He did earlier. And it did accept the input.
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"Like a one man human centipede"
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Parapraxis
Member
He did that, it worked.
He has not as far as I can tell, tried a different HDMI cable or jiggling/moving the cable in the port.
GodfatherX
Member
so far he has been doing everything that he should be since i have been watching the last hour or so. I really can't tell what he is suppose to have done wrong beyond restarting after he finally got it booted the first time.
Is he whiny? yes
is he trying the same thing over and over again? yes
I really can't see what he has done wrong other then wasting 10 hours doing the same again and again. Really the people thinking that he purposely is tapping the power button then holding it instead of just holding it because of some nefarious plot to make it seem like sony sucks are the only ones who have given any info on what he is doing wrong, and I just dont buy that.
someone please enlighten me
Is he whiny? yes
is he trying the same thing over and over again? yes
I really can't see what he has done wrong other then wasting 10 hours doing the same again and again. Really the people thinking that he purposely is tapping the power button then holding it instead of just holding it because of some nefarious plot to make it seem like sony sucks are the only ones who have given any info on what he is doing wrong, and I just dont buy that.
someone please enlighten me
He said he did that too, Sonos suggested it to him and he said he did.
He's been on the verge of tears several times, so I don't think it was a publicity stunt. But w/e maybe it is, no way to know for sure.
On a more serious note I wonder how many of the 4k taco bell ps4s have this issue. We've heard of 5 cases, there'd need to be 125 for a 3% failure rate, just hope people keep this in mind before they start worrying. We'll find out if there are wide spread problems on launch day I suppose.
Woke up from this thread going from 12 pages to 135+. Has anyone done a Malcolm McDowell recap???
The recap:
Guy is streaming his broken PS4(He broke it by unplugging his ps4 while downloading DCUO which had stopped loading), complains to customer support for 4 hours whilst simultaneously being trolled by the people in his stream(Internet and all that), Ign decides that this is worth posting an article about. Finally through the troubleshooting in that 99% troll comments section he takes his HDD out, tries to turn on his PS4, gets an error, but at least it boots. He then puts the HDD back in and everything work. Guy then proceeds to pat himself on the back for being better than Sony Customer Support.... Then proceeds to once again break the ps4 by trying to download DCUO again. He is currently trying to fix it again, doing things such as turning on the PS4 while the hardrive isn't screwed in, plugging in the hard drive while the system is running, failing at holding the power button the amount of time necessary to boot in safe mode, and much much more, all while ignoring the Twitch admin's good advice. Then he finally listens to good advice, gets it working again, turns it off(to standby) and now it's broken again. He's now in hissy fit mode, all the while constantly switching inputs between hdmi and cable while trying to fix it. Thar's your summary, have fun.
There's more but I don't feel like updating this post, just copy pasting.
LegendOfFalcon
Member
He plugged the 360 in a few hours ago and the TV worked.
I'm out I can't watch this anymore, its crazy its gone on for as long as it has already.
I was gone for a sec. I see gameplay..did he fix it?
A large one? Mmm... There's one in Tennessee I believe? If so, probably 5-6 hours by car. There's a smaller one closer but people have said that the small ones didn't get PS4's.
A large one? Mmm... There's one in Tennessee I believe? If so, probably 5-6 hours by car. There's a smaller one closer but people have said that the small ones didn't get PS4's.
As someone who sat there trying to help him for the last several hours, I think he was simply overwhelmed by the entire situation, and maybe slightly incompetent. Anyone attributing that incompetence to some plan from MS to show the PS4 in a poor light is ridiculous. Instead of streaming his Taco Bell PS4 before everyone else, he got a broken PS4 (or broke his PS4), his stream blew up, and from then on his stream, Twitch inbox, and facebook profile was filled with people yelling all kinds of things at him.
That being said, you might be able to convince me he was doing it for attention, but even that sounds too far fetched and conspiratorial.
Final note: I believe his PS4 was too far lost when I saw him pull the HDD when it was powered on. Everything else after that was futile finagling. It's all a blur to me now though, so don't quote me on that.
That being said, you might be able to convince me he was doing it for attention, but even that sounds too far fetched and conspiratorial.
Final note: I believe his PS4 was too far lost when I saw him pull the HDD when it was powered on. Everything else after that was futile finagling. It's all a blur to me now though, so don't quote me on that.
Sounds like he was still upset with (is it you?) twitch admin telling him to restart instead of formatting...
Yeah man you tried. Good on you.
He pulled the god damn Hard drive out of the system while it was still running among quite a few other things. It's no plot, but this guy should not be allowed to even try to fix electronics.
Edit: For some weird reason I didn't think that'd end up being a double post... Well this threads dead, time for bed.
Nikodemos
Member
I've just woken up and, man, this thread...
