How To Fully Disassemble A PS3 Slim [Case Mod] [Complete Dust Removal] [+Reassemble] [Easy] [HD]

In this video guys i show you how to disassemble a ps3 slim (any model in the slim category. This is mainly for people who wish to add a case mod to a ps3 Slim and/or properly remove all dust from your ps3.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Even if your ps3 may look different in the INSIDE, it doesnt mean you cannot do it. All you have to do is notice the area where im unscrewing.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This ps3 does work and it did work after I reassemble it.
NOTE: I'm not responsible for your actions that you apply to your ps3.
NOTE: Do this for your own risk, if you know what your doing...great then follow. If you don't but you think you can follow along and successfully disassemble your ps3.

[@jerryrichard4994]

being 82 years old and working on my grandson ps3 save me a bit of time, keep up the good work

[@savagekiddbeats]

what was war world ii like ? nah im jp

[@-never-gonna-give-you-up-]

Kaj Green have some respect i would love to see U fighting for your life "nah JUST KIDDING"

[@savagekiddbeats]

Shii i would prolly survive, ithink. Nah im jp lol

[@-never-gonna-give-you-up-]

Kaj Green bruh lol

[@stoneirvin6086]

SavageOnThaTrax bitch

[@mclenzybristow3287]

finally!!!!!! I found a video with someone who has the 3001a model! you're a life saver. I was starting to give up hope lol. great video and thank you so much.

[@unbvld]

+Mclenzy Bristow I got you dood! :D

[@ryans413]

Mclenzy Bristow I have the 3001B model and I think this is the best version of the slim PS3 still have to this day works great.

[@liamthoralexanderspencer4684]

@@ryans413 mind explaining to me what this is I fixed my brother's one and it looks like this but every other video has a different thing

[@pongchannel.]

@@unbvld I just want to upgrade storage is there a easy way to do that?

[@unbvld]

@@pongchannel. just take off the little door on the front and swap out drives

[@citizenjp4681]

Thank you so much for 15:52 words can't tell how grateful I am to you right now, you saved me and my ps3 from a mental breakdown.. The previous guide didn't tell me that you need to put that in so when I went to play games It wouldn't accept the disc.. I was ready to throw in the towel but you saved me!

[@geerobgizzle6741]

Oh and finally a video for a slim that's the same model as mine thanx a bunch I must've watched 100 vids about ps3 disassemble and they all were different models

[@padoomama]

I love the music you added, and that you give credit to the artist/album...and I fell in love with you when you FILMED how to reconnect the flat wire UNDERNEATH the disc drive!! You are a magician!!!!! Thank you for this artistic, beautiful, professional video.

[@Tagvillainy]

Hello my firend thank you for your tutorial it is very detailed and clear i follwed it and was able to clean my ps3 aswell as reassamble. Bless you and your family

[@michaelfish39]

This video is awesome. I was able to disassemble and reassemble my sons ps3 while watching this.

[@johntorres8303]

The music make me feel like I’m in a cult

[@at-cj2iy]

Like religions

[@IamSpeedyWay]

this was very helpful and each step was clear, my ps3 is squeaky clean now and hardly makes a sound. but i lost 3 of the screw covers 😐 i'm really hoping they didn't get in the ps3 somehow when i closed it up 😖 oh well it works fine, great video!

[@j.lietka9406]

Those specialty screws are called tamper resistant (or proof) torx tip. It takes a special type torx tip tool to correctly remove them!

[@unbvld]

If you don’t want to buy a specialty torx head you can just use a perfectly sized flat head. That’s at least what I did with great success

[@juandontworryaboutit4150]

Why the hate?? Dude You're awesome! Keep up the great work thank you so much

[@JS-wc4xs]

thank you so very much for the video. it helped greatly for my ps3. I used many screenshots while taking apart and reassembling my ps3!

[@NoDefinitiveAnswers]

6:34 Learned that the hard way

[@brianyildirim2804]

Still Loving comments after 5 years. And thanks so much!

