PS2 network adapter issues

Hello guys first time posting my own thread here so please go easy on me . I have a Playstation 2 version 7 that I myself moded with a DMS3 a long long time ago, everything works great except no hard drive detection. I used good old google to find out what could be causing this and I found it comes down to two things, a blown fuse or a defective network adapter. I quickly opened up the console and got to work with my trusty fluke dmm and found one blown fuse PS7, upon further research I found out that this particular fuse has nothing to do with network adapter at all. It is used for the 8V needed for the rumble feedback motors on the controller, now to be safe I did purchase the fuse which is on it's way and a extra network adapter just to be safe on both suspected causes. Now to the point of this post, could a unrelated fuse blown like PS7 cause the network adapter to malfunction?


Thanks

 

Was the network adaptor and HDD unit originally working properly? What software have you tried using to access the HDD unit?

What happens when the HDD unit is accessed? Does the HDD spin up and stay activated, or does the fan spin faster for a while before slowing back down? If it's the latter, then check the 5V and 12V IC links (fuses) for the DEV9 interface. If it's the former, check that your HDD is set to single-drive mode (or master, if it has no single-drive mode).

If the network adaptor has never worked with your HDD unit, is your network adaptor a genuine SONY adaptor? If you did not buy it directly from SONY or a reputable dealer, you might want to open it and check if it has SONY parts inside.

Finally, what disk are you using? Older disks that do not support UDMA mode 4 might not work with the network adaptor, and so are disks that are smaller than approximately 4.2GB in size (they will result in an invalid largest partition size value within the APA driver).

 

The disk was originally working IDE disk a 60GB one, I hadn't played it for a while so when I decided to power it up again it worked for a while but then stopped detecting it. Now I thought it was the drive so I hooked it up to my PC and the drive was seen by the pc and I was able to open it up using winhiip program. That's how I figured the issue had to be on the PS2 end.

 

Is your HDD jumper set on master, I believe the hdd only works in a PS2 if you set it to master not slave.

 

Cable select sometimes works too

 

Sorry guys I forgot to mention that it's a sata drive, I used a converter on the original IDE drive.

 

Not all adapters will work with the network adapter.

 

so its one of the third party network adaptors then....pretty sure sony only made IDE adaptors, it might be down to that then maybe....or even the IDE-Sata converter

sorry so just to confirm is the network adapter a original sony IDE thing or one of those sata versions that are on ebay and such....or are you using the standard adaptor with a IDE->sata adaptor

 

Gamesquest1, the adapter is an original sony one that was being used in it's original form with a 60 gig IDE hard drive. I had not powered the PS2 in a while and decided to give it a go with the original 60 gig drive. It booted into hd loader fine and I was able to load a game but after that the hard drive stopped being detected. I thought the hard drive was bad so I tried with a different hard drive I had laying around another old IDE and the same thing no detection in HDloader so I though I give a shot at trying to use a sata adapter since I had one laying around and still no detection. So I figured it was either the network adapter itself or a blown fuse, mind you the drives worked fine on the PC itself so I narrowed it down to the console or the adapter. So I proceeded to open the console and measure resistance across the fuses and all but one checked out, PS7 which gave me infinite resistant so it was blown. I ordered a replacement and I am currently waiting on it, I also picked up another network adapter just in case the fuse doesn't fix the issue. Now the point of my post is to ask you guys if a fuse that really has nothing to do with the network adapter's interface really cause it to malfunction?. Cause on my board revision a V7 NTSC board it says that the blown fuse is actually there for the force feedback on the controls. Now the actual fuses directly related to network adapter operation are PS9 and PS10, but those two are not blown on my board. Hopefully someone can give me some insight, that or maybe I get lucky and it is the fuse . Thanks for all the replies guys.

 

There is a fuse that supplies power to the HDD. I've blown it before.

 

ok well sorry for the confusion it was just that you said you where using a IDE drive and a Sata-IDE converter, but yeah if your not getting any power to the drive there would either be a fuse blown in the console probably best replacing the blown fuse you found idk tbh if that fuse would effect the network adapter, but if that that's the only dead fuse you can find i suppose it wouldn't harm to replace it anyway, if you have already ordered a replacement network adapter at least you will know soon enough if its the old adapter or the ps2 itself, good luck

 

Gamequest1 thanks for your reply and also thank everyone else who replied on the thread. I got the network adapter replacement already but I will wait for the fuse to find out for sure if it's one or the other. I will keep you guys posted, once again thanks.