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Blue Light of Death Plagues PlayStation 4

Posted by timothy on from the lights-of-death-always-with-the-lights-of-death dept.

jones_supa writes "A classic game console freezing problem seems to affect the newest generation too. It has been found out that a bunch of Sony PlayStation 4s suffer of a problem which has been christened 'Blue Light of Death'. When a PS4 is turned on with a press of the power button, the light that runs along the side of the console should first pulse blue and then switch to white. At this point the console turns on the picture signal to the display device. Those who have a unit with the glitch are instead finding that their PS4 pulses blue, never goes to white and never outputs an image. We do not have accurate statistics of how widespread the issue is, but reports are popping up in Amazon reviews, Twitter, YouTube and other websites. PlayStation support is still in midst of investigating the issue, but has already posted a bunch of magic tricks you can try to get the console past the initial startup stage."

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  1. power-cycle your whole house? by david.emery · · Score: 0, Troll

    The entertainment system on the LH A340-300 I flew yesterday wasn't booting. We could see the Windows CE console boot sequence where it would hang. The pilot came on the loudspeaker and told us he had to power-cycle the entire aircraft. (I'm pretty sure he meant just the cabin power.) Several people said, "Makes sense if it's running Windows," and another asked, "They aren't using Windows in the cockpit, are they?"

    (Once it did boot up, touch panel performance was poor, and video playback had a fair amount of stutter.)

  2. Already solved it seems... by Cantankerous+Cur · · Score: 1, Troll

    http://kotaku.com/good-news-about-our-once-broken-ps4-1464813671