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Recently, my PlayStation 4 has actually established the irritating new practice of beeping a lot. Not naturally, or consistently, however just enough that Im always awaiting those next beeps. This is fine, I guess.
Its occurred to me that if I ever put a disc in the console, my PS4 picking to eject it will provide a problem more dire than a aggravatingly unforeseeable but reasonably mild noise. I might attempt to get Sony involved, but I question its under warranty since I bought it cheaply years ago from a friend who got a Pro.
Like I stated, this is a typical issue thats been known about for many years. Several of my colleagues stated “Yeah, that takes place” when I first told them about it. Im mainly a PC player, and I feel an unjust smugness about largely being the cause of, however likewise the solution to, many of my PCs issues. I grew significantly indignant at console players resignation. ” How do you live like this?” I raved. “Why would you simply accept a machine that arbitrarily chooses to go crazy?” None of this endeared me to my console-playing partners, nor did it stop the beeping.
I first noticed the problem while playing Ghost of Tsushima a few weeks back. Every so often, my PS4 would let out three alarmed beeps.
Now, Im a smart contemporary individual who handles innovation professionally, so I relied on the internet and searched “PS4 3 beeps wtf.” I found this is a fairly typical problem, which implies numerous PS4 owners have actually developed some possible repairs for it. I attempted turning the PS4 on and off once again, awkwardly pushing the ridiculous little notch that passes for its power button. I followed a YouTube video to carefully open the console and tighten the eject screw, that made me feel like a cool hacker rather of a nervous old male kneeling on my floor mumbling “I do not believe this part comes off” about a part that plainly comes off. Neither fix did anything, nor did snapping “Hey, shut up!” at my console whenever it beeped. These days, I just wear earphones so I cant hear the beeping, and I turn the console off instead of leaving it in rest mode.
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Not predictably, or consistently, however simply enough that Im constantly waiting for those next beeps. Every so frequently, my PS4 would let out 3 alarmed beeps. I can do the exact same with my PS4s beeps.
” This is how you live now,” I tell myself gravely when I accidentally push my PS4 to life and it whirrs and beeps with gusto. Beeps are a little problem in the grand scheme of things.
I cant truly rest on my PC pedigree. When I built my gaming PC, I utilized a low-cost case fan that quickly began rattling when the maker launches. Its a disturbing noise, but it disappears after the computer systems been on for a bit. When it first began taking place, years ago, my roomie at the time diagnosed the issue right away and even offered me a replacement fan, which Ive never installed. Ive moved the new fan between apartment or condos, sitting it near my PC and believing “Yes, one day,” but thats as far as Ive gotten. Ive even grown to like the noise– I can walk away after booting my computer, and I know that when the rattle dies down, my computers ended up the various start-up tasks Ive never gotten around to streamlining and is all set to play. Im not a huge hardware man; my passion for my devices extends as far as them letting me do the things I wish to do on them, so while I know I would have a more optimal PC experience if I took 10 minutes to replace the fan (as well as go through the host of worthless programs Windows updates have chosen I require on boot), Ive just integrated it into my life. I can do the exact same with my PS4s beeps.
” This is how you live now,” I inform myself seriously when I unintentionally push my PS4 to life and it whirrs and beeps with gusto. I attempt to justify it: I reside in New York City, which is a pretty noisy location to live, so another sound isnt going to eliminate me. Social distancing has actually made my life pretty dull, so the unforeseeable nature of the beeps includes some spice to my day. Itll only be a few more months, perhaps. I can still play the damn thing, as long as I never ever decide to pop Horizon Zero Dawn or Bloodborne back into it. A minimum of its not the continuously malfunctioning Xbox my sister bought her kids, which shes sent out to Microsoft a number of times and still cant be counted on to work consistently. Beeps are a little issue in the grand scheme of things. Hell, I even got a blog out of them.
So I simply let my console make its sounds, the way my next-door neighbors (hopefully) endure me occasionally screaming to myself or playing the usual gospel hymn on my guitar for hours late at night. Nevertheless, in the course of composing this post I found out theres a rubber piece I can obviously pry off the bottom of my PS4 that might solve the problem, so now I keep turning the console over suspiciously, trying to develop the motivation to permanently dismantle a minor part of a things I need for my job. It most likely wont work, and after that Ill have the issue of the beeps and a random bit of rubber Ill attempt to not lose but will undoubtedly lose anyhow. No, Im happy my PS4 has found itself the satisfying hobby of chirping like a pet bird, and Im learning to appreciate the Zen-like approval the beeps help me practice.
( Tell me if youve discovered a real fix for it, though.).
