Dying PS3 advice

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The PS3 suddenly developed a habit of shutting itself off after a half hour and going red-blinky lights.

My googles tell me that most likely it's overheating and/or has dust all over its innards. The fan doesn't seem to be working overly hard when it goes, so I'm wondering if it's something more mysterious and malignant. Any advice out there?

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Comments

[mountain-hiker.livejournal.com]

I don't know about hoovering it, but you might get one of those compressed-air-in-a-can thingies to blow the dust out.

[smaugslair.livejournal.com]

My PS3 has died as well. The USB ports aren't functional. I could still use my BT remote to watch bluerays, until I reset the console to try to get the port working, so now its just a brick.

[donovan k. loucks (from livejournal.com)]

You've got nothing to lose by taking it apart. By the way, several years ago I upgraded the hard drive in my PS3 after backing it up to an external drive. It was one of the easiest hardware operations I've ever done, though it wasn't really cracking the thing open.