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PS4 sounds like a tumbedryer for first few minutes on boot

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  • 24-01-2014 3:46pm
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    TheDoc
    Registered Users Posts: 23,128 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone else get this? Appears to be the hard drive. I figured out afterwards that its causing vibrations on my table that I have it on, amplyfing the nose. It's outrageously loud, but when I held it up off the table, it was still loud.

    died down once the game got running a few minutes, but holy **** I thought it was about to explode.

    Anyone else have this? I must take a video tonight of it, it's nearly scary how loud it gets :D

    Also not sure what I can put between it and the surface of the perfectly, strongly constructed table its sititng on, to stop the "tremors".

    Coins on my desk were moving like a T-rex was walking by


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    Fiddlex
    Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭Fiddlex


    The ps4 does rev up quite a bit when first booted and then gets quiet but what you describe seems like something is going into overdrive


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    jonerkinsella
    Registered Users Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭jonerkinsella


    Check your hd is screwed in properly. Mine is fairly quite,I'de say almost whisper quite on load.


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    TheDoc
    Registered Users Posts: 23,128 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    Hasnt happened again last two times, after a minute or two settles down into silence.

    Might have been due to first turn on in a while? Not sure.

    In regards HD being screwed in properly, is the HD externally accessible? HAvnt really gone to the bother of checking out whats around it, just plugged it and went mad for it :D


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    cloud493
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    Mine does that as well, not when its first turned on, but when you first boot the disc up./


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    jonerkinsella
    Registered Users Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭jonerkinsella


    TheDoc wrote: »
    Hasnt happened again last two times, after a minute or two settles down into silence.

    Might have been due to first turn on in a while? Not sure.

    In regards HD being screwed in properly, is the HD externally accessible? HAvnt really gone to the bother of checking out whats around it, just plugged it and went mad for it :D

    Here you go . Look at 20-25 seconds in to see how easy it is to check,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8_nt2Dwf78#t=33


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    Flaccus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Flaccus


    There is zero dampening in the hd caddy, so the drive is always going to cause vibration through the chasis depending where on the platter it's accessing data from. There are also variances in motor noise pitch between different manufacturers and I bet Sony use 2.5" 5400rpm drives from different manufacturers too as they likely have various qualified vendors. I'd say this noise thing is normal but just in case the drive is actually rattling inside the OP's caddy, I would check the screws are nice and tight as the previous poster said. I moved to an SSD because of the drive noise.


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