Since the end of their scarcity, more and more passionate gamers are enjoying the next-gen consoles from Sony. But that’s what’s special sometimes loud drive of the PS5 can get nauseous quickly. With a few simple steps, however, you declare war on it.
Especially if you are the Disc one of yours PlayStation 5 games loaded, the violent, chainsaw-like sounds the turntable makes can be not only annoying but even worrying. Sure, a few background noises and a bit of rattling are part of the good tone. But so that you are not disturbed by them on a relaxing evening, we have one or the other solution ready.
PlayStation 5: It’s that easy to silence annoying drive sounds
While we want to show you three ways to get your noisy PS5 drive under control in the further course of the process, we have first given you a rather rough overview of possible solutions. In general, it can help your PlayStation 5 to ensure that you have inserted the PS5 discs correctly. ensure that the area around the console is adequately ventilated. update your PS5 and power cycle. to clean the fan of your PlayStation 5. manually remove the disc from the drive. to put a mouse pad or rubber band under the console. Sony to ask for help in an emergency.
While some of the suggested fixes are probably already known to you and you may have even tried them yourself, there are a few more exciting ones that we’d like to explore in more detail.
#1 PS5 Power Cycle und Firmware-Updates
While it should be clear that you should regularly update your PlayStation 5 with the latest updates, not everyone is familiar with the so-called power cycling. With this you can help your PS5 to get any performance problems under control and it is worth trying the method even with a loud drive.
It doesn’t take a lot of effort to do a power cycle. On the contrary, you simply press and hold the console’s power button before it turns off. Once this has happened, you unplug the PlayStation for around 20 minutes, completely disconnecting it from the power supply before you turn it back on.
If you’re still having trouble with your PS5 drive, be sure to check for updates to the system. If it is a mere software problem, it should be easy to fix. To check your version, look for a system software update in the console settings.
#2 Clean the PS5 fan properly
The second tip should also make sense, after all the fans are one of the strongest sources of noise in a console. If one of your PlayStation 5’s is covered in dust and dirt, it’s little wonder that it literally struggles when the system is aired and tends to be noisy – after all, the heat dissipation is only half as good.
As a result, you should clean your PS5 regularly to rid it of any dirt and get its air circulation going again. And even if it may sound complicated at first to get at your console fans, the process is comparatively quick and uncomplicated, done in just a few simple steps.
#3 Manually get the disc out of the PS5 drive
Our last tip is possibly the most exciting on the list: Before the volume of your PS5 drive finally drives you insane, you should try to free it from its inserted disc by hand. Ideally, you should do this immediately after you have cleaned your fan.
According to YouTuber Gears and Tech and the comments below the corresponding video, what may initially sound like a suicide mission for the drive turns out to be a true secret weapon – even if the expert himself has no meaningful explanation for why the method works at all.
A screwdriver that is as small as possible is required for the entire process. And even if you don’t ruin your warranty claim by trying, it goes without saying that you should proceed as carefully as possible.
But if you feel like trying out a few simpler solutions to get rid of your annoying PS5 drive and its volume, you should use the ones we presented in the first part of the text as a guide. For example, some users affected by the issue also report that a soft rubber mouse pad would have helped them. Do you want to get even more out of her? we will introduce you to three features of the PlayStation 5 elsewherethat you should try once.
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