Ps5 Crashes in main menu and goes on an infinite boot loop

PS5 Questions
1

I bought a ps5 on eBay for cheap and when I plugged it in it would only allow me to explore the main screen a few seconds and then crash, after it would be stuck on a boot loop.

The console itself sounds like it stays on and never actually shuts off, the fan doesn’t stop spinning and the console has a white light. When I press the power button when it’s on the boot loop it does three beeps, but sometimes I can get it to turn off in between it looping if I time it right.

I attempted to reinstall the firmware twice and it doesn’t crash while in safe mode or when it’s reinstalling. It only starts crashing as soon as I get to the point in the beginning setup when I need to sign in. I have a video of it happening, but it doesn’t let me post it.

2

It would be either SSD CONTROLLER or APU, seen this kind issue before.
Ask for refund or exchange is your best bet

3

Yeah I was thinking it might’ve had something to do with the SSD as well. Would the APU having a dry spot on it also be a possibility as to why this could be a cause? Not sure if there is one, but was just curious.

4

dry LM spot would make fan spin up fast or eventually leading to force shutdown, but not freeze up

5

Oh ok I see. Just to humor myself I noticed that a trace on the power supply has a big black spot in the middle of it and there is a big dry spot on the APU. Probably not the cause of the problem but still isn’t good :/. I bought it for pretty cheap on eBay so I’m at a loss with this, pretty sure the warranty is over as well.

6

I’m sorry for you we all take chances hoping it might be an easy fix but unfortunately there isn’t a solution ATM there are two videos on YouTube with a no fix but maybe the right technician may come along and solve this issue for all who is going through this dilemma.

7

Yeah, I ordered a new power supply because I’m not confident enough to work on them to see if I see ANY difference with one that doesn’t have a damaged trace and if I don’t then I’ll just sell for parts.

8

I don’t think it’s the power supply it only supply 12v to the motherboard. I have an Xbox series X and if it stays 10 seconds on the dashboard it will shut off unless you have a game running, ordered a new power supply and that didn’t fix it in the YouTube video the tech changed the ssd controller twice in two separate video and that didn’t fix the problem.