PS3 Fan test is Dangerous !

According the french site UltimatePS3, PS3 Fan Test can damages your system, the fans speeding up is a fail safe trying to get the bottled up heat out of the system, this can burn your CPU and GPU, this is confirmed by sony.

[Fishy Fingers]

durrr.... I thought that was pretty obvious, your basically intentionally over heating your system, forcing the fan speeds to increase to try and compensate.

IF you tried it, and soon your PS3 falls you'll have no one to blame but yourselves. Oh and you can probably kiss your warrenty good bye.

[MURKERR]

who the hell would copy a ten year old kid tanked up on redbulls evils offspring?

he had so much caffiene and sugar in his system his a diabetic in waiting.

[Tarasque]

Well it shoudlnt void your warranty cause there is nothing in the manual about it, you know not doing it. They shouldnt even allowed the console to do this i dont think. Nothing beats a good ol can of air anyways.

[schommerc]

well i have heard compressed air can actually be bad for the consoles as well. something about it caking the dust even deeper inside.

i could be wrong...

[sonarus]

lol. PS3 is a tank and i doubt it will be affected but i am not doing it regardless

[mikeslemonade]

Sony is just trying to be safe so thousands of PS3s won't be jeapordized, but really this technique is just tricking the PS3 to think it is overheating to turn up the fans.

[gameraxis]

when that fool said, fan testing or whatever i asked myself how can this kid be that stupid??, i mean really something as dumb as turning ur system upside down triggering a fan test instead of pushing a button or going to an option, truly truly DUMB! Like in the ps3 manual

"if you want to test ur fan levels, turn on ps3 and hold upside down in mid air for 30 sec to a minute." what and IDIOT!

[spandexxking]

are they refering to the 40 gb or the 60? because you've got to be an idiot to believe the fat kid but the 40 gig fan test seems quite safe. if its something the console allows then why would it damage it?

[ReBurn]

What do you mean it shouldn't void your warranty because they didn't tell you not to do it? Some things should just be common sense.

[tweaker]

The 40GB SKU should be safe. As for the 60/20/80GB, I knew from that start it was not a smart idea to turn the PS3 upside down. lol. Anybody desperate enough to clean the internals should just buy a can of compressed air. Much more effective and proven.

[jadenkorri]

regardless if your stupid enough to hold it upside down for a cpl hrs till its really really hot, i think u deserve it to overheat...2ndly, i tryied it and only left it upside down for a little bit, like a min or so and i think it really all depends on how long you do it for...i know it will be ok, its those dumb people who'll turn it upside down and leave the room while the console "cleans itself" if you get my point...

[Harry190]

thing i did not try.

[GODofDOOMS]

oh crap i new it was dangerous but i saw comment of people trying it and working fine so i thought i should try it. dam it what if you only tried it only once? im i still alrite?

[Fishy Fingers]

If your PS3 is still functional I wouldnt concern yourself to much. But I highly recommend you don't try it again as it may seem fine now but cause problems at a later date.

If you need to get the dust out of the system, buy a can of compressed air.

[bigman7387]

"oh crap i new it was dangerous but i saw comment of people trying it and working fine so i thought i should try it. dam it what if you only tried it only once? im i still alrite?"

did anyone else think that he sounded like someone who did drugs once or had sex once with this chick and she got pregnant? he just sounded so worried.

[GODofDOOMS]

everyone Approve this Story before another person gets their PS3 damaged

[cl63AMG]

have there been any reports of damaged systems?

[Science_NERD]

No damage to my system, only thing is, the fan caused by ps3 to fly out the window and into the sky!

[kosha]

i wasnt gonna try it anyway just in case

[SeanScythe]

sorry but if I have to man handel my ps3 to get the fans to rev up then I'm not going to do it. I mean the last thing I should be doing is waving my ps3 around while it's on.

[kylegtheassman]

it did not do a thing to my ps3 fools

[schommerc]

yet...

[Killjoy3000]

dont listen to assman...hes a fat blubbering fool. i bet anybody here can own him in any game period....me and him go waaaaaaay back on psn....dont worry about it.

[ChantsTheMan]

hi assman. u got owned in cod4 by me and killjoy3000.

[PSWe60]

duh

[EnglishGeezer]

After a good nights sleep i decided not to start messing with my 60gb ps3 and waving it in the air.Its starting to look like i made the right choice.

[Blackcanary]

I only did it once but after reading this i'm not gonna try it again.

[Sarick]

If your booting up the PS3 with that on how does it overheat the system? All it's doing is booting with the fan at full power. The processer is inactivated right?

So, how is the fan blowing cool air out the back from boot harming the PS3. If this is a problem then It's a hardware design issue.

Sony has confermed it as a failsafe yes, for overheated systems. Have they confirmed that this process causes an overheat or is it a test of the fans capabilities in case of an overheat?

