PS2 DIED - Need Help Finding Repairer
 

Well, the day I thought would never come, but in my mind I foresaw it - I tripped on my controller wire, and my PS2 fell to the damn ground. Disc stopped playing and I hit eject. . .nothing. I guess there is no emergency eject type button on the PS2 and customer support tells me to "push in" whilte "pushing eject" (Im sure I dont need to explain the logistical errors in that statement). I tried to open the little cd tray but the lil white spin thingy wasnt turning so I figured its a little more than the CD not wanting to come out. So, long story short, anyone know of any local (Sacramento), in the city repair men. You try and google and I get nothing.

I may know someone. Lemme call him and ask. Ill post back here with info.




Tyler!

well if u need to get ur game out u can take off the case and the laser unit cover and take it out its very ez to do

I dont think its the game but i tried that and i dont have a screw driver that is small enough to tkae off them little screws on the laser cover. :/

Well I opened the top of the tray and removed the DISC. I then pressed the eject button and it now comes out PART way, and the damn thing spins maybe a few times then stops. If I put a disc on it wont spin at all. Ideas?

u will probly need a new laser unit and houseing it prob screwed up the disk tray its not to hard to fix they sell them on ebay ever now and them used for a good price but it prob be best to have some one look at it in case it screwed up more then just that

You can send it to me ED! if I remember right you don't live far from me. PM me if your interested.

I was actually thinking about you SPED (in a TOTALLY platonic way. . .o_0), while I was digging into my PS2. I took the top off the CD Unit and took the tray out experimenting, and I got the DVD to spin without the tray on it, then put a disc in and it spinned normal. I then slid the tray back in - giving the tray gears a good spinning - and I guess that did it as the tray now moves in and out. Yes. I DID do a happy-dance. I'm guessing the gears were just tossed out of whack, but I still dont understand why it wouldnt spin.

So basically two things were going on:

CD wouldnt spin. Tray wouldnt eject all the way. How do those two affect eahc other?

i can repair almost anything, email me for a price quote

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so u got it working thats great and didnt take much to fix it aftr all :)

Awsome! Glad to hear you got it fixed ED! and I too do the happy dance now and then when working on PS2's. Any way good job man.

Erm, well, you can go BUY a screwdriver that's small enough, at any hardware store for $1.50 or less. In fact, I just bought myself a nice little screwdriver that looks like it'll do the trick for 99 cents at home depot, no less than an hour and a half ago. Would that really be that much of a hassle?
What you CAN do, is you CAN tell the people "Look, I've called before and none of your suggestions have worked. How about I send it in and let you chiefs take a look at it yourself?" Cheaper to ship it out, than to buy a new unit. Perhaps there's even some kind of RMA service for PS2s, but I doubt it.
Oh, yeah.
Even if you have any such things, don't EVER tell them that you're using any non-sony-non-PS2 products of any kind. My PS1 was broken (The reset button kinda stopped working), and both guys I called completely denied me any service at all, because I had a madcatz controller.
Just make sure if you take it apart, do so inconspicuously.