Hi, How hard is it to repair a Playstation 2? I plan on buying a defective one from a local online marketplace (~10€) and will try to repair it myself. After a bit of research i found the following common defects + solutions: 1.) Drive motor doesn't spin up Solution: get a new motor (~15€) 2.) Drive motor works, but doesn't read CD/DVD Solution: get a new laser (~25€) 3.) Drive works, reads CD/DVD but the console freezes after a while ? Well sounds ridiculously simple, doesn't it? (except #3) Problem is that i tend to get suspicious when something sounds too easy. So, i thought i'll ask you guys if the above defects are really that easy to fix or if there's a catch?
also:- drive not opening. no power at all no AV Output controller ports not functioning, or the reset/eject buttons no working (ribbon cable problem) failed mod chip attempt - damadged Motherboard, scrap basically. thers loads of things that could go wrong with a ps2.. if you want faulty PS2's i have loads here....
Imagine the expression on my girlfriend's face if she saw that Santa brought me a guy for christmas... "It's ok honey. He's from the internet..." @Topic: I think i'll get one a ps2 with a defective drive and see what i can do. 10€ isn't that much money after all...
if you need a disassembly/assembly guide check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7fhRUZazRE This is what I used to try and fix one of my mates, tho I never got it fixed with a little luck i'll manage with spares of a broken one Parris is going to send me
I'm being lazy, I was in the process of drafting a PS2 repair guide when I thought ''this material is already on the net'', however if folks on AG would want a guide (probably a bit more in-depth than available currently) then I am willing to do so. I need to wait until the weekend before I can get to the Post Office to have the PS2 weighed for shipment to Holland. Working life means I no longer own the bit between Mon-Fri lol. ...all this talk of me being sent to people for Christmas, nobody asked my opinion lol. Just suddenly turning up at the foot of someones bloody chimney stack on the 24th when I was about to smoooze with the wife would be a bit of a shock! h:
@port187: Nice link. Seems like there are a lot of PS2 guides on youtube, didn't know that. Thanks a lot @Parris: I guess a good in-depth PS2 repair guide would always be welcome. There's not much quality material about that kind of stuff around.
This might be a good thread for this question.. I found a auction for five non-working PS2 that seems to go cheap.. I got no idea what is wrong with them.. is it a good idea to buy them and hope I can repair them? ^_^
In my experience anyone selling off multiple dead units is not a ''standard'' seller of simple material that has gone faulty, but perhaps trade / ex-stockist / repair shop that kind of thing. I call these consoles 'cobblers'. They normally comprise of a pile of spares thrown into 1, 2 or 3 consoles from the shit that is left from repairing 10s of units. These cobblers invariably have multiple faults as they are made from bits and pieces that have not worked on other units. Sometimes you strike it lucky, other times you don't! From 5 dead PS2 units you might get 1 working, which considering the cost of P&P really isn't worth it - these days I avoid bulk sales of them. You'll possibly manage to get ALL of them actually up and running (i.e. booting), but perhaps find that not one laser is viable. If they are being sold in your local area and you can buy them without shipping costs, then accept them (I would) at a low price and keep them for spare parts. Strip them down, clean them up, mark off the particular faults with each one. Then stick them aside until you find other units that have working parts you can utilise to repair them. At one stage last year I had 40 dead PS2 units sitting in my garage. When I eventually got around to repairing them and putting them all back together again I managed to get roughly 25-30 working perfectly. The left overs I gave away as they really were total rubbish! That's my advice....PS2 units are good when they work, terrible when they have been badly treated and come in several flavours that DON'T always transfer from one SCPH number to another! Damn you Sony (second time I have written that today!) Don't even bother with PS2 Slimlines. They are a nightmare! :banghead:
Thanks for the answer. I tried mailing them to ask what's wrong with them.. hopefully they replay tomorrow
You'll possibly get the ''we don't really know'' reply ''we are not technically minded and therefore it might be something really simple....'' which translates to ''I have worked on these pieces of crap for nearly 3 weeks and everything is blown, trashed, damaged and so I put them back together again using parts that probably didn't come from the correct SCPH models and I am now pretending they are viable!'' Good luck though!
Taking model 39001 apart! a couple of tips I would first buy 2 ps2 of the same model before taking the first one apart that way you at least have a fighting chance. A store called EB is selling new ones for under a $100 US. If you take one of those ps2 a part remember they are proprietory, which means there not really ment to be taken apart as far I'am concerned. A perfect example is the ribbon connectors they have 2 types 1: The type that go into the drive were you just push the ribbon in and 2: The type you just pull back apart of the connector, set the ribbon in the carrier, snap the back the clip which is part of the connector and your ready to go. Those clips easily break or fall apart or even pop out and if they do, good luck to finding it or even putting it back in ie impossible! Than theres the circuit board for the power. Make sure you watch that you lineup the female connector on the power pcb with the long pins on the main board so there actually pluged in properly and your not actually bending them cause you will bend them if you don't look under the pcb while plugging in the power pcb to the main board. The video that PORT linked us to makes assembly and disembly look away easier than it is. :banghead:
I have a second PS2 that is broken. The issue with it is that the white piece of plastic that runs along the spring to move the laser back and forth is broken, as well as the Ribbon which connects the Power button to the Mother Board. I was wondering is it possible to purchase these two Items seperately, Or would I have to buy another for parts(which is what I was going to use this one for in case my laser in my other one broke)
I got a PS2 yesterday for $12. It reads and plays dvd's just fine but cd's and PS1 games wont read. I tried every trick in the book. but still not working. thats ok though. i have a ps1 sitting right next to it.
CDs are the first to go when the laser's on its way out. Switch to HD Loader or a similar solution if you can.
