PS4 Pro freezing issue

[reapzzer]

So long story short after I moved apartments my PS4 was turned on once (and it worked just fine) and then disconnected because I had to redo my gaming PC and the desk.

After plugging it back in it started freezing randomly (sometimes after few minutes sometimes even as short as freezing on the epilepsy alert)

The only fixes I've done so far was rebuilding the database.

Not sure if the software is broken or the harddrive is dying (don't really want to do that as I'm not sure whether my saves are backed up or not)

 

Any help is welcome

[ono]

I'd hook up the HDD to a PC, e.g. via USB enclosure, and run some drive scans. I'm not sure if you can directly back up your saves from here. If you use PS Plus, your cloud saves should be mostly updated. Regardless if HDD failed or not, I don't really see what else you can do but reinstall PS4 OS.

 

My stock PS4 HDD failed on me. But it wasn't freezes. It just would fail at installing system updates. I ran diagnostics on the drive on Windows and it failed them. Had to get a new drive.

[NicholeMattera]

20 hours ago, reapzzer said:

So long story short after I moved apartments my PS4 was turned on once (and it worked just fine) and then disconnected because I had to redo my gaming PC and the desk.

After plugging it back in it started freezing randomly (sometimes after few minutes sometimes even as short as freezing on the epilepsy alert)

The only fixes I've done so far was rebuilding the database.

Not sure if the software is broken or the harddrive is dying (don't really want to do that as I'm not sure whether my saves are backed up or not)

 

Any help is welcome

Sounds like it may be a heat issue. You may still have a warranty, but if you don't I would first try and take it apart and apply some new thermal paste to the APU.

[reapzzer]

Ok for now it looks like the software was completely broken becase for now all I had to do is YOLO it and reinitiate the PS4 (thank god the saves backed up to PS Plus not like last time) and everything works as it's supposed to

 

Thanks for the replies @StevenMattera @ono.

Cheers guys and fingers crossed it doesn't break again