The lot I'm featuring now about half worked. The others are just lasers. Nothing major. I bought another lot from them a couple weeks ago. Let's just say that lot should make good content 😁 They also threw in 3 PS2 slims for free.
Agreed 100%. But I do think each model has its strengths and weaknesses. 30000s are easy to work on but suffer from disc read errors. The 39000s I always tend to get with power issues lol. Sometimes disc read errors too depending on the laser inside. But both models are easy fixes then work great when they're working again. 50000s are the most reliable of the fats but suck to work on. All suffer sticky disc drives. But I love them all :)
@@titanrepairs oh yeah the 30K's are defo the nicest to work on. 39K's can have power issues but thankfully replacement supplies are easy to find. 50K's are fine but have that nasty crash issue sadly
@@AstralPhnxThat is true. You can get new replacements. But in my experience it's usually bad capacitors on the power supply so I usually repair them. Much cheaper! I haven't run into that with the 50ks. Though when I get broken fats they're always 30k and 39ks lol
You do even better than expected as if you should work for DKOldies giving those other workers a lesson. Excellent work, even you must give this an All Digital SSD conversion makeover.
From my experience, a stuck disc drive is usually from it being dirty. Sometimes the tray comes off it's track or very rarely, a piece of the tray breaks off. It's more common for the 50001 disc drives to break as Sony went extra cheap with the plastic.
I've found that too. I did a disc drive (I think I have a video of it) where the track was completely destroyed. Needless to say I replaced it lol. I forget what model that was though.
Thank you for the video, was wondering how to get the drive belt cover off and this helped. Also F YOU Sony for putting that screw on the underside and moving the CMOS battery to the motherboard instead of the side holder.
my favorite is a 30001 as well. a big, fat, made in japan 30001. i didn't get a ps2 until the 39001, and i still have that very 39001 packed away in it original box. but i daily a thrifted 30001. 3.99 for the unit, with the network adapter. probably a controller too. these things were stacked up at thrifts in 2010 era.
@@titanrepairs it was a very fun time. records, cds, blank cassettes, old games, old consoles, old hi-fi, any flavour of crt tv you wanted... for stupid cheap prices.
@@mark902 Sometimes I see hi-fi and such come through for a cheap price. I got a whole Zip drive kit recently for only a few bucks (the drive, cables, documentation and a few blank discs in the original box! No use for it but I do want to hook it up and play around on and old computer). I also got a 5.1 surround sound receiver a few months ago for 25 bucks. And what worked out is someone in my complex threw out Samsung speakers. My wife isn't happy with the boom booms especially when I play Helldivers :D But yeah, good deals are harder to come by than when I started thrifting in 2020. Games at my local Goodwill are still only a few bucks and I've gotten some absolute gems that have value, but they've been throwing the good stuff online lately which sucks.
@@titanrepairs it does suck in comparison, but you can still get some gems. i quit going for a while because i was just so fed up with the extreme prices. but recently i've felt compelled. last week i found a radeon x600 pro and a cd maxi single. both for four bucks. that was a treat. a boxed zip drive would be tempting, if only for the fact that i never experienced them. i think now might be the golden age for old pc components. shhhh!
Hello, I have a question about the Video do I have to do all the following to fix the disc driver, because my hands are very hard on the specific parts and afraid to break it. Can’t I just work on the disc directly without going through all the procedures?
I take it you have a stuck disc drive? The method I do in my videos is just the way I do it that I found works best through trial and error and experimentation through the many disc drives I've worked on (not just PS2 drives). I find the best way is to do a full teardown, clean and rebuild. But you have to work in your own comfort level. When I first started out I didn't do full teardowns until I got comfortable. I would say if you are afraid of breaking something, try boiling the belt and cleaning the gears. If that doesn't work then try lubricating the disc tray. I've fixed a few drives early on that way (and a lot of people in the retro gaming community do that) but I personally advise against it just because dirt can get stuck over time. But short term it can get you where you need to go 🙂
I will when I come across one with a broken port! But it'll also be a quick video lol. Literally unscrewing the two screws, unplugging it and plugging in the new one. Super simple 🙂
From my experience it sounds like your laser is on its way out. Aside from stuck disc drives, lasers are the other top repair I do on PS2s. Especially 30000 and 39000 series models. Good news is it's not too hard to do and the lasers are cheap and easy to find. But my personal PS2 had this happen many many years ago. It started with long load times, then disc read errors on one type of game disc (for me it was blue back discs) then the other disc type. I replaced my laser about 4 years ago and it's been great ever since.
