I Bought 3 PS4's In Parts from eBay - Why Do I Do This?!

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I Bought 3 PS4's In Parts from eBay - Why Do I Do This?! The seller says probably the consoles have WLOD (white light of death) but isn't sure. I can often fix WLOD consoles so this seemed like an interesting challenge for me.
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[@murnco]

Does the fibers on the probes bother anyone else?

[@hsavietto]

1:06 "HDMI port is missing, which is fine" You, sir, have a very flexible definition of "fine".

[@12345.......]

That is a lot of work. No wonder the seller got rid of them.

[@Tronicsfix]

Ha, ha, yes, no wonder!

[@6581punk]

Especially given the PS4 is common and doesn't fetch a lot used. Although the shortage of the PS5 is keeping the PS4 slightly more relevant.

[@mrmarr8308]

@@6581punk sony know what they're doing

[@jfncho]

the page turn edit at 1:58 was so smooth.

[@SycoSpartan]

just got my first lot of 15 "broken" psp's. thanks for the motivation mate.

[@Sacren365]

Awesome! I’m gonna be fixing a 3DS for the first time. Needs a new battery, and it’ll need a new shell. Best of luck to you. :D

[@fajiksan]

I am so fkng impressed. The work, the precision, and the huge amount of experience and joy in your work ! GG man !! 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

[@jefftrainer7128]

How do you resist the urge to see how fast you can get that fan moving with the canned air? 😅

[@Tronicsfix]

Lol, it’s hard to resist!

[@robinsutcliffe-video_art]

It does damage them at really high speeds hey, watch out! (I used to work in hardware resellers, they broke lots of fans like this!)

[@maxxaddict]

Off camera: *shifty eyes* whhhhhhhhzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[@adammelvin4753]

I always enjoy watching your repair videos, it's really interesting to watch the process!

[@battosaijenkins946]

@TronicsFix, Sir I just want to say, These days you are imitated but NEVER duplicated. The quality of work you do, and the workmanship for each fix is BAR NONE!! 👏👏👍

[@just_a_stump]

You know it's a good day when there's a fresh TronicsFix upload!! 🥳

[@beefbmx]

man that is some good work! Love watching your diagnostics and trouble shooting. Gives me confidence with other electronics when they don't work. I sit and think okay what could be causing this, like there has to be a reason it doesn't want to work, lots of times its something simple! you got mad skills man love your content!

[@liberalminded1]

You can see Steve's editing skills are improving with all the little splashes of humor. Great video!

[@michaelcastle5354]

I find your clean, freshly soldered HDMI multi-pins very cathartic

[@Pistol_Knight]

Your knowledge on these systems is outstanding. still you have more donor boards which is good. buy yourself a corded blower and lose the expensive canned air

[@djmula25]

Dude you a genius love your videos

[@robinsutcliffe-video_art]

Great work Steve!

[@mohammadrezamotieifar9190]

I love What you do man keep it up

[@chrisfixesall99]

oh, forgot to mention, I love your videos Steve, keep it up!

[@FR4M3Sharma]

you should try reflowing the APUs once in awhile shince they're already Blue Lighting or faulty in a similar way, I fixed a 11 Year Old laptop last December by reflowing it's GPU. It's still working and I just watched this video on it.

[@chonkik5754]

At the best time! Watching now! Your big fan, from Northeast India Nagaland!

[@ryanmckenna569]

I tell you something mate, you have some serious patience, I'm patient but jeez 🤣 props to you!

[@samuraivader3814]

Recently got an Xbox Series X "Broken, no power". It did turn on but the HDMI port was broken, I replaced and now I got a working Xbox. The repair was a pain but I managed.

[@Tronicsfix]

Nice work!

[@christianronalddelacruz9451]

Awesome work..👍

[@yifanxu0428]

Excellent video love the content

[@somanyfaces6362]

Hey steve, love the videos! May be worth investing in an electronics vacuum for all that dust and hair you deal with. I work as a biomedical Technologist in a hospital (fixing medical devices) and we use it all the time on the floors. Helps when you dont have room or dont want noise from a shop vac. Keep up the great work!

