**•How To Keep Your PS3 Slim In Pristine Condition!•**
1# "NEVER Let Your System Overheat!"
You'll know when it is overheating if it burns to touch it. The 3 main causes of PS3 heating are:
1) Leaving it on for a long period of time. (Especially on hot days)
2) Keeping it on carpet or an inclosed area.
3) Dust build-up in vents.
Ways to prevent these problems are:
*Keeping the PS3 on either a polished wood, solid plastic or metal surface to allow decent heat conducting. You can also have four, equally high objects placed under each corner of your Playstation so it has room to allow air-flow. Some of my favourite things to use are Glen 20 disinfectant can lids & children's building blocks. You can use ANY materials except:
•Styrofoam/foam
•Regular Plastic
•Paper
•Splintered Wood
#NOTE#
Even though you can't use "regular plastic," you can still use "solid plastic" as it conducts heat a lot better. (Glen 20 can lids)
*Now for the dust. To make sure there is no dust build up in your system, unplug it and carefully turn it upside-down and you'll see small vent holes all the way around the edges of the Slim. You will also see one big strip of vents on the back near where the cables go.
If you look closely, you may see dust clogging them. To effectively remove it, get a dry cloth and gently wipe the surface of the dust to loosen it. After that you can either use a vacuum (on low suction) or just blow gently towards the vents to get rid of the dust. (Make sure you DO NOT have the vacuum on HIGH suction. It may DAMAGE COMPONENTS inside the system!) Also be careful if your going to "blow into the vents" because saliva may get inside and/or dust.
2# "Backup Your System Regularly!"
If your system unexpectedly fails, crashes and corrupts, all of your precious save files will be gone from games that you may have spent HUNDREDS of hours playing! (*cough* Skyrim *cough*) However, if you backup your PS3 regularly, this shouldn't be a problem!
There a three methods of backing up/copying content.
1) Copy "non-copy-protected" save files to USB.
2) Copy ALL save files to Playstation Plus. #NOTE# You will need to pay at least $10-20 for a three month subscription. It is, however cheaper than buying a larger USB or External HDD.
3) Performing a "Full Backup" of the system to either a large enough USB or External HDD.
#NOTE# If you're using an External-HDD, it MUST be formatted to FAT32 or the PS3 will not recongnise it.
3# "Saving Hard-Drive Space On Your Console."
If you've noticed things slowing down, you may not have a lot of space on your system HDD for your console to work and function properly. #NOTE# This may be more of an issue on a Playstation with a "smaller hard-drive." If you follow the steps below, you should be fine!
To Check how many GBs you have left on your console. Go to "Settings," "System Setting" & then open "System Information." It will show you how many GBs you have used and how much space you have left. e.g: 233/320GB. The number on the left will show how many GBs you have left. If you don't have much, scroll across the XMB to "Game Data Utility" and delete any game's data that you aren't playing anymore/lately. Don't worry, Game data is only "install data," when you decide to play the game again you will just have to install again and your saves will not be affected. If you also want to copy & delete game saves, scroll down from "Game Data Utility" and select "Save Data Utility." If you have important saves, don't worry about them. Saves take up hardly any space compared to "Game Data." If you want to free-up as much space as possible, you can plug a USB into the PS3 and copy "non-copy-protected" saves to your thumb drive. That way you can delete them off of you system and just copy them back from the USB when you want to play them again. #NOTE# You can copy some "Game Data Utility" as well as "Save Data Utility" if you want to do both. If you send/receive a lot of messages from other players, scroll over to "Mesages," "Recieved Messages," press triangle and "delete messages." Do the same for "Sent Messages." This should free-up some KBs or even MBs if you use Messages often.
You should have enough hard-drive space for you PS3 to work smoothly again!
Thanks for reading this article on "How To Keep Your PS3 Slim in Top Condition!"
This article was written by:
~*•Žÿłįçę•*~
1# "NEVER Let Your System Overheat!"
You'll know when it is overheating if it burns to touch it. The 3 main causes of PS3 heating are:
1) Leaving it on for a long period of time. (Especially on hot days)
2) Keeping it on carpet or an inclosed area.
3) Dust build-up in vents.
Ways to prevent these problems are:
*Keeping the PS3 on either a polished wood, solid plastic or metal surface to allow decent heat conducting. You can also have four, equally high objects placed under each corner of your Playstation so it has room to allow air-flow. Some of my favourite things to use are Glen 20 disinfectant can lids & children's building blocks. You can use ANY materials except:
•Styrofoam/foam
•Regular Plastic
•Paper
•Splintered Wood
#NOTE#
Even though you can't use "regular plastic," you can still use "solid plastic" as it conducts heat a lot better. (Glen 20 can lids)
*Now for the dust. To make sure there is no dust build up in your system, unplug it and carefully turn it upside-down and you'll see small vent holes all the way around the edges of the Slim. You will also see one big strip of vents on the back near where the cables go.
If you look closely, you may see dust clogging them. To effectively remove it, get a dry cloth and gently wipe the surface of the dust to loosen it. After that you can either use a vacuum (on low suction) or just blow gently towards the vents to get rid of the dust. (Make sure you DO NOT have the vacuum on HIGH suction. It may DAMAGE COMPONENTS inside the system!) Also be careful if your going to "blow into the vents" because saliva may get inside and/or dust.
2# "Backup Your System Regularly!"
If your system unexpectedly fails, crashes and corrupts, all of your precious save files will be gone from games that you may have spent HUNDREDS of hours playing! (*cough* Skyrim *cough*) However, if you backup your PS3 regularly, this shouldn't be a problem!
There a three methods of backing up/copying content.
1) Copy "non-copy-protected" save files to USB.
2) Copy ALL save files to Playstation Plus. #NOTE# You will need to pay at least $10-20 for a three month subscription. It is, however cheaper than buying a larger USB or External HDD.
3) Performing a "Full Backup" of the system to either a large enough USB or External HDD.
#NOTE# If you're using an External-HDD, it MUST be formatted to FAT32 or the PS3 will not recongnise it.
3# "Saving Hard-Drive Space On Your Console."
If you've noticed things slowing down, you may not have a lot of space on your system HDD for your console to work and function properly. #NOTE# This may be more of an issue on a Playstation with a "smaller hard-drive." If you follow the steps below, you should be fine!
To Check how many GBs you have left on your console. Go to "Settings," "System Setting" & then open "System Information." It will show you how many GBs you have used and how much space you have left. e.g: 233/320GB. The number on the left will show how many GBs you have left. If you don't have much, scroll across the XMB to "Game Data Utility" and delete any game's data that you aren't playing anymore/lately. Don't worry, Game data is only "install data," when you decide to play the game again you will just have to install again and your saves will not be affected. If you also want to copy & delete game saves, scroll down from "Game Data Utility" and select "Save Data Utility." If you have important saves, don't worry about them. Saves take up hardly any space compared to "Game Data." If you want to free-up as much space as possible, you can plug a USB into the PS3 and copy "non-copy-protected" saves to your thumb drive. That way you can delete them off of you system and just copy them back from the USB when you want to play them again. #NOTE# You can copy some "Game Data Utility" as well as "Save Data Utility" if you want to do both. If you send/receive a lot of messages from other players, scroll over to "Mesages," "Recieved Messages," press triangle and "delete messages." Do the same for "Sent Messages." This should free-up some KBs or even MBs if you use Messages often.
You should have enough hard-drive space for you PS3 to work smoothly again!
Thanks for reading this article on "How To Keep Your PS3 Slim in Top Condition!"
This article was written by:
~*•Žÿłįçę•*~
