Be very careful with the flat flex cables. Also be very gentle when wiping the laser lens with the q-tip and alcohol, do not push it down or sideways with force, if you do it will bend the very fine copper wires, thinner than an human hair; they keep the laser lens suspended to absorb vibrations. Don't lubricate the internal moving parts too much. If you put too much lubrication on that little spiral piece the little teeth that touch it will slip and start wearing out the plastic, ending up with the laser lens assembly not moving at all.
This probably sounds stupid, but your technique of brushing the dust into the vacuum nozzle was inspired!! That's my method from now on, so simple yet so effective!!
The very best "hidden" feature is the fact that if you use the PS2 vertically, and not horizontally, is that you can rotate the little PS2 logo on the DVD drive to match the consoles orientation ;)
I have taken one of those apart myself. I bought one from a fleamarket, and it was pretty badly smashed. The case was cracked and had a gaping hole on top and there was a lot of broken plastic rattling inside of it. It took me a while to glue all the supports and other parts together (and filling the hole on the top cover) but I got it working in the end. The CD tray was fortunately intact, but it was "dislocated" like on your video when you disassembled it. I found out that the pin on the arm that controls the lift of the reader unit needs to go to the L-shaped channel on the underside of the tray. That thing still works to this day. Might go back and give it another, more thorough clean some day.
Wow, sounds like quite some effort to puzzle it together. I think these consoles gather a lot of dust inside over time no matter what you do. Probably a good idea to clean them from time to time to keep the airflow going.
@@JanBeta Yeah, I didn't really bother to clean up the dust that time, I was more interested to see if it even still works. And it did. Older generations consoles like these can be surprisingly resilient. The newer ones... not so much.
Working on a VHS recorder the allignment of the gears is a big topic. The whole unit easily "freaks out" if the gears are out of allignment. There are usually allignment marks on the gears. Didn't saw any on that drive but luckily you've realligned it. Cool video btw.
On the iconic nature of the PlayStation controller buttons, they weren’t just arbitrary. Circle and X are the Japanese equivalent of tick and cross, so the circle is Ok, and the cross is cancel. 3D was the goal from the start with the PlayStation, so the triangle button was intended to be used for camera operations, note that it looks like a view cone, kind of. The square was left as the general action button. Not only this, but the buttons are numbered. Circle is 1, one line to make it, X is 2, triangle is 3, and square is 4.
@@JanBeta Hey. I need help regarding my PS2. I m facing this problem for the first time. It was working pretty well last month. I will list all problems. If there's any question regarding then please ask. Here's what issues I started facing: 1. There is no display. When I connect the PS2 and turn on the power button from the back. The reset button shows the red light. I then click on it and then the Green and Blue lights turn on. The fan at the back starts working. The disc tray is also working, but there is no display. 2. After clicking on reset multiple times it then starts to display but the start-up music is out of order. The sound gets hanged. The controller is working (i can enter to and go back from browser and system configuration ). If I click on the reset button again then there won't be any display again. Same issue. And if it displays (after resetting many times) and then when I insert any CD. Loading gets hanged, and if the game works out of the blue moon then there is no sound. Would be happy for the reply. Thanks.
A long time ago i used this as my DVD player. it had RGB output and the optical has Dolby 5.1 (and DTS i think) I've recently bought a PS2 off my mate - the 'fat' version, the best one i think for PS1 and PS2 games. Needed some work, the DVD drive was very noisy but works a treat now.
I got a phat Ps2 at my local bargain town and this thing is like new it was in mint condition other than slight damage to the av port there wasnt a single spec of dust anywhere on it I sadly had to crack the warrenty seal sticker due to it being dropped and needing to put the DVD drive tray back into place other than that so happy I got lucky enough to find one like that
Didn't imagine I'd see a PS2 on your channel but what a fantastic machine they are. I made sure to buy a few in recent years while the going was good :). SATA hard drive in the back and freemcboot is the dream machine. If you replace the fan with one from the 50000 series machines then the fan noise is much better (replacements on ebay are the same as the 50000 series) the 30000s are always super loud
For the future: Never use a Q-tip to clean a laser lens! The surface of this is verry ruff, so u litterary scratch the lens. Use Isoprop and som clean micro fiber instead. Btw. a good repair video again. ;)
I still have the original ps2 controller that came with my system. I played so much that the spring or something broke in the L3 button or left analog stick. It still works but it's annoying that it won't spring back into place. So little me decided to open said controller to see if i could fix it. I was horrified when all that stuff fell out🤣. I also realized that analog sticks don't have a simple spring. I gave up and put everything back together successfully. I only lost one screw!😅 Thank you for this breakdown of the system. I have one just like this from my cousin that is in dire need of a deep clean. I just might film the cleaning process on mine 🤔. I'll be sure and give you credit for my newly acquired knowledge if I do make a video.
