HElP!!! PLEASE!!!

Anyone having a problem where their PS2 stops reading CDs?  I haven\'t been abusing mine, I take really good care of it.  WIll Sony repair it, do they have some kind of warrenty?  Ahh, I don\'t know what to do, must play PS2.  HELP!!!

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 that 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, I too have been very gentle with my PS2.  Never moved it.  It is always dusted and it\'s never been banged or shoved.

did you drop it in teh bath tub?

Mine has experienced no such problem.

I\'d suggest giving Sony a call and asking what\'s up.  That\'s basically the only thing you can do besides just waiting around and seeing if it works again in a day or two.

Good luck to both of you!

I was planing on calling tomorrow.  If it needs repairs it better not cost much.  I just can\'t afford it right now.  I\'ve got two school proms coming up (Mine and my girlfriend\'s) that I\'m going to and a trip to Six Flags:Magic mountain in the beginning of May.  I just bought a car and I\'m paying insurance and fuel right now.  I am just so pissed right now!!!  

Thanks anyways you guys...

Mine had a similar problem but it had a lot of problems reading DVD\'s. I called about a week ago and it sounded like a pretty common problem. They said it had something to do with the hardware and since my warranty was up I would have to pay to get it fixed. Unfortunately it\'s gonna cost about $126 to fix the darn thing, and then take 10-15 working days. Needless to say, I wasn\'t too pleased to hear this bit of info. I\'m probably gonna send it in still, but I think it\'s crap that they aren\'t doing a recall of some sort when it seems like this happened to a lot of people. Anyone else experiencing these difficulties?

PS2 warranty is 1 ( read ONE ) year buddy ! :nut:

Knotter8

I thought the warranty was only 90 days.  If it\'s a year thats great, thanks for all the replies

thats what i thought, but it\'s not 90 days its a full year "wich i think is great cause i mean 90 days doe not mean sheet!, i was worried that if the 90 days would pass then it would get jacked up i would have a worthless PS2, and the scary thing is that my PS2 hasn\'t been reading my cd\'s either!!! well its only happened 3 times so far with Z.O.E. the MGS2 demo, and once with shadow of destiny, dont tell me i have a Defective ps2 cause it\'s been flawless ever since i got it,

I\'m going back to where I bought the unit tomorrow to ask about the warranty, but when I called they told me the warranty was only for 90 days. If I find out it was different they\'re going to get a very nasty call back from me, I guarantee it. I\'ll update you when I find out.

Originally posted by Ratlad
I\'m going back to where I bought the unit tomorrow to ask about the warranty, but when I called they told me the warranty was only for 90 days. If I find out it was different they\'re going to get a very nasty call back from me, I guarantee it. I\'ll update you when I find out.

Sony warranty is 1 year

so you have to contact Sony. The place you bought it from probably only allows for 90 days

After reading all these replies I\'m kinda glad that I got hooked up with EB\'s ESA thing, which is basically a 2-year warranty.  It only cost me $50 too.

This is pretty freaky man... I have had no problems with my playstation ...yet, but alot of people have and I don\'t want to get it fixed or whatever. Has sony said anything about this? I don\'t think it is fair to buy something for 500 bucks (canadian) and have to send it back in a short period of time because it doesn\'t read cd\'s. Even if you have warranty it\'s still a drag! I just hope this doesn\'t happen to my PS2.

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Sony warranty is 1 year

so you have to contact Sony. The place you bought it from probably only allows for 90 days.

When I called the Sony help line they were the ones who told me the warranty was only for 90 days. That\'s why I want to check at the store tomorrow. I\'ll read through all my stuff that came with it as well to make sure. I\'ll let you all know for sure tomorrow.

When I had Sony on the phone, one of many times, they never told me how long the warranty was; they only asked me when I bought it.

And the 10-15 days is from the date your unit is assigned to a technician.  So if it takes 3 days to get to the service center and 10 days for them to fix it and 4 days to get it back, that\'s 17 days.

And then hope they fix it right the first time.

It seems like half the people who got a unit on launch are the ones with the problems.