Even wrose does it burn out the fans? From my standpoint if the hardware kicks in like this there is a reason for it and I highly doubt it heats up to that level in 1 second flat.

More info, Where is this Sony confirmation?

Please link to english page.

[schommerc]

nobody is stopping you from doing this. Everyone, including Sony, is simply recommending that you refrain as it could possibly lead to damaging your system.

If you want to jump off a forty foot bridge then do it, we're just saying theres a chance you could break something.

[Statix]

I agree, I don't see any reason why this fan test would damage the system. Certainly, the author of this news report got it wrong when he said that it causes the system to overheat. The source link message doesn't give any good reasons as to how or why the fan test damages the system either.

Everyone's taking this news report as fact, without even reading the words closer, or looking at the source link.

[gameraxis]

that's what I'm saying, the fan is going faster because theres a reason, no to test them. good post some people are just dumb

[DrPirate]

Did you not see my post where I warned everyone in large capital letters why this is dangerous?. Go back to the oroignal post and look for it.

[evilbubble]

Look at the process, you havent actually turn on the system yet (as in the CPU and GPU etc). You just flick the power switch at the back on. There is no way this will overheat the CPU or GPU as they are not doing anything or even on yet.

[Sarick]

"Nobody is stopping you from doing this. Everyone, including Sony, is simply recommending that you refrain as it could possibly lead to damaging your system."

I didn't say do it. My post is asking to acknowledge real facts. You see the article doesn't include these things. It just says confirmed by Sony. This simple response doesn't satisfy my understanding of the problem.

At the time of my post no evidence of why, or how it damages a system was available. I'm like that student in the back of the room that raises his hand when he wants to clear things up. I'm definitely not the student who doesn't ask questions and fails come test time.

It's a great sign of intelligence to seek knowledge instead of blindly accepting what you hear. The response you posted implies that I'm attacking the problem in retaliation. No, I'm simply seeking to broaden my knowledge and satisfy my concerns.

Edit: It seems this news is being confused with the 40gb fan test. The one listed is for a 60gb (forced test) after reviewing this I can see why Sony says "Don't do it!" The 40gb test is unrelated and not destructive like the 60gb test mentioned here.

[PStriple703]

duh

[The Goulet]

I treat my PS3 better then my girlfriend.

Goulet

[nix]

good thing, i didn't bother.

[aiphanes]

There really is no way your PS3 is damaged if you tried it once...

If it is an you have to send in your PS3 for repair why would you even tell sony you tried this trick?

Has anybody who tried this proceedure had their PS3 fail?

[The_Firestarter]

I tried it for my PS3, and it's still working. (40GB version)

[TheTruth89]

This news is releted to 60GB (Forced) Fan Test. 40GB have no problem...

[Statix]

Ok, cool. Thanks for clearing that up.

[The_Firestarter]

That's good to know!

[Mikelarry]

U THINK!!!!!!!. lol

[GnuUzir]

Own a vacuum?

Compressed air blows IN...pushing dust farther IN...

A vacuum sucks OUT...pulling dust OUT...

Now was that difficult?

=P

[Mr_cheese]

lol this is so true

[GIJeff]

the ideal is both. blow into the intake with compressed air and suck the exhaust with a vac. :) air doesnt "pack" dust, unless the dust is sticky....or wet..like mud...i dont get who decided blowing on dust packs it... youre all crazy. Especially the fool up top who thinks hes smarter. *sigh* grow up...

[Hellsvacancy]

thats maybe the reason y i had sooooooooooo much trouble installing gt5p, i was tryin 4 9hours and i still havnt got the online update

[Thegamingblogger]

any admins reading this could you remove other story from the main page showing how to do the ""fan test"" its dangerous and will break many ps3's

[flambeau]

The 40GB fan test sounds safe. But the fat kid is retarded if he does this regularly.

[wetowel]

just as i was flipping over my 60gig ps3 i read this..... phew.

[Bigrhyno]

The 40 gig too... I know the 60 gig idea was stupid, but it seems that the 40 gig was implemented into it and it would be stupid to implement something that would overheat your system.

[Spinner]

No, you're not trapping heat into the 40gb when you do it on there.

[GIJeff]

360 implemented the power switch... sorry, i couldnt resist.

[tommyhj]

Either the PS3 really DOES heat up real quick when you put it upside-down, or there is a accelerometer inside the PS3 (like in digicams) that tells it which way is up.

And as heating and hot air goes, I seriously doubt that flipping the PS3 180 degrees will cause it to overheat so rapidly...

So there must be an accelerometer inside it that checks which way is up. And if the vented side is down, it goes into panic-mode and fires up the fans to avoid too much overheating (if the vents are blocked, because they a looking at the table)...

