ps2 blue disc load problem

[cerex]

I just sega sports tennis the other day and when i put it in the ps2 became very noisy like it would try to load the disc and would stop then try again,so i took it out and saw it was a ps2 blue disc cd-rom and have problems before with every blue disc game i've tried to run on my ps2 btw i got my ps2 the end of 2001,so i why was so hard to try to get blue disc to load?and can this problem be fixed?

[Oobgarm]

Seems to be an intermittent problem with PS2's. I would suggest getting a laser lens cleaner and giving that a shot. I did that for mine and it cleared up the problem. It won't work for everyone, but it's worth a shot.

[Raedon]

Pre-V5 PS2's have a different laser all together then then the newer PS2's.. They have been breaking rather frequently. V1's (original release) are really horrible for this. This will also effect you later in your PS2's life even if your V1-V4 PS2 doesn't break (if you want to play backup movies or whatnot..)

V1-V3 PS2's can not play DVD-R/w's or +R/w's at least without skipping errors even with the best media.. The lasers in these units are really weak and prone to failure. I hate to say it because I really like Sony products but the original PS2's had so many corners cut to save money it's really a discrace. They should have done a recall but good old Sony, the product was just good enough to last past the warranty.


The V7 PS2 has a laser unit stronger then my set top DVD player.. it's quite good and can play DVD-RW's with over a 8000 bitrate with no errors.

[omnedon]

First off, wrong forum.


Secondly, loud noise..blue disc. Blue discs are CDRoms, and spin faster than the silver DVD roms do. That noise is your disc slipping on the spindle. Wrong speed..no read.

1) Clean the inner ring of the disc. get all that finger oil out of there.

WARNING VOIDS WARRANTY!!!!!!!

2)Go inside the deck (see the PS2 thread in the restoration forum) and gently clean the rubber cover on the spindle motor, where the disc sits. You can clean it with a little loop of duct tape, use it like a lint brush with the sticky side.

re-assemble and test

If it still slips, you can try resurfacing the rubbery spindle surface with a thin LEVEL layer of (perfectly cut to size) duct tape. That is tricky, but I have successfully done it.

If you have a grinding noise, only with blue Cdrom discs, your laser is likely just fine.

[Raedon]

I was thinking cd-rom games do not spin faster then DVD-roms. The numbering system is different, that I do know; a 4x dvd is equal to a 16x cd-rom in spinning speed. The loud noise is usually a laser tracking system re-parking itself trying to find the cd, but there is no cd because there is no laser that can read a cd-rom.

I do hope that that isn't your problem though :( If it is so though, and you are out of warranty then you can buy a second hand laser from these guys for $58.. They install chips and when they screw up the soldering they throw out the board and sell off all the other parts, so the parts are pretty much brand new. http://www.modchip-sbox.com/ps2-repair-parts.shtml

You can also get new lasers but they cost almost as much as a used PS2. :roll:

[Six Switch]

Because of those damn blue discs I just got my third ps2. >:( :-(

[Raedon]

Heh, and guess what.. The Sims PS2 is a blue disc.. when you play that game your ps2 sounds like that old 4 gig Hard Disk right before it fails, or how a Dreamcast sounds pretty much all the time. :)

[cerex]

Is there any kinda of list that names the games which are blue disc?

[omnedon]

Read the small print on the game package.

CD Rom are blue discs
DVD Roms are silver discs

My solution is real, as I did it myself, successfully. The blue discs were slipping in my (and one other unit I fixed) unit, but the DVDroms (silver) were not. If there is a reason other than seek speed for the slippage, I'd like to hear it. Perhaps the CD roms go through a more sudden spin up and spin down cycle, while the DVD's spin at a constant? (just a guess)

If you listen to the unit with the cover off, (not the CD cover but the deck cover) you can tell pretty easy. If it grinds only when spinning up (game loading, level loading), it's slipping.

A totally non invasive way to see if it's slippage is to alter the blue game disc. Make it's center area "grippy-er". Perhaps a thin layer of grippy tape applied (EVENLY) to the center of the disc (not covering the hole) would do. (or maybe some temp adhesive like spirit gum) It has to be thin, or it will make the CD sit too high to read, and it has to be even or the disc will wobble. Either way, if the grinding noise goes away, the slippage is the culprit.

I know what a seeking (and failing) laser sounds like. Thing is I don't know what your system sounds like.

I stand by my slippage guess. :-D