Daily General Questions & Tech Support Megathread | March 08, 2021

How to stop interference with bluetooth mic?

I’ve been using the same mic for several years now and all of a sudden i’ve been getting a buzzing noise in the left ear, after doing some research it’s down to interference, any idea how to remedy this?

Buying a PS4 pro to jump into the Sony environment while I wait to buy a ps5. What games should I play? What are the PS4 must haves?

Does anyone know or have a good idea when dead by daylight will be on sale/lower price? I heard it was free like 2 years ago, and i want to buy it and wanna know if its a game usually on sale/free

Does anyone know if ps plus goes on sale? I'm looking to start on the subscription but I think there might be a discount on some point.

My PS4 dosen't play any sounds. I tried turning it off and on and waiting, but nothing. It has happened before and idk how I fixed it

Considering ps5, doesn’t have many exclusive games that PS4 doesn’t and most of game developers aren’t really using ps5's features to its max and the PS4 is still being supported, is upgrading to ps5 really worth it considering how rare it is, or is it better to just wait for ps5 slim which is probably coming in 2-3 years and buy then, ps5 is going to be so common you can just walk into a store at any time, and grab one?

I have a serious problem. My Ps4 started extremely overheating put of the sudden.

I tired a game just fine couple hours ago, then I turned off the console and stored it. An hour later I had to check something fast. The only thing I can add as a cause which I doubt was 3 soft impacts the console had while I was plugging it. But the thing is, now the ps4 beeped once while flashing its blue light for a second and then nothing. Not even the fan started.

I panicked because I thought those hits might have moved something since the Ps4 was opened before like a year ago by my brother and I feared he might have left something badly placed and the impact caused it to move and malfunction.

After unscrewing and screwing everything back, the problem persisted, the ps4 would not turn on. With a tear in my eye I gave up and thought the console was done for.

After another hour, I decided to check the console again, just in case. And surprisingly, it turned on correctly. The problem is, I tested the game again but this time, while loading the game, the Ps4 sent the overheating message pretty fast and turned off.

And now that is the problem I'm having, the console can be turned on now but for some reason it now overheats way too much which has not happened before.

I must add the console is extremely old and also I bought it from someone 5 years ago, and it always worked fine, the only problem was a really loud fan which was the reason my brother opened it, to clean it up.

I don't know what to do, was is it me that while trying to fix the not turning on problem, moved something which now, while working improperly causes the extreme overheat? Or did something deteriorate and just now did it suddenly start showing sympthoms?

I'm really not familiar with heat sink and thermal paste so I don't know if the problem lies there and maybe I could readjust something there or change said paste but what if its not?

I never changed the thermal paste before and I've seen people say it dries. Maybe when I opened the console, while moving the pieces, the dried paste cracked and now the heat cannot be transfered?

I'll happily read your insights to what I should do now.

We have two consoles in our home, and two controllers. My ps4, and the family ps4. I want to be able to just connect my controller to the family ps4 so we can play two player games, then when I'm done just connect it to my own again until next time. But I try both options, syncing with bluetooth, and with cable in. And all my controller does, is turn on my ps4. How can I fix this?