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PS3 60gb Fan Test

After some clever gamers figured out how to make the 40gb PS3 run a fan test, it seems someone else has found a way to make the 60gb PS3 run one too. See here in this tutorial.


From Crackle: PS3 60 Gig Fan Test
alan0015850d ago

your not suppose to move your ps3, especially putting it upside down when theres a disn inside coz it will scratch the disc.This would be funny if after a month with people doing this to their ps3s the failure rate goes up lol

Cerberus_Hunter5850d ago

the PS3 is upside down not the blu-ray.

just did it and it works, but didn't notice any dust coming out and it's a 1 year old PS3 btw

aiphanes5850d ago

But I will eject any discs and try this on my 60 gb ps3...

Thoas5850d ago

LOL.....only the xbox 360 scratches your disc to death out of the blue for no reason.

Percy5850d ago

have you tried to scratch a bluray its pretty hard you can take a butter knife to the back of it and it wont scratch. I dont see any way to scratch it inside the ps3 without destroying the ps3.

Bonsai12145850d ago

cleaning dust out of any electronics has no effect on performance. i have no idea what that guy said that..

besides, my 60 gb is out of warranty. i'm not going to screw it up..

crck5850d ago (Edited 5850d ago )

You can move a ps3 or ps2 all you want with a disc running. Sony was smart enough even 8 years ago to lock the disc in when its spinning. This is probably why a lot of people got scratched discs with their 360 in beginning. They were expecting the disc to lock in like a ps2. I know I scratched a Perfect Dark Zero disc because I thought so.

Edit: post below. Basically turn on your ps3 and hold it upside vertically so the letters ps3 are upside down. The fans should cycle through a couple of modes then get really loud and blow the dust out.

Lord Anubis5850d ago

The video is not working :(

could someone post the procedure?

Tyler Durden5850d ago

u think u have enough monster cans there buddy

nbsmatambo5850d ago

^^^^^, lol i noticed the cans too

Utalkin2me5850d ago

Wow go figure, go from a fan test to the 360 scratching disc. Where is the post police. And you know who i am talking about.

If the fan test works then great.

jadenkorri5850d ago

i tried it and it worked, i had to play for abit before it actually worked, it was cool when i tried it the first time and it did nothing, but after playing some cod4 then trying it it worked...oh and my cod 4 cd was in there but its not scratched alan001, ur still thinking of 360 where as movement on the 360 ruins your disc...why MS built it that way i'll never know...

UnasFortuna5850d ago (Edited 5850d ago )

I would not recommend doing this for an extended period of time. If you do this too long, you can damage the electronics the fan is trying to protect. It is not a flaw in the system that allows this but a programmed response to the increased heat that is rising while the PS3 is inverted. The PS3 is simply trying to get rid of the heat and keeps kicking up the fan speed until maxxed out. I tried this (since I have two 60G PS3), and I didn't notice alot of dust coming out; however I use vacuums and compressed air cans to help keep my PS3 clean on a monthly basis. This won't however, make your PS3 run faster/smoother (not sure what that comment was about). This does prove that Sony can release some kind of software upgrade/patch that can do the same test that they put in the 40GB model since the fan itself is capable of those variable high speeds to protect the gear. It is assinine to think they wouldn't release such a fix given that there are not many replacement 60GB models out there available. Dust is a huge menace to any electronics and this is no cheap electronics investment. RELEASE THE FIX SONY... please ;) PS.... come one guys.... give the lad a break.... he obviously doesn't get out much. However, I must confess... what the heck is with the whole shelf of Monster's??????

Lifendz5850d ago

If your PS3 is working fine why tinker with it? Let 360 owners do these sort of "towel trick" like things. I'm not going to mess with my PS3 when it's functioning just fine.

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MUNKYPOO5850d ago

ill wait for more people to do it before i try.

HeartlesskizZ5850d ago

I havent try it and I wont do it at all. this guy is burning the insides of the ps3 by making the heat go backwards... such idiot...
when you melt the system let me know

actas1235850d ago

I really don't think ppl should do this. This could be harmful w/out u knowing.. I think Sony should come out and say something about this. I mean if its not good for the system i think they'll release something regarding this issue.

MUNKYPOO5850d ago

yea i was thinking that it could be more harmful then good

Tony240ZT5850d ago

I just tried, works just like the video, fans just cycle through their speeds and then slows back to normal when put upright. I'm surprised that it's never decided to run at some of those higher fan speeds before, reminded me of the noise an xbox makes when idle.

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BSigel815850d ago

What happened to a can of air guys, I use those and it works just fine for me.

mindedone5850d ago

doesn't compressed air blow dust back in though?

BSigel815850d ago

Well I had no problem with it, when I usually do it a lot more would come out then come in. You don't have to take my word for it though, It would be crazy and messed up at that, if someone would void their warranty just because they were trying to clean their console.

mindedone5850d ago (Edited 5850d ago )

It would be crazy stupid for someone to tell sony that they did this...but for an update, I tried it again and, even though I didn't see dust come out, I could smell it. And further noteI didn't move it while it was on.

update: you can buy them at RadioShack

TradingWarStories5850d ago

Where can I buy compressed air cans ?

Storm235850d ago

So what you just blow this air can stuff into the PS3? How does that work?

EZCheez5850d ago

Some of you make compressed air sound like a secret!

When I was on submarines working with million dollar (literally) equipment, we swore by the stuff. Don't be afraid to use it.

As far as this goes, I wouldn't recommend it. Making hardware do something it isn't supposed to do is never a good idea.