[Lumbo]

actually its just that the heat sensor is located in the bottom of the ps3, under normal conditions it would react to heat buildup cause the hot air has to manage to heat up the whole system to get the sensor up to max, but by turning it upside down the hot air goes UP directly to the sensor and therefor faking a system overheating situation resulting in the fans powering up, a lot.

So basically this is just a way to make your PS3 think its overheating and it reacts as it should .. by giving more power to the fans.

[Mr_cheese]

This didnt sound good when the kid was doing it in the first place. I mean holding your ps3 upside down to rev up the fan seriously you think that was the proper way that sony tested the fans?

[Varsarus]

Whoops, better not do it again, there was alot of dust coming out of my ps3, but it's still ok, been playing warhawk and cod4 for a little while and it was perfectly fine after that.

[The_Nexus]

okay i barely remember that my 60 gb ps3 was turned on for a couple sec's,and the fan started doing its thing.The 60 gb one u just need to leave on for a couple sec's or min's to do that.And mine is A-Ok guys.I Think we need to be flat out told that this feature is dangerous by sony.But Mine Works Perfect.So dont get scared!!!
I think there isnt anything to be afraid of.Yesterday was scary as a ps3 owner, but today im not scared i know things will work out.

[Z501]

Not cans of air.

[brothersimon]

owned

[juuken]

And you still haven't changed that icon to 360 FAIL.

How sad.

[Solid_Snake666]

Gay Xbot fanboy go call microsoft when ur new xbox will be in after that rrod

[Xlll]

Take it easy juuken and fernado that 360 is one hell of a grill. cooking a steak on a 360 takes way less time then on a bbq.

[Z F1GHT3RS]

yer i usally fry my breakfast on the goerge forman grilling machine.
which is delay station 3

[brothersimon]

lol girls dont get mad :-D

[Xlll]

no sony console ever started a house fire. looks like you fail again xbots.

[LONEWOLF231]

Thank god the 40gb isnt affected!

[rafaleon]

Haha, Watch out PS3 can burn your house.

[PopEmUp]

the job?

[kewlkat007]

How would you kiss your warranty goodbye?

I mean how does one detect that you took them measures and made your fans go wild, while over heating you GPU and CPU?

I mean that "failsafe fan function" is there for a reason and maybe the reason , is what exactly took place.

I stick to the compressed air method for now..

[LinuxGuru]

My March 2006-manufactured 60GB PS3 didn't even do anything when I held it upside down...the fans didn't kick in any higher....it was like normal...

Hot air was still shooting out the top of the console, and air was still being drawn in through the vents and out the back.

Basically....nothing happened at all. I guess I got a good PS3, huh?

Or maybe my PS3's fans default to a higher level upon startup...hence why I didn't really hear any difference.

I don't know...

Anyways....

You guys need to understand something.

The PS3 (ANY model) is designed to shut down upon heating up to unsafe temperature levels.

If your PS3 got too hot while doing this, or ANY other stupid experiments, it will just shut itself off.

The PS3 is designed to protect itself from damage, and rest assured it will do so when you threaten its internal components with thermal damage.

Relax guys.

[kewlkat007]

Well that means when you actually push the PS3(gaming for long periods of time) on a very boring day and sh^t gets hot, your fans won't do much to help.

I guess this is a good thing that it happens...not a bad thing.

Its FAILSAFE

[TheJBag]

a 60 gig made around the same date, and noticed it is quite louder than my friends 40 gig

[Goodfella78]

i told u so,.honestly only electrical hardware amateurs would of done this silly litle pony trick,anyone with just a little intelligence,would of known to ignore and not copy this silly demonstration.peace out.......

[neil_1980]

I wasn't going to comment on this as I thought it was obvious but clearly not.

If you think of the way a CPU is set up on top of it is a heatsink. Basic physics say that as heat will always rise it is designed so the heat of the cpu will pass up through the heat sink where the fan will cool it.

By turning it upside heat will still rise... but as the heatsink is now under the CPU it wont pass through it and be cooled, instead the heat will try to pass through the motherboard (which is not designed to happed) so instead of being cooled the CPU will just over heat.

As the CPU is overheating it will obviously up the fan speed in a frantic effort to cool it but of course as the heat hasnt passed through the CPU this wont happen so eventually youll get error messages and it will force a shut down.

Clearly forcing an unexpected shutdown isnt a good thing and also there is another rule with electronics where for every increase in degrees for the temperature a component operates its life span is reduced by x amount (i forget the value)

So basically even if your PS3 still boots now you may well have reduced its lifespan some what.

For future reference if a 10 year old kid tells you to do something...think twice.

