For about 9 months (because I'm lazy when it comes to this stuff), my PS4 has been turning off at random. It can happen 10 minutes or 4 hours into a session: with seemingly no trigger, I hear the beep you get when the power button is touched, and after a 5-10 second wait, the console will either go into rest mode or turn itself off entirely.
Here's what I know so far:
- The issue started before ever disassembling my PS4.
- It is not an overheating issue. I have used compressed air to totally clean out the fan, which now runs almost silently. The PS4 has also done it when virtually stone cold.
- Once it begins, you can't stop the process. When playing Assassins Creed, because the game didn't support rest mode, I would receive a prompt asking me if I wanted to close the game. Saying no would trigger another beep seconds later and another prompt, beginning a button-bashing war until the console would get tired of my bullshit and force a shutdown.
- As the console has been doing this for many, many months, it doesn't seem to be a firmware issue either.
- Very occasionally, the PS4 would turn itself on in the same manner. This, as you can imagine, scared the shit out of me. However, it hasn't done this in months.
- It doesn't seem to be a physical issue either. I have literally picked up the console and shaken it to see if there was a loose part triggering the shutdown, and got nothing.
As such, the only thing I can think of is to eliminate the power button as faulty by disabling it. Having never taken a PS4 apart before other than to clean the fan, I don't have a clue what I'm doing, and don't want to balls it up. YouTube searches have only given me tutorials on how to fix broken power buttons rather than disable them.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Can anyone at all advise?
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