@@jessejones1783Unfortunately a lot of game stores just do preliminary testing and cleaning to make sure it works but that's about it. I was at my local retro store a few months ago and the consoles they had out didn't even look like they got wiped down. Which was weird because they clean all game discs that go on the shelf. If you bought it from a retro game store, maybe you can talk to them say that it's taking a long time to load. Any retro store that cares about their reputation will exchange it for you. If not, I have a video where I replaced the laser if you want to take on the task. It's not hard. You'll need a soldering iron though but you don't need a fancy one. A 5 dollar one from Harbor Freight should be good. th-cam.com/video/QSqbNONs-aA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DAlWy6U1zsNd29V4&t=1914 I'm sorry. I'm not taking online repairs just yet. Only local at the moment. I am working on it though so a lot is happening on the back end here. Just not far along enough yet where I've made any announcements. I'll make announcements about taking online repairs when I have a more definite timeline :)
Except they did. I literally won an auction of a box of consoles from their eBay store. I also did an unboxing video of it and showed the shipping label from them 😉
fixing a PS2/3 disc drive takes love for the console.
I got a "junk" ps2 from dkoldies that sounded like it had a marble rattling around in it. It was the fuse. Popped it back in and worked fine.
The lot I'm featuring now about half worked. The others are just lasers. Nothing major. I bought another lot from them a couple weeks ago. Let's just say that lot should make good content 😁 They also threw in 3 PS2 slims for free.
PS2's are remarkably easy to service machines which just makes it even more pathetic how little work DK Oldies puts into them
The 39K's are great units but a bit trickier to service. The 30K's are absolutely the easiest to service by a long way from my experience
Agreed 100%. But I do think each model has its strengths and weaknesses. 30000s are easy to work on but suffer from disc read errors. The 39000s I always tend to get with power issues lol. Sometimes disc read errors too depending on the laser inside. But both models are easy fixes then work great when they're working again. 50000s are the most reliable of the fats but suck to work on. All suffer sticky disc drives. But I love them all :)
@@titanrepairs oh yeah the 30K's are defo the nicest to work on. 39K's can have power issues but thankfully replacement supplies are easy to find. 50K's are fine but have that nasty crash issue sadly
@@AstralPhnxThat is true. You can get new replacements. But in my experience it's usually bad capacitors on the power supply so I usually repair them. Much cheaper!
I haven't run into that with the 50ks. Though when I get broken fats they're always 30k and 39ks lol
You do even better than expected as if you should work for DKOldies giving those other workers a lesson. Excellent work, even you must give this an All Digital SSD conversion makeover.
From my experience, a stuck disc drive is usually from it being dirty. Sometimes the tray comes off it's track or very rarely, a piece of the tray breaks off. It's more common for the 50001 disc drives to break as Sony went extra cheap with the plastic.
I've found that too. I did a disc drive (I think I have a video of it) where the track was completely destroyed. Needless to say I replaced it lol. I forget what model that was though.
Thank you for the video, was wondering how to get the drive belt cover off and this helped.
Also F YOU Sony for putting that screw on the underside and moving the CMOS battery to the motherboard instead of the side holder.
my favorite is a 30001 as well. a big, fat, made in japan 30001. i didn't get a ps2 until the 39001, and i still have that very 39001 packed away in it original box. but i daily a thrifted 30001. 3.99 for the unit, with the network adapter. probably a controller too. these things were stacked up at thrifts in 2010 era.
It's a shame those days are gone. I didn't get into thrifting and console repair until the pandemic so I kind of missed the boat there lol.
@@titanrepairs it was a very fun time. records, cds, blank cassettes, old games, old consoles, old hi-fi, any flavour of crt tv you wanted... for stupid cheap prices.
