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The PlayStation 3 (or commonly known as the PS3) is the third home computer entertainment system produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the successor to the PlayStation 2. It was released November 11, 2006

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Freezes and screen shattered ps3 gpu or board error please help

Dear Sir/Mam, My ps3 hanging anytime depends on its mood. once its gets heat its hanging then hangs again. it takes 30/minutes to 1 hour some time more then one hour depends whats running in it.. . Reboiling done. screen gets shattered and have to restart it. i am a user so whatever repairing master said to me i am telling. . he done many things. but it still hangs. he was talking something about gpu that perhaps he don't want to touch bcs there is risk. The person repairing it saying there is a stella (name) steel upon the IC which is attached to RAM of that IC , And when we try to remove that stella steel then sometime half ram can be broken with stella and IC becomes dead. So there is risk of system dead. guide me what to do.

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PlayStation 3 Heat Sink Replacement

Follow that and once you get the heatsink off, clean off the old thermal paste with isopropyl alchocol and a q-tip and then apply some new stuff.

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Thats what ifixit has but any thermal paste will work.

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The person repairing it I paid him already he did many things in it but he saying applying thermal paste would have a risk 1% of permanent dead of system. As he said paste have to remove with a blade so a lil scratch means system dead. Is he right? Please suggest me some tips. I already paid him enough. Thanks

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The person repairing it saying there is a stella (name) steel upon the IC which is attached to RAM of that IC , And when we try to remove then sometime half ram can be broken with stella and IC becomes dead. So there is risk of system dead.

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Yes there is. So just use qtips and isopropyl alcohol to clean it.

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Thank you. got it,

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