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[BadHand]

Looks like the funs over

 

[TheAbsolution]

Did he get banned?

Something flagged him on Twitch. It says that he's live but he's not.

 

[Gintoki313]

Today is just not his day.

On the bright side, he did get a ton of viewers from this. Also it's because of those viewers that he got it fixed.

 

[RaikuHebi]

..............So people can't expect their console to work properly day one without having to break it apart, and void their warranties? We should all be able to remove our HDDs? This is corporate apologizing at it's finest.

There's a reason people buy consoles over PCs: convenience without that, you're better off getting a gaming PC.

My problem is that they've spread this FUD as if the consoles were unrecoverable.

 

[Phreaker]

yooo how did he fix it?

He took the HDD out and booted it. It booted to safe mode. He turned if off and put the HDD back in. He turned it back on.

 

[Salex_]

A mod is fixing it for him.

 

[Mistah]

oh boy he's gonna restart his ps4 again..

 

[v1lla21]

Nooo he is going to restart his ps4... don't do that.

 

[Viruz]

Holy hell this is been fantastic. I hope we get something similar next week with the Xbox One.

 

[N.Domixis]

..............So people can't expect their console to work properly day one without having to break it apart, and void their warranties? We should all be able to remove our HDDs? This is corporate apologizing at it's finest.

There's a reason people buy consoles over PCs: convenience without that, you're better off getting a gaming PC.

removing the harddrive does not void warranty.

 

[dEvAnGeL]

dude's coming back

 

[Tsundere]

The PS4 stream probably cut (and got an error), he just has to restart the broadcast.

 

[Dabanton]

FFS just as he was about to start playing as well.

 

[BadAss2961]

Oh well, this was a fun stream.

Waiting for my PS4 now.

 

[Ovid]

Step 1. Remove harddrive

Step 2. Put harddrive back in

Step 3. Boot up PS4, it will get an error of some sort

Step 4. Reboot it and it should be in safe mode

I think you're suppose to boot without the HDD. That forces the error message.

 

[Maninthemirror]

So the ps4 has an auto heal feature

 

[fluffydelusions]

Step 1. Remove harddrive

Step 2. Put harddrive back in

Step 3. Boot up PS4, it will get an error of some sort

Step 4. Reboot it and it should be in safe mode

Actually no. He took the HDD out then booted and got error and put it back in

 

[hawk2025]

..............So people can't expect their console to work properly day one without having to break it apart, and void their warranties? We should all be able to remove our HDDs? This is corporate apologizing at it's finest.

There's a reason people buy consoles over PCs: convenience without that, you're better off getting a gaming PC.

Removing the HDD does not void the warranty.

In fact, the glossy part slides right off to do so.

 

[legacyzero]

Something flagged him on Twitch. It says that he's live but he's not.

I wonder if he's still talking............

 

[Zabant]

Hold the flag for 7 seconds until it beeps twice.

 

[phosphor112]

Wait wait wait.. someone update OP or make a post on what happened in that stream. Dude got the "white" light and now it works?

 

[NewGame]

Console launch woes! It wouldn't be next-gen without them.

Waiting for PS4 Super Slim.

 

[Gemüsepizza]

6000 views wow .. i never thought in my wildest dreams a looser like me get 6k views lol

lol

 

[Y2Kev]

Cerny casts Regen on ps4

Loosed lol

 

[BlazinAm]

How is IGN involved in this?

 

[BadHand]

It was very simple. You can break it down into steps though.. lol

1. Grab a screwdriver
2. Unscrew the Hard Drive
3. Take it out
4. Boot up PS4 without Hard Drive.
5. Turn off PS4.
6. Put hard drive back in
7. Boot up hard drive
8. Automatically installs firmware

Fixed

Oh god. He almost didn't find a screwdriver.

 

[weekend_warrior]

Hi11zones: 6000 views wow .. i never thought in my wildest dreams a looser like me get 6k views lol

lol

 

[EightBitNate]

Can someone summarize what happened? This thread is like a roller coaster.

 

[RiccochetJ]

Here's the pro tip: don't cut the power when installing a game. You already knew that? So did everyone else. Except this guy.

Never had a device go haywire when you've been installing and after a while you just decide to do a hard reset?

 

[Net_Wrecker]

He said he swapped in another, but honestly booting WITHOUT one seemed bad. I'm not really getting what was wrong with the streamers system, he put in the same HDD afterwards.

This is a Cerny built console though, bruh, you're thinking about how it used to be. Cerny's all about that forward thinking, self repairing future.

#NewRules
#NoHDD
#YouOnlyYOLOOnce

 

[RaikuHebi]

So the ps4 has an auto heal feature

PS4 is Aeris confirmed.

 

[DTSAirmaN]

What is that dog people keep posting?

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[Hurricane43]

hi11zones: 6000 views wow .. i never thought in my wildest dreams a looser like me get 6k views lol

This is classic

 

[Spira]

I see that everyone's posting... But what the hell is everyone posting about?

 

[Ray Wonder]

Remove cartridge, blow, reinsert, prosper. Timeless.

And moments after I said he needed to be humbled for saying he was better than Sony tech support, channel is flagged. LOL. This is brilliant.

Hahah, yeah I caught that part. This thread is classic, and that man is infamous.

 

[Ardenyal]

Hi11Zones: 6000 views wow .. i never thought in my wildest dreams a looser like me get 6k views lol

4:57 Mod Eedee4: yep hill

» like i told you, keep working on it good *** will happen

 

[hwy_61]

I'm glad he was able to fix it

 

[MThanded]

REMOVING YOUR HDD DOES NOT VOID YOUR WARRANTY

Honestly please stop saying this.

 

[Tsundere]

Great entertainment all round, I'd say.

PS4 keeps delivering the greatness.

 

[Jedi2016]

Well, in the end, it makes me feel better about this issue. Regardless of what triggered it (the OP didn't unplug it that I'm aware of), now we know it's not a hardware fault, and more importantly, it's Easy Mode to fix.

 

[zeroOman]

it's all thx to gaf

 

[joshcryer]

Ok. Your description... Just... Stop.

...

You say software issue. I say don't unplug your system unless it's properly fucking shutdown.

You need to drop the attitude man. I can get into safe mode after formating my entire hard drive and corrupting it with a thousand viruses and unplugging it while it's doing a scan and making hundreds of writes a second. The fact that this guy couldn't get into safe mode without removing the hard drive and letting it boot without a hard drive tells me something fundamental on the hard drive or firmware got jacked.

No shit you don't unplug your system while it's doing an update, but even if it say there for 2 years straight doing the system update and he didn't unplug it it shouldn't require you to cause a hardware fault to get into safe mode.

 

[Dragon]

Hi11zones: 6000 views wow .. i never thought in my wildest dreams a looser like me get 6k views lol

 

[vilmer_]

Now watch the donations come in

 

[trinest]

Why is everyone surprised this solution worked, wasn't it known that this could be possible based on how its hard drives and flash memory interacted with each other?

 

[Edgeward]

WHY WOULD SOMEONE GIVE HIM MONEY?!

 

[Lilalaunebaer]

well, that was entertaining.

Edit: Donation WHY?

 

[ironcreed]

I wanted to go play some Black Flag, but got caught up by this.

 

[Bsigg12]

 

[Domino792]

PS4 is Aeris confirmed.

nah its wolverine.