Is the PS2 to fragile?

No no, that movie is from when the PS2 was first released.

Originally posted by dbv23
I haven\'t even banged up my Ps2 yet and it already stopped reading cds. anyone else have this problem? It reads dvds but not cds.

My PS2 for some reason just in last 3 days has been doing the same thing.  Well, it still reads all DVDs perfectly, movies and games on the DVD format, and it also reads music CDs just fine.  Nothing wrong at all.

Then in the last 3 days it stopped playing CD-rom based games.  Like Timesplitters and my MGS2 demo and my SSX copy wouldn\'t work at all.  I got the "Disc read error"  It really pissed me off.  So, I though that maybe it was just some rare chance that all of my games were scratched, which they\'re perfect on the back(I\'m very careful with discs), I put in some old PSX games and none of them worked.  Then just last night I stick in the MGS2 demo and it booted up just fine.  After I was done I was in the mood for some multiplayer Timesplitters with my Bro and it wouldn\'t work.  I tried the MGS2 demo again and couldn\'t get it to work.  It hasn\'t worked since.

I am extremely pissed right now.  I think my warranty is up.  Haven\'t read all of the exact info on it yet but isn\'t the warranty only 90 days?  Maybe less...  

Anyway I am so pissed off right now!  Happen to anyone else?  I tried Diagnostics and all too and it did nothing.  

My personal theory is that the laser is seeing the CD format for games as invalid.  It can\'t be a broken oscillator because it reads my music CDs just fine.  This is really pissing me off though.

I am so MAD!!!!!!!!!!   F*ck Sony right now.  Pieces of Sh*t.  Ahhhhhh!!!!

Oh yeah, I have also been very gentle and careful with my system.  I haven\'t move it at all.  It is dusted I think every other day by me and it has never been bumped or shoved or anything.

I yelled at my GF she actually mentioned throwing out the Box for PS2 I was like hell NO...me looking at it now its so purrrty

Well I\'m not sure about the PS2 (I\'ve never hauled it aroundor anything) but it looks like it has a pretty solid piece of plastic incasing it.

But I definitely feel the build quality onthe PSX is way lower. Plastic just kind of looked cheap, and mine kind ofratled when I shook it. I\'mdefinitely more confortable with the durability of the PS2 (still wouldnt throw it around though, but I never do that to any of my systems, except maybe the NES, getting the cartriges to load on that thing is right up there with the lost martial arts of Wu dan) or something

The PS2 warranty is for a year. I know because mine died and I read all the warranty clauses. Ring up sony tech support and you\'ll have to send it off for repairs. I got mine back after 2 and a half weeks.

Thanks Moga2, and I\'ve checked everything out now and Im calling Sony up tomorrow morning right at 7:00 AM just as their tech help line opens up.

The thing is give it a couple of years,and you wont give it a second thought about moveing it around.
One other thing i forgot to mention is i have a bad temper and a short one at that,anyway when i use to get angry at my PSX games,i would hit my ps1 real hard,but i will never ever do that with my PS2,does anyone else do that with there old ps1?

Originally posted by Ethan_Hunt
The thing is give it a couple of years,and you wont give it a second thought about moveing it around.
One other thing i forgot to mention is i have a bad temper and a short one at that,anyway when i use to get angry at my PSX games,i would hit my ps1 real hard,but i will never ever do that with my PS2,does anyone else do that with there old ps1?

I use to do this to my original NES.  I was much younger then and my anger sometimes got the best of me.  I even cracked a piece of plastic off that old machine once.  It really could take a beating.  Now, I think I have matured much since then and never get over angry at a game, no matter how frustrating it is.  I would never dream of smacking my PS2 though, $300 + Tax is quite a bit of money to me.

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I still have my old psx,the one I bought back in \'96 when the thing was released.

Originally posted by Knotter8
I\'m sometimes overprotective about it.
For example when I accidently touch it
a little rough I can get mad at myself.
A thorough inspection follows, and of
course nothin really happened but I declare
it \'scrap\' already. Then I cool down, days pass
by and everything slowly reverts back to normal.

Knotter8

Was it a burned CD? because they work on different CD readers