V4 tray not opening.

[DutchDemon]

i already opened it, it was the first thing i did of course. im quite positive that i got the mechanism right, but its still not working... so its not the mechanism, and not the ribbon cable... any other ideas?

@ lufcfan, you told here that you had a problem wit hthe tray not ejecting on a version 5. it was something with the white ribbon cable. could you tell me what the problem exactly was, so i can check it?

[lufcfan]

Sure thing m8.

If you take the DVD-ROM drive off the PS2, you should see three cables. One from the laser, another brown one from the worm screw motor and another coming from a small green PCB - it's white with 5 pins. These pins are soldered in place, but can easily come off or snap off from the contact point. Check all the pins are still in place. If you find some have come off, take the cable off completely, strip some of the coating back so you reveal the strips inside, lay the cable back on the contact points ( right way up of course ) and then melt solder over the top of the pins and onto the contact points. Your cable should now be back on, and then the PS2 should fire right up and eject as normal

EDIT: Be very careful though, the pins are fairly close together...

[DutchDemon]

i see, thanks for the reply
but its working already now. turns out the problem was the electromotor of the tray itself. when i pushed the eject button with the motor exposed, and i moved it with my finger a bit, it would sometimes 'catch up' and continue. while fiddling with it a bit, and trying to work out how to fix it, it went working better and better, annd now it works all the time. i dont know for how long though, since i didnt really do anything to it... ow well, its working now, ill look at it again if it stops, but now im gonna order a ribbon cable, cuz i used the one from my good ps2.

[lufcfan]

That may have been all it needed...