RecSpec5850d ago

Anyone who owns any kind of electronics needs to have compressed air. Does wonders. Or you could try it the old fashioned way and just use your vacuum hose.

myxomatosis5850d ago

compressed air works only for electronics that you can take the casing off of: desktop computers, amplifiers, ect. anything like a laptop or a console, it blows alot of the dust out abit also alot of it gets shoved into a corner of the casing some where and that builds up eventually and can cause major issues with the cooling system.

you best bet is some sort of vaccum. the ones at car washes are very powerful, i dont know maybe too powerful....

jadenkorri5850d ago

compressed air works fine and dandy, i use it on my cp, ps3, wii, every month or so cause its good to get the dust moving rather than sit for awhile and collect...
also found another use for compressed air, a friend had a mouse in the apartment so we sprayed it with compressed air, cept we held it upside down which would spray really cold liquid...sufficient to say, mouse was frozen...

myxomatosis5850d ago

short term, using compressed air works. long term, like 2 or 3 years, it makes problems, the ones i mentions specifically

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Mr_Showtime15850d ago

so theres no way im trying this lol

jadenkorri5850d ago

the fans just run faster to blow dust out, if you ever have a problem with ur ps3, it prob be something they'll get you to do before shipping...besides if this is not something normal, then i can only think the fans run louder to tell you somethings wrong...like you have it upside down....

mindedone5850d ago

but I don't think that my PsS3 was on long enough.

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LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down 'Indefinitely,' Sony Confirms

Sony has confirmed that LittleBigPlanet 3 servers on PlayStation 4 will remain offline “indefinitely” following troubles with the service from earlier this year.

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rlow111h ago

Sad day, hopefully they’ll allow a third party server solution. Goes to show game preservation is an uphill battle.

blackblades3h ago

Sad day oh wait everyone that whining about it didn't play it or haven't played it in years and never was going back to it. Funny how people start to care when this happens but when it was actually up those same people didn't even pay attention to it.

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just_looken6h ago

What needs to be highlighted by this is that the series has had 4 main games then that go kart spin off yet sony let them all die.

There is 0 games like this on ps5 and to my knowledge 0 first party main kids games no tech demo crap

Sony purchased Media Molecule studio the ip then tossed it away letting it rot for over 7 years yet the community carried on until now were we have lost 16 years on all games of content along with no replacement.

Everyone goes on about ea killing studios but sony has killed way way more but its fine its sony they can do no wrong.

Before the sony blidboys track me down again go fire up your holy boxes all the dlc they tossed out all the trophies and all the user content needs a server side handshake that no longer works. Yes offline single player version 1.0 works but that is it.

Media Molecule was not cut i know but they only made LBP and dreams it was reported they just missed the chopping block
https://gamerant.com/little...

Do not forget the dreams game was tossed out 2020 but 3 years later support was pulled
https://www.digitaltrends.c...

All in all this is another failure at sony on a long long list in the past 10 years

Inverno5h ago

It's kind of hard to disagree when SONY has a history of abandoning many of their IPs. They killed Mod Nation and turnt it into LBP Karting because of brand recognition but left it to die too. They made their own Smash Bros only to rush the studio, and turn the game into an advert for recent release at the time and still let it die. They shut down PS Home for more or less the same reason, they left it to rott till it became too broken and exploited to bother fixing.

just_looken2h ago

This right here

Playstation home is what facebook is trying to make now but in vr that metaverse deal

Imagine if sony kept up ps home development

The death of playstation forums was also a huge loss

u-bEttA-rUn4h ago

Their games were unable to attract the masses every game that came out the attachment grew smaller and smaller they advertise LBP for years the industry changed and then came fortnight... You want Sony to continue to support them which cost them money that they're not getting back from the studio.

DOMination-1h ago

Honestly, I think a well-designed LBP-style game would do better than ever in the current state of the industry.

People have short attention spans. Having something that is pick up, play a few levels and put down again is the experience the "masses" are after.

Keep it as a 2D platformer only with well-designed base levels, make it easy to build new levels and more importantly easy to access new content - personally I always found the way Forze Horizon 4&5 provide daily, weekly and monthly challenges via new content that they've built or handpicked from the community is a system that works great - and then stick it on mobile and PC with Steam Deck support.

Make it F2P with a one-off fee for the level editor (to stop people spamming crap onto the store) and have MTX for more characters, outfits etc. and there you have a live service game that Sony should be all over.

Do the same with a new Karting game and a 2D fighting/Smash Bros style engine and you have three bangers right there.

(I appreciate the N4G community will hate the idea of LBP being a live service game with MTX and I get that but I think if there's one game this model could work well for, it's this.. just imo)

Tacoboto5h ago

I feel bad for Media Molecule. For the ideas they have it seems they need a publisher that supports games like this and Dreams especially for as many players as possible.

DOMination-1h ago

Sony in the Andrew House era did support them massively though. They let them do their thing with LBP and spent millions marketing it. I remember one E3 they even used LBP to cover the boring parts of the presentation where they talk about sales figures etc.

And then they allowed MM to announce their game on the PS4 console announcement/showcase event and waited the entire generation for them to release it.

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VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC14h ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC12h ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Friendlygamer13h ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey60212h ago(Edited 12h ago)

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya11h ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde11h ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

SeTTriP2h ago

This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.

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10 Weirdest Video Games of All Time

Plenty of unforgettable games have completely messed up their players throughout the years, all the way back from the PS1 days to the dark recesses of the modern internet.

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JonTheGod1d 18h ago

Why are the Katamari games not on the list??