⟐ Commented April 07, 2026 at 10:50 MST

I’m currently performing a deep thermal maintenance on my launch-day PS5 (2020).

For a long time, I've dealt with fast heat-up times and the "LAN Cable Disconnected" error that triggers specifically when the console gets hot.

(note: I am not an expert and before I started I did some research (YouTube, Reddit, iFixit, Gemini) and I want to share what I found.)

Upon teardown, I confirmed "dry spots" on the APU (Liquid Metal oxidation/shifting). I have already reapplied the Liquid Metal, and now moving on to the thermal putty phase.

I want to go beyond the factory application of thermal putty (by adding it to more areas) to achieve better heat dissipation to the shield/heatsink.

I’m planning to use the Upsiren UTP-8 thermal putty.

To solve the LAN disconnects, I intend to bridge the gap between the Ethernet port housing and the main metal shielding with the thermal putty to help sink heat away from the controller chip.

Q:

1. Looking at the marked images, are there any risks of "over-padding" specific areas that might prevent the plates from seating flush?

2. Has anyone had success specifically using thermal putty to stop the Ethernet port from overheating?

3. Are there any "hidden" hotspots on the 2020 model I should hit while I have it open?

Hoping this helps anyone else and I will be sharing my results after a few months from now. Thanks in advance 🙏

⟐ Commented April 07, 2026 at 1:05 MST

⟐ Commented April 07, 2026 at 0:03 MST

The system turns on and loads to the main home screen. The top screen animation runs, I can turn the wifi on and off, the game reader reads games, the system charges, if I hold the power button to get to the power down screen, I can press the home button to get back to the home menu, and I can enter the update/safemode screen when holding L+R+A+d-pad up (Edit: was d-pad down, I meant d-pad up). I cannot enter into touch screen calibration, touch input doesn't work. On very rare occasions if I'm holding down d-pad right when powering on the system, the home menu will start scrolling right indefinitely and I'm able to "fight" against it by repeatedly pressing d-pad left and only when in this state I can enter into an app if press A at the right moment (which is how I know the cameras work), but the touch screen still wont work.⏎
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Otherwise though, the joystick, touch screen, ABXY, sound, and 3d slider do not work at all.⏎
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I've already tried cleaning under and changing out the digitizer, as well as the bezel, and cleaning under the button pad stickers. I've also tried systematically disconnecting one component at a time and testing to see if anything changes or works. Unfortunately, though, none of this has seemed to work. ⏎
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The scrolling right only happens when I have the system taken apart, but it isn't consistent with any specific component being disconnected.⏎
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The battery does have a slight curvature to it, but I'm not sure if that would cause these issues. ⏎
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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!⏎
Thanks!

⟐ Commented April 06, 2026 at 14:34 MST

but it seems to have done more harm than good. I was going to try to fix it myself.

I've looked at the card under a microscope and unfortunately it doesn't look too promising (possibly damaged pads/tracks).

Has anyone here had a similar problem or think it can be saved?

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⟐ Commented March 31, 2026 at 2:26 MST

Me and my roomates are big fans of playing Golf on Wii Sports Resort. We have the original Wii (NA Canada version, RVL-001 I believe) and original remotes with some Motion Plus adapters I bought online (not official I'm pretty sure). We've had some problems with syncing the adapters but always managed to make it work. However, we've had a lagging problem that has now turned in a freezing problem and happens everytime we play Golf. The game starts to lag and then freezes 100%, the remote is unresponsive (not even home button) and the game is hard stuck (altough the soothing wind sound is still playing, and music also when there is some). This happens around 3 holes in the game or before. Other games don't suffer from this problem and even other sports on Wii Sports Resort seem fine. I have even bought a brand new copy of the game thinking it would fix it but I have the same problem.

What I have done:

- Powercycle the wii.

- Clean the air traps of dust.

- Delete the game data.

- Desync (15s on the red button beside the sd card slot) the remote and resync.

- Bought a brand new disc.

- Recalibrate the sensor to max light setting.

- Update the wii system to last version (4.3U).

-Deactivated WiiConnect24.

I read that the disk is double layered and that might be the cause, and I need to clean the lens so I bought the lens cleaning kit and cleaned my lens 2 times today, without success. Could it be that I need a wii RVL-101 version for tbis game? However, I'm a bit skeptical that other games on the same disk are working. Also today I played some 3 holes and it worked fine, for some reason. Any of you ever had this problem and if so, how did you fix it? Thanks in advance for your help!

⟐ Commented March 30, 2026 at 8:27 MST

I've checked the audio in-game, on Steam (Gaming mode), and on Desktop mode. The issue is universal. Bluetooth and 3.5mm hack are unaffected. Speaker channel volumes are equal.

I haven't seen anyone else with this same specific issue though I know audio issues with the SD seem to be rampant. I've tried some simple fixes including the Factory reset which did not help.

Anyone have any ideas?

The xbox one s will turn on the immediately turn off, ive tried another psu with the same problem.

Ive checked all the mosfet chips and they all come back reading 7.7.

⟐ Commented March 27, 2026 at 18:03 MST