Sony refuses to fix out of warranty PS4 without paying a $99 service fee.

[The_Yoda]

Ganoncrotch said:

The_Yoda said:

I can't remember which size it is but they are security torx.  Without removing the heatsink about all I think you can get to is the power supply, the hard drive and the disc drive.  I was lucky enough to get to take mine apart when I bought the GF a physical copy of GOW only to find out her 2 year old had fed the drive a little plastic star that prevented discs from being read.

That last line made me actually cringe reading it.

I would really not recommend the OP attempt to repair this on his own having seen the videos on youtube of it being done, it's something I wouldn't be confident with... and just this week I replaced the analogue stick in my Switch controller and the battery pack from an old DS3 that was knocking about and wouldn't charge.

That said.... no more Ghosting to the left in all my switch games for the sake of a €3.40 replacement stick and about 45 mins of squinting to see the tiny damn board connections in the joycon...

unrelated I know... but seriously think about how tiny the joycon is and those ribbons are crazily light, would really recommend caution if anyones planning to replace one of these sometime! Cool to see inside though, just needed a small philips and the Nintendo tri wing screwdriver to save 50e replacing it.

Good work after using a small standard screwdriver for taking apart the PS4 i bought this in case I needed to do it again.

 

Torx Screwdriver Set, T4 T5 T6 T7 Torx Security T8 T9 T15 T20 Hex Nut Pentalobe Flathead Triwing Triangle Square Bit Tool Kit with Flexible Shaft Extension for Precise Repair Maintenance (45 IN 1)

not sure if the link will work outside the US or not

 

The set is decent, I already had one that had most of this stuff outside of the tri-wing and security torx