As the title says, Ive got a psx and the lid wont close properly . The screen flickers when ever the lids down, if I manage to get it down. Im trying to get it fixed up to possible sell it. Any ideas?
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As the title says, Ive got a psx and the lid wont close properly . The screen flickers when ever the lids down, if I manage to get it down. Im trying to get it fixed up to possible sell it. Any ideas?
open it up and see why the case isnt closing... maybe there is some foreign object fell into the hinge area?? only way to find out is to open the sucker up.....they are not worth a hell of a lot so why not give it a go?
I have a PSOne (SCPH-102) with a similar problem. The lid frequently pops open, and it usually takes several attempt to make it stay closed again, even without any drive action. And whenever the lid is open enough for the sensors to react, the game will lose access to the CD with all kinds of glitches likely to result, affecting both video and audio.
The real problem is quite simply the cheap PSOne design. The lid-locking mechanism is made of 100% plastic parts, and when the plastic gets worn and aged, and the flexible parts lose some of their flexibility, problems like this are inevitable.
But an equally cheap solution for making the console playable is to simply tape the lid down with regular 'scotch tape', or just place some suitable object (not too heavy and not too light) on top of the lid to keep it down.
Taking the console apart and cleaning the lid-lock mechanism did help a little, but there is no way to get around the plastic parts being worn and aged. Such things can't be cured.
Fortunately I don't have to rely on that console, since I also have a fat PSX (SCPH-5552) which I recently modded.
Best regards: dlanor
After a while with the older PSX units, even with the lid closed the laser would have problems reading, the funny thing they all work fine when flipped over on their back like a turtle, weird looking but you could play for hours that way with no problems.
The truth is when CD was first invented by Phillips the laser assembly was on the top, and the disc was under it, much the old LP record players, but then Sony complained how could they produce music discs, if the their was no room for a nice big label, and if labelled the customer had to know to flip the disc upside down and insert it into the loading tray.
So the whole design was flipped over, and little focus magnets were added to push the lens up against the normal earth down-ward pull of gravity to get the proper reading focus on the spinning disc.
As such over time, those little magnets in the early PSX design fail to hold the laser up, and the units only worked upside down on their back like a turtle.
I know, long post and no help at all to your plastic lid problem. Sorry!
Did that. Now it still flickers even though the lid is closed. When I took it apart I held little button down that is used for opening and also reseting the PSOne (inside the case) and noted that if its held down it flickers so thats on there to tight. Even with the lid open nothing will play, lid closed nothing%Quote:
Originally Posted by dlanor
ok wtf I keep editing my last post but itsn ot showing up.
Tried the turtle method, nothing. Put a little preasure on the pso and I still got the flicker from reseting. I put a little more preasure on it and I heard "click click click". Now Im looking at the motor. At this point it seems to be either the motor or the laser which either one will run me the price of getting a used PSOne so Im not at a loss if this messes up.
I am using a 9v plug on a 7.5v PSOne if thats going to make any diffrence.
I have both the PSX and PSO side by side so I tried this - I turned the PSX on without a game, lid open, nothing. On with the lid closed and no game, nothing. Game in, lid open, power on, slight spin. Game in lid closed, spun up right away.
Repeat the same thing with the PSOne - Nothing happend. Im going to try cleaning off the laser and then try it again. I noticed that even without a game in PSX it would not spin even when powered on and the lid closed, only when it detected a CD so Im getting closer to think its the laser thats the problem
20% overvoltage normally does make a huge difference, and is often enough to kill sensitive equipment permanently. I once tried to use 6V PSUs for my 5V routers with very erratic results, always ending in failed transfers. But all it took to make them run stable was to drop the voltage through a silicon diode, thus reducing the voltage fed to the router by appx 0.7V.Quote:
Originally Posted by litch
In your case the power consumption will probably be higher though, plus the fact that your error voltage is higher too. So if you decide to try that method you should use two high current silicon diodes in series, and let them feed a PSU capacitor grounded at the other end, and feed the voltage over the capacitor on to the PSOne.
But that's just a stop-gap measure, as you do need a proper PSU with the proper voltage for any long-term use.
Best regards: dlanor