Cool Jan !! I got two of those sitting in a box myself which I once need to repair. I always liked the fat ones more. I still have a slim one rigged up permanently for some extensive Sing Star sessions when we have friends over :-D.
I had no idea you could actually arrange the video in sections using titles, really awesome this is something that would definitely help those that use it as a guide for repair! No more having to try to remember a specific time, just look for a section based upon a title!
The Ps2 is the one I had the most fun with. For some reason I like the Ps3 better. Yet I have more nostalgic attachments to Ps2. It must be because I was a teenager when playing the Ps2.
Got my 5000 fat model back in 2003 - still got it. Works perfect. Give it a monthly air blast through the vents and a lens cleaner. Never had to open it up. Not sure what model this guy has? The fan still sounds a bit loud. I know the 3000 models were a lot louder than 5000 so that might just be it?
One of my favourite consoles. I was going to bed but seen this and had to watch. I have never seen a metallic blue PS2 but now I want to look it up when I wake up. Vice City and GTA 3 were two of my favourite games to play on it loved the retro styled intros. As GTA 3 was the first game I got to play on one and it was so cool. I have a PS2 with a HardDrive in it hooked up to a Sony Trinitron to play games from my past. This was really cool to see. Although I think my fan sounds a bit loud I may need to take a look at it. I loved the design as well and it was much easier to stack.
Loved the GTA games, too. I think Metal Jesus Rocks showed one of the blue ones in one of his videos. They seem to be quite rare, I have to investigate if mine still exists some place. :)
Great video, and damn didt the previous owner lived in a dust pile?? I am going to do a project with a PS2 phat systeem soon, FCBM, HDD with adapter and PS2 to HDMI dongle. You can have so much fun with these old systems these days :)
I never use those Q-tips to put the grease on - because mostly they left some fluff and those tiny "hairs" are collecting dust again. Just clean with IPA and put some silicon grease or mechanical oil on both sides of the sleeve/guide rail with a toothstick or other "fluffless" thing and let the mechanic spread it on itself...
The fan noise depends upon which model of the fat ps2 you get. You may be remembering a much quieter ps2 than you have now, which looks to be an early model due to still having the link cable/firewire/ieee1394 port
Can you imagine how much cigarette and 'other' smoke was sucked through that poor thing over the years? :D The DVD drive was a potential mine field, but now it's all sparkling clean and ready for more action! Cheers
ESD safe vacuum cleaner with a brushed head is the best way to remove dust, it actually extracts the dust away and not just blow it around and into little hideous like under chips and stuff. Compressed air with a vacuum cleaner further away to pull the dust floating around is the next best thing I guess.
this is the only console I didnt take apart of my 6th gen it has no thermal paste that is normally what gets me motivated to tear them down clean the board
Nice restoration :) Few years ago bought myself a used PS2 Fat model like yours and the cooling fan is pretty loud in my console as well. Took the controller apart for cleaning too :D
Thanks! I heard that on some later fat PS2s, they used a slower running fan so it was a bit quieter. I think my original one had a quieter fan but I'm not too sure, it's been a while since I used that. :)
@@JanBeta totally different fan in the second FAT version, get the fan from a SCPH-500xx or a replacement with the same blade design and your fan noise brain damage problems will end. The SCPH-300xx which I guess you have is terrible as far as the fan goes and is twice as bad once you get a hard drive in them.
5:29 - Look up the Atari Falcon030/040 'microbox' case that didn't get a release. It's listed as a design influence on some of Sony's patent applications :)
I have legitimately never seen the inside of a PS2 before so thank you for that for a start, bugger must get hot to have that much heat sink and the fan which is I think set to be full speed at all times or at least be constantly fast. I now actually also have a good guide to openin' an older model PS2 since my father's will need some help but also a controller teardown and cleanin' tutorial as well since I've never watched any but I really should clean my controller, both the Dpad and analog sticks actually click and stick ...probably my fault of liquid and dirt if I had to guess. So indeed for all that, Danke Schoen Jan!
