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A television game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, also known as PS4. First announced February 20, 2013 and released November 15, 2013.

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Ps4 wont read disc; wont spin and disc drive makes screech noise.

This all started when foolishly placed a soda cup on top of the console. Left it there for a few days and to my ignorant surprise, the soda leaked through onto the console. Noticed this when the ps4 said “unrecognized disc” instead of the game that was inside. So i tinkered around trying to clean up the the inside where the soda was spilled, everything else works except for being able to play physical copy games. I ordered another disc drive thinking that was the problem, but nope it still does the same thing. I noticed the screeching noise happens when the game is trying the read a disc that is inserted, if no disc is inside the ps4 trys to look for a disc to read by moving laser up and down and what not. So now i have to return this extra disc drive i bought since nothing has changed.

TLDR; The main problem i believe is that instead of trying to spin the disc, the disc drive makes a screech noise and replacing it did nothing so it is probably the motherboard.

What should I do? Is there a certain area in the ps4 that isnt the disc drive, that i should try cleaning?

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Did you clean the place, where disk drive connects to MoBo? Try to clean MoBo, too, just to be sure.

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I believe i did clean the mother board, i’ll try cleaning it again.

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Welp, cleaned motherboard thoroughly . Still same issue. I guess im screwed and have to only from now on play games without disc. Unless i want to shell $200.00 for another ps4, of course.

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Or you could buy just new disk drive separately and swap it with yours.) Or get a USB BD disk reader, if you wish.

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