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Phatty PS2 not spinning discs
FyreWulff
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Alright, so one of my dad's buddies let me have his old PS2 - it's an old fatty one - but it's "broken" (I -think- the problem is that the disc tray stopped opening), so I decided to take it and see if I can resurrect it.
One problem - I can't even start to diagnose it's problem until I can see if it powers on. I don't know if was this buddy that did this when he took it apart or what, but the thin cable going from the power/eject buttons (attached to the top half) has been seperated from the bottom half, and I have no idea where the hell it's supposed to go to. Help? It looks like it's intact, just needs to be attached to the main console.
And I already tried googling this - every repair site shows pictures, none of them showing the power strip somehow, and all of them saying "IF YOU RIP THIS YOU ARE FUCKED" and the only text description I have found of it only says "hooked it up to the main board".
One problem - I can't even start to diagnose it's problem until I can see if it powers on. I don't know if was this buddy that did this when he took it apart or what, but the thin cable going from the power/eject buttons (attached to the top half) has been seperated from the bottom half, and I have no idea where the hell it's supposed to go to. Help? It looks like it's intact, just needs to be attached to the main console.
And I already tried googling this - every repair site shows pictures, none of them showing the power strip somehow, and all of them saying "IF YOU RIP THIS YOU ARE FUCKED" and the only text description I have found of it only says "hooked it up to the main board".
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Anybody have a good idea on what could be stopping the drive from ejecting completely?
I just put an Xbox game in it (to see if it'd load the DVD move on it - all Xbox games have a movie on them for DVD players), went to eject so the PS2 would think I put a disc in - and the damn thing ejects all the way. Now, the new problem is that once it pulls back, it only spins the disc about 25% - not even a complete revolution - and stops.