A nice unit. A worthwhile addition to the PS "Phat" units are the Network / HDD adapter that can then be used to play all your *Ahem* "homebrew games" on it easily. (cough FreeMcBoot cough) Don't buy the SATA versions found on EBay / AliExpress. They claim to have a network adapter but don't actually have it. If you want to use SATA drives, just buy a classic IDE one and get the Bitfunx update kit. It fits perfectly and works well.
GTA Vice City and GTA 3 are such a good games- I still remember most of the maps- yet I never made it through GTA V and I can't even remember what I didn't like about it or what it was about
Yes! The early 3D GTAs are brilliant. Love the games (although as I said I'm not very good at them). Recently got GTA V in the Epic Games giveaway thing, too, and I ended up playing Vice City on the PS2 mostly without even being interested much in the modern one.
Vice city on an XP or 7 PC with a decent graphics card is even better. You can do lots of mods to vehicles to make them look better and one of the radio station options when driving plays your own MP3 files, amoungst other things. And with a keyboard you have more controls.
My warranty sticky is still on.. May 2021. Bought mine when it was new. I've bern told that was 20 yrs ago. Holy crap.I was in my 20s back then. I actually have it hooked up and going to clean It soon here, when my xbox one P.S.U comes back, grease the loading disk drive tray rod. I think it needs it. And clean the electronic laser eye. ..
So I just got one of these, my first time with a fat PS2, it's noisy and very dirty like yours, I really wanna open it up and clean it out soon, for some reason the bottom casing likes to stick a lot so I haven't fully taken it out, hopefully I don't break anything, the disc tray is noisy and I wanna make that more reliable, and it needs a new disc tray bezel, as well as a fan cover since the current one is a little cracked, it doesn't help that the heatsink in mine looks different
I remember when I restored a C64 a few months ago. It didn't look as bad, but it made my hands itch just touching it. Thankfully it cleaned up nicely and I don't itch anymore. It still has some graphics glitches, but getting a vic 2 (might be the problem) could be difficult in current times. Getting a color SRAM shouldn't be hard. I'm thinking of doing the VIC squared mod since it's NTSC. A PAL Vic would tell me if the vic is the problem or not. I may actually order the mod even though I won't be able to get a PAL vic for a while.
Jan, I'm wondering why you didn't clean the inner part of the Laser Lens? A little tough to get to but I'd bet you'd find a lot of dust in there based on the looks of the rest of the System...-Mark.
Some versions of the "fat" PS2 make more fan noise than others. I've seen at least 4 different versions. There are also 3 or 4 different versions of controllers, they look the same from the outside but are very different on the inside.
Got a ps2 bundle really cheap locally, and after a clean it looks near mint! Even the controller still has a matte finish which most of the time is worn down. Also a little edit here, the controller contacts for ps2 controllers are slightly different compared to the ps1 contacts, as they are more of a dome shape on the bottom due to the ps2 controller having pressure sensitive buttons. Replacing them with ps1 contacts will prevent you from using that feature, but it wasn't used much anyways.
Yes, I noticed that after finishing the video, I ordered proper replacement parts but they haven't arrived yet. I'll most likely do another episode about the controllers sometime, I got two more broken ones to fix.
i remember bitd i used to open these up and many of them just needed their lasers cleaning or lubricant on the little rods it was held on.made some decent money doing that. also lost some because some of them where chipped and the lasers were burnt out :(.
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You've inspired me to dig out my ps2 from the closet and give it a bath also :) Unfortunately, both my gamepads came up dead - probably the contacts on that elastic ribbon that buttons press against deteriorated with time (seeing as as I can get response when shorting correct pins). Good thing the Chinese are still making spare parts and knock-off controllers...
