Playstation Cooling Issue

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exploreandrespawn

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Hey there everyone, hope you're all having a fantastic gaming day.

I was at Gamestop last christmas, and low and behold, they had PS3's for sale, the refurbished ones at a very low holiday price.   I thought, "What the Heck?"  

I usually just download from STEAM, but this was a great christmas deal, even for a used console. 

I'm having a small problem.  It's cooling.   During the winter, I had no problem, but now?  with the summer months?   Very tough keeping it cool.  It keeps warning me to shut it down only after 10 minutes of play, and I'm currently playing Fallout 3, and it's a very expansive open world game, so I hate to shut down.   I've read a lot on the subject, both pro and con.   Some say external fans, others say fans will not distribute the cooling to the correct areas and ruin your system.  Others suggest getting a laptop cooling pad, then others on the same forum say that will hurt the system.   This is my first console in a very very long time.  I'm enjoying myself and do not wish for it to break.  Other than that, it's a good system.  Since Christmas I've played GTA4, Bioshock, Katamari Damacy, Mass Effect, Dead Space, and others...really missing Fallout right now.

If anyone out there who is savvy with consoles has hints to keep this PS3 cool, please feel free to post up. 
 
Are you sure it's the cooling? There is no other message with the error?

Shutting the windows and turning on the A/C should help it since the heater in the winter didn't bother it.

Also what model is your PS3?
 
Hello!  Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.  It's a 60GB model, used, purchased refurbished from Game Stop.  I don't have AC and in the winter?  I play in the basement, and there is no furnace specific for the basement, so it gets whatever heat is in the piping for the rest of the house.   The summer, the basement is like a stuffy box at times.  it's an old house, around 100 years old.   I bought a box fan, 20 inch, and will try to place the console on top of the fan, and see if that works.

The only error I get is this:  *beep*  *beep* and a warning on the screen that my system is overheating so to turn it off and wait.
 
Maybe buying curtains for your room to keep sun light out of your room could help cool your room because the suns heat is being blocked by a curtain.

Opening your room door, windows and using a fan could help cool your room, so your PS3 gets less hot.
 
Thanks for the tip :)  I"ll try that.   When you are into a game and you can't play it, you get that nagging 'itch'   I'm only on level 9 in fallout 3 so must get back into it. 
 
Hmmm, you may need to buy a new cooling fan for it or a mat if it's located in a hot basement. But I would go against Frog's idea and keep everything shut, let no light in and keep the air moving in hopes of cooling the basement down.
 
Even getting a small fan that you can keep directly on it would really help it.  The drapes in the room was a excellent idea too. 
 
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