I Paid $50 for This BROKEN PS4 PRO - Let's Try to Fix It!

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I Paid $50 for This BROKEN PS4 PRO - Let's Try to Fix It! The seller said his son was trying to upgrade the fan on this PS4 Pro but unfortunately he broke off the power connector. So I bought it for $50 to see if I could get it fully working again.
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[@rogigor]

Because of your videos I bought my very first soldering station and repaired all broken toys for my daughter :)

[@davy_5]

Dang how much did the soldering station cost?

[@rogigor]

@@davy_5 like 20 bucks. It's a cheap one, but gets the job done.

[@davy_5]

@@rogigor its impressive how cheap that can get

[@ataahmadi]

*RiP the guy who sold his ps4 pro for 50 dollars*

[@rishanthehe]

And the fact it was the white one too💀 Idk why but in my country the white controller is 4x more expensive than normal ones

[@stevenross-watt8640]

​​@@rishanthehe I have a late model white PS4 pro CUH 7216b model. I bought it second hand barely used for a similar price to what I sold my original first generation PS4 pro black for. So here in the UK there wasn't much difference in price across the colours of ps4 pro. I even managed to grab a god of war PS4 pro for £170 just the other day. Not a mark on it. Cuh 7116 I believe (2nd gen PS4 pro). Cheers.

[@5twvl]

They’re kicking the air right now

[@JayRizzGod]

I just bought a Xbox one x for 75 dollars and all it needed was a offline software update 😭😭

[@lisa4471]

@@JayRizzGod what?? Where do you get an xbox one that cheap?

[@jakthebomb]

I have this model, it is so pretty. I changed out the Thermal Paste with MX-6 and Thermal Pads with Gelid Extreme. It runs really quietly.

[@TheCod3r]

Great job Steve! Especially saving that SSD 💯

[@Tronicsfix]

Thanks Phil

[@adiplayz8115]

How can u replay 1 day ago

[@vampyryannik7334]

@@adiplayz8115 this person is a channel member so they got early access

[@adiplayz8115]

​@@vampyryannik7334 oh

[@armandomorales0921]

Can you use SSD on a regular PS4 console? Or only PS4 pro?

[@HardcoreNegan]

I love how the whole "Perfect amount of thermal paste" joke is still relevant, like it has not slowed down and you havent gotten lazy with it its ALWAYS a joke and you even made it better with the choir . Good Stuff man lol

[@chasefournier]

Awesome job with the PSU Connector! and a bonus doing that SATA Connector on the SSD! Solid work!

[@Tronicsfix]

Thanks Chase!

[@bruhhhhhhhh545]

@@Tronicsfixmy ps4 pro shut down immediately after turn on after sitting in the closet for 6 months I open it up and clean it but it still shut down immediately after turn on 😢😢😢

[@vinyminotaur2694]

Love your videos Steve! I have been watching since 2015 and I've got to say, I have learnt a lot from you. Your videos never get boring. Keep up the great work!

[@sarayacole6346]

same steve is where i learned how to fix my 3ds handhelds i just got done shellswapping my 3ds xl and dsi xl and both were semi hard to do for my first time but it went well nothing was broken by the end and now i have 2 custom painted shells on both i will always watch his vids and continue to gain skills 😊

[@NikMitchell]

nice work keeping these Pros on the road! (so to speak) Loved the SSD repair - i work in IT, and it has always been hilarious how easy it is to break those SATA connectors (power too).

[@theINQBS]

I've installed thousands of HD's and SSD's since 1996 and I have never broken a HD Connector and on old computers they fit extremely tight! Not sure what one has to do to break one of those but it has to be pure negligence.

[@NikMitchell]

@@theINQBS I haven't either - but they are designed to stay put once connected. Disconnecting them is always tricky. It's like they spent more time designing the connector's closed position to be fierce than actually trying using them in practice. Exposed connectors never help either, also an easy thing to screw up if you aren't careful. Not everyone's a pro, but these connectors in general are poorly designed. PATA was a better connector design than SATA (though bent pins on one side of the hard drive were pretty common to find from people not pulling them out straight).

[@sarayacole6346]

steve the great is back i love how you take game consols and bring them back to life and give a new lease on life i would love to see more retro game consols or handeheld restoration videos keep on expanding your content and keep making new videos love ya ❤

[@joeyhenry7312]

Loved that you added the ssd fix in the video as well! Great job. 🙏🏼

[@whaleoilbeefhookedmain7672]

I still love watching these ps4 fixable vids even though I changed to Ps5 nearly 2 years ago...Great job Steve 👍

[@patrickmurphy9470]

I love watching last gen consoles get cleaned, pasted and upgraded to SSD. It really gives new life to these consoles. I cleaned and installed a SSD in my XB1 recently and it’s very rewarding.