Hey. I need help regarding my PS2. I m facing this problem for the first time. It was working pretty well last month. I will list all problems. If there's any question regarding then please ask. Here's what issues I started facing: 1. There is no display. When I connect the PS2 and turn on the power button from the back. The reset button shows the red light. I then click on it and then the Green and Blue lights turn on. The fan at the back starts working. The disc tray is also working, but there is no display. 2. After clicking on reset multiple times it then starts to display but the start-up music is out of order. The sound gets hanged. The controller is working (i can enter to and go back from browser and system configuration ). If I click on the reset button again then there won't be any display again. Same issue. And if it displays (after resetting many times) and then when I insert any CD. Loading gets hanged, and if the game works out of the blue moon then there is no sound. Would be happy for the reply. Thanks.
I’ve just bought a job lot of ps2’s and ps1’s to repair and restore good times ahead I’m after a Xbox crystal original rarer than hens teeth lol great video jan all the best
@@JanBeta thank for the reply jan I’ve been a follower for a few years just discovering your older videos lol all the best and keep doing the fantastic job you do god bless
I've done alot of those DVD drives and what I end up doing it taking it completely apart till their isn't anything on the drove I pull the laser put and all the cables and make sure their all cleaned and I wash all those plastics really well , I clean all the contacts and the rails and then put new silicone grease on all the parts it takes Patience to take it apart , all the consoles of the ps2 consoles are magnets for dust , the og Xbox is the same other than the clock capacitor issue thats all that happens on the og Xbox , bit I like doing a complete cleaning on the ps2 is nice and relaxing
It is just takes time but the problem you had where you should have taken the whole drive out and disassembled it completely I have taken it apart till it has nothing I take the cage out and the motors and the laser assembly and clean everything
That was a dusty one ! Hehe. Once I've got a console that had so much dirty inside I couldn't believe ! I caught so much because of its dust I almost gave up
I leaned a new term today "worm gear", Everyday is a school day ! Also i wonder if using parts from a PS1 controller will effect the pressure senitive nature of the d-pad & 4 right hand buttons on the the Dualshock 2 controller !
Nice video! Well, i bought a PS2 brand new when it was the best gaming console.... that's before the Euro! and it was pricy like 2500 Francs something like that but it was a DVD and a gaming console excellent right? well when you turn it on the first time you notice a really loud low cost fan.... so, for movie as long as you not watch them with a really powerful hi-fi and super loud it's useless... and well your is like a new one it's noisy... for the games, it was a revolution i mean real 3D a really powerful CPU well, it have all the needed and the controller is excellent it's pressure sensitive for all the key with means with the D-pad from the PSX controller you have put it might not be pressure sensitive anymore... and for the L and R trigger when you put the controller back together you have to put them after it's totally assembled with the screws. it's way easier (triggers are not pressure sensitive)
Not sure if I mis-saw something, but it looked like maybe the L and R shoulder buttons got reversed when re-assembling. Not that it makes any functional difference!
Great vid! I have one as well, got it for $20 at a goodwill donation store recently and cleaned it up, but this helps for the future, thank u. One thing I'm going to do to upgrade is get the SATA adapter and put games on a hdd, you should check it out.
Me too the o g original Sony PlayStation 2 is a good system all of my old school retro videogames I own are well taken care of just take apart the PlayStation 2 clean all the dust out especially the heatsink and the fan I fixed a lot of original Sony PlayStation 2 systems I took my PlayStation 2 apart I cleaned my o g PlayStation 2 with rubbing alcohol glass cleaner q tips tooth picks and tooth brush
great job! PS2 it's still my fave console and i'm soooo worried that something could happen to it since buying a spare one it's too expensive XD I have a slim one (the last model that came out 90004) that i treat like gold :P i just hope ps5 will allow to play ps2 discs so i don't have to worry anymore :D
Du musst die Hauptplatine ach sauber machen ..und Fon der unter Seite die Wärmeleitpeds erneuern die sind komplett ausgehärtet sonst überhitzt die Konsole
I was wondering if it's possible to flip the fan to blow inwards and install a dust filter on the suction side but of course they had to use some weird nonsymmetrical proprietary fan :/
For every console that i restore i use to wash the case just as you did, but the top part is dirty very close to the model sticker and i would like to preserve it from getting water.. any tips?
