush some canned air and my PlayStation 4 so this is actually my PlayStation 4 and it looks like it hasn't been touched for a long time it actually hasn't I've had this for her about seven years and it's accumulated quite a bit of dust I know somebody's gonna report me for console neglect but it's nonetheless I'm trying to make it right today by giving this thing a solid cleaning because it definitely definitely needs it all right so what you're gonna do first is you're gonna select the top cover off it simply just slides over and it pops right off so taking the first glance at this it's disgusting a lot of dust and this is where our hard drive is and as you can see years and years of caked on dust I apologize for making you guys sit through this and look at this disgusting console because I know there's plenty of you out there that are cringing right now so what I did is I just went ahead and got my Swiffer brush and I just gave it a good wipe down to at least start grabbing some of the bigger chunks I know this was gonna be a mess from the beginning but nonetheless damage control so use a toothbrush for the hard-to-reach spots like all those little slits in there and those hard-to-reach spots like the USB ports but what's really cool is the canned air comes in pretty handy so you'll find that these tools are a lifesaver and you also find that you have a lot of dirt and places that you never even imagined so just give your ps4 a good dusting with the canned air and get those really hard-to-reach spots all right and then looking at the back you can see already how bad this is it looks like a sandblaster kid and so when you do this just do the same things I'm doing and don't have to be in the same order but relatively you still want to use candidate or brake part of that loose stuff you want to grab your Swiffer brush or even a microfiber towel or even just some random washcloths or an old t-shirt just to wipe things down and then just blow away any residual debris it now looks good it's ten times better than what it was before all right so right here there's this big screw that we're gonna take out and that gives us access to our hard drive so simply remove that screw and the hard drive pops right out go ahead and give it a once-over everything looks good everything should look good but like everything we're gonna dust this thing and knock all of it you'll dust that's in there out there all right and blow some dust inside of the hard drive bay to do the same thing knock anything loose and back here there's two stickers so what we're in do is remove these Torx screws I've already taken one sticker off and you're going to need a Torx 9 attachment so simply just grab that attachment and screw that and on the top here there's going to be two screws one in the center and there's gonna be one at the bottom once those are removed simply pop the top case off lifting from the front and working away towards the back and basically unhooking it and yep same thing on the inside it's just as dirty same thing on the inside caked with years of dust so grab the Swiffer and wipe it down and naturally use some canned air to knock this stuff loose and give the same treatment to the top cover as you did on that small cover for the left side and use toothbrush to knock anything else away and then one thing about this with this much dust in this much dirt not only does your ps4 run loud but you also run the risk of having it overheat and damage your system permanently alright so take off that last screw and niche right here is a spudger so this budget is going to be used to separate the bottom case from the rest of the system so it's really hard to do and you're gonna need to use some pressure and this is the part that differentiates this model from the previous models or most models on youtube so this seam right here is where you want to try to fit that spudger in and basically you're just gonna pry [Music] alright snap it in and then just force it right down into the nub or whatever you have guitar picks are good to use too however they may snap and now you have a guitar pick rattling around inside of your ps4 if you can't get this undone alright notice the top of the lip has has risen slightly above the cover so you just want to gently work your way along but at the same time use enough force you're not gonna break anything it's just held in by a bunch of clips and it's fun now what I like to do here is to simply take something and slit and slide it inside one of those holes in the back of the case to keep it from resetting and replanting it because during shooting I actually had it closed and I had to redo this so go to the other side and simply do the same thing just pry it all apart until it snaps open and lay it down and the bottom cover should come off just fine all right go ahead and let the cover off and you can see the Play Station and you can see all the dust inside and this is about as bad as it gets I kicked on dust like there's clumps of dust along with just what looks like a spray of dust and again that's taking years to accumulate so give the cover the same treatment as you've given the other ones wipe it down scrub with the toothbrush use some canned air whatever else you feel like you need to do to really get that stuff taken off now go ahead and take your Swiffer brush and just running along on the inside too once again grab any of the stray clumps or any of the big stuff it's helped assist in your cleaning all right so now we're gonna focus on this power bay so there's two Phillips with that metal bracket and three Torx head screws so the one on the left for the Torx one on the right and one in the middle take those out and set those to the side now all that's left are the Phillips screws for this bracket so these Phillips screws are three long you don't have to worry about them popping out so you unscrew them and then they stay inside the bracket and you simply just lift the bracket out I like to keep the screws at the breath right here you have a power supply with a cable I didn't pull off the wire and you don't have to do so either in fact all you have to do is just on the left side grab on the up portion and on the right side and grab along the side and shimmy it up and try to lift it out straightway so that way you don't do any damage to the prongs that mount to the system and so right here I actually lay the Powerbank on top of the ps4 itself and grab a Swiffer and get more on the internals like everything else and I wipe down the power bank as well you want to get dust from everywhere and of course grab your canned air and show it some TLC to knock any of that stuff loose now these slots you want to really focus on those because that's a high point of accumulation for dust and that's where a lot of the heat generates look at all these components inside here you don't want to get those caked up with dust and that can potentially cause your system to fail now here for the fan you want to be careful with it and I've read and seen mix things online about spinning the fan I like to control the movement I don't like to keep it stopped completely because I want to make sure I get everything but I don't want to destroy my fan by having a lot of air just force it now with this Powerbank when you place it back inside place it down in the same way completely vertical and it should snap it in place we're good now take the bracket and place it back down and place those long Phillips screws back in screw em back into place take those three Torx screws one on the bottom Center one in the top left and one in the top right put that to our spine head attachment and screw them back in now place on your bottom cover hook it in from the front opposite from the power bank and simply just snap it down into place all right now you're gonna take your hard drive and place it back inside of the console and once that's done you're gonna grab that little screw and place it back inside now we're gonna place the top cover on go on the right side and you're gonna place it in from straightaway from the back and clamping down leading towards the front it's a little stiff but it'll go on just fine once that's done take those two Torx head screws and replace them one in the center and one in front and finally take that left cover and simply just slide it back into place the same way you removed it when we started this disassembly all that should be left is that slit in the center for that clear piece of plastic with the light shines through now on the back we're going to go ahead and replace those two Torx head screws on the top and on the bottom once that's done go ahead and take those stickers if you feel so inclined to do so and place them back on and that should be it everything's cleaned reassemble looks good our playstation is clean and that is it that's all you need to do to clean your ps4 so hopefully this serves as a guide for you to click clean but can't talk today good all right hopefully this serves as a guide for you to clean your 1215 series PlayStation 4 and there's other tutorials out there that can show you how to clean other variations such as the pro the slim and the very first gen however there's not very many videos on the 12:15 I followed a disassembly tutorial from a YouTube channel called Tronics fix so atronics fix has his own company I don't know if is his own company or whoever the case but he is certified this guy is certified to do repairs and he posted videos on this channel all the time for switches Xbox ps4 fixing them and he even has videos addressing issues with systems like in this video I'm going to talk about the top 5 problems we see in ps4 issue so he's certified he knows what he's talking about so I'll link his video that I followed for the disassembly below but I highly encourage you to go check it out if you're trying to just get some knowledge for the brain out there other than that that's all I got I'm speedy minute same 0/6 have a great day [Music]

Channel: SpeedDemon8706

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Id: lAKRKTMhJtc

Length: 12min 28sec (748 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 20 2020