[TripleM]

My garage sale bought PS2 would not read most discs. Used the DRE guide to fix it. It worked well right away for a few discs but not all. Tweaked it a bit more using the guide once again, and the phone rang. Left the room to answer, came back and my 4 year old moved the eye all the way back manually! No big deal I thought, but since then the disc will not spin up, so obviously it isn't reading anything at all. In addition, when I close the tray, it continuasly opens back up all by itself, over and over and over ARRRGH! Can anyone help me?

[NoPunIntended]

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[tweakmonkey]

When you power it up with the case open, will it track back and forth and try to read the disc still? Or is it stuck in place?

[TripleM]

It's stuck in place.

[dartmaster187]

Hello,
I've got the same problem. My PS2 worked fine with a ghost/matrix chip (i dont know exacly).
But since yesterday it reads nothing. When i power on the PS2 the disc doens't spin up. There happends nothing, no spin, no reading and no data.
I read the whole repairguide, triend a lot of combinatios of the cockweel and the laser adjustment but can't get it worked.
Is there any suggesties for the best place for the cockweel/laser. I turned it and the laser adjusted but forgot how it was originally placed.
Can someone help me.
Sorry for my english but i'm dutch

[funkgab]

Originally Posted by TripleM

It's stuck in place.

i fixed that by taking the drive out and popping it back in for some kid.

[dartmaster187]

Originally Posted by funkgab

i fixed that by taking the drive out and popping it back in for some kid.

Well i'm not the same guy as the topicstarter.
But i have the same problems as the topicstarter.
Anyway i've got two playstations 2 standing here and tried everything. But can't get it worked. I replaced almost everything with the other one (that was 100% OK) but it still doesn't work.
When i power on the PS2 I hear that the laser is reading, al little peep. Then the motor for spinning the disc goes about 1 second spinning. Then immediatly its stops. I think the laser can't read the disc so it stops spinning cause the laser thinks there is no disc in it. I tried it yesterday for about 3 hours, the laser adjustment, the cockweel turning and the voltage. The laser is still working because when you power on the PS2 you see a red light in the laser dat says that it is still working right?

[funkgab]

red light? you mean when you hold down the power button for ps2? thats standby

[dartmaster187]

Originally Posted by funkgab

red light? you mean when you hold down the power button for ps2? thats standby

No i mean the small light that is coming out of the laser. He tries to read the disk, you see short a red light coming out of the laser to.

[funkgab]

thats the laser itself, it might be exposed so its not working

[DarkTrance]

I have this same problem with another one. Actually, if I wait a REALLY long time, the disc will start spinning. It eventially detects the silver disc <got it to run a blue one> but it takes forever. I've replaced the motor on the side with another <this looks like a spiral screw that the laser slide up and down upon> and it's done nothing to remedy the problem.

This might not be exactly the same... if it is then after it spins the disc twice and stops.. it'll stop for a good 2 minutes or so.... then it will spin like their's no tommorrow... 30 sec after that it finds my silver disc. When I click to play the screen goes black and then goes back to the previous screen where it was detecting the disc.