Need of help on PS2.

[Juu-kuchi]

Salutations.

Do you have a moment, to talk about the Lord, or for that matter the Playstation 2? If so good, because I have issues of it. Following a rather long and arduous task of retrieving it from somewhere, I sit down and attempt to load one of my games on it. No error message about how it cannot read the discs, but more importantly, there's nothing read at all. I even checked the browser to find out if a disc is being read, but to no avail.

What exactly is the matter with my PS2 if it cannot read or recognize a disc (even if it reads a disc error)? Does it also have to do with the fact that there's a small hole now open where there once was a broadband adapter?

Help me out please. =/

[Jorje]

My ps2 can't read my psx game I got on Christmas day. When I put CastleVania Symphony of the night into the ps2 it won't read it disc error what to do so I had to but another ps2 samething.

[Chad Bonin]

Not much in the way of helping, other than the fact that Sony's consoles have had a history of bad disc reading in general.

My PS2 eventually could not read DVD movies, with multiple occassions of it not even acknowledging that a disc was in it's drive, and my PStwo has recently been in the same situation. My PSone had no CD reading troubles, and I've never owned neither a PS nor PSX (the Playstation 2 DVD in Japan), so I can't personally comment on their reading history.

[Artimus Gigan]

Salutations.

Do you have a moment, to talk about the Lord, or for that matter the Playstation 2? If so good, because I have issues of it. Following a rather long and arduous task of retrieving it from somewhere, I sit down and attempt to load one of my games on it. No error message about how it cannot read the discs, but more importantly, there's nothing read at all. I even checked the browser to find out if a disc is being read, but to no avail.

What exactly is the matter with my PS2 if it cannot read or recognize a disc (even if it reads a disc error)? Does it also have to do with the fact that there's a small hole now open where there once was a broadband adapter?

Help me out please. =/

have you tried cleaning the disc head with a cleaner disc?

[Juu-kuchi]

And I say, yes upon you Gigan, I did, and left it there for nigh on half-hour, and then removed said disc and replaced with other.

Still wouldn't work. Hell even my brother beforehand had the same problem with it at an earlier time before I came back home for the holidays.

[Juu-kuchi]

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/630/img0650sc5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Here's the PS2 and the empty space in question. I know that the hard drive can be inserted down there, but is there supposed to be something fitting that gap beforehand, or is it always an empty space before you put in the HDD?

[Beat]

Mine's bugging out on me too. It plays only half the time and there's no rhyme or reason to how it works. (Bully works more often than Final Fantasy XII, to my annoyance)

[Tapout]

Here's the PS2 and the empty space in question. I know that the hard drive can be inserted down there, but is there supposed to be something fitting that gap beforehand, or is it always an empty space before you put in the HDD?

There's nothing that goes in there, IIRC, but there should be a cover for it. I got FFXI two years ago so it's been awhile since I fiddled around in there, but I'm pretty sure its empty.

[Juu-kuchi]

There's nothing that goes in there, IIRC, but there should be a cover for it. I got FFXI two years ago so it's been awhile since I fiddled around in there, but I'm pretty sure its empty. Really?

Yeah, there should be, but it was removed to accomodate the Internet adaptor. Unfortunately when I placed that adaptor back on it didn't make things better. My disc drive spontaneously tends to open everytime it boots up then, and the open button doesn't work, but when I remove the adaptor, it doesn't do that.

If something doesn't happen in its favor, I guess I'll have to buy another PS2.

[Chad Bonin]

You still have a fat PS2? Unless you need an HDD, I'd go ahead and trade that in and pay the difference for a new PStwo.

[Juu-kuchi]

You still have a fat PS2? Unless you need an HDD, I'd go ahead and trade that in and pay the difference for a new PStwo. DIdn't do that, but did get a new PS2.

[Noukon]

You still have a fat PS2? Unless you need an HDD, I'd go ahead and trade that in and pay the difference for a new PStwo.

PStwos break even more easily. I actually replaced my busted PStwo with a refurbished fatty, since I know it will last longer.

[Juu-kuchi]

PStwos break even more easily. I actually replaced my busted PStwo with a refurbished fatty, since I know it will last longer. How so?

[Noukon]

How so?

Many of the parts are more fragile in the slimline unit, especially the optical drive.

[Chad Bonin]

Huh. My bad.

Here I thought Sony would IMPROVE the reliability of technology over the years, instead of weakening.

[Juu-kuchi]

*shrug*

Well, what's done is done. Guess I'll just have to be careful with how I care for my PSTwo.

[Noukon]

I wouldn't worry too much over it. PlayStations in general aren't really built to last, but you'll always be able to get a replacement for pretty cheap.