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waterking · 02-02-2008, 07:12 PM

My Ebay Purchased "AS IS" PS3 (won't power on) was truely buggy. Got it yesterday and took it apart. Swapped in another Power Supply and it initially worked fine but then stopped reading discs. I had noticed a lot of fine debris on the metal plating. So I lifted the BD player out and there was about four dead roaches under it. I looked in between the circuit board and the bottom of the BD and sure enough there were dead cockroaches there too. Finally I took the whole thing apart and cleaned out the debris/ legs, wings, carcasses from every where. After putting it back together it worked fine for several hours..In the meantime I took apart the original power supply and sure enough it had three dead roaches in it...One of them had apparantly electricuted himself by getting between the inner most fuze and the copper heat sink which then blew the fuze...After removing the carcasses, I replaced the fuze which is a pita because it is soldered in and in a bad spot to boot. Now the original power supply works as well. It certainly was a buggy machine. I did take pictures of the two roaches that actually caused problems but they are not very good. Two questions remain: 1.Where did the XBOX fanboy find or train these suicide cockroaches and 2. If this had been returned to SONY under warrantee would they have denied service because of bugs in the PS3.

02-02-2008, 07:12 PM	#1
waterking Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 3	Buggy PS3 My Ebay Purchased "AS IS" PS3 (won't power on) was truely buggy. Got it yesterday and took it apart. Swapped in another Power Supply and it initially worked fine but then stopped reading discs. I had noticed a lot of fine debris on the metal plating. So I lifted the BD player out and there was about four dead roaches under it. I looked in between the circuit board and the bottom of the BD and sure enough there were dead cockroaches there too. Finally I took the whole thing apart and cleaned out the debris/ legs, wings, carcasses from every where. After putting it back together it worked fine for several hours..In the meantime I took apart the original power supply and sure enough it had three dead roaches in it...One of them had apparantly electricuted himself by getting between the inner most fuze and the copper heat sink which then blew the fuze...After removing the carcasses, I replaced the fuze which is a pita because it is soldered in and in a bad spot to boot. Now the original power supply works as well. It certainly was a buggy machine. I did take pictures of the two roaches that actually caused problems but they are not very good. Two questions remain: 1.Where did the XBOX fanboy find or train these suicide cockroaches and 2. If this had been returned to SONY under warrantee would they have denied service because of bugs in the PS3.