[rhunsic]

If you really want to get that dust out of your ps3 just fill it up with water then flip upside down and let water pour out
Just let dry before turning back on!!!! You'll have the cleanest ps3 around. Of course I don't recommend having it plugging in at the time. My 60Gb PS3 is clean as a whistle and working great!!!!
All those trying this I take no responsibility
All those who respond that I'm dumb and that water destroys electronics We'll DUHHHHH

[Skerj]

I did it yesterday, it kicked out a lot of dust from the inside but I don't plan on doing it again.

[TwissT]

I think the 60gb test is dangerous, but I am a little weary on the 40gb, I mean think about it for the 40gb the system is off, your not blocking any vents and all your doing is holding down the eject button, but hey I could be wrong.

[f789790]

If you do the fan test after your ps3 has been off for a while, there should be no heat to destroy the processor or gpu. It will just clean out the dust.

[skelly022782]

I agree with Willy Wonka. You have to be moronic to follow the advice of some kid regarding a fan test. Additionally, anything that starts with turn your PS3 upside down should raise eyebrows. If Sony intended this kind of a test to be run, it would be in your manual. If you damage your PS3 with this ridiculousness, you deserve whatever happens.

[juuken]

And that's why I was skeptical about trying it.

[Mikey Mike]

would anybody here cover up a car muffler to make it work better, or better yet cover your car's air intake to clean it.

[kylegtheassman]

that killjoy3000 is a racist his name on the psn is killjoy3000 to
so message him on psn

[PimplePopperMD]

it wont damage your system just shorten fan life, like with every other fan of the sleeve/ball nature. or any electrical device for that matter. its not like the cpu and gpu are maxed out at 100%, i doubt it even boots past a bios before the fan starts going.

it wont damage your system if you say, do it once. but anything at 100% 100% of the time, is no good.

[JWork0825]

go look at the blue PS3 on ebay it looks sick.

[xhairs]

That video was the epitome of all those guys who rev their engines at stop lights in their Camaro's and Mustang's or those people who bump their systems really loud whilst trying to talk to the person in the car next to them...this kid is that person in the gaming industry...VROOM VROOM!

[Knightofelemia]

A game system is for playing games on not to torture

[trancefreak]

my 40gb took a dump today the fans decided to run at 100% at 72f ambient temp then locked up. now the fans run at a consistant 100%. called sony to fix that f@ker. :(

[xg-ei8ht]

doing it on the 40gb version is fine.

[mayberry]

you might be right about the accelerometer might be present in the ps3!
looked it up in wiki and it probably is what the sixxaxis uses to control function! but why in the console itself? HMMM?

[andron]

The manual states that you only should operate your PS3 in the horizontal or vertical position. Turning it upside down and waving it all about is not recommended, mmmkay....

[PS360PCROCKS]

I knew this last night it's idiotic! It's like the morons wrapping their 360 in towels so they will get so hot the chips will affix themselves to the boards. It's obvious if you turn a electronic and it does that, it's precautionary not a CLEANING function!

[Naphthos]

That article didn't seem to contain anything... So how do fans blowing really hard cause several processors to heat up? That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. I think this story is FAKE.

[Britjadg]

c'mon it seemed a stupid idea from the get go...

some things are just common sense gents - like not putting you're playstation 3 in a water tank before your play.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Why would you do this?

The fail-rate is .3 percent...

I think that's pretty darn good.

[ToxicDragon]

Well of course they would say its dangerous, but seeing as I tried it before having it on for a day I dont think it was hot already?

Trust me in saying a PS3 ! DOES NOT GET THAT HOT IN A MINUTE!.

Doing it like this causes the fail safe to kick in with out any problems, CPU and GPU as Sony "claim" of causing problems erm, just no, no dont be stupid. Sony have to say this basically but it wont cause a problem to your Ps3 unless you do often just do it like every 6 months or so.

[atomdooze]

Ya just cant have a topic of discusion without saying XBOX can ya.

[jones smokey]

i did not even bother when i first saw the fan test, i play games on my ps3 not trying to clean it,it is desiged to last long and cope with dust so u just trying to clean is ur self is just dumb,.....how did that guy even find out how to make the ps3 do that in the first place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheJBag]

who thought holding a console upside down to force it to overheat was dangerous?

[ChungCam]

I rang Sony myself n they say it is not a fan cleaning system at all its 4 when a disc should happen to get jammed in the console it will force it out damage may be caused too disc but ps3 wont be jammed i was not sure at first seen as tho it sounds like fans but they ensure it is 4 jammed discs and say it is fine an will not brake the PS3 even still tho when i did this with my ps3 it still kicked dust out so i guess it cleans it in a way so carnt complain

[ChungCam]

this only works with 40 gig and 80 gig ps3's n if u dnt belive me ring thm yourself an they will tell u its 4 jammed discs u will find the number on the back off all PS3 games