[@unbvld]

I get the notifications for all of them :) so why not 💪

[@ElectrifieDFN]

@@unbvld What type of screwdriver do you need to unscrew the power supply ones, i have tried a ton of things but none seem to work and now I think I cant even get them out anymore

[@ExtremeMusicSpace]

This is really the best teardown I've seen when disassembling ps3 really clear and very clearly thank you for that. I just have the same model ps3, is this the last version they made of the ps3 slim? I caused a problem myself with replacing the thermal paste, unfortunately I broke off 1 bolt when assembling the coolhouse (heatsink).Model Sony PlayStation 3 - CECH-2504B this model doesn't bother those bad NEC / TOKIN Capacitors on the motherboard. I wanted to keep this model ps3 I will have to search for a new coolhouse for my ps3 :/

[@unbvld]

To be honest, I’m not sure, I was only around 15 years old when I made this video :D

[@ryans413]

This revision of the slim was better then the first version Sony dropped of the slim

[@jerryrichard4994]

fantastic video, best I've seen for a long time

[@BossMasterPangs]

wow. I though replacing the cmos battery was easy. fixit showed its just underneath the bluray drive but it wasnt the case. this showed me the right way

[@husoilder2014]

Thank you. Awesome video. Really helped.

[@pearlmax]

I came for the PS3 repair, stayed for the astral projection.

[@jagmn3075]

Thank you my friend for this video it worked !!

[@JohnSmith-lf8kg]

Where did you get that screw driver with the bits set at?, thanks.

[@unbvld]

It’s an old husky multi headed screwdriver

[@junaidunar9148]

Thank you, it helped.. Liked and Subbed

[@4026NICK]

Thanks you for this

[@4Noirr_]

15:55 that shit is so HARD to get in if you don't take out the fan & battery. Pain in the ass i didn't have all the right tools to get my Fan out & it took me over a hour to wedge the cable connection in while having the fan & battery in the way of me actually just slipping in the ribbon. The best way to do this is to Insert one end of the actual ribbon cable & the rest should follow in as you shove the bluray player back into place. Other than that the PS3 is easy to take apart. I don't even keep screws on my Cech2501a model

[@sikancil838]

I'm using knife 🔪 to open that hardest screw. It's work

[@unbvld]

gg

[@kamalhm-dev]

Thank you brother, you're a legend! P.S: That ODD cable was a bitch!

[@geerobgizzle6741]

You made putting that bottom ribbon strip bak on look easy as heck, I still can't get that back on

[@dylancoulbeck7483]

+geerob gizzle it took me a bit to, and that was using tweezers. I just sat both hands underneath the br drive and seated it down/guided in pretty easy after that

[@BrunoCostadeQueiroz]

Helps me a lot. Thank you very much!

[@cleverestx]

Thanks for the video. I plan on removing my PS3 Bluray drive on my slim Cech-2101B (I no longer use it); any thing I should be aware of or look out for when I do this?

[@unbvld]

I've indeed done that before, I assumed it didn't cause any termoil to the PS3, still have the PS3 too and it works just fine. So im going to have to say your all good to do that

[@williamdancyjr3884]

OMG! I didn't break it thanks to U! U rock!!!

[@anes4375]

15:50 is reeally hard. Any tips on how to do it ? do you have to lock it, before puting the blu ray box in ?

[@BootzyWootzy]

Thank you - very helpful :)

[@MakoClover]

do i have to remove the motherboard and disk drive and hard drive to get at the fan to spray it out?

[@juandontworryaboutit4150]

Ah connecting back the wires is a hastle for me i don't have small hands lol

[@skeper133]

Thank you! it worked, and it saved me.

[@charlesbaldrick]

My hdmi port is broken. This will help a lot on trying to fix it

[@OsbornIOW]

This model is like mine. The Cmos battery is covered .... How do I change the battery? More disassemble?

[@OsbornIOW]

done it. I cut away the metal to help reach battery

[@denino9146]

For anyone struggling to get the DVD/ blu ray ribbon cable in from the bottom 15:50 , you can take a couple parts off the cd tray or whatever its called to get to the ribbon cable from the other side so plug it in at the bottom and then feed it back up through the tray(there's a gap for it) then you can plug it in from the inside and put the parts back on while it's in place I'll link a vid that helped kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXm5Xmx8YqmWbNE everything else was easy! Even cleaned my laser because it wouldn't read games. Thanks for the help.

