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God, I hate my Playstation...
Topic Started: Jan 22 2007, 01:34 PM (2,248 Views)
TourqeGlare
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Okay, here is the problem: SCHP 30001R

Dont know what that is?
I'll tell you.
Its an old Playstation 2, one of the big bulky
monolith ones that stand proudly in the pictures.
Said monolih has problems though,
Observe:

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Owners of early PS2 models purchased from launch until spring 2002 commonly reported faulty optical drives in their consoles. The earliest drives suffered from a constantly misaligning laser lens but later defects were the result of a shift in voltage to the laser itself. The first problem was relatively easy to remedy, but it required opening the machine's casing and tweaking a cog that controlled the lens' distance from the discs it was supposed to read, thus voiding the warranty. This usually did not matter, as in most cases the warranty already had expired by the time such problems began to appear. The second fix involved the use of an oscillator. As time went on, more and more drives began breaking down and a class action lawsuit was filed against Sony. They had the option of either paying the requested fines in damages, or offering free repair and replacements at their discretion.[13] Sony chose the latter and, until February 2005, they honored their agreement. In the UK owners suffering from this flaw must pay Sony £50 (as of spring 2005) to get their machines repaired.

A second lawsuit is being filed against Sony for all of the above, plus claims that defective hardware is damaging media discs. The first hearings were set to commence in April and May, 2005.[14]

As of 2006, Sony is offering exchanges of factory-refurbished consoles for broken out-of-warranty consoles for a charge of US $45.


Fine eh?
I don't got the money to send my PS2 out, or for a new/used one.
I am sitting here with my PS2's guts exposed, and test games surrounding it:

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I follow this thing: http://ps2repairs.amenet.co.uk/disk.htm and it gets to a point where it will load blue bottom PS2 disks, CDs and PS1 games, but no DVDs of any kind! and in reverse.

This wheel!
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My PS2 sucks!
I dont get to blast Klingin ships in ST Encounters, then watch the jar of dirt and Orly Bloom do the cha-cha!

ARRRG!!! :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
C'mon and take a ride on the rays of the sun...
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The bringer of liquid dreams....
This is why the Stormfury is strictly an Xbox guy. They have always served me faithfully in the past and their customer service is magnificent.
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USS Stormfury
Mar 19 2007, 10:08 AM
This is why the Stormfury is strictly an Xbox guy. They have always served me faithfully in the past and their customer service is magnificent.

Yeah, well I might become an XBOX guy if the PS3 doesnt get better!

Schmucks... :sarcastic:

Anyway, my current PS2 is working just fine right now,
I haven't really had to take it apart and fiddle with it
since I last took it apart.
Luckily, I marked where the sweet spot was on that white cog.
C'mon and take a ride on the rays of the sun...
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I own one of the older PS2 Models (yes, the monolith looking ones). But I bought mine in February of 2003. I haven't had one problem with it.
Yet....
 
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I got my PS2 in June of '02, so I must have just missed the glitch stage. I recently got a PS3 and have had no problems with it for 2 months so far and I highly recommend it.
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witbee
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Stop the hate.....
Bought my PS2 in '99. Not one problem with it.




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USS Stormfury
Mar 19 2007, 05:08 PM
This is why the Stormfury is strictly an Xbox guy. They have always served me faithfully in the past and their customer service is magnificent.

Amen brother!
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Well, I'm sure people have problems with particular systems while others do not. My PS2 that I got in May of '01 is still going, yet oddly the only blue disc game it'll play is Encounters. Can't complain about that really. As for the Xbox line, my original xbox that I bought whenever Knights of the Old Republic came out crapped out several times with a hard-drive failure. I say several times, because oddly enough, if I picked it up and shook it after it sat unused for a week, it would correct itself for at least 2 weeks before the hard-drive would start making the nasty scratching sound again. I also got a 360 at launch, in fact system number 225, and it had a hardware failure 13 months into ownership, thus being too old even for their extended 1 year warranty. Had to shell out 130 bucks to get it fixed, and since it crashed in late November- early December, I had to wait until March before I had the money to pay for it. It's back and working, now I just need to get Legacy.

So, in my own opinion, from everything I've seen, including all of my friends who own both company's systems, the PS2 only had the issue that you're having, while the xbox line has multiple system quirks. This may just be an anomoly, but I personally think that Sony's line is better, for what its worth anyways.
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Squall67584
Mar 19 2007, 08:32 PM
Well, I'm sure people have problems with particular systems while others do not. My PS2 that I got in May of '01 is still going, yet oddly the only blue disc game it'll play is Encounters. Can't complain about that really. As for the Xbox line, my original xbox that I bought whenever Knights of the Old Republic came out crapped out several times with a hard-drive failure. I say several times, because oddly enough, if I picked it up and shook it after it sat unused for a week, it would correct itself for at least 2 weeks before the hard-drive would start making the nasty scratching sound again. I also got a 360 at launch, in fact system number 225, and it had a hardware failure 13 months into ownership, thus being too old even for their extended 1 year warranty. Had to shell out 130 bucks to get it fixed, and since it crashed in late November- early December, I had to wait until March before I had the money to pay for it. It's back and working, now I just need to get Legacy.

So, in my own opinion, from everything I've seen, including all of my friends who own both company's systems, the PS2 only had the issue that you're having, while the xbox line has multiple system quirks. This may just be an anomoly, but I personally think that Sony's line is better, for what its worth anyways.

for your original Xbox, the first Xbox Gen was basically a computer minus the overt operating system and a keyboard, but gut wise it was basically a PC with a windows gaming OS if you will, so if the harddrive failed it could have just been a defective harddrive, also shaking it's not going to help :lol: , if you bump a harddrive based device hard enough when it's running you'll likely crash the read/write head into the platters and kill the harddrive :lol:

if I remember I think the 360 also got some funky batches of harddrive, or it was disc drives, one of the two

honestly? if you want the best systems Nintendo's made the best longest lasting systems, I still have an NES, SNES, N64, and gamecube and they've never had so much as a tiny problem
they're only fault is that the cube didn't really get that many good games, but that thing is made like a tank, you could drop it from 100 feet and it'll still work, I'm not joking

sony's stuff is the most fragile out of the 3 (and costs the most)
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NES????? please dude. People complain about Windows having the "blue screen of death" but it was Nintendo who perfected that bullshit. :kungfu:


*blows into NES cartridge*
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