UPDATE: cleaned off the liquid metal and reapplied some fresh stuff and it all seems good now! Thank you for your help!
Hello! And thanks in advance for your help!
Ive got an EDM-020 PS5 with a weird issue I havent seen before. It came to me with a dead fan, which I replaced, and now it boots up to a white light and a message on the screen about plugging the controller in, but then the fan goes turbo and it shuts itself down.
It seems to be an overheating issue because if I try and turn it on again immediately after that, it doesn’t get as far before the fan goes wild and it shuts down. If I leave it to cool down for a while before turning it on again it will get all the way to white light again.
There’s nothing obvious on the board, can’t find any shorts or suspicious components. The fan, PSU and heatsink are clean and free of dust. I dont know what specifically is getting hot - trying to sort out borrowing a thermal camera from a friend to investigate. Could it be a liquid metal issue? Or have I got a bigger issue? I’ve tried to add a couple of pics of the board and the liquid metal, so hopefully that's worked!
Thanks again!
Hello! And thanks in advance for your help!
Ive got an EDM-020 PS5 with a weird issue I havent seen before. It came to me with a dead fan, which I replaced, and now it boots up to a white light and a message on the screen about plugging the controller in, but then the fan goes turbo and it shuts itself down.
It seems to be an overheating issue because if I try and turn it on again immediately after that, it doesn’t get as far before the fan goes wild and it shuts down. If I leave it to cool down for a while before turning it on again it will get all the way to white light again.
There’s nothing obvious on the board, can’t find any shorts or suspicious components. The fan, PSU and heatsink are clean and free of dust. I dont know what specifically is getting hot - trying to sort out borrowing a thermal camera from a friend to investigate. Could it be a liquid metal issue? Or have I got a bigger issue? I’ve tried to add a couple of pics of the board and the liquid metal, so hopefully that's worked!
Thanks again!
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