[@REALfreaky]

How does it prevent static buildup & discharge? What model do you use?

[@somanyfaces6362]

@@REALfreaky i use the SCS 497AJN. Esd safe. Great little tool for portability too. Slightly expensive for personal use but when its a hospital they would rather expensive and quality than cheap and poorly built

[@mikeanderson5948]

Steve my man great work as always i just want to say that for the ps4 number 2 try to replace the HDD maybe that's the issue because it dose work but it get stuck i think it's the hard drive not sure though

[@albertfullard]

Love the video. Will be cool if you start a second channel with tutorials on how to fix electronics!

[@chandrasekharravenur8047]

hi your content is so nice and clear

[@reginaldb.campbelljr.7451]

Great work 👏👏👏👏👏

[@dannytimis3065]

Good video as always

[@davidisraelanimations9424]

Nice work!

[@chasefournier]

I love to see some PS4 content! Good try buddy!

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

>Why do I do this?!? For the clicks and the ads. But don't worry. I'm will be using Newpipe to watch the video. 🤣😂

[@NightcoreClips_]

I doubt you didn’t notice how dirty your voltage tester thing is, but maybe that’s why the results weren’t as accurate 100% of the time?

[@HDxHiPNoZz]

Hello I have subscribed to you for a long time I am French and you have taught me so many things about the repair of PS4 that I today I can diagnose and repair myself Thank you :) But I have always wondered given your knowledge especially on the PS4 if it will be possible that you try to create a House Box for PS4 With Integrated Screen or not, no matter Ready to take up the challenge? :)

[@adinnugroho6544]

The Perfect Amount of Thermal Paste 😅😄

[@KnelaG]

The edit at the right amount of paste is 10/10

[@gabeh5806]

I’d love to have you clean my ps4 😂 Ngl man love to watch you videos

[@vikranttalari0000]

Cleaning the heat sync was my favorite part I remember I used to do it a lot in my ps3

[@MysteryD]

I do small solder work on FPV drones, I wonder if this is something that would come naturally seeing as how the stuff I work on is 30x30mm in size or less.

[@OccasusRaven]

Small hand vacuum cleaner would be very good to cleaning all dust

[@jiyoung4472]

What's the temperature you use on the heat gun when removing the hdmi port?

[@henrysaeng]

Diodes are designed to flow in one direction and has a voltage drop of approx 0.7V. In order to test this properly, you must unplug the power cord and drain all the current (possibly holding down the power button). Otherwise, you're measuring the input voltage minus the voltage drop. When the probes are reversed, it should read overload. Meaning there isn't any current flow. If this doesn't occur then the diode is mostly likely bad.

[@pinklightninggacha]

Doubt the second board will work with all those scratches

[@bobwatson957]

Steve, you had your work cut out there. Perhaps they came from a home with pets.

[@BowsettesFury]

“Why do I do this?” Closet masochist 😂

[@yourdailydoseofmemez7074]

Hey, what liquid are you using to solder ? I am currently setting up a must buy list to make repairing consoles my hobby ^^

[@dizzybro]

FYI, on your microscope (it looks like the one i have), I was able to mount it to the stand much closer to the lens, while still allowing the focus to spin. This gave me a wider view, as well as more room for my soldering iron under the scope

[@AndreiDanielBotezatu]

What is the name of the microscope? Or maybe a link to...

[@jeffcook3747]

"that's probably the only problem with these...." JINX!!!!!!!! You know better than that Steve !

[@lindah6954]

I put all the plastic pieces in a dish washer and put on a low setting. My friend watched me clean and repair his PS3 Super Slim. You do not need to slam the door closed on the Super Slim. The trigger pin can be knocked loose. (I don't know what else to call it).

[@stevewall6811]

"Especially this guy, he's a little crooked" *and i took that personally*

[@merryburrito4141]

like to see some ps2 repairs

[@lindah6954]

You should look into re balling APUs. You have the patience for it.

