Gabriel2Silva
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Hello everyone.
Recently my Super Slim started to act up. On HDMI, it'll hardly work at 1080p: 99% of time it'll simply black screen once I select "1080p" as an output resolution. If it works, though, it wont be long until it starts showing a lot of white noise artifacts, the same kind of artifacts you would get with a bad HDMI cable. This is a lot less common at 720p, but it also happens.
I've tested multiple HDMI cables, including some known good ones, like my Nintendo Switch and PS4 cables. No dice. Tried cleaning the HDMI port with some electrical contact cleaner spray, made no difference. Visually it doesn't seem like the HDMI port or any of its pins is damaged, but I don't have a microscope. I have no GPU artifacts or nothing like that. My ignorant guess is that this is a problem with the HDMI port.
This PS3 has been cleaned and had its thermal compound replaced with CM MasterGel Maker months ago. It was working properly, although really really hot (almost 90ºC in TLOU stress test) before that. After repasting, both RSX and Cell never went beyond 65ºC even when fully stressed on TLOU. Idle temps are also OK.
In order to capture the problem in camera, I decided to hook my PS3 to a capture card. It managed to capture the problem very clearly. Sometimes it'll work fine, while sometimes it'll show white noise artifacts and, finally, sometimes it wont ever work at all (black screen with audio). Here are the two clips:
https://streamable.com/00qiwp
https://streamable.com/96s7oo
Notice that in the first one, it only stopped showing white noise because I manually unplugged the HDMI cable and then plugged it back.
This does NOT happen when using the AV Multi-Out port with both composite and component cables. Tested in a CRT monitor (Sony FD Trinitron IBM P77).
Recently my Super Slim started to act up. On HDMI, it'll hardly work at 1080p: 99% of time it'll simply black screen once I select "1080p" as an output resolution. If it works, though, it wont be long until it starts showing a lot of white noise artifacts, the same kind of artifacts you would get with a bad HDMI cable. This is a lot less common at 720p, but it also happens.
I've tested multiple HDMI cables, including some known good ones, like my Nintendo Switch and PS4 cables. No dice. Tried cleaning the HDMI port with some electrical contact cleaner spray, made no difference. Visually it doesn't seem like the HDMI port or any of its pins is damaged, but I don't have a microscope. I have no GPU artifacts or nothing like that. My ignorant guess is that this is a problem with the HDMI port.
This PS3 has been cleaned and had its thermal compound replaced with CM MasterGel Maker months ago. It was working properly, although really really hot (almost 90ºC in TLOU stress test) before that. After repasting, both RSX and Cell never went beyond 65ºC even when fully stressed on TLOU. Idle temps are also OK.
In order to capture the problem in camera, I decided to hook my PS3 to a capture card. It managed to capture the problem very clearly. Sometimes it'll work fine, while sometimes it'll show white noise artifacts and, finally, sometimes it wont ever work at all (black screen with audio). Here are the two clips:
https://streamable.com/00qiwp
https://streamable.com/96s7oo
Notice that in the first one, it only stopped showing white noise because I manually unplugged the HDMI cable and then plugged it back.
This does NOT happen when using the AV Multi-Out port with both composite and component cables. Tested in a CRT monitor (Sony FD Trinitron IBM P77).
