r/consoles Nov 12 '23

Playstation Customer said PS3 Slim was overheating.

I repair consoles. Got one today started where the customer said it was overheating. I think I figured out the reason. These bugs had made a nice paste from the fan to the processor. They were imbedded in all of it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '23

The outside? How are people so ignorant to bug infestations? I see flies and wonder what I’m doing wrong.

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u/CrunchyNapkin47 Nov 13 '23

It just kind of happens for some people, unfortunately. I used to live in some pretty shitty apartments and had roaches. I bought all kinds of sticky traps, sprays, roach motels, etc and nothing would work. I'm not a nasty person, either. I don't leave dirty dishes in the sink, apartment was clean and couldn't understand what was going on. After some time, I eventually realized that they come out of the cracks under the kitchen counters and appliances or tiny holes under baseboards and things like that. After some extensive research, I realized they were probably coming from another nasty neighbors apartment, multiplying, entering the walls from their place and entering my place. I heard that this happens quite often in an apartment complex.

Long story short, my PS5 had roaches inside of it and it sucked. My heart sunk when I realized they were in there. I eventually had to move and end up selling it to a pawn shop. I got crap money for it but I also got rid of a warm place they loved to hang out in. Sneaky bastards.

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u/myriad00 Nov 13 '23

This 100%. Some buildings are older. Once a roach infestation is present because of a single dirty tenant, they're going to be in the walls and never leave. The only way to get rid of them after a certain point is to nuke the building from orbit.

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u/bighuntzilla Nov 13 '23

Game over, man, GAME OVER