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PS5 Locked? Try This Solution
If your PlayStation 5 won’t turn on or display anything on the screen, it might be “bricked.” This can be a scary situation to be in, because your expensive gaming machine is, as the term suggests, about as useful as a brick.
The good news is that there are a few tricks you can try before calling in the professionals. It’s a lot better than waiting weeks for a repaired new PS5!
You can fix most serious PS5 software errors by booting your console into safe mode and resetting it to factory settings. The worst that can happen is that you lose your console’s data. If you have PlayStation Plus, your game saves should be backed up to the cloud, so this is really more of an inconvenience than a disaster.
