My First BROKEN PS5 Slim - Let's Fix It!

I bought my first ever broken PS5 Slim from eBay let's get it plugged in and see what's going on and then we'll see if we can fix it this video sponsored by iix it more on them in a minute good the seller said the screen randomly goes black and it has artifacts they also said in the eBay listing that they already replaced the HDMI port and it still doesn't work so we got to figure out whether there's something else going on or whether they just didn't do a good enough job replacing the HDMI port oh and we had a black screen there for a second okay I wiggled the I'm pulling up on the cable let's move down okay we still got a blue light so we got to wait for the white to the light to turn white which it is white right now and now we get nothing so the screen did Flash black a couple times but we just never got anything at all I think it's time to take this thing apart and see what's going on on the inside it's been a while since I've taken one of these apart I have to remember oh there we go I have to remember how to take it apart there we go pull up on this corner and then slide out that way probably the same here yep same thing and then here yep similar okay this looks really clean inside I mean I got to get down to the board but whoever did the HDMI replacement on this did a really good job there's all the screws are here I mean at least so far everything looks really good now I did pay a decent amount of money for this I paid like $260 which isn't too bad if it's an easy fix but obviously if it's not an easy fix then that's not a very good deal when you're pulling up on these pull up on the white part of the connector don't pull on the black part that's attached to the motherboard and you will easily tear it off the board and then you'll have to learn how to solder in order to put it back now to remove the disc drive we'll just pull up back here and then slide it back that way this is the connector for the disc drive and it just connects right down there on the board the warranty sticker has been removed so somebody indeed has been in this like I said it does look pretty good though it will be also interesting to see how the liquid metal on this thing looks I don't know if the Slims have the same issue as the original PS5 where they get the dry spot on the Apu and this one probably won't be the best one to test that since it has been open but we'll still check it out and there we go I'm just leaving the screws in their holes and I'm going to set this aside just like it is so then when I go to put it back on I just have to line up the screws in the holes and then put it down in there and then I don't have to keep track of those screws and again so far so good no missing screws I see here so that's great all right and now those screw screws are all out everything is looking good so far okay our first look at the board the top side looks good I'm not convinced that HDMI port has been replaced and I think I might maybe already see a missing component but we got to get this out and have a look at the other side all right let's have a look at that liquid metal oh and that looks great no problems at all there nice big puddle of it it hasn't there's a little bit right here but it hasn't significantly leaked which I wouldn't expect they generally don't unless you drop it or something like that so that's all looking good let's get under microscope and have a look at this HDMI port iix it is a great place to get soldering tools equipment and consumables whether you're a beginner or a pro the soldering splint is one of iFixit newest soldering tools so we have this wire right here that we broke and we want to fix it so I'm going to slide the wire down inside the Jaws right about there and then this end has a connector on it so I'm going to slide this end down here and I'm just going to adjust it so it matches up nicely with this other wire right about there and now I'm just going to add some flux to the wires the flux just helps the solder flow I am going to be using this fume extractor we don't want to be breathing in any of these fumes now I have my soldering iron right here and I have some solder loaded up on the iron so I'm just going to solder those two wires together just like that and now they are soldered together very solidly and the repair is complete this is just one example of the soldering tools that I fix it carries they also offer tons of other soldering tools and supplies you can check them out at ifixit.com tronicsfix and I'll put a link right in the description let's get under microscope and have a look at this HDMI port okay and really not too bad of a job overall but I can immediately see one of the main problems here and that's this first pin right over here it's not soldered down they did a really good job of soldering this port in if this is indeed a new Port the these mounting pins look really good so overall I mean it looks really good but all the rest of these pins are fine this is going to be crazy if this is the only thing that's wrong with this it's going to put a little bit of flux over here that's plenty going to bring my soldering pencil over and do just have a tiny bit of solder on it this is one of the easiest pins to solder too it's right on the edge where there's plenty of room of course I Bridge the pins okay so I'm actually going to use my larger iron because that one is taking a lot of heat oh there we go that was quick and easy now let's recheck that pin yep nice and strong and I'm just going to recheck the others real quick want to make sure I don't miss anything okay and we're all good this capacitor right here is the one that a lot of times people knock off when they're doing this HDMI port replacement job this one is still there it's there and nice and solid we've got this one right here which is also nice and solid but let's look at the other side that's where I thought maybe I saw something that was missing and right here is what I was like H maybe there's something missing there but there's not actually a component that goes right there so we're all good on this back side too so I feel good about that I don't think there's anything else we need to inspect on this board so let's just start getting this thing put back together I wanted to make sure that I was remembering what the description of this PS5 said from eBay and so I pulled it up and it says great condition PS5 slim blah blah blah boots perfectly broken warranty seal replaced HDMI so that is what happened with this one I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something let's get this thing put back together and see what happens the other thing I want to do with this is try and install a brand new disc drive into this and just see what happens I did do a video checking whether we could swap the the dis drives in these and everything worked fine when they first came out I don't know if that's still the case whether they've updated the the software so it doesn't work or whether everything still works so we'll do that once we make sure this thing's working there we go now we need to put all of these totally necessary screws in now the midf frame and then the disc drive now this is the original disc drive that I'm putting in I want to make sure this one works before I try to replace it once we have this all together and tested make sure everything's working then I'll replace this with a brand new one come on we already got it black screen the PS logo we've got the safety thing coming up wiggling the cable with no artifacts no nothing okay disc is going in let's see if it plays it's up on the screen I can hear it spinning good and there we go okay so this disc drive is working let's get the disc out and replace the drive and see what happens and here I have a brand new sealed PlayStation 5 disc drive okay we have the plate and we have the disc drive and of course we have the instruction manual won't be needing that and I'll mark this as the replacement now we'll pull up back here pull up back here there we go these are really easy to replace I love that they made these kind of user replaceable all right let's turn it back on and see what it does all right here we go okay here we go repairing console storage I'm not sure why I did that okay and starting up everything looking good oh yeah I turned the PS5 off and properly let's see if it notices it has a new dis drive in it updating your dis Drive okay your dis Drive is connected to your PS5 to use your disc drive register it to your PS5 okay can't can't use your disc drive you need to connect your PS5 to the network okay that is what I remember is you have to be online in order to be able to replace your dis drive so we'll get hooked up online and then see what it does okay we're connected online and it hasn't given me any errors or anything like that so let's put this Hot Wheels disc back in and see what it does oh no power at all apparently we do need to register it so when we go to system feature updates it says to update some of the system features I need to restart so we're going to restart and install okay we're going to see if we'll be able to register now registering your disc drive okay and now it says we can use it let's find out if that's true all right it's taking the disc in and there we go it's now copying the disc so this was a super easy PS5 slim fix just that one pin that needed to be resolder it just goes to show how one tiny little misstep in a repair can cause the whole thing to basically not work if you like this type of video and want to see a video where I tried to fix a PlayStation 5 that I bought for only $100 I'll put a link for that video up on your screen now so you can come hang out with me over there and see if I was able to fix that one don't forget to go to ifixit.com tronicsfix thanks so much for watching today and I hope you have a good one

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Length: 11min 10sec (670 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 05 2024