Hey everyone, so I've got an original model ps4, that seems to overheat and shut itself off constantly when trying to play alot of different games, nioh and sometimes nier automata as examples. Now a bit of history with this system, it's had a ridiculously loud fan since the moment I bought it, but it would never overheat and shut off so I didn't really pay it much attention to it and just let it ride. Now fast forward to a month or so ago and I was cleaning out the dust in my system, I had taken it all the way apart down to the motherboard and did a full dusting of just about everything in an effort to make the fan quieter. Once I had it here I went ahead and replaced the thermal paste since I could see that parts of it were chipping off and it was pretty cruddy at that point.
So, after getting it all put back together the process worked like a charm and the ps4 essentially ran quiet, for all of a week. After this the fan came back as loud as it usually is and then the ps4 started overheating, displaying the blue screen overheating message, and then beeping 3 times and shutting off completely.
Now what strikes me as odd is that it only does it when I jump into a game that has alot going on, such as any level in nioh, after it finishes load screen the fan ramps up to max and BAM. Overheated. Now other games I've noticed where it does something is in nier automata, it seems to load the game at a slower pace and doesn't put as much strain on the cpu and gives the fan a chance to run and basically catch up to where it needs to be. It will still give me the blue screen overheating message from time to time in this case, but won't shut off as the fan has been able to run and provide constant cooling.
TL;DR - I basically think that the issue might be the thermal paste needs replacing again as it seems to be generating too much hear and the heatsink/fan doesn't have an opportunity to compensate for that by dissipating the heat. Anyone have this issue and want to chime in?
So, after getting it all put back together the process worked like a charm and the ps4 essentially ran quiet, for all of a week. After this the fan came back as loud as it usually is and then the ps4 started overheating, displaying the blue screen overheating message, and then beeping 3 times and shutting off completely.
Now what strikes me as odd is that it only does it when I jump into a game that has alot going on, such as any level in nioh, after it finishes load screen the fan ramps up to max and BAM. Overheated. Now other games I've noticed where it does something is in nier automata, it seems to load the game at a slower pace and doesn't put as much strain on the cpu and gives the fan a chance to run and basically catch up to where it needs to be. It will still give me the blue screen overheating message from time to time in this case, but won't shut off as the fan has been able to run and provide constant cooling.
TL;DR - I basically think that the issue might be the thermal paste needs replacing again as it seems to be generating too much hear and the heatsink/fan doesn't have an opportunity to compensate for that by dissipating the heat. Anyone have this issue and want to chime in?
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