titanium_apple
12-11-2003, 12:34 PM
My V.4 Messiah 2 Pro PS2 has suddenly stopped trying to read disks of any kind. One night, I was played THUG on a G04 Ritek backup perfectly happily, I turn it off, then I try to play it again the next night, and I put in the disk and wait, and wait, and wait etc etc, but the disk doesn't load, so I try another backup, then an original, then an xbox demo disk. Still nothing.
I've since opened the case, taken off the DVD drive lid and taken a look at it with/without a disk in the drive to see what happens. The spindle in the middle comes up after the drive has closed, spins for 1 second or 2 (and at the same time the laser comes on for half a second), then they both stop. Very occasionally (1 in 20), the drive acts as if it's trying to read the disk by spinning it and with the laser on [with the drive lid off], which it does for about 10 seconds, but nothing happens afterwards i.e. it doesn't load the disk. Nothing seems loose or anything. Have you had/heard of this problem? Any guesses? If not, would anybody else know? Thanks for your help
I've since opened the case, taken off the DVD drive lid and taken a look at it with/without a disk in the drive to see what happens. The spindle in the middle comes up after the drive has closed, spins for 1 second or 2 (and at the same time the laser comes on for half a second), then they both stop. Very occasionally (1 in 20), the drive acts as if it's trying to read the disk by spinning it and with the laser on [with the drive lid off], which it does for about 10 seconds, but nothing happens afterwards i.e. it doesn't load the disk. Nothing seems loose or anything. Have you had/heard of this problem? Any guesses? If not, would anybody else know? Thanks for your help