[@RondellKB]

MVP of the comment section. As soon as I removed the disc drive and saw the nonsensical placement of the cable, I knew it would've been problems, I put my system back together and sure enough, the disc drive did not work. I followed the video you linked and I got to put the ribbon cable back in place, now the game runs fine.

[@savswrldofclash2.019]

So I was right the hole time with my touch sensor ribbon being plug in backwards is why there's no power. Thx.

[@savswrldofclash2.019]

Days later from finding the only Awesome.. video on " KZbin " I'm now modifying my " working " ps3 Again thank you. You should do more brake down vids your in my subscription list Now. 😎😎

[@LxcasOnYT]

i was losing my shit putting that blue ribbon cable for the disc drive back in

[@BrianHa00]

Do you know where I can buy the bluray disk drive? And can I have the name of the model? I love this video by the way because my PS3 is exactly like this, but I can't find the right disk drive. Also, the 3 ribbon wires from the disk drive, aren't on the disk drivers that I'm looking at on Amazon and Ebay.

[@megamanx2sonic]

You can only replace a blueray player if you have cfw or if you swop the boards over

[@PabloRey18]

@@megamanx2sonic wrong

[@megamanx2sonic]

@@PabloRey18???? Then what's the rite answer cause I've been replacing them for years Cfw can marrie the new drive with programming with out cfw you have to swoop the boards so the OFW will see it as the drive it was married too. Cause blueray players are locked to the console they were built with.

[@x-treme_gamer]

I was only watching this to see the HDMI port. My PS3 slim won't project anything on my TV, and it's not the TV nor the HDMI cable. And I don't have an AV cable for it, so I wanted to see if I can fix it

[@unbvld]

#X-treme Gamer hold the power button when it’s off, and wait for it to beep. That might fix it

[@Carlos-t3p4j]

How the hell did you put in the DVD/blue ray ribbon wire so quick?! I spent a solid 30 minutes trying to put it in lol

[@denino9146]

Eatdatfatcat _494 trying to do it now and can confirm it's hard with fat fingers, any tips?

[@robertcooper6151]

Best video ever!

[@isaiahrios2244]

Music in the background had me dying

[@yestyle]

Ps3 slim, How many pins for power and eject button?

[@jownbey]

hey man i stupidly disconnected the power/eject ribbon from the side with the buttons and now i cant get it to seat properly. do you have any tips for my situation?

[@unbvld]

If you could some way send me a picture of what your talking about that would help me. The power button module has a clamp and must be flipped up, then you may slide the ribbon in. And of course lock the ribbon clamp down to tighten

[@jownbey]

@@unbvld i just got a new ribbon in the mail today. i must be truly dense because i didnt realize it was a clamp. no wonder i bent it to death.

[@unbvld]

@@jownbey good to hear you’re back up and running

[@BlitzClashBR]

i did remove 6 big ones, 3 little ones and the little blue one, but when i try to open it, it os resistant and i hurt my hands a bit.. it looks like its gonna break, so im afraid to pull the rest. Any tips?

[@chepegarcia2441]

GRACIAS AMIGO BUEN VIDEO BENDICIONES

[@reyalmon9721]

HOW YOU CONNECT RIBBON CABLE ON BOTTOM OF THE DISC DRIVE I CANT SEE WHAT YOU DO DUE TO POOR LIGHTING

[@denino9146]

TheBoboGod M OB For anyone struggling to get the DVD/ blu ray ribbon cable in from the bottom 15:50 , you can take a couple parts off the disk tray or whatever its called to get to the ribbon cable from the other side so plug it in at the bottom and then feed it back up through the tray(there's a gap for it) then you can plug it in from the inside and put the parts back on while it's in place I'll link a vid that helped kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXm5Xmx8YqmWbNE everything else was easy! Even cleaned my laser because it wouldn't read games. Thanks for the help. Sorry if that makes no sense but you can plug it from the inside it's 10x easier no struggling with your hand under there!

[@Diegozarate]

if you remove the hard disk, something happen on the ps system when u turn on after that? (for example: do a back up or something like that?) Sorry for my english.

[@NissanNote-oe6cw]

1:52 nice! How to open the HDD BAY. My favourite part!