I am also fond of the PS2 and it is the only console I have ever bought straight after launch, but it was definitely worth the money! The fan is really loud on mine, too, as with all of the early models as others have said. If you can find a way to replace it with a quieter fan, I would be very interested! I believe it's a 7V fan. I tried replacing mine with a 5V fan of the same size and ran a cable from the 5V at the USB connector... it was even louder than the original fan and always running at full speed, so that was no good. I know it would be possible to take a fan from a later edition fat PS2 and swap it over, but then I would need to find a spare console to act as a donor. I have a hard drive in my console too which seems to make the fan run faster as soon as the HD kicks in. I remember thinking that my PS2 would double up as a DVD player when I first bought it (remember how expensive DVD players were back then!) but the fan noise was too much when watching a film! The cheap chinese network adapter clones that take SATA drives have worked well for me. I have a HD full of games on the go. The clones do not have the network connector, but seriously, who needs that today?
Cut and strip the red wire for the original 12V fan and solder a 47 - 220 ohm resistor in series to drop the voltage. You'll have to experiment with the value to find the speed you want. 7V is probably best. Obviously you can undervolt a 12V fan but don't try to run a 5V fan on any more that 6.5V.
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Be very careful with the flat flex cables. Also be very gentle when wiping the laser lens with the q-tip and alcohol, do not push it down or sideways with force, if you do it will bend the very fine copper wires, thinner than an human hair; they keep the laser lens suspended to absorb vibrations. Don't lubricate the internal moving parts too much. If you put too much lubrication on that little spiral piece the little teeth that touch it will slip and start wearing out the plastic, ending up with the laser lens assembly not moving at all.
This probably sounds stupid, but your technique of brushing the dust into the vacuum nozzle was inspired!! That's my method from now on, so simple yet so effective!!
The very best "hidden" feature is the fact that if you use the PS2 vertically, and not horizontally, is that you can rotate the little PS2 logo on the DVD drive to match the consoles orientation ;)
Yes! Noticed that when I accidentally knocked the logo "loose". Nice feature indeed. :)
I have taken one of those apart myself. I bought one from a fleamarket, and it was pretty badly smashed. The case was cracked and had a gaping hole on top and there was a lot of broken plastic rattling inside of it. It took me a while to glue all the supports and other parts together (and filling the hole on the top cover) but I got it working in the end. The CD tray was fortunately intact, but it was "dislocated" like on your video when you disassembled it. I found out that the pin on the arm that controls the lift of the reader unit needs to go to the L-shaped channel on the underside of the tray.
That thing still works to this day. Might go back and give it another, more thorough clean some day.
Wow, sounds like quite some effort to puzzle it together. I think these consoles gather a lot of dust inside over time no matter what you do. Probably a good idea to clean them from time to time to keep the airflow going.
@@JanBeta Yeah, I didn't really bother to clean up the dust that time, I was more interested to see if it even still works. And it did. Older generations consoles like these can be surprisingly resilient. The newer ones... not so much.
Working on a VHS recorder the allignment of the gears is a big topic. The whole unit easily "freaks out" if the gears are out of allignment. There are usually allignment marks on the gears. Didn't saw any on that drive but luckily you've realligned it. Cool video btw.
Getting the chills how he hovers a screwdriver over the lens.
On the iconic nature of the PlayStation controller buttons, they weren’t just arbitrary. Circle and X are the Japanese equivalent of tick and cross, so the circle is Ok, and the cross is cancel. 3D was the goal from the start with the PlayStation, so the triangle button was intended to be used for camera operations, note that it looks like a view cone, kind of. The square was left as the general action button. Not only this, but the buttons are numbered. Circle is 1, one line to make it, X is 2, triangle is 3, and square is 4.
Wow, I had no idea. That makes perfect sense. Thanks for pointing that out. :)
@@JanBeta Hey. I need help regarding my PS2. I m facing this problem for the first time. It was working pretty well last month. I will list all problems. If there's any question regarding then please ask. Here's what issues I started facing:
1. There is no display. When I connect the PS2 and turn on the power button from the back. The reset button shows the red light. I then click on it and then the Green and Blue lights turn on. The fan at the back starts working. The disc tray is also working, but there is no display.
2. After clicking on reset multiple times it then starts to display but the start-up music is out of order. The sound gets hanged. The controller is working (i can enter to and go back from browser and system configuration ). If I click on the reset button again then there won't be any display again. Same issue. And if it displays (after resetting many times) and then when I insert any CD. Loading gets hanged, and if the game works out of the blue moon then there is no sound.