Why the fuck would he do that? Has he never used a PC in his life? Doesn't he know you shouldn't randomly disconnect stuff while power is on?
SpasilliumX11
Member
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I guess it never worked again after that? SATA II can be hot swapped safely but only if the drive isn't spinning (ie, if you park the drive and remove it; you can't put it back in and mount it though without eSATA support on the controller).
I could've swore that last boot was after the hot unplugging incident.
.... The OP is not the same guy from the twitch.
MetalGuardian
Banned
SNAP! He got it working now? What did he end up doing to fix it?? AND WHAT IS HE PLAYING?
You look away from the stream for a minute and everything changes
EDIT: Do I see Spider-Man? Uh... I didn't know there was a Marvel themed game at launch. Did the video stream on Hi11Zones' channel get switched or something?
You look away from the stream for a minute and everything changes
EDIT: Do I see Spider-Man? Uh... I didn't know there was a Marvel themed game at launch. Did the video stream on Hi11Zones' channel get switched or something?
This thread has not been about the op since page 15
Da fuq? I just turned off the stream. There might be something to the attention whoring shit if that's true.
I think that was his laptop streaming for a bit.
StanleyStutters
Member
He didn't fix it yet. You can see him working on it in the top-right corner. I think he has old gameplay running or has someone else streaming gameplay while he works on it.
Mr Moose
Member
Well damn, does Twitch normally show Xbox One ads? That seems a bit TOO fishy to me, I am starting to think it was all just bullshit for the sake of it.
MetalGuardian
Banned
Snap! Why would he stream some other game in the mean time, as if anyone cares?
I'm not sure what to make of the troll accusations though at this point... surely by now his viewership has dropped considerably, and if he was just pretending the whole time he would have gotten it up and running.
Are the GAF accusations of him being a genuine dumbass well-founded? Wasn't his friend in this very thread, posting that he tried every technique that was offered up?
I'm not sure what to make of the troll accusations though at this point... surely by now his viewership has dropped considerably, and if he was just pretending the whole time he would have gotten it up and running.
Are the GAF accusations of him being a genuine dumbass well-founded? Wasn't his friend in this very thread, posting that he tried every technique that was offered up?
After he followed my instructions that successfully booted his PS4 to show the OS on screen, I simply told him to restart to confirm it could boot cleanly before applying any update. I was worried that not doing so would make things worse. So he shut it down, and he hasn't been able to get video from his PS4 since. Of course we could speculate all night and day whether or not that's what broke it, but that won't help him now.
And just when I got out I got pulled back in.....
Yeah, I'll watch a sec to see if the new guy works.-
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Mr Moose
Member
Jezbollah
Member
Mr Moose
Member
The OP isn't the guy who was streaming.
Anticitizen One
Banned
The fact that he had this on all day suggests that he was just trolling doing this for laughs and to gain some fame
he has no one to blame but himself, pure stupidity
Mr Moose
Member
I hope you get your new console on day one
Thank you.
I was going to reroute the shipment to a UPS store and grab it in the morning on the 15th, but if the status doesn't change and it doesn't get in their system, I guess I'll just be sitting by the door like a dog waiting for its master to come home.
Monty Mole
Member
I wake up to this massive thread, wtf!
Can someone summarise what's happened here and what I've missed?
Can someone summarise what's happened here and what I've missed?
Jezbollah
Member
Ah. Whoever was streaming then. Apologies, OP!
Fuck it, one more time:
Guy is streaming his broken PS4(He broke it by unplugging his ps4 while downloading DCUO which had stopped loading), complains to customer support for 4 hours whilst simultaneously being trolled by the people in his stream(Internet and all that), Ign decides that this is worth posting an article about. Finally through the troubleshooting in that 99% troll comments section he takes his HDD out, tries to turn on his PS4, gets an error, but at least it boots. He then puts the HDD back in and everything works. Guy then proceeds to pat himself on the back for being better than Sony Customer Support.... Then proceeds to once again break the ps4 by trying to download DCUO again. He is currently trying to fix it again, doing things such as turning on the PS4 while the hardrive isn't screwed in, plugging in the hard drive while the system is running, failing at holding the power button the amount of time necessary to boot in safe mode, and much much more, all while ignoring the Twitch admin's good advice. Then he finally listens to good advice, gets it working again, turns it off(to standby) and now it's broken again. He's now in hissy fit mode, all the while constantly switching inputs between hdmi and cable while trying to fix it. Thar's your summary, have fun.
There's more but I don't feel like updating this post, just copy pasting.
Edit: One more thing, at this point he's given up after 12 hours. And is going to take his free box from sony.
Wait, what? The PS4 broke down simply because a game (which, if I'm understanding it right, wasn't installed to begin with) failed to download?