Author Topic: Why does my PS2 hate me? (Read 2310 times)

Titan · « **on:** July 24, 2002, 08:39:11 PM »

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?

« **Reply #1 on:** July 24, 2002, 08:52:56 PM »

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...

« **Reply #2 on:** July 24, 2002, 08:54:55 PM »

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

Titan · « **Reply #3 on:** July 24, 2002, 09:18:19 PM »

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.

« **Reply #4 on:** July 24, 2002, 10:42:06 PM »

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #5 on:** July 24, 2002, 11:45:51 PM »

violence and electronics don\'t mix. Send it too boston.

« **Reply #6 on:** July 24, 2002, 11:49:12 PM »

Mine hates me too so don\'t worry.

« **Reply #7 on:** July 25, 2002, 04:47:24 AM »

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.

« **Reply #8 on:** July 25, 2002, 05:13:32 AM »

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.

« **Reply #9 on:** July 25, 2002, 08:32:54 AM »

Yes, dust is not a great friend of these kinda devices.

Titan · « **Reply #10 on:** July 25, 2002, 09:53:16 AM »

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.

« **Reply #11 on:** July 25, 2002, 10:06:58 AM »

take it apart and clean it.. I\'m doing this to Bladez ps2 later tonight cause he has the same probs.

Titan · « **Reply #12 on:** July 25, 2002, 10:21:53 AM »

Knowing me, I\'ll break it some how and have to buy another one

« **Reply #13 on:** July 25, 2002, 10:25:11 AM »

SirMystiq · « **Reply #14 on:** July 25, 2002, 11:21:10 AM »

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.

Hello

Author Topic: Why does my PS2 hate me? (Read 2310 times)