PS2 dying out on me... any help appreciated.

[LeGioN1202]

I was doing the usual... hanging out at home playing Final Fantasy XII on my Playstation 2.

Everything ran fine the entire day until the PS2 began making a horrible grinding noise... at first I thought it would work itself out. Then it began taking forever to load anything (thought I wasn't going to be able to save my game because it seemed as though it died out).

Now when I turn on and/or turn off my PS2 it makes this same exact noise. When I try to run games now (CD/DVD) the PS2 makes this noise also and gives a DRE.

I tried to read up but all I found was that it means my Laser Arm may have wore itself out.

Anyone able to help out?


P.S. - This is exactly why I am glad I have a CC 1.1 and an HDD.

[Proton_]

bingo you guessed it your laser is dying u can use lenschanger.elf to try and "restore" or get a new laser

[LeGioN1202]

Any chance that it could just be a worn down laser arm? It does sometimes actually read my DVD games... but it makes the awful grinding noise as though the arm isn't gripping and eventually stops reading because of it.

[Proton_]

you are using backups or originals? i get it sometimes even with my psx disc of the exploit, i used lenschager and no more strange noises in the tray, well with originals since i desoldered my messiah 3.2 modchip

[l_oliveira]

Man it need some lube on the metal pipe it slides on. Take it apart, dust it off, take the dry grease out, clean everything then apply new lithium grease (white grease for plastic/metalic parts)

The grind noise is the plastic lip which runs on the worm motor sliding out of it's track because the laser can't move back or forward. If it cant move you will get a lot of DREs.