Would be happy for the reply. Thanks.
Excellent camera quality. Especially needed for a video like this good work man!
Hey, thanks! 😊
I'm more impressed by that ingenious magnetic soap holder! What a thing!
same here.. :-)
hmm, pretty default in Germany to be honest
Picked up another PS2 this week to repair/refurb myself, great video as usual!
I like the magnetic soap holder in your bathroom, I have to have one now. Nice restoration too.
Loved listing to your imitation of Ladyfractic! My kids had way too many consoles including the PlayStation 2.
even the Germans go to Switzerland for their penknife needs. no desk is complete without a Swiss Army knife. great vid.
Yes! I love my Victorinox knives. :D
A long time ago i used this as my DVD player. it had RGB output and the optical has Dolby 5.1 (and DTS i think) I've recently bought a PS2 off my mate - the 'fat' version, the best one i think for PS1 and PS2 games. Needed some work, the DVD drive was very noisy but works a treat now.
Now get yourself a 500 gb hard drive and a sata network adapter and put games on the HDD and no need for the DVD drive to be used all the time
Yes, that is my plan for a future episode. :)
Awesome yeah I use opl manager I have a 500 gb hard drive in mine and works great
I got a phat Ps2 at my local bargain town and this thing is like new it was in mint condition other than slight damage to the av port there wasnt a single spec of dust anywhere on it I sadly had to crack the warrenty seal sticker due to it being dropped and needing to put the DVD drive tray back into place other than that so happy I got lucky enough to find one like that
You don't need to cut the warranty sticker. Soak it in IPA for a couple mins and use a blade to scrape it off. Then reapply when you're done
Every time Jan says "Careful" I imagine my 3 year old saying it just as she's about to do something really dangerous.
I need to do this sometime to deep clean the laser lens and get all the dust out. My OG model PS2 is complete with HDD as well.
I still got mine from 2007 and it’s still working and is in good condition
I still have my fat one since December 2004 and just repaired the blue disc read error
Do you still have your PS2 working 💪🏾
@@blastu2fool yep still play it to this day
@@nolimitkilThat's dope...I just re bought a PS2 Fatboy, gave away my original one to a nephew as a gift but now I'm back in the mix with it again.
Ah yes, I have great memories working on PS2 @ Sony. It was a blast. Nostalgia for me too.
Nice! Yeah, the Playstation 2 was really kind of genius at the time. Still holds up pretty well today, in my opinion. :)
Didn't imagine I'd see a PS2 on your channel but what a fantastic machine they are. I made sure to buy a few in recent years while the going was good :). SATA hard drive in the back and freemcboot is the dream machine. If you replace the fan with one from the 50000 series machines then the fan noise is much better (replacements on ebay are the same as the 50000 series) the 30000s are always super loud
Putting a 5000x fan in won’t help much as they also have fan control, the 3000x consoles run the fan at max all the time.
Should just put in a pillow case and on a 30 degree wash 🤪 great video 👌
I really dislike the PS2 hardware but you kinda have to collect for it. PS2's library is insane
I own a ps2, it was my first ever console, I still have it and playing it now, the fans are quite loud that's how the ps2 fans sound
I miss my PS2. I had to sell all my consoles to pay rent a few years ago :(
Agustin Barto if you have a decent pc you can always run a ps2 emulator
Same boat man, it sucks. I miss my old xbox and 360 sometimes.
Ironically *now* they're selling for big bucks, so getting one again is out...
Great video! 👍 i would have replaced the thermal paste on some of the chips whilst in there.
The PS2 doesn't get very hot like newer consoles. Thats why they all still work. The PS1 doesn't even have any heatsinks on the chips.
Unfortunately the PS2 uses rather thick thermal pads, replacing them with paste would actually make things much worse.
For the future: Never use a Q-tip to clean a laser lens! The surface of this is verry ruff, so u litterary scratch the lens. Use Isoprop and som clean micro fiber instead. Btw. a good repair video again. ;)
I still have the original ps2 controller that came with my system. I played so much that the spring or something broke in the L3 button or left analog stick. It still works but it's annoying that it won't spring back into place. So little me decided to open said controller to see if i could fix it. I was horrified when all that stuff fell out🤣. I also realized that analog sticks don't have a simple spring. I gave up and put everything back together successfully. I only lost one screw!😅 Thank you for this breakdown of the system. I have one just like this from my cousin that is in dire need of a deep clean. I just might film the cleaning process on mine 🤔. I'll be sure and give you credit for my newly acquired knowledge if I do make a video.
