Help with PS2

[bsbllstr876]

My PS2 is about 2 yrs old and every game I put in it, it doesn't read. It says reading disc twice then stops. How can I fix this?

[OSUG1]

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Dealing with PS2 disc read errors

[Blzer]

Re: Help with PS2

My PS2 is about 2 yrs old and every game I put in it, it doesn't read. It says reading disc twice then stops. How can I fix this?

Happens to everybody; it's not just you. I'm on my third PS2 (first time was my fault... dropped off of a high shelf). My second one had the problem starting with blue-back CD's, then with movie DVD's, then with games. They started working when I would tilt the PS2 upright, and then it was pretty much done for good.

Don't tell anyone this (shhhhhh!), but I sort of got a "free" new PS2. My dad bought me a new PS2, and took my old one, cleaned it up to make it look brand new, and put it in the box of my new one. He returned it saying that "it was a birthday present", and that "I didn't want it". So... cha-ching! Brand new, no real charge!


My suggestion is, if you don't want to take the time opening your PS2 and hoping for the best in trusting yourself to clean and adjust the laser (that's normally the issue), then try my approach. Not quite sure if it will work for you, but yeah.

[BGarrett7]

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Don't tell anyone this (shhhhhh!), but I sort of got a "free" new PS2. My dad bought me a new PS2, and took my old one, cleaned it up to make it look brand new, and put it in the box of my new one. He returned it saying that "it was a birthday present", and that "I didn't want it". So... cha-ching! Brand new, no real charge!

And completely illegal.

That being said, I got my new PS2 for "free" as well. My old one stopped playing games -- sports games, to be specific -- and I had a friend who had just bought a new PS2 and was looking to unload it because he hadn't even turned it one since buying it. So, I ended up paying him $150 for his brand new PS2, then turned around and sold my old one to my girlfriend's brother for the same price. And, apparently, from what I hear, the one I sold him is still working to this day. So, it's not like I screwed him over or anything, plus, he knew the situation when he bought it. New PS2, zero dollars spent.