[@ravindumunasinghe1439]

at 4;56 I cant take off the two screws after unhooking the two white wires, for some reason the bolts wont lets off easy. any suggestions?

[@yahyaalmaimani4893]

Thank you.

[@unbvld]

Yahya Almaimani np

[@dylancoulbeck7483]

ps, make sure all disk are ejected out of the disk tray xDHad to take the metal shielding off to get it out

[@mr8balla269]

I cant put it back in? When i allign everything the silver piece with the fan doesnt fall back into place. Why is this?

[@unbvld]

Check your corners and grooves for damage

[@mr8balla269]

@@unbvld its a problem by where the harddrive is. Every other part sinks down but aroind the harddrive is where it wont sink it stays caugjt on something as if it is too long

[@unbvld]

@@mr8balla269 try to softly feel around where you feel the most resist from something going down into the grooves. Check all corners make sure your ports are into their cutouts correctly.

[@farilima1956]

Hello, my PS3 Slim has a bizarre problem..... when i turn it on, it stays silence for more than 30 seconds (no fan, no hdd checking etc...) just the green light, and then after those seconds the system will boot normally. it also has audio glitches after some minutes of playing, i can't boot to Safe Mode and cant play PS2 Classics (blackscreen), what is the issue ?

[@unbvld]

Sounds like your hard drive is going bad, but I'm not exactly sure

[@farilima1956]

@@unbvld i tried without HDD and with other HDD, it shows same symptoms of long boot for both (30 seconds or more) but this time it dosen't appear nothing on screen...

[@unbvld]

@@farilima1956 hmm how old is your ps3 it might be on its last leg. In all of all my years I've never ran into a problem like that

[@unbvld]

@@farilima1956 idk why it wouldnt boot into safe mode. Did you ever jailbreak?

[@farilima1956]

@@unbvld Its a PS3 Slim 120gb from 2009/2010 and i never jailbreaked... i'm starting to think its an bizarre hardware issue without fix maybe like power supply or something in the motherboard :/

[@memobesiktas496]

whats the black and white cable in front and gose all the way back ? my children took it out now if someone walks infront of the ps3 my controller wont work .

[@unbvld]

+memo besiktas It's most likely the Bluetooth antenna

[@memobesiktas496]

Yes IT is thanks!

[@faysalnur01]

Lameister the white one is wlan the black one is Bluetooth

[@faysalnur01]

one of them donot work your ps3 is dead i will fix it go to my instagram you fill wind link. ok instagram.com/faisal_apdulrashiid.nuur

[@sitiakbariyati2028]

how to dissamble PS3 slim with e3odepro cause I want apply thermal paste on my ps3

[@ghassengharsalli6412]

Thank you

[@solinymm]

TORX 10 Screwdriver?

[@unbvld]

Cast Modding ツ www.google.com/search?q=torx+bit+set&tbm=shop&lsf=seller:8438988,rt:4,pgb:1,cid:4566100458309804069,pid:15139900918638157390,oid:17782197826679106838&hl=en&ei=teKKWbWiOcawjwO1_arABA&lsft=gclid:Cj0KCQjw5arMBRDzARIsAAqmJexhJVpfbo-4w--JUVG_aLLnvOJ857Ned_ngYXStbshXdzXxyLa3Ut4aAsUeEALw_wcB

[@aivideos7]

Or a super small flathead.

[@falseleadersareamongus1999]

What about the fan it's really dusty for me how do you remove it

[@unbvld]

Danny Hernandez air in a can

[@aivideos7]

Or you could just unscrew the four screws to take off the case and clean it. Both ways work.

[@SuperFamiKing]

Interesting differences between this model and my cech 2002a. Fan is much easier to remove in that one. But in the 3002, it's fixed to the motherboard. Sony definitely makes slight changes depending on the model lol. At least any revision of the PS3 slim will be better than the fat models. I'd even say that the slim is better than super slim. Just because it's easier to do maintainance. Since the SS model is more compact, they fixed most of the parts to the motherboard. Even the Bluray drive which needs replacing in mine 😂 go figure.