[@310_Latchkey_kid]

"EBAY" 😄 amazing skills!

[@valentinautei]

Does the reballing works on the apu chips? Have you tried? I think is a good invest for reballing tools based on so many consoles that have apu issues.

[@RidinWithMyLocsOn]

At least they both have the perfect amount of thermal paste when they go to PS-heaven, RIP.

[@poeticsilence047]

The last two i was definitely get a feeling of "0L". Lol 🤷‍♂️. Should make that into a shirt.

[@lindah6954]

Getting the right disc drive to the right console is going to be a pain in the ass.

[@HARDWARE_FIX]

Eres el mejor. ✌️😎

[@ZzazvorCZ]

did you ever tryed to reflow APU and then push cooler so hard, to be sure, tahn all pins are connected? I have rly good expirience with that on fixing GPU cards

[@MustangKevin69]

Can u pull the memory for some other device or upgrade another one

[@HumanDelta38]

I'm kinda wondering if the second ps4 might have a faulty hard drive. I've had a few give me blod symptoms but were chocked up to dying hard drives. Might still be salvageable.

[@robertpage2023]

You might add in the "couldn't fix it" remarks is what it would take to actually make the device work. IF the drive on the "blue light of death" device had a faulty drive then is that all that would make it work? And is it a cost effective or practical fix? AND on the #2 unit that loaded the game but didn't play it, you said the APU needed replacing. They look cheap on line ($12 from Sony) but I also read that the originals were having a problem due to being not soldered on correctly by the factory. Wouldn't a removal of it, clean up and reballing be a good next step short of replacement?

[@kosmosstormstrike3438]

He does not have the equipment for reballing, also he will not get the equipment as he does not see it cost effective as even if he reballs it, it might have other problems that are irreparable

[@LoneWolf89POW]

Excellent vid as always my guy!!! could you help fix my PS2 they have no signal on my t.v please help! I think it could be a chip but don't have the tools to fix it myself

[@frankity]

literally, you can see when Tronic's heart explode when he says "Ohhhh That's a boomer" :(

[@joeljuarez5720]

more xbox series x repair videos please, i can find just few here on utube

[@The_LexSter]

I bought 3 PS4's in Parts and built a PS5 out of it...coming soon! 😅

[@OccasusRaven]

Nonfixable means more parts

[@vellcore]

He really liked his HDMI ports

[@SeerOfSands]

What causes no spin for the HDD like on #3? Super curious as to what causes it and why it isn't fixable!

[@6581punk]

Generally speaking HDDs always spin up when a computer/console is powered up. If it doesn't it's either a bad drive or issues with the power lines. Some drives have fluid bearings to reduce vibration and those can seize up. But the HDD PCB can be bad as well.

[@santisvander]

Cant you actually send that one with apu issues for a reballing? Wouldnt it fix it?

[@nickts8432]

i had a ps4 that had a black screen all i had to do was boot it into safemode and rebuild the database/install the system and it worked fine after that

[@tracyr5594]

can you use the broken apu ps4 to watch netflix and youtube and stuff though?

[@tinystar3010]

Question. I've never opened a console before to do a full cleaning like a heat sink cleaning. If I were to, would I need to replace the thermal paste? Or am I ok to do it without it? If not, I need to find some first.

[@Tronicsfix]

If you remove the motherboard then you need to replace the thermal paste.

[@tinystar3010]

Oh ok. So I'm assuming the motherboard needs to be removed on PS4s to get the heatsink cleaned? And thank you for responding!

[@6581punk]

Sometimes a decent vacuum cleaner with a fine nozzle will shift the fluff if you put it by the vents.

[@Superzesh101]

The design of PS4 is so good. Great looking console, much less of an eye sore than the ps5 lol

[@6581punk]

Who knows what they were thinking. Presumably they didn't want a big block and the curves break that up a bit. But the PS5 has more serious issues than that, don't move a PS5 when hot as the liquid metal thermal compound can leak out onto the PCB.

