Introduction
This guide will show the steps needed to remove the motherboard in the PlayStation 4 Pro. The motherboard has many small components that are rather delicate, careful handling is necessary. This guide has warranty-voiding disassembly.
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Flip the console upside down.
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Use your finger to pull and snap off the plastic cover over the hard drive.
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Use a Phillips #1 Screwdriver to remove the single screw securing the hard drive caddy.
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Pull the hard drive caddy straight out.
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Flip the console right side up.
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Grip the two corners located at the front of the device.
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Pull upwards until a loud click is heard.
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After both corners detach, slide the cover backwards and lift off.
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Use a T8 Torx Security screwdriver to remove five screws from the rear of the device.
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Two 31mm screws.
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Three 10mm screws for the 7000 models; Two gray 10mm screws (upper and lower screws on the illustration) if the PS4 Pro is a 7100-series model.
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Remove the metal plate by pulling it up.
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Flip the console over so the bottom is facing up.
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Use a T8 Torx Security screwdriver to remove the three black 7mm screws in the back panel. (7000-series models only); or one 7mm screw (the middle one) with 7100-series models and the warranty sticker to the left.
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Remove the bottom cover in the same way as the top cover. Grip the cover on both sides and pull up until it clicks. Then slide the cover off; With 7100-series models, pay attention to the two clips that replace the corresponding screws.
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Use a T8 Torx security screwdriver to remove the eleven 10mm silver screws from the metal plate.
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Use a Phillips #1 screwdriver to remove the eleven 4mm black screws from the metal plate.
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Use a spudger to disconnect the three antenna cables (two black and one white) by prying them straight up from their sockets.
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Pull out the five small, blue low profile cables connected to the metal plate.
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Lift the retaining flap on the ZIF connector of the large ribbon cable.
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Pull the large ribbon cable from its socket.
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Flip the console over to continue working on the top side.
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Pull up on the power supply unit and set it on the console.
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Grip the connector behind the power supply and pull straight out.
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Carefully flip the console over so the bottom is facing up.
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Use a Phillips #1 screwdriver to remove the eight 4mm screws on the metal plate with the X-like symbol.
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Use a plastic opening tool to remove the metal plate with the X-like shape.
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Use a Phillips #1 screwdriver to remove the four 13mm screws on the X-shaped metal plate underneath.
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Grip the X-shaped retaining bracket and lift straight up.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
11 comments
This guide is for the initial release CUH-7000 models. Of note is the changes to the CUH-7100 series that do make this guide an issue. Steps 4 and 5 have a different items to note. You can damage it following this guide if you don’t adjust. There no longer 3 security screws for the case, but just one. This single screw is still covered by a warranty sticker, but the second one is a blank sticker and no screw behind it. There is also no 10mm screw in the center power supply in Step 4, it’s a support post. You still remove the 4 other screws, but you must then flip the console over and remove a T8 screw to the right on the HDD cage and another closer to the right side. You can then flip the console over again to remove the battery and plug it. Just remove all the metal plate screws to be sure, but make sure you hold the board when you flip it again or you will bend the battery prongs like I found out the hard way.
Jason -
Hi, are these region/console/digitally signed? I have a dead board and was hopint to do a stragiht replacment for antother working board I will buy?
I'm asking the same question? Can you make it work with a board from another console? And do you need to replace the optical drive too?
hi. does anyone knows the dimentions of the motherboard? I want to buy one but I need to make sure that it will fit in my project.
Thanks in advance
DON’T FORGET TO HAVE THERMAL PASTE HANDY! It should be added to the “Tools Required” Section. You will NEED it!
Jaquell Chandler -
What if thermal paste is not applied again when remounting ? Will the playstation start and work anyway or not ?
Vincent Bee -
It will start and run normally until you put it under load. Then it will heat up and thermal throttle or it can overheat and destroy itself.
Jeremy Ivey -
I posted this down in another step too, but: if you have a very early North American PS4 Pro, with the exact optical drive shown here - the key way to tell is the very long data cable that’s folded a couple of times, see pictures in later steps - then the replacement drive iFixit offers WILL NOT WORK IN YOUR MACHINE. It has to be a very early model, apparently, but the model number isn’t enough to tell you.
Even if you swap the too-short cables in their replacement with the longer cables on your drive, it still will not work. At all. It’ll just sit there like the drive isn’t even getting power.
So if you do have this drive, what you probably need to do is get a replacement KES-496A Optical Pickup Assembly and replace that within your existing drive. That’s what I had to do after two different replacement drives sent by iFixit failed to work in my system. It worked immediately and I’m back online.
The optical pickup replacement is awfully fiddly, and adds a solid 20 minutes to the repair easily. But it does work.
Dara Korra'ti -
I had originally been told by several people that to properly repair the optical drive within the PS4 Pro (so that the PS4 actually works), you have to replace the Optical Pickup Assembly like you mentioned because the drive is paired with the motherboard. I was surprised to find that iFixit is pushing this repair tutorial when it has a low probability of success for many PS4 Pro models.
Instead, iFixit should be documenting replacement of the KES-496A Optical Pickup Assembly... when that repair has a near 100% chance of success, even though it's a fair bit more fiddly to complete and requires two different teardowns (one for the PS4 Pro and one for the optical drive... needed to install the replacement optical pickup assembly).
commorancy -
Follow-on note. I could be mixing up the original PS4's pairing with the PS4 Pro (which might or might not have device + motherboard pairing). Because I can't find a definitive source confirming if the drive is paired on the PS4 Pro, using a drive replacement might or might not work.
There are a number of commenters below who followed these instructions and found that the replacement drive didn't work after completing the repair. I think I'd still go with replacing the KES-496A Optical Pickup Assembly. That repair is more fiddly, but the optical assembly replacement part is a whole lot cheaper, costing less than $10 in some stores, than buying a full replacement drive at $70.
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