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[therapist]

its the eject button , same issue here.

standing it vertically seems to help a lot

I tried the other fixes i.e tighten screw , remove rubber peice - they didnt work for me.

Ill be sleeping and its like 4 AM and all of a sudden it beeps like 20x then stops.

Amazingly horrible eject button

Oh you can remove it nice , thanks for the link ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySRg6aCMKr0 )

Will have to do this as im way out of warranty.

 

[DrROBschiz]

its the eject button , same issue here.

standing it vertically seems to help a lot

I tried the other fixes i.e tighten screw , remove rubber peice - they didnt work for me.

Ill be sleeping and its like 4 AM and all of a sudden it beeps like 20x then stops.

Amazingly horrible eject button

Yup

Its cheap and simple but thats exactly the problem. Even a static charge can trigger it.

I should note that the Power switch operates exactly the same way. It just has a much smaller contact place so its likely less sensitive

 

[prag16]

Just ordered a used one; it's arriving on Monday. Glad it's the C chassis so I won't have to deal with this nonsense.

 

[DrROBschiz]

On the one hand the PS4 is cheap, simple and easy to work on

On the other... its cheap and has issues like this lol

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Yeah, sounds like the eject button issue. Tightening the screw worked for me.

 

[gzero]

Mine did this constantly, and unplugging / replugging only made the problem go away for a few days. I ended up opening the case and putting a piece of electrical tape on the sensor behind the eject button. Eject button obviously doesn't work anymore but no more discs ejecting in the middle of a game.

 

[Nyx]

I really thought one of the system updates fixed the problem, because as I mentioned it just stopped while I had it weekly at a certain point.

One time it started beeping in the middle of the night and I woke up scared as I thought it was my carbon monoxide meter going off....

 

[Deleted member 752119]

There's a rubber foot on the bottom of the console right below the eject button that apparently can trigger it as well. It pops right off. I took it off mine after reading that tip somewhere and it hasn't happened since (knocks on wood).

 

[therapist]

I really thought one of the system updates fixed the problem, because as I mentioned it just stopped while I had it weekly at a certain point.

One time it started beeping in the middle of the night and I woke up scared as I thought it was my carbon monoxide meter going off....

Yeah , mine was fine up until a certain update and hasnt been the same since
i guess its coincidental ?

I had it at launch and it was fine for about a year then it started
most annoying when watching a bluray...

 

[DrROBschiz]

I really thought one of the system updates fixed the problem, because as I mentioned it just stopped while I had it weekly at a certain point.

One time it started beeping in the middle of the night and I woke up scared as I thought it was my carbon monoxide meter going off....

Guys

You need to wrap your head around HOW the button works to understand all the many ways it can fail

The button itself simply looks for a conductive current at the metal plate on the motherboard.

A little metal strip connects the "Button" to that plate. When you put your finger there you essentially "complete the circuit" in a manner of speaking. Its like how a cell phone touchscreen works in a sense

So a failure can happen from

- Short to another part of the case (since it reacts to even a slight current)

- Static electric build up on any part of the system

Once you understand this you can engineer your own fix

I like that poster above who covered the Eject plate with electrical tape. A very effective way to disable the function as long as the tape stays in place

 

[The Elite]

The beeping has happened even after I have unplugged the console at times. I assume that's static electricity... or demons.

 

[JustCheezze]

Many months ago I had this issue, I've tried every so called fix the internet has had:

- Stand console vertically.
- Remove rubber pads.
- "Tighten" the screw trick (which is the dumbest one because it's actually a mechanism, not a screw)
- Sony's advice of turning off the PS4, discharging it and turning back on.
- Cleaning the touch button.
- Pray to some spirit who may perhaps be screwing with my button for whatever weird reasons.

Then, I said fuck it.
Opened up the PS4, which only requires the bottom part to be removed (not entirely), look for the metal contact on the case and wrap it with electrical tape. Then, I took a blade and scratched the gold contact point for the eject on the motherboard.

Fixed. Not a single "disc-eject" issue for the last 7 months.

Yes, the ONLY legitimate fix is to actually scratch the contact point for the eject sensor. Everything else has been bullshit, thanks internet.
This also gave me a much better understanding of how the PS4 is designed inside-out, of which later gave me absolute confidence to dismantle the entire thing, replace the horrendous thermal paste and completely clean out the heatsink of dust.

And yes, my eject button doesn't work anymore, physically. It still works 100% fine by ejecting the disc from the PS4's menu, which is what I've always been doing in the first place anyways (even back from the PS3).

So my suggestion, if your unit is out of warranty; just go kill the eject sensor. It's not worth the frustration.

 

[TheKastorian]

Many months ago I had this issue, I've tried every so called fix the internet has had:

- Stand console vertically.
- Remove rubber pads.
- "Tighten" the screw trick (which is the dumbest one because it's actually a mechanism, not a screw)
- Sony's advice of turning off the PS4, discharging it and turning back on.
- Cleaning the touch button.
- Pray to some spirit who may perhaps be screwing with my button for whatever weird reasons.

Then, I said fuck it.
Opened up the PS4, which only requires the bottom part to be removed (not entirely), look for the metal contact on the case and wrap it with electrical tape. Then, I took a blade and scratched the gold contact point for the eject on the motherboard.

Fixed. Not a single "disc-eject" issue for the last 7 months.

Yes, the ONLY legitimate fix is to actually scratch the contact point for the eject sensor. Everything else has been bullshit, thanks internet.
This also gave me a much better understanding of how the PS4 is designed inside-out, of which later gave me absolute confidence to dismantle the entire thing, replace the horrendous thermal paste and completely clean out the heatsink of dust.

And yes, my eject button doesn't work anymore, physically. It still works 100% fine by ejecting the disc from the PS4's menu, which is what I've always been doing in the first place anyways (even back from the PS3).

So my suggestion, if your unit is out of warranty; just go kill the eject sensor. It's not worth the frustration.

OK, then. Worse comes to worse I'll have to deal with it this way. Yeah, not sure why they initially went with the sensor buttons instead of traditional ones. One would would even think that sensor buttons are costlier to make anyways. Thanks everyone for their input, I hope this thread will be useful to other people as well cause "Googling" about this issue didn't lead me to anywhere informative. Cheers.