Has anyone else\'s PS2 seem to die after about a month?

God.........I\'m so aggravated right now.  I\'ve invested over $700 on this console along with games and accesories and now it wants to stop reading discs, whether it\'s PS2/PSX format software, DVD movies, CDs, etc.  I pop a disc in and I\'ll either get a "disc read error" or the screen will stay blank during a game bootup.  And the worst part is, it happens at random times!  Sometimes it\'ll cooperate and read something while other times it just simply refuses to do anything.  

Sending the stupid thing to Sony will just leave me a month without a console that I play every day.....that\'s not good enough.  Seriously, the QC really needs to get better on these damn things.  My friend got a DOA PS2 that took a month to get replaced and now I think mine is toast.  I\'m pretty sure it has something to do with the CD/DVD drive mechanism because it will sound like the disc is spinning for a few seconds and then it\'ll click a few times and stop.  

I never had problems with it until a couple of days ago (Christmas) when I had to fight with the stupid machine to get it to boot SSX.  Gosh, this reminds me of the old NES days where you had to BLOW on the cartridge contacts to make the silly things work right.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR............

It happened a few times, I proped it up vertically, and it worked again. But thats still bull ****. I should be able to play **** flawlessly while it\'s horizontal.

[videoholic]

well if you don\'t send it back in the first three months you have nothing to complain about since it\'s your own fault for not getting it fixed.

You\'d also think on a console this expensive that they\'d at least give a 1-year warranty.  90 days is subpar, especially for a Sony product.  What if crap like this happened after the 90th day?  WOW........I guess you\'ll have to go looking for a rare PS2 AGAIN and shelling out $300 AGAIN.  Unless of course you can find an authorized tech who can repair them.

[videoholic]

I agree 1 year would be nice...

I think their thought is that if something is wrong with the PS2, it will show up right away.  You have to realize this is a system many kids play and can drop, etc...  over the course of a year.  If Sony feels that any problems due to production will pop up in the first 3 months then well that\'s why they would want to do that.

I have had mine since launch day and have not had a problem with it.Its been real good to me no complaints here.And i agree 1 year would be nice.

I have had mine since launch and havn\'t had a single problem with it, but that\'s just me, and i guess I got lucky, sorry I can\'t give empathy

I don\'t know how it works in the US, but here in Denmark there is automatically a 1-year warranty on EVERYTHING you buy. Including PS2 of course.

I haven\'t had any problems what-so-ever with my PS2 though.

 had mine since launch , there was no problems with it

Deadly Hamster, I love your signature.

90 days, to me, says, "We aren\'t sure enough in our product\'s design to support it past that".  They should give the option to purchase longer warranties.

i have a one year warranty on my PAL ps2 but it\'s not the same as my friends imported ps2, there is no pcmcia card slot, instead, there is an "Expansion bay" (supposedly for the future "hard disk"). Now it\'s too late anyway because i bought ADSL and a special compatible keyboard and mouse from Alienware computers.

I can\'t say about mine because i haven\'t played mine i have no games.

[GmanJoe]

I think you console has a hedgehog in it. A blue hedgehog. Kill it when you find it. Hate that thing. And when you squish it, it\'ll squeel "SEGA"! Kinda cool.

The PS2 is not the only Sony product with a 90 day warranty. I had a dss system that had the same time frame. I do not know what the problems is I got my PS2 on 11/14/2000 my DC on 09/09/1999 my N64 in 96 and my PS on 09/09/1995. All of these still work fine. I use my PS2 for games and my DVD changer for movies. However I did use the PS2 to watch the Sopranos this weekend out of town and it worked fine. I do agree with video you have nothing to complain about if you don\'t send it back now.

Similar thing happened to me too. One day things were going fine then all of a sudden it wouldn\'t read discs.... I sent it to a Authorized Sony repair center in Canada and got it back in 2 weeks. It works great now. I think you should take it to get fixed cause it would suck having a PS2 that doesn\'t play games half the time. Besides its a slow time for games right now anyways. I still play it sevral times a day tho.