Broken PS2 help

[^NCS^$]-[@GG$]

disc error for both disc formats
both DVD and CD

Help me
can you tell me how much
it will cost to repair it and
how long it would take

[Grendel]

Originally Posted by ^NCS^$]-[@GG$

disc error for both disc formats
both DVD and CD

Help me
can you tell me how much
it will cost to repair it and
how long it would take

They always die like that, buy a new one, open it carefully. Swap stickers, put the old one in the box and return it

-Grendel

[jazon720]

maybe u don't need to do that fruad thing Grendel is talking about. My suggestion is if you had it for a while maybe the little thing that reads the discs is dirty and u just need to clean it. if not, go the Grendel way

[Hyatus]

buy an xbox, problem solved

[wonton34]

Xboxes have way more problems and ps2's are better.
Samething happened to me. I called up sony and sent it in to them. They told me they would fix it for free and they did. Cost liek 2 bucsk to ship it. All the problem is is a dirty lens and they clean it free.

[engineer]

dirty lens? get a disc cleaner. it looks like a CD but has a little brush underneath dont worry thats what its made for it wont damage anything.... u put it in and it will spin and clean ur lens easy as

[AErrorist]

If your not squemish around electronics, crack the sucker open and get the disk cover off. There is a little dial behind the laser, turn that dial and test your CDs till they all start working. It takes a few tries, but it works. Old PS2s had a problem with that dial ticking out of place. They fixed it later by making it out of metal instead of plastic.

[Hyatus]

Originally Posted by wonton34

Xboxes have way more problems and ps2's are better.
Samething happened to me. I called up sony and sent it in to them. They told me they would fix it for free and they did. Cost liek 2 bucsk to ship it. All the problem is is a dirty lens and they clean it free.

not to high jack this thread but xbox has own3d ps2 since creation thanks, and the sad part is youll never know what your missing.

[Imports615]

PS2 is 50 times better than Xbox. I know I had both but sold my Xbox because PS2 was so much better and I didnt play Xbox.

[jcsaleen]

Yea do the old switcha roo hehe or jus send it back if its still underwarranty.

[Shaguar47]

yeah dude, Mine had the same problem so I did the little dial thing and it worked, saved me like 100 bucks to get it fixed. But the bad thing it will void your warranty so it's a risk your goin to have to take, but it's worth it.

[sourcelx]

Iv fixed many prob. with my ps2 .from the lens being dirty,tray getting stuck ,and the power supply un-connecting. Iv ixed my friends ps2 also. Just open it open the cd tray wipe it with a que-tip, and put it back together . Wala its fixed

[LXDSMXL]

I had the same problem with my ps2 I was getting ready to buy a new one, but, one day I came home from work and I saw my wife taking the ps2 apart??? she cleaned the lense with a Q-TIP put it back together and bam fixed........ for a while a couple of months later and it was doing the same thing, I think the best way to go is a lens cleaner, Careful if you do take it apart theres a wire that connects to the reset and eject button the hold both parts (top and bottom) of you ps2 together after you take it apart pulling this wire sux its a bitch pluging it back together again.

[DirtyD777]

hehe welcome to broken ps2 land.

I'm currently on #3

Switched 2 @ walmart..and sony fixed the 3rd screw up for free when I called them.

[Shaguar47]

It's a common problem with some of the first ps2's made. I read that sony actually changed the placement of the lense and adjusting screw on a revised edition. The only way to tell is to open one up and look. The outside is identical. The adjusting screw if I recall right is white on the first ones while black on the revised ones.