I got this unit from my friend and lets just say that the insides are in... suboptimal quality to say the least. most screws are loose/missing and the heatsink retainer was installed backwards etc.

if anyone can tell me the solution to this, it would be GREAT.

Edit: turns out i need to tension the back braket, and while doing so, the unit stayed longer on, the light turned from blue to white, and then red with 3 beeps, and off

Thanks!

It turns out, that the APU heatsink tension thingy at the back was not tight enough, the unit works fine after tensioning it.

⟐ Edited by author April 07, 2026 at 11:57 MST

⟐ Commented April 05, 2026 at 9:44 MST

Translation:

Only a blue light comes on, no white light.

When I pressed the power button, the PlayStation started up silently, stuck on the blue light. I had to hit it or fix it and turn it on a few times before it started working.

⟐ Answered March 27, 2026 at 0:50 MST

I have clear the data base, unplugged the PS4 and I am out of ideas. Any help?

Here is a link of how it sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_AFaJ09...

⟐ Commented March 13, 2026 at 21:34 MST

I have also tried fat32 and exfat I saw somewhere on the forum where someone said the size needed to be below 4kb so I tried as well when formatting along with full formats. The update need to be 2.50 and above so I have tried every update from 2.50 up to 3.50.

I've seen people with brand new consoles have the same issues. They got a new hard drive to get the same error and they have tried the original hard drive to also get the same error.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what it might be?

⟐ Answered March 13, 2026 at 16:58 MST

⟐ Answered March 10, 2026 at 4:45 MST

I'm having an issue with a ps4 with no display, I replaced the hdmi IC chip on the motherboard, and it still won't show any picture. Model is CUH-1216B, and the motherboard is SAC-001. Is it possible that it might be the APU fault (the light after switching on is white), or maybe one of the hdmi coils/filters (one of them seems to be different from the others, but continuity checks on all of them)????

⟐ Commented March 09, 2026 at 14:21 MST

Any ideas?

⟐ Commented March 02, 2026 at 9:20 MST

Utilizing the manual release did not lower it.

Resetting the device in safe mode did not resolve the issue.

Am I correct in assuming this is what keeps the disc in the drive?

Any idea on a manual reset? I can press it down but it pops right back up.

Sorry for the blurry image. If you can make out the black plastic guard that's what I'm referring to.

UPDATE

One of the rollers came out of place which caused the guard to remain up.

New issue - it will not "accept" a disc. I can now insert the disc but it will not auto feed. I can use the manual eject screw to insert/remove the disc but it will not read. I've tried different tightness and it seems to try to spin the disc at a certain point (with lots of noise) but fails to read it.

if the system is powered on with the disc partially inserted the system appears to be cable of ejecting it.* The eject button no longer responds...

⟐ Commented February 22, 2026 at 7:39 MST

The issues are :

• disk drive doesn’t take disks, the disc won’t go in, I have opened up PS4 and no immediate problems or blockages that I can see
• I get error su-42118-6 when I try and update the PS4. I have tried to install the file from USB in Safe Mode and get same issue.

Am I to assume both of these issues are interconnected? Any suggestions? Should I just replace the disk drive?

⟐ Commented February 22, 2026 at 4:09 MST

⟐ Commented February 14, 2026 at 16:28 MST

⟐ Answered January 31, 2026 at 14:47 MST

⟐ Commented January 30, 2026 at 1:47 MST

https://www.reddit.com/r/consolerepair/c...

Can any of you help me out?

Disc drive refuses to read disk, only when wiggling then it wants to read it. Tried cleaning delaysia and try to cleaning the rubber where the disk is seated on. I am not very sure what happens or why it happens. It might be that it has not been clean enough. Do any of you have advice since AI is letting me down. It fries four time to read it or makes like a noise four times. Then tries to reset the disk. Then tries to read again four times.

⟐ Answered January 20, 2026 at 12:45 MST

I have the original ps4 (the big one) from 2013. Recently I realized how slow the fan is and how hot the ps4 gets. Personally would never bother about that but I get literally pretty big lags in games which I assume are coused by thermal throttling since after an hour you can’t touch the top of the ps4 bear hand.

I took it apart cleaned the whole motherboard with pure a Alcohol, cleaned the fan and heat sink thoroughly and applied new thermal compound. Unfortunately it didn’t do much. The fan during gaming runs suspiciously low. The speed does change but that’s not what I want. I want maximum heat output during gaming for a lag-free experience. Therefore my questions is - how to make the fan run at full speed? I know there are some fan accelerometers out there but it’s hard to get one in Poland and shipping is just hilariously expensive. Is there any way to connect the wires from the fan to some other parts or solder it so that I gets higher voltage ?

Thanks in advance!

⟐ Commented January 19, 2026 at 8:20 MST

Still the same message.

What could it be that keeps screwing my head since I promised to deliver a working ps4.

I was thinking on replacing the sata port, but that doesn't seem to be the issue to me.

Could it be something on the board that simply just died?

Here is a picture of the motherboard of this revision of the ps4 fat.

If you can point out or give me a hunch of where I should take a look.

I'll be thankful.

⟐ Commented January 14, 2026 at 10:16 MST

Translation:

When I try to connect my controller to the PlayStation, it can't find the device (PlayStation).

⟐ Answered January 13, 2026 at 6:23 MST

⟐ Answered January 13, 2026 at 3:38 MST

⟐ Answered January 09, 2026 at 8:38 MST

Already tried that several times with the right file (900+mb) doesn't work. Tried removing HDD and checking it's functionality... It works perfectly.. I formatted it manually on PC and tried again still didn't work. What can I do to fix it?

Some guy in a PS store told me that there's a problem with the NAND which I didn't understand and said he couldn't fix it.

⟐ Answered January 05, 2026 at 22:41 MST