[@tlcj3838]

I am hooked on watching your videos. I am a tinkerer myself. And i know one day i will need this valuable information. I appreciate you sharing all these videos with us brother. Thank you

[@somebodyirrelevant141]

Hey, Steve. Have you ever thought about repairing classic consoles such as the PS2 or PS3?

[@theINQBS]

He has repaired those.

[@handlemissing]

"Let's talk about our next problem. . . . I use iFixit tools for basically all my repairs..." Nailed it!

[@rammoney6904]

Love your show makes being sick sometimes better keep up the good work

[@dylans2669]

When you are trying to get connectors up like this and the connector is being replaced you can cut each lead off, then use your soldering iron to push the remainder of the lead off the board with basically no risk.

[@HD-wf3bp]

Steve I was just thinking about you bro! Tomorrow I'm going to get 14 ps4's and before I would have never dared to buy something like this so fast. I knew I had to be fast and now we have a deal! I'm sure your video s will be a great help in this new adventure that begins Tomorrow after I get them. You are great man!

[@jesop42]

hello friend after you can sell me one

[@HD-wf3bp]

@@jesop42 muhaha! If it would be possible with shipping between our countries and I manage to get some working like new than that would be cool with me and I would give you a great price! But hopefully I wont be scammed tomorrow because the deal might be too good to be true but the guy seems for real.

[@Tronicsfix]

Love it! Good luck!

[@HD-wf3bp]

@@Tronicsfix thnx man!

[@roguedagger1]

I like these repair videos for last gen consoles that most people still have 👍

[@RickyTan10111]

Nice edit at the end 🤣.

[@winchestersingerharvelle83]

Your the best in the business today Steve. I wish I could do what you do. Your a "GOD" to me & my younger brother who are both disabled. Bless you & yours forever 🎉🎮 🖥 💻

[@emmanuelyates678]

Congratulations

[@crimecity]

For what?

[@dangerd.5960]

Thank you

[@eddiew.4650]

@@crimecity Getting a PS4 Pro for $50.

[@crimecity]

@@eddiew.4650 Ok thanks 50 is cheap in pounds it is £40.25

[@farsidesc4044]

Another question: how do you know which wire to use? To me, that wire looked too thin for the current and voltage. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’d like to learn.😊

[@jaro6985]

Its a tiny length so the wire can be small, anything that is physically strong enough, also a fan doesn't draw too much power.

[@PolishTamales]

I started up a small repair service out of home at the beginning of the year, but had to stop because of lying customers. Always claiming that they didn’t open up their units, to discovering broken traces, dried flux everywhere, and warped/burnt PCB caused by excessive soldering. It’s always idiots dropping their consoles, breaking the HDMI port and using random KZbin videos as reference without any experience using equipment, much less steady hands. I don't have the patience to deal with customers that claim, “the customer is always right,” when they clearly lied through their teeth.

[@superpuneet007]

I love your work it's so satisfying. 😊

[@Funkb0y]

Love the video as usual! Curious why you didn’t use a hot air station to remove the bad SSD connector?

[@yotoprules9361]

Better to not melt the plastic if possible - not that it matters too much I guess since it's broken.

[@Ryan_DeWitt]

Glad to see you got a grinding a pen. So helpful vs the old scraping method.

[@Spartan122S]

Happy Friday Steve! Thanks again for the great video!

[@Tronicsfix]

My pleasure!

[@volvo09]

Wow, what rough handling... Broke the SATA connector too? I understand everyone starts somewhere, but that's a tough one to break. I hate seeing people convince themselves that they need to do some fan or thermal paste upgrade and end up killing their device. Such a non issue that cost this kid his console.

[@afortyoz2freedom]

Perfectly edited the video showing the perfect application of thermal paste.

[@CarsandCats]

$50!!! Dude you're gonna make out on this one. So many people break off the fan connectors, it looks like an easy fix.

[@Showstopper108]

Welcome back ❤

[@GSPsvita]

I guess you clean the fan as well 😉 Nice video , as always 🙂

[@I_Am_DK_]

Do you happen to have tutorial video on soldering? Also do you have a video of the soldering set up you use like the brand and what not?

[@Jerome-C]

Great Job as always !!!

