I need some pics/assistance with a PS2 (fatty) ***Fixed***

[crashwg]

My bro-in-law got a free PS2.  The person he got it from was not the original owner so going through that route, I doubt I can figure this out.

Anyways...  So if you turn on the switch on the back (put it in standby) the fan kicks on and is pretty loud.  So I opened the thing up and found that the fan is directly connected to the power supply via the connector between the main board and the power supply.  See attached pic.  Also, there's a wire that I don't believe is supposed to be attached where it is which goes nowhere.  This also can be seen in the attached pic.

Anyone have some internal PS2 fat pics or know where the proper place to power the fan is?

[HaRuMaN]

I'm guessing the fan is supposed to have a female connector that connects to your wire that goes nowhere. 

I have a launch PS2 but it's never been opened up, and I'm not about to.   

[srarcade]

The fan connector is a really tiny connector much like the one in the picture but it connects to the motherboard on the opposite side if I remember. You have to take off the heat sink to get to it. I suggest going on youtube and watching a video on how to disassemble and it will clearly show where it is. Trust me you will save yourself the biggest headache of doing it wrong by watching the video- i know i spent 2 hours putting the stupid thing back together, then I got smart for the next time. Good luck

[foleykoontz]

I have a launch PS2 but it's never been opened up, and I'm not about to.   

Wouldn't matter if you did anyways, didn't the launch PS2's not even come with fans?

[SavannahLion]

I have a launch PS2 but it's never been opened up, and I'm not about to.   

Wouldn't matter if you did anyways, didn't the launch PS2's not even come with fans?

Prototypes or Japanese release consoles maybe. PS2 models up to V9 or some such had some pretty loud fans, with quieter fans since. Can't say anything about the Slimlines though.

[northerngames]

there is a red 5V wire and a black ground wire they both go to a male plug that goes into the female plug shown on the left in that picture.

it appears they have torn the female socket and trace's and why the wire's are soldered to the pcb's via's if that is your ps2 in the picture.

they way it is wired to the PSU will not hurt it either it is just being forced to run at 12V instead of the stock 5.

5V would be more quite but the console would run warmer.
12V the fan should be a little over twice as loud as stock but also run the console cooler.

most pc and game console fans can run 5-12V safely it is just how loud you want to go but if it does not get hot then there is no reason to make it louder really.

 I have never had a ps2 overheat but maybe it needed a good cleaning to run cool at 5V and instead they made it 12V thinking it was the fan when it just needed a good cleaning.

but then again they may have had a large hdd in there that pumped out some heat and they made it 12V to prevent it from getting to hot in there 

I have a fan pulled from a new console that did not power for $4-5 bucks shipped if you want to use a stock fan and try that molex at 5V the wiring to the PCB looks good but you may want to check the wire to the female plug if you cannot solder good before you get another fan.

[danny_galaga]

5V would be more quite but the console would run warmer.
12V the fan should be a little over twice as loud as stock but also run the console cooler.

I know i'm being pedantic, but all these sorts of equations are exponential. So i imagine the sound won't be x2 louder, it will be x squared louder. although i think if you use decibels, the figure won't read as squared as decibels are logarythmic. hmmmm...

as you were 

[northerngames]

with that type of wording you used it may as well be chinese to me as I dont have no clue what you said or meant.

in english though if you double the voltage it will double the RPM wich would make it twice as loud.

 

[crashwg]

So what I ended up doing was checking all over where the connector was supposed to be for voltage.  I came up empty of course leading me to believe the fan was connected the way it was as a result of it ceasing to work.  Knowing where another reliable source of 5v was I brought out the soldering iron and connected the fan to the board where the USB ports are attached.  Problem solved.  Fan runs at a normal speed and only when the system is running!  Hopefully the PS2 provides enough amps to run the fan in addition to whatever else someone might want to connect to the USB ports...