PLAYSTATION 5 owners came to the rescue when another gamer sought advice on how to fix an infamous broken screen issue. The cry for help came in the form of a post in the popular PlayStation thread on Reddit. "When I turn my PS5 on this happens?" user jedmond12 titled the post shared on Monday, including a photo of the problem.
Users could see a photo of the gamer's TV screen, showing the PlayStation logo on a dark background behind repeated vertical green bars. "I forgot to put: It only happens when I turn on the PS5 , nothing after that," jedmond12 added in a comment. The "green screen of death" is a common problem that affects devices transferring visual information.
Luckily, a few of the gamers on Reddit recognized the common problem and offered some quick advice. Many people bet on it being an issue with the HDMI cord or plugin. "Try softly jiggling the HDMI cable.
If anything happens, then 100% broken HDMI," one commenter wrote. "Faulty HDMI at best and TV LED dying at worst. Take your pick what u wanna check first," a second offered.
Others said they thought it could be a software bug. "Have you tried changing your TV input to another source then switching back? Mine does something similar (green lines, no PS logo) and changing the input to something else for a moment fixes it," one gamer posited. "When my Xbox did this I had to factory reset the TV, nothing else fixed the problem," another added.
Eventually, jedmond12 gave an update. "It is most likely the HDMI becaus.
