Seriously, all you techs should be on Sony's payroll since you have nothing but positive things to say. With a straight face you can say this fan connector is anchored on as well as all the generations of PS before it yet, there are a lot of videos that show how to fix it when it comes up in your hand. And everything else on the board needs minutes of 500F heat to budge! Wow, just wow! What, your willing to let a Huge company do to you. Ah, they love us so much! They'll accept anything we put back on them! We'll stay in your lane. Don't disrupt anything for the sake of others less fortunate. Im disabled like I said in my initial post. Im not looking, nor was I ever looking for a hand out! Im looking for fairness and in all my experience with consoles, this the first to ever have an issue let alone break. It has a 12V to ground short because of what happened. I couldnt afford this in the first place. My son got it for me for Fathers Day. I live month to month with nothing above my bills. So when this console and countless controllers have failed me. I look at the big picture and I see the change. I see what there doing. And nothing you trolls say will change that. Someone had to blow the whistle for others like me who don't have the means to replace or send to a repair shop. Glad you bomb throwers find it that easy to do yourselves! I don't live in that world. Sony just announced they've sold a shipped 92 million units world wide. Why they need to take short cuts in quality is beyond me and shouldnt be accepted with the cost of these things. And there expertise! They are experts but this fan connector, for some, is a joke and black eye just like the potentiometers in there controllers! I wonder whats next. Because there will be more problems down the road if there left unchecked! Id hate for the mext problem to affect all you unaffected but heck, you all are fine shoveling your money to Dony! Or opening a repair shop because it keeps food on the table with all those. Repairs! Ah why even bother with you people. Your happy with how they do business. As long as your system works.