LURadioDJ Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Has anyone just ever had their PS4 Pro shut down on them without warning. Literally no reason, no power outages, it just shut off and you couldn't turn it on for a few minutes ?? I have no idea what's wrong with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 It sounds like it may have over heated. The PS4 is SUPPOSED to warn you before it does that though by turning the light on the console to a pulsing red. But it could have just been very sudden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathieleyy Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Mine's never turned itself off. Maybe it overheated. Maybe cleaning it might help, if you haven't done that in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEER MONSTER Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 My Pro did this very thing a couple of months ago, it wouldn't turn back on for a couple of hours, eventually it started up again and seemed ok, but when I later turned it off I again had the problem of it not turning on. I took the cover off and gave it a good clean, although it wasn't very dusty anyway, but this made no difference, after about a week of it only turning on when it felt like it I gave up and bought another one, luckily I managed to get it turned on long enough to transfer my data. How old is yours? Mine was a launch Pro so perhaps it was just it's time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LURadioDJ Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 Mine was older as well. I just bought a new one. So since I have a lot of stuff on my external HDD if I attach that to the PS4 now will that screw up the PS4 or will it be like I just disconnected it and reconnected it, like the games will just be there. I don't wanna attach it and mess stuff up is all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEER MONSTER Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 I connected both of mine together and transferred everything from the internal, most of my games are on an external so they were fine. I was fortunate that the old PS4 stayed on while the transfer took place, took about 4 hours, of course if it had turned off halfway through I'm guessing that would have caused big problems, so it's a risk you take. One thing, before you transfer data to your new PS4, make sure the external hdd isn't connected, otherwise it'll wipe all your installed games off of it and you'll have to reinstall everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvaferreira Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Not the PS4 Pro as I don't own it. But my PS4 used to do all kind of weird stuff, shut down on it's own, go into rest mode, eject the disc. I tried all kinds of DIY methods available on youtube, down to remove the eject button so the disc wouldn't eject on it's own while I played. It eventually stopped but I have no idea if it's because of the many fixes I did or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clara Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Mine has turned 4 years and I'm SSSSO afraid of it failing on me!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metdevil Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 My Launch PS4 has just started doing this to me. There's no way that it's over-heating, I've never had it happen after the first 15 minutes or so. I could be playing it for hours and nothing happens, but other times it'll turn off after sitting on the XMB for ~10 minutes idle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HENO Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) Yes, mine has had this issue two times, first time was HORRIBLE. it turns off exactly as if you were turning it off, right? Like does the blue blinking, etc, you can't turn it back on immediately AND it does the database thing cause it was turned off in a wrong way? Now the first time it happened it was REALLY bad, I thought that was it and I was going to have to buy another one, tried my brother's cable (the one that powers the PS4) and it worked again perfectly for over a year, so I bought myself one. Then it happened again, this time, I bought another cable, but more importantly, I plugged it directly into the electricity outlet, instead of using an electricity cable, and haven't had a problem since. It's weird cause I think I had the PS4 for like 3 years before I started having this issue, and I always use an electricity cable for everything, used it with the PS3 and never had this issue, really weird. So, hopefully, you're having the same problem, because that is an easy fix, try both things at the same time. I should note that I am using the normal PS4, but I don't think it matters tbh. Good luck, hope this solves it. Edited March 19, 2020 by H!NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 It sounds like it may have over heated. The PS4 is SUPPOSED to warn you before it does that though by turning the light on the console to a pulsing red. But it could have just been very sudden. Overheating might be what causes that? Good to know. Hasn't happened to me yet but it happened to a friend the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguilasforlife Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Happened to me before, while I was playing WWE 2k18 and 2k19, shut off without warning and wouldn't turn on, I was already planning on buying a new PS4 until I tried it a day or 2 later. Luckily it hasn't shut off since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I just hope something like this doesn't happen to me anytime soon or at least if it does it's not serious, the apocalypse would be a bac time to be without a PS4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimwit Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Yes, it's done that to me before one time. Surprisingly wasn't my cats fault for once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRuth95 Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Mine has done this a couple of times, I've cleaned it and everything but every once in a while it does it again but not too often it's an issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marson305 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Had this once due to Overheating. But it did show the red lightstrip before it shut down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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