Cool Jan !! I got two of those sitting in a box myself which I once need to repair. I always liked the fat ones more. I still have a slim one rigged up permanently for some extensive Sing Star sessions when we have friends over :-D.
I love jans videos the the most because I feel he is more down to earth and honest
Oh, that's a nice thing to say. Thanks! I try to always keep my mistakes in (even if they are embarrassing at times) and keep things real. :)
I had no idea you could actually arrange the video in sections using titles, really awesome this is something that would definitely help those that use it as a guide for repair! No more having to try to remember a specific time, just look for a section based upon a title!
It's a relatively new feature, really useful for long videos. :)
@@JanBeta I actually like it, hopefully more restoration channels like yours will start to implement it! Glad youtube added it!
The Ps2 is the one I had the most fun with. For some reason I like the Ps3 better. Yet I have more nostalgic attachments to Ps2. It must be because I was a teenager when playing the Ps2.
I never actually used a PS3 I think, just too modern for me I guess. I love the fact that they kept it backwards compatible though. :)
I always wondered about your monitor - why do you cover up the "Phi" with tape on the "Philips" logo so it just says "lips"?
Wow. A PS2 Solution to bring this console back to life! btw, great work for getting the console working!! ;-)
A console restauration. How p(l)easant to watch. :P
I... see what you did there... :D
Got my 5000 fat model back in 2003 - still got it. Works perfect. Give it a monthly air blast through the vents and a lens cleaner. Never had to open it up. Not sure what model this guy has? The fan still sounds a bit loud. I know the 3000 models were a lot louder than 5000 so that might just be it?
Yep, he has a 39004 model looking at the rear label.
@@nitrax8629 Good stop mate!
One of my favourite consoles. I was going to bed but seen this and had to watch. I have never seen a metallic blue PS2 but now I want to look it up when I wake up. Vice City and GTA 3 were two of my favourite games to play on it loved the retro styled intros. As GTA 3 was the first game I got to play on one and it was so cool. I have a PS2 with a HardDrive in it hooked up to a Sony Trinitron to play games from my past. This was really cool to see. Although I think my fan sounds a bit loud I may need to take a look at it. I loved the design as well and it was much easier to stack.
Loved the GTA games, too. I think Metal Jesus Rocks showed one of the blue ones in one of his videos. They seem to be quite rare, I have to investigate if mine still exists some place. :)
Jan Beta Very cool, I'll look it up. Danke 😊
Great video, and damn didt the previous owner lived in a dust pile??
I am going to do a project with a PS2 phat systeem soon, FCBM, HDD with adapter and PS2 to HDMI dongle. You can have so much fun with these old systems these days :)
The warranty sticker tripped me up too!
I started restoring 2 of these yesterday! :)
Nice! Hope all goes well for you. :)
I never use those Q-tips to put the grease on - because mostly they left some fluff and those tiny "hairs" are collecting dust again. Just clean with IPA and put some silicon grease or mechanical oil on both sides of the sleeve/guide rail with a toothstick or other "fluffless" thing and let the mechanic spread it on itself...
Good point! I used Q-tips a lot for applying the grease but that might not have been the brightest idea indeed.
I managed to fix my PS2 a few years back. Still like playing Gran Turismo 4 and FF12 once in a while. If you haven't, you should try Free McBoot!
My PS2 needs a new laser.
@@EvilTurkeySlices forget the laser. install a harddrive and run free Mcboot play your games off the harddrive.
@@EvilTurkeySlices u can order a replacement laser on amazon
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The fan noise depends upon which model of the fat ps2 you get. You may be remembering a much quieter ps2 than you have now, which looks to be an early model due to still having the link cable/firewire/ieee1394 port
I am really lucky that I was given a great condition fully functional one with all accessories and 2 controllers for free.
Can you imagine how much cigarette and 'other' smoke was sucked through that poor thing over the years? :D The DVD drive was a potential mine field, but now it's all sparkling clean and ready for more action! Cheers
The OG "phat" consoles made a lot of commotion even as new. :)
Yes, it's still pretty loud but it got a lot better after cleaning. :)
The later 'phat' 5000x series was much quieter.
ESD safe vacuum cleaner with a brushed head is the best way to remove dust, it actually extracts the dust away and not just blow it around and into little hideous like under chips and stuff. Compressed air with a vacuum cleaner further away to pull the dust floating around is the next best thing I guess.
Good guy Sony with the double shot buttons! Nintendo just had the letters embedded into the surface, or printed next to them.
I can taste the dust though the screen. The dust must have been bad in person!🤧😷
this is the only console I didnt take apart of my 6th gen it has no thermal paste that is normally what gets me motivated to tear them down clean the board
Nice restoration :) Few years ago bought myself a used PS2 Fat model like yours and the cooling fan is pretty loud in my console as well. Took the controller apart for cleaning too :D
Thanks! I heard that on some later fat PS2s, they used a slower running fan so it was a bit quieter. I think my original one had a quieter fan but I'm not too sure, it's been a while since I used that. :)
@@JanBeta mine is SCPH-30004 version.
@@JanBeta totally different fan in the second FAT version, get the fan from a SCPH-500xx or a replacement with the same blade design and your fan noise brain damage problems will end. The SCPH-300xx which I guess you have is terrible as far as the fan goes and is twice as bad once you get a hard drive in them.
Jan Beta the later ones actually controlled the speed of the fan, so it ran a lot slower.
5:29 - Look up the Atari Falcon030/040 'microbox' case that didn't get a release. It's listed as a design influence on some of Sony's patent applications :)
Oh, interesting. I'm going to look that up. Thanks for pointing that out. :)
I have legitimately never seen the inside of a PS2 before so thank you for that for a start, bugger must get hot to have that much heat sink and the fan which is I think set to be full speed at all times or at least be constantly fast.
I now actually also have a good guide to openin' an older model PS2 since my father's will need some help but also a controller teardown and cleanin' tutorial as well since I've never watched any but I really should clean my controller, both the Dpad and analog sticks actually click and stick ...probably my fault of liquid and dirt if I had to guess. So indeed for all that, Danke Schoen Jan!
The PS2 doesn't get very hot like newer consoles. Newer ones such as the PS3 and XBOX360 have big copper heatsinks, 2 fans and _still_ get hot.
Great work and lots of things to learn about how to clean electronic devices. Thanks a lot!
A nice unit. A worthwhile addition to the PS "Phat" units are the Network / HDD adapter that can then be used to play all your *Ahem* "homebrew games" on it easily. (cough FreeMcBoot cough)
Don't buy the SATA versions found on EBay / AliExpress. They claim to have a network adapter but don't actually have it. If you want to use SATA drives, just buy a classic IDE one and get the Bitfunx update kit. It fits perfectly and works well.
Yes, already have one of the IDE adapters here, coming up in a future episode. ;)
First PS2 wasn't thermo regulated. The first one to be were these without the Firewire port. There are much more quieter than the earliest models
Yes...the 5000x series... no firewire port, and a new IR port installed between the power and eject buttons. Much more quiet.
GTA Vice City and GTA 3 are such a good games- I still remember most of the maps- yet I never made it through GTA V and I can't even remember what I didn't like about it or what it was about
Yes! The early 3D GTAs are brilliant. Love the games (although as I said I'm not very good at them). Recently got GTA V in the Epic Games giveaway thing, too, and I ended up playing Vice City on the PS2 mostly without even being interested much in the modern one.
Vice city on an XP or 7 PC with a decent graphics card is even better. You can do lots of mods to vehicles to make them look better and one of the radio station options when driving plays your own MP3 files, amoungst other things. And with a keyboard you have more controls.
My warranty sticky is still on.. May 2021. Bought mine when it was new. I've bern told that was 20 yrs ago. Holy crap.I was in my 20s back then. I actually have it hooked up and going to clean It soon here, when my xbox one P.S.U comes back, grease the loading disk drive tray rod. I think it needs it. And clean the electronic laser eye. ..
No wonder you never got far in Vice City - you also need a memory card!
So I just got one of these, my first time with a fat PS2, it's noisy and very dirty like yours, I really wanna open it up and clean it out soon, for some reason the bottom casing likes to stick a lot so I haven't fully taken it out, hopefully I don't break anything, the disc