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I'll start this off with it was a quiet Sunday afternoon....
Playing Destroy All Humans (and loving it) when I started a new mission and my death ray or sonic boom wasn't making any sound. I went to return to mothership to restart, and froze....
I reset the PS2, it immediately started clickling loudly. noise was coming from the drive, series clicking. On the screen, it was showing the "Browser" menu.
I powered down the unit, waited for 5 minutes (in case it was overheated) powered it up, same thing.
A little history, this has a ChipMod modchip, worked flawlessly the last few months. PS2 is a V9, with romeo mod.
I open the case, pop open the top cover of the drive, and turn the unit on. The whole laser assembly jitters forwards and backwards. First time opening the drive I see the two white cogs at the back and swipe at the one to see if I could move the laser manually, maybe free it. Was after the fact I discovered how it worked and seen the worm gear. Anyways, I powered up the ps2, and now everythings quiet, laser moving back and forth ok. Thought everything was fine.
I stick a backup into the ps2, and nothing DRE. All DVD's are DRE now, original or backup, movie or game. CD and PS1 games work fine.
I know I mucked with the alignment gear at the back by accident, so try moving it back to where I thought it started and clunk, it drops to the bottom. I tried for a couple hours moving the gear up and down, then to both gears up and down (they had to make it complicated). No matter what no change.
I thought I'd be smart. I went to the local used electronics shop and bought and PS2, exact model as mine. I started this unit up, it worked fine with originals.
I removed the entire drive, the whole thing, and transplanted it into my PS2. I fire my original GT4 and away it went. It was very noisy, but it loaded. Goes to "browser" screen for back-ups and original movies.
I popped the top of this drive to see what it was up to, the laser itself moves up and down fairly quickly trying to read the disk, loud clicking as it hits the top, the disk spins very slowly while doing this. There's only a couple originals that it actually hits "highway" speed and reads correctly. Once it does start reading, it's quiet. It's very noisy the first minute while it starts though with the laser bobbing up and down.
Being smart, I thought to move my laser from the old unit to the new unit, thinking they were incompatible. I slid the old unit onto the rails, fired it up, and it was right back where we started 2 days ago. So I wrote that laser off and a problem child, put the new one back on, and again, only a couple would read with loud clicking from the laser going up and down.
I've got PS2 parts spread from one end of the livingroom to the other, guts and screws everywhere... looks like a ps2 was murdered in here....lol
I moved everything back to the newer unit, with the laser it came with, it works fine with originals (and no noise). The laser doesn't go up and down like crazy or anything.
When I put in the old laser into the newer unit, it doesn't work.
It's nice I got a working PS2, but I do not really want to move the mod chip to the new PS2 unless I have to, I found installing the ChipMod extremely difficult. I forgot to mention, it does read a couple backups occasionally in the modded unit, but barely read them.
Is there not some way I can get this working laser to read properly in the modded unit? What would cause it to read improperly in the older unit?
BTW, the lasers are a different. Both the PS2's are 50001. The modded unit has a laser with HD7 branded into the plastic molding, no label. I bought this brand new about a year ago from Walmart. The other unit, it's laser in the same spot is branded SONY, and 400C on the label.
I've yet to touch the pots.
So.... that's my story, explained it as thorough as possible, what is my next step? What possibilities are there?
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