[@Chewligan1]

Steve is an optimist. I would just see ripped pads AAGH !! He sees 2 unripped pads because he's the half full guy.

[@Khaostheory1980]

When i had the PS4 Pro it sounded like a jet engine. I did the whole cleaning and reapplying thermal paste and to be fair it was whisper quiet for a number of weeks but it didn't take long before the fan noise started to creep up again. I think they're just inherently a dust magnet and I wasn't going to keep stripping it down. I'm glad the PS5 came along and I sold the Pro in the end.

[@CarsandCats]

Gotta replace the thermal pads, not just the paste.

[@kanon_od_ua]

Just change processor pad from Xbox. The result will be fantastic.

[@DeepThought420]

Our Superhero has returned 🎉🎉 thanks for the awesome video!

[@spaideri]

Just a small hint. If you have to use super glue as a sort of mass that needs to dry (besides mating to surfaces), dab a small amount of baking soda on the glue. It solidifies instantly

[@nicktimur]

Finally we got these consoles again. I was waiting for them.

[@imangenerous3321]

Back to life PS4 👌🙏

[@lino4555]

We might be able to finish this and not have any screws left over. Lol I really like Steve's humor. Great video as always.

[@SirSicCrusader]

I get the perfect amount of thermal paste gag but, correct me if I am wrong, doesn't direct to die thermal paste NEED to be spread out over the entire surface? its fine to just blob it when there's an integrated heat spreader, but if any of that apu isn't being cooled properly it could be a HUGE problem.

[@user-ti5wc1yn6d]

I absolutely love these ps4 vids!

[@dennish8549]

Good work brother! 🤜🏽🤙🏽

I just wonder how the cross-soldered legs of the ssd connector should have worked (6:23) 😮

[@jesuck]

6:23 pins 2 and 3 are tied together. still ok?

[@TheSavageThanos]

Yup. 1,2 and 3 can run off the same trace in any combination in case any of those traces doesn't work. He could have bridged all 3 and ran it through whichever he wanted to.

[@RWJSJG]

Me blowing on the super glue as you applied it 😂😂😂😂😂

[@krystian7246]

I like look at your fight with hardware but we have 2023 y. Use Honeywell PTM7950 for ps4/5 and newer use superglue, on pcb we use only epoxy glue.

[@crimecity]

Great video lad keep up with the work

[@lukehyoshy]

Those small detais like the psu conector are always impressive.

[@lumsdot]

I changed the cmos battery on my ps4, was not too bad, apart from the fan power connector which fell apart. But now all working

[@AnarchistAvenger]

balsy to super glue it down before testing!

[@TheSkaldenmettrunk]

Two fixes today. Nice one!

[@emmabentley7945]

Awesome video, but with direct dye cooling, you need to cover the entire dye by spreading it , ❤

[@PDXTundra]

This guy always runs in God Mode. Awesome channel.

[@SiegHart13090]

I just love to see you fix electronic stuff You could do a lamp and I would still watch the video

[@raymin1974]

Awesome Job!! Wish i had your Talents!!

[@tylerwinstonmassey]

I pulled it apart to clean it and check if the antennas were connected to the board.

[@tsgaming7198]

My PS4 is not even showing on the screen. It gives me a blue light but it doesn’t turn it into white and after a few seconds it shuts off automatically. Is it BLUE LIGHT OF DEATH?. And if it is how to solve it???.please i need help..

[@revengenerd1]

I wish I could solder a hard drive/SSD connector, I have 3 hard drives that the connectors snapped off when removing cables (not with force just flimsy cables) one is a 12tb hard drive so not a cheap one! I went the easy route and just hot glued a angled extension plug on the end

[@packlesswolf1]

I really like Baja Blast

[@martindeleon9863]

It blows my mind still how tech works. So amazing. Also helps me to understand the price of these electronics. Wish I had the mindset/ patience to learn this stuff

[@ChrisBarnes575]

"...do your research..." WOMP WOMP! Okay, that was great.

[@ilantzur02]

You can actually see the 2nd connection from the left moves a bit.

[@jnut1246]

I kind of wish I could have gotten a broken PS4 Pro for this cheap and fixed it this easily, I just barely bought a used base model PS4 a couple weeks ago for $200.

[@DarioDarrow]

2:12 a good illustration as to just how tiny the connector is 😅

[@aekaek2795]

Great video bro ❤

[@Hejazi1365]

Good job Steve. But why did you use glue and didn't reposition the supporting pins?

