Help with the PlayStation 2

[SVX]

Good evening everybody.


My PS2 doesn't want to read discs. I would start it up, and it doesn't read the disc. We replaced the laser and it wouldn't want to read GT4 or Cars (the videogame), but it read Age Of Empires II with out a problem (though it was quite loud). We then put the old laser back in and it worked with GT4 first time for a couple of tries (after I would drive a car, it would do the Red Light Of Death). I then started it again, twice and it came up for me to select my language. Then I started to freak. My data might of gone! So I took the disc out and tried, and lucky, my data was there. Phew! But now it doesn't read the disc full stop.

Could someone please give me a hand?


Thanks,





SVX.


Working now *knock on wood*

 

[SVX]

And it's at it again. Grrrrrrr! Dad got the right setting for the laser and the PS2 was flawless. Guess what? Not in the mood for reading discs. Just when I really needed the PS2 for something.

Please help me.


Thanks,


SVX.

 

[Casio]

Buy a new PS2? I don't know about where you are. But they're only around 70$ pre-owned here...you can even buy them new for not much more than $100. Generally once these things start to go not much you can do about it.

But I think the real question should be, why are you playing one of the all time great RTS's (AoE2) on a PS2?! Sacrilege.

 

[Robin]

Have you checked the ribbon cable going from the laser to the console is secure, because the fact that the original laser you put back in worked for a while and also that its working intermittently seems to suggest it might not be the laser. If that's fine just keep adjusting the pot on the laser.

Or you could as Casio said get a used one, I've seen them as low as £15-£20. A shiny new NEW slim PS2 (the 9000) is only like $90.

 

[SVX]

Thanks guys!

Buy a new PS2? I don't know about where you are. But they're only around 70$ pre-owned here...you can even buy them new for not much more than $100. Generally once these things start to go not much you can do about it.

But I think the real question should be, why are you playing one of the all time great RTS's (AoE2) on a PS2?! Sacrilege.

The thing with buying second hand is that you don't know how much use it has actually had, and if it's been treated well. Thanks Casio.

Have you checked the ribbon cable going from the laser to the console is secure, because the fact that the original laser you put back in worked for a while and also that its working intermittently seems to suggest it might not be the laser. If that's fine just keep adjusting the pot on the laser.

Or you could as Casio said get a used one, I've seen them as low as £15-£20. A shiny new NEW slim PS2 (the 9000) is only like $90.

Yeah, dad checked that the ribbon cable was on and it is on. Thanks Robin

 

[Mr. CoolFiat]

But I think the real question should be, why are you playing one of the all time great RTS's (AoE2) on a PS2?! Sacrilege.

This.

In other news: I have a GT4 disc and it plays normally, but sometimes in 2 player and on some races the screen starts to go frizzy and blurry. Its been doing that since I got it in 2006. DAMNIT.