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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: Titan on July 24, 2002, 08:39:11 PM
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Ok, for a while now, it won\'t read CD-ROMs (blue disk) games. I looked inside with a flashlight and noticed a hell of a lot of dust. I won\'t open it to clean it because Sony won\'t touch it if that tape is broken. Tonight, I was trying to watch Sopranos and the damn thing kept skipping through the DVD. I put in another one and did the same thing. Then I take the CD out and there are a hell of a lot of surface scratches that the PS2 put into it. And we\'re borrowing the DVD. Atleast the scratches are nothing deep. Just surface. I threw in MGS2 to see if it will scratch it. It wouldn\'t. I\'m going to try compressed air to see what will happen. I got nothing left to lose. If air doesn\'t work, I\'ll send it to Boston. What do you think?
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did you do anything to it? my brother once knocked mine off a shelf and now mine slows down occasionally:( but if it scratched my disks i\'d probably consider getting a new one...
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o wait just send it to boston then! i thought you said you broke the tape on the ps2, my bad, i misread your post
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It only scratched one disk. I did hit it when it kept skipping the Sopranos and I did hit it when it wouldn\'t read any CD games. But I only hit it when it didn\'t read any games at all (except for DVD format) so I know it wasn\'t from hitting. I didn\'t hit it all that hard. Just like when you hit a desk because your computer crashes or something. Electronics in general hate me. My computer has errors when I go on the internet and it only happens to me.
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violence and electronics don\'t mix. Send it too boston.
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Mine hates me too so don\'t worry. :(
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Adjust the voltage
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/ps2_disc_read_error.txt
Scrathing discs is something else though. First see if sony will fix it, but the above faq should fix it.
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The solution is rather quite simple.
The large amount of dust in your PS2 is causing it to overheat. When the PS2 overheats, the disk you have in it warps, and touches the PS2 lens, scratching the disk, making a circle mark on the disk.
Clean the dust, then clean the lens with a PS2 lens cleaner CD.
As for the circle marks, take a wash rag, put some alcohol on the end of it, and rub from the inside out on the disk until the circle \'scratch\' which really is just a burn mark fades away.
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Yes, dust is not a great friend of these kinda devices.
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It didn\'t put circle scratches on Sopranos. It pu in a shit load of surface scratches and one deep scratch. Where the deep scratch is, the data won\'t be read. We are borrowing it which sucks. Is there a DVD repair kit that I could buy that would fix that scratch? I have a CD repair kit but I doubt that would work.
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take it apart and clean it.. I\'m doing this to Bladez ps2 later tonight cause he has the same probs.
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Knowing me, I\'ll break it some how and have to buy another one :(
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my PS2 froze today while playing TM:black, never happened before, maybe cuz theres to much going on at once, the game seems to slow down sometimes to. I hope its nothing serious, cuz i would hate to see my PS2 end up like yall\'s.
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Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
violence and electronics don\'t mix. Send it too boston.
I know. My PS2 sets me over the edge. Actually, its the only thing that pisses me off nowadays. I\'m going to have to buy Game Doctor to fix the Soprano DVD (part of it is messed up) and then clean the PS2 out with compressed air. If that doesn\'t work, ship the fudger to Boston.
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My PS2 loves me.. Ive never had any problems with this one :) *knock on wood*
But then again I love the little bugger and keep it clean and dust-free.
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Mine loved me for a while. It sets me over the edge now.
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My PS2 loves me for 3 months and then now hates me.
Mark my words. I\'ll file for divorce with that crappy piece of hardware.
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I can\'t help but throw in some insults here. Isn\'t it amazing how half the PSone owners ended up owning more than one, because of them breaking down,etc? I mean, how many people how to stand their PSone\'s vertical just to get them to work? So, Sony now makes that a feature for the PS2 - standing vertical, that is and guess what? People are still having problems with their PS2\'s. I can honestly say, I\'ve never heard such complaints from Nintendo / Sega fans.
Hell, my Nintendo got half melted one day when I sat it on a furnance and played fine until the day I got rid of it.
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Paul... Why do you post here if you hate it so much? It\'s like your trying to convince people of something..
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I guess he jus figures most people forgot about his lil hissy fit, and he could sneak in a few more low blows before anyone took notice and told him to suck it up and quit whining again.
L-I-C, yeah I have to set my PSX up on it\'s side to get it to read games. Considering how old it is tho, the hell it\'s been through, and the batch that it came out of.. I\'m happy with how it turned out. My NES absolutely refuses to play games unless you blow on the cartridge, jam it in, and press reset until your fingers bleed. My first Genesis had it\'s controller port break. I dunno how it happened.. but one day Controller 1 jus consistantly wanted to keep holding down. Something in the port screwed up.. it wasn\'t jus the controller.. so it essencially jus destroyed my Genny. That was after 1 year. Speaking of which, it didn\'t take much longer than that for my GameBoy and GameGear\'s screens to both go out permenantly. My first SNES just stopped working one day. My guess is that something blew, cause I can remember smelling something burning after starting it up and getting a garbled screen.
The only consoles I have that have made it to the end of their lifespans with no problems were the Sega Master System, TI 99/4A, and PSX. I guess you could count DC too.. but I\'m still gonna hold to the 5 year pattern. If PSO v.2 keeps grinding my lazer like it is when I join a new room or a busy lobby.. I couldn\'t see it lasting 4 more years.
So yeah.. I\'m probably in the minority.. but I don\'t know anyone personally who\'s had problems with their PSX\'s aside from having to set it up on it\'s side to keep FMV\'s from skipping and to stop loading hangups.
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I shouldn\'t of forgotten about the infamous Nintendo loading situation. They later fixed that with the top-loading NES, though.
I\'m amazed that your Super-NES quit. Everyone I have known as put their Super-NES through a beating. I personally melted mine and a friend of mine dropped a tv on his, busted the whole case off it, it was pretty much just a motherboard and controller ports and yet, it worked fine until the day he got rid of it.
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Originally posted by Chrono
Adjust the voltage
http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/ps2_disc_read_error.txt
Scrathing discs is something else though. First see if sony will fix it, but the above faq should fix it.
Don\'t adjust voltage or bios.. leave it alone. send it too boston. You don\'t want to screw your warrenty.. Try compressed air if you want.. hell try a air compresser. But never play with anythings insides unless you know what your doing or it doesn\'t have a warrenty.. That\'s when i tend to play around with electronics.
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Have most of the hardware problems been ironed out yet. How many new improved batches have they made.
Anyone know
The only prob i have heard was that my friends fan broke but he got it repaired And it was a launch system
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He could have put a new fan in himself. You could take the fan out (I think) and put a new one in.