# PS3 40g owners......

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**Created:** [August 10, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-40g-owners/246037 "2009-08-10T22:25:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ps3-40g-owners/246037/14 "2009-08-11T12:47:11Z")

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> [@FS: 98 Turbo Cavalier Z24](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-98-turbo-cavalier-z24/21398/10):
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> Oh I know you were joking, but I was seriously not when I said I might run this thing over.
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> I want to backup the HD but I can’t do that as I cannot keep the system operating long enough for me to even get the main screen up and loaded. All of ~10-15 seconds and the shit beeps and shuts down. Hence why I’m probably going to have to swap the drive into someones ps3 so I can do the data backup. I’'m going to just buy a 60gig unit like I should have in the first place.
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> Wayne, I did go buy some AS5 from a PC store right here in saratoga. worked good for a few days then progressively started gettign worse and worse.
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> I’d like to know if there is a remote thermal sensor in the PS3 and if so, where the fucker is.

If that was teh case and it has one you can either somehow get another one or put a resistor on it and bypass it

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