[@ronlevin2339]

Ehy you do not make first a big mounting pens from a solder wick that is totally filed with solder ?

[@CooLDEaFY2023]

Excellent work..

[@ztechrepairs]

Low melt solder would have been awesome at removing that ssd connector. Just anyone having to do this. I use it all the time

[@hawkfeather6802]

Nice work!

[@thabangmash6732]

I love this guy's videos

[@Elshiem]

Dude, your videos are awesomes, but i have a question: Why you never clean all the old paste from the little chips around the cpu??

[@Eddyb1e]

6:23 that 3rd pin on the left doesnt look so healthy

[@jakeraven2741]

Dude you are awesome!

[@shawnsterzuk1974]

Nice job! Had a psu issue myself. Didn't rip off the connector but broke the 4 pin cable that goes from the psu to the board and can't for the life of me find somewhere to order the right one. CUH-7015B

[@furkanbulat8307]

Man that white ps4 pro looks good

[@Shinix2Koroshi]

Ifixit is wonderful ive used them for years. Very nice video!

[@Konysok]

You are the best. Seeing you on KZbin gave me the idea to buy a soldering station and try to repair like you. Thank you. Hi from Ukraine 🇺🇦.

[@romanemul1]

50$ for controller + broken ps4 ? In our country just the controller costs around 70$. Good deal.

[@mizinoinovermyhead.7523]

Steve, I think there was a solder bridge on the SSD connector you put on. Was I seeing things or did you fix that off camera or what?

[@tylerwinstonmassey]

The local repair shop said it’s 50$ to diagnose and around 200$ to replace the wifi/Bluetooth chip.

[@SonicBoone56]

What type of solder mask do you use? The stuff you've used in videos seems a lot higher quality than the crap I see on most places. Is it a UV resin???

[@FaddyMatty]

Hey Steve is there a affordable microscope you can recommend?

[@zohircherifi5616]

Haha I love it when he makes fun of himself

[@aikiphil]

Hi. I cleaned my ps4 pro internal heat sink but once all put back together there was no life or power up. Any ideas? thanks. Phil

[@OmegaGamingNetwork]

As someone who first started fixing small electronics in my bedroom in the 1990's, it always blows my mind how badly people butcher things. I just cannot wrap my head around how someone does something like this.

[@revengenerd1]

I butchered 2 Sega Saturns last year but at least they were cheap I tried doing the Fram mod, I actually desoldered the old chip fine but misaligned the new chip and ripped the traces when removing the new chip, the 2nd one I tore traces removing the old chip and then misunderstood about soldering to a via and damaged the via so it was irrepairable. but I would never try with a expensive modern device.

[@yotoprules9361]

probably pulled on the connector and not the cable

[@CarsandCats]

I see that your Roku tv also calls a PS4 Pro a PS5! I thought it was just mine. Sometimes it gets the consoles right, it's a crap shoot.

[@pyropureTTV]

I have a ps4 that was my brothers who passed. I went to play it . Years later I go to turn on the has lights that show but no screen or anything. What should I do

[@ThatGuy68580]

Steve I tore my power 4 pin cable that connects to the power supply by using tweezers like you suggested when i could have just gently pulled and removed the cable. Thanks for nothing

[@srjbeast_tek]

I was trying to clean my psvita the other day, I opened it up and tore the battery connector just like this ps4 😢 I watched the video to see if it is easy to fix but doesn’t look like it. Rip my ps vita

[@chillmushroom6016]

I've clean my ps5 2x and i never take out the fan or anything thats is connected because I'm scared of breaking a wire and paying more to get it fix.

[@tylerwinstonmassey]

When I put it in safe mode it will respond to the controller. But after I leave safe mode it goes to the screen where it asks me to connect the controller with USB and press PS button. Controller light just blinks blue.

[@instahawk8422]

When they noticed that the fan had a different connector what on earth were they trying to do thinking they can solder it directly to the board without a plug connector is that why the connector was torn off the board surely they noticed the fan ain’t even going to fit in the console 🤦‍♂️

[@Wellsracing71]

So I saw a crooked component haven’t watched the whole video but is that normal

[@mrigot2go449]

I got a ps4 pro that is not working I download something play that app... the next day or whatever I go to play and it says I have to delete and re-download. I'm just done with it

[@coolboy-no4mt]

Hi how are u can I ask u a question please how much u charge me to fix a ps5 usb in the back of the ps5 1 port is damaged

[@berzerkbankie1342]

I just recently bought a ps4 pro for $230 with 8 games! I sold my sister my ps4 slim for $125