[@unbvld]

I took my blueray drive out of mine because all my games were digital

[@SuperFamiKing]

@@unbvld same with me 😃 it runs smoother. At least I think it does 🤣

[@unbvld]

@@SuperFamiKing you should bolt a multi-speed (low/med/high) pc case fan into that free slot, power it via external fan controller or you can mod your own ps3 power cord to split off into that connector (requires rewiring knowledge). It’s a bit overkill for cooling but the ps3 needs it. You could also solder it to the PSU directly

[@paultomasi4619]

thank you so much :)

[@papiiandre]

everything's in place but won't turn on? help please, I might honk it's the ribbon cable in the powe button push thing but idk.

[@VideosFromMyHardDrive]

is your power supply connected properly?

[@Vapxy]

I can't remove the screws with the cover that says "Sony Computer Entertainment Inc." any suggestions

[@unbvld]

Vapxy Any kind of screw that doesn't want to budge, just use a bigger screw driver (not too big) and use a lot of hand torque

[@MultiBeast301]

The power supply screws are impossible to take out. Any ideas?

[@vcmodzztm9799]

use torx t8, this is special screwdriver

[@mo3t4]

Iba a probar las luces led "escondidas", al final nones compatible y el tecnico al que le envie la play rompió los tornillos TORX, gracias igual

[@unbvld]

English please 🥺 haha

[@mo3t4]

@@unbvld I was going to activate the "hidden lights" on the ps3 (look for it on youtube) but my ps3 is not compatible ... also I couldn't open it because my technician broke all the torx screws XD thanks anyway

[@unbvld]

@@mo3t4 ohhhh no 😭

[@mo3t4]

@@unbvld hahaha

[@treierxyz]

but you didn't remove the metal shielding so it isn't a full disassembly

[@saidhm8319]

exelent tuto

[@grizzlybear1754]

That music tho haha

[@deirdresquires4124]

my fan won't come off easy at all any suggestions please ?

[@unbvld]

Well, Your not usually suppose to pull the fan off the motherboard.

[@aivideos7]

You could unscrew the four bottom screws as well to take it off.

[@ichigokurosaki8661]

i think my ps3 needs a little tlc too

[@karthikkarthik-si7tq]

Suuuuuuuuuuper

[@chomiktelewizyjny8567]

No speer fajnie

[@________________6325]

9:55 dude my case was disgusting, put some hot water and soap washed the case since its just plastic

[@shadxwghxul8212]

8:07 please help, whats this 2 metal part

[@unbvld]

Orkun Ali Aksoy those are the blue tooth and WiFi antennas

[@shadxwghxul8212]

Lameister ow thanks man! İ was broke it. But fun fact i use ethernet! I am planning make a glass table for ps3 and i write to glass this "Legacies Never Dies - Playstation 3"

[@lordmegatron8617]

What ps3 slim model is this

[@Jupiters1337]

CECH3xxx and up

[@lordmegatron8617]

I see

[@mikosillanpaa6194]

My ps3 powersupply gives a bad smell

[@shivarampersaud2332]

I thought that was just me

[@karthikkarthik-si7tq]

Fuck DA ponda

[@julianray3701]

My orange ribbon snapped... WTF DO I DO?

[@MotherGunner]

What's with the creepy music?

[@unbvld]

MotherGunner I got flagged because of non-licensed music

[@kmangunzplayz1281]

12:15

[@mo3t4]

Hi, cech?

[@unbvld]

3001a

[@mo3t4]

@@unbvld thx

[@dewaynehall8396]

Mine did

[@seanpobee21]

cool

[@MK-jy5iv]

Why the fuck the music is so creepy

[@unbvld]

Royalty free music

[@chamsoucalvin8768]

Horror music

[@arsalanchohan5275]

cant u talk?

[@NicholasIsaacs87]

You talk too much. It's a bit distracting

[@unbvld]

Yeah I don’t think I had audio on that camera lol

[@NicholasIsaacs87]

😆👍

[@maansingh4481]

Please give me ps3

[@zekethedego]

Nothing as irritating as a tutorial by what seem to be mutes. There are always warnings, tricks, pre-emptive answers to sure to come questions and if you don't have a voice or are somehow frightened of speaking most folks move one.

[@unbvld]

This was filmed nearly 10 years ago, at that time I didn’t have audio capabilities. I did what I could do.

[@kadozomay1251]

Thank you