@@mark902 Sometimes I see hi-fi and such come through for a cheap price. I got a whole Zip drive kit recently for only a few bucks (the drive, cables, documentation and a few blank discs in the original box! No use for it but I do want to hook it up and play around on and old computer). I also got a 5.1 surround sound receiver a few months ago for 25 bucks. And what worked out is someone in my complex threw out Samsung speakers. My wife isn't happy with the boom booms especially when I play Helldivers :D But yeah, good deals are harder to come by than when I started thrifting in 2020. Games at my local Goodwill are still only a few bucks and I've gotten some absolute gems that have value, but they've been throwing the good stuff online lately which sucks.
@@titanrepairs it does suck in comparison, but you can still get some gems. i quit going for a while because i was just so fed up with the extreme prices. but recently i've felt compelled. last week i found a radeon x600 pro and a cd maxi single. both for four bucks. that was a treat.
a boxed zip drive would be tempting, if only for the fact that i never experienced them. i think now might be the golden age for old pc components. shhhh!
Hello, I have a question about the Video do I have to do all the following to fix the disc driver, because my hands are very hard on the specific parts and afraid to break it. Can’t I just work on the disc directly without going through all the procedures?
I take it you have a stuck disc drive? The method I do in my videos is just the way I do it that I found works best through trial and error and experimentation through the many disc drives I've worked on (not just PS2 drives). I find the best way is to do a full teardown, clean and rebuild. But you have to work in your own comfort level. When I first started out I didn't do full teardowns until I got comfortable. I would say if you are afraid of breaking something, try boiling the belt and cleaning the gears. If that doesn't work then try lubricating the disc tray. I've fixed a few drives early on that way (and a lot of people in the retro gaming community do that) but I personally advise against it just because dirt can get stuck over time. But short term it can get you where you need to go 🙂
Why did you boil the rubber band? 🤔
Boiling the disc drive belt reforms its shape. It can also help to clean any gunk out of the pores.
Can you do a video about fixing PlayStation 2 controller port ?
I will when I come across one with a broken port! But it'll also be a quick video lol. Literally unscrewing the two screws, unplugging it and plugging in the new one. Super simple 🙂
The laser after being lubricated 🤰
Hi I never cleaned a Ps2 laser before and i have a Fat Ps2 that takes a long time to load games in the disk drive
From my experience it sounds like your laser is on its way out. Aside from stuck disc drives, lasers are the other top repair I do on PS2s. Especially 30000 and 39000 series models. Good news is it's not too hard to do and the lasers are cheap and easy to find. But my personal PS2 had this happen many many years ago. It started with long load times, then disc read errors on one type of game disc (for me it was blue back discs) then the other disc type. I replaced my laser about 4 years ago and it's been great ever since.
@titanrepairs well i bought the Fat Ps2 second hand and i didn't test it at the store i bought it from
@titanrepairs hi how much do you charge for the laser on my Fat Ps2
@@jessejones1783Unfortunately a lot of game stores just do preliminary testing and cleaning to make sure it works but that's about it. I was at my local retro store a few months ago and the consoles they had out didn't even look like they got wiped down. Which was weird because they clean all game discs that go on the shelf. If you bought it from a retro game store, maybe you can talk to them say that it's taking a long time to load. Any retro store that cares about their reputation will exchange it for you. If not, I have a video where I replaced the laser if you want to take on the task. It's not hard. You'll need a soldering iron though but you don't need a fancy one. A 5 dollar one from Harbor Freight should be good.
th-cam.com/video/QSqbNONs-aA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DAlWy6U1zsNd29V4&t=1914
I'm sorry. I'm not taking online repairs just yet. Only local at the moment. I am working on it though so a lot is happening on the back end here. Just not far along enough yet where I've made any announcements. I'll make announcements about taking online repairs when I have a more definite timeline :)
@titanrepairs look it's fine i was probably thinking about using a Hard drive on my Fat Ps2 to play games on it
And forgot to replace "c mos"🎉
It was replaced. I always replace them no matter if it's a PS2, PS3 or PS4. This video subject was the disc drive so that's what I recorded.
Dkoldies wouldn't have rejected that , if they couldn't fix it , they would use it for parts , good click bait though
Except they did. I literally won an auction of a box of consoles from their eBay store. I also did an unboxing video of it and showed the shipping label from them 😉