[@awilliams1701]

is whatnot related to wynaut? (wynaut is a pokemon lol)

[@darren990]

whats the microscope model your using

[@DanM2509]

Please clean the test leads on the multimeter, everything is perfect and awesome just that is bugging me.

[@pocketgamer940]

I have a friend who has a Ps4 that keeps freezing and disconnecting the controller when he downloads stuff on his external memory. He can put it in rest mode then turn it on but the controller still won't connect untill it is shut down or reset. I have cleaned the inside that had a lot of dust but it still freezes. Do you have any tips that might fix it?

[@whodatdere1]

The first HDMI port is not done well at all... Not even class 1 standard for the important PCB joints. Old solder and cold...

[@combloc_bakelite-simp_ak-u6466]

Random question unrelated to this video, can you swap motherboards on Xbox one S's? HDMI port broken, no one wants to fix it, could I just order a new motherboard to replace the bad hdmi one and reassemble?

[@michaelharbuck3314]

if you are interested I have probably 30 console boards and tons of other stuff for ps3/4 and various xbox model ( no series x or s ) 40 lbs worth.. I can pack it all in a box ....

[@slitherixxx]

do you have fix for ps4 that only reads disc when its spinning from boot? after spin down it wont start

[@jamesgriffyn]

You do it so we dont have to :)

[@KevinRuettiger]

Please clean the multimeter probes

[@MED31MED]

7:24 Umm, huh?

[@3dpathfinder]

Why not use an Air compressor with a pressure dial?

[@1SoulEaterX]

Bro I tried to fix stick drift on my controller by replacing the sensor and recalibrating it but I think I need to replace the whole part tbh and soldering is kinda too advance for me 💀💀

[@GuZuDemVSM]

My ps4 sound like it explode and won't turn on DO you know whats the issue or can tell me what to do?

[@user-hm1xf1vk5x]

Ps4 disc drives are match set with motherboards?! So if a disc drive malfunction you can't replace it?

[@mikeanderson5948]

You can but remove the logic board from the old one to the new disk drive

[@user-hm1xf1vk5x]

@@mikeanderson5948 oh OK, still an unnecessary complication from Sony.

[@user-hm1xf1vk5x]

@@mikeanderson5948 They REALLY want you to buy new consoles yet they print about e waste and planet on the box, so bad

[@mikeanderson5948]

@@user-hm1xf1vk5x ikr !

[@wildbubba03]

Hey is there somewhere I can send my ps5 remotes because I play with 1 hand and my remotes are not the biggest fans and some don’t work in different ways and I don’t know how to fix them.💚

[@wildbubba03]

I have cerebral palsy btw

[@johngarrido2763]

por favor tradusca el vídeo en español. para poder leer . muchas GRACIAS.

[@rodrigomartins745]

PS4 number 2 try a reflow on chipset

[@awilliams1701]

Now that I'm streaming off a fire tv instead of my ps4, I should take my ps4 apart and clean the blu-ray. I hate using it because it doesn't grip the disk very well when loading. And if I break it, it's not the end of the world. I was only using the PS4 for streaming anyway. But anytime I think about a blu-ray movie I'm like....uggg I'll just buy it on amazon so I don't have to deal with that dirty drive.

[@sniffer2500]

Hey, tropicsfix, I can send you a hard drive from my old ps4 reg. If you want it. I can't use it. I have the newest ps4. So where can I send it to you at??

[@ninjapwnsatlyfe]

even then you have two more donor boards so its never a true loss

[@lbdjthethird1240]

Welp, these pivot tables can wait. The boss will be fine, he does not do any work on Friday's anyways. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, so I watch Tronics videos on company time.

[@MOLHAMSTAR]

Dont update them . if you gonna re sell them , they will be more expensive with old software 9.0 and lower 😂 and im 100% sure u now that

[@ericbena1686]

Can I send u my PS4, Its disassembled think it's just a bad HDMI port

[@instahawk8422]

Famous last words repeated in slowmo three times that’s probably the only problem with these with electronics that’s never the case

[@mightygamerjames]

hey i have a ps3 that keeps freezing can you fix it lol