Same

I’m crying rn, my switch just turned off on it’s own saying it overheated. It’s also been on life support but now that this happened I am actually scared about how it did this… I don’t want to lose this switch man…

@@redder4768 change there thermal paste like in the video clean the fan and vents and also buy a metal shell and put thermal pads inside for better cooling

Haha mine is having some cryo therapy in the refrigerator

@@WeegeePlayzStuff ay if Captain America can survive in ice why can't Nintendo switch ?

Thank you for your comment.

I didn't trust that because i have the concern that some of that could go inside and if that happens it can be a problem

Thank you 🙂

In the past I took apart 2 of them which were shorted. The problem is that the only way to take it apart is destructive. In those cases the driver IC was shorted on its small circuit board inside the fan.

Yes, thermal paste is getting dry and there will not be an efficient cooling anymore. Fan you do not have to replace unless it fails.

I do not play at all 🙂 but I have to try if the switch works.

You are welcome. I hope it helps.

@@kikihobbyrepair just got around to finishing it today. the new fan spun up and i reconnected everything and added more paste and it works! thank you so much!

That is really common that those 3 tabs are damaged because most people overtighten them and they are super fragile.

Thank you!

It snaps into place if you f8nd the right position. Take care with it because it is easy to break the connector. No need for high pressure.

@@kikihobbyrepair i got it to work thank you!!!

Are you using the right screw drivers? They are just plastic screws at the back they should come out easily. Maybe the ones on the sides in the rails are going into metal those might be tricky in case of surface corrosion but I did not have a single one where I could not remove them.

@@kikihobbyrepair 2.0 mm I think. I looked it up and it’s called a striped screw, it’s common apparently

@@guzzy4326 you have to use tri wing

@@chap3509 I know I was using that… plus that comment was from 2 months ago

If you look well around 14 minutes, from this one someone already removed the copper sheet from the CPU shield. So here I basically directly applied thermopaste onto the SoC.

I would recommend to change the thermal paste and clean the fan to improve cooling performance.

Well, try at first a different screw driver, maybe it will still grab the screw. Alternatively carefully drill down the head of the screw. This is super hard because you should not melt the plastic beside. MAybe do it in multiple small steps and let it cool down. Good luck!

There is also a circuit which is controlling it. If there is for example a shorted mostfet, it will be on all the time. There is also a diode close to the connecter, check all these.

Thank you. Yes you had the exact same issue.

Thank you! 😀

Do you have the fitting triwing screw driver?

@@kikihobbyrepair never mind my mam got them off also you have inspired me to fix this on myself

Thank yiu.

Well these are questions that are not easy to answer because it depends on a few things like how often and how long are you using the switch. For sure if you play on a regular daily bases and the Switch is running hot a lot, the thermal paste is aging faster like if you would use it only occasionally. If you feel like it is starting to run hotter and the fan is turning on more often then definitely take it apart, clean the fan and the heatsink from accumulated dust and replace the thermal paste. I would say depending on the quality of the thermal paste you use it should last easily for like 2 years minimum. But for sure if you replace it every year it will run cooler and it will last longer. As for the fan. If you do not feel or hear strange noises and if it is running perfectly and it is not overheating, I would not change it at all.

It works perfectly. The fault was the fan.

Sure, charging is generating quite a lot of extra heat on multiple components.