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Title: Does ASB make a loud humming noise while you play?
Post by: on March 23, 2001, 07:44:37 PM

My ASB is acting funny.  It plays fine and everything, but the PS2 makes a really loud humming noise while I play, and the PS2 actually even shakes a little.  It doesnt shake much, but if you put your hand above it, you can easily feel it.

Has anyone had this problem?  If so, how did you fix it?  I just got the game tonight, so I\'ll be damned if I have to exchange it.

Title: Does ASB make a loud humming noise while you play?
Post by: ddaryl on March 23, 2001, 09:08:21 PM

SSX does the same thing on my PS2. It still plays fine but its definetely loud

Title: Does ASB make a loud humming noise while you play?
Post by: on March 23, 2001, 09:13:35 PM

Thanks for the reply :)

Well, at least I know it\'s not just me.  I\'m pretty sure SSX is also CD-ROM based.  I think it\'s just the way the PS2 reads CD-ROM based data.  Here is what I think:

DVD drives and CD-ROM drives both have comparable spin rates...meaning a 24x CD-ROM drive is literally 6 times faster than a 4x DVD-ROM when it comes to spinning, not data reading.

Since the PS2 has a 24x CD-ROM drive, the game spins at a much higher rate in order to achieve the load times of the slower DVD-ROM drive, which causes it to get much louder.  This is completely normal.

The reason why a 4x DVD is so much quieter than a 24x CD-ROM is simply because of the spin rate.  DVD\'s are pressed with highly dense data, so it can read a lot of information at one time, meaning a 4x DVD can easily outperform a 24x CD-ROM in terms of loading, even at the lower spin rate.

This also happens in my computers DVD-ROM drive.

This entire "humming" is probably just an entire CD-ROM based issue, and not an actual problem with the PS2.

Title: Does ASB make a loud humming noise while you play?
Post by: ddaryl on March 23, 2001, 09:24:08 PM

actually the majority of my PS2 games are CD and only SSX does this

The weird thing is I have had SSX since Oct 26 and I do not ever remember or notice it doing this until 2 weeks ago when I played the game for the 1st time since Christmas

It is strange but no other game does that on my machine

Title: Does ASB make a loud humming noise while you play?
Post by: on March 23, 2001, 09:25:50 PM

Hmm, that\'s odd.  I only have one CD-ROM game for PS2, and it\'s ASB.  It\'s been acting like this since I first put it in my system.

Oh well, I guess I can play through it.  I dont really hear it while I\'m playing, and I truly doubt it will cause any hardware problems.