So my friend gave me a broken ps1 in the trade and I knew it was broken. It is the oldest model of the ps1 and I know they had trouble because of the laser was so close to the power supply. What do I have to do to fix it. Replace the Laser? Adjust it?
Turning it upside down also helps for a quick fix (seriously), I used mine upside down for a good 10 years lol
lol yea I know that but I'm going to trade it for some other console at this inside flea market place and I don't want to lie about it working lol
If you've got one of the older PS1s that have the laser wear issue (does it work if you flip it upside down?) you can simply replace the laser assembly with one from a later model which corrected this issue. The laser used in the PSone is suppose to the best (though you'll need to swap over the plastic cover so it'll go into your model).
Segata's link already mentioned it, but yeah, it's dead easy. Simple open up the console, unplug the cables from the old drive, take it out, and plug the cables from the new drive in. If you're using a PSone drive, you'll need to swap the plastic covers over, but this is like two screws. Best confirm it is the laser though, see if it works when it's upside down.
Whoops, but I am literally herp derp in doing this stuff. Like I can take apart a console and maybe do like soldering stuff but like that's it. This would be an awesome thing taking apart a console fixing it then reselling it. Talk about bank.
The older PS1s suffer from an issue where the plastic sleds that the laser slides along gets warped from being so close to the PSU. When you flip the console upside down, gravity takes the weight off the laser mechanism and the laser is able to move. If this makes it work, you know the console is fine and is just suffering from the warping I mentioned. Simply swap out the laser assembly with one from a newer model and you're done. No soldering needed!
I dealt with a PS1 that hadn't been used for like 10 years... it wasn't reading discs. Upon further investigation one of the gears had popped up maybe from being moved around a bunch of times in storage and was preventing all the gears from spinning. All I had to do was pop it back in and it worked. After that, I re-greased the gears with some white lithium grease. Of course, if yours is spinning then it's probably not that... but just throwing the info out there.
Me and my dad was talking about this and he was going to adjust the laser but the ps1 has to be on but a website said that Ps1 has 400V in it. Is that true, he said he doesnt wanna die.
I swapped out my SCPH-1001 laser with a laser from a fried SCPH-9001. I had to snap off a couple of the bottom tabs and cut off part of the top of the laser assembly to get it to fit in the old case, but it works great.
There are high voltages in a PSX (not 400V, but enough to hurt you) - but they are only in a very specific part of the unit, basically the rear section of the power supply board nearest the socket for the power cord. This photo shows you the part to avoid: http://wiki.assemblergames.com/lib/...&h=375&tok=eb8bca&media=wiki:sony:psx_psu.jpg On the main PCB, the highest voltage is about 8V. If you have the white PSone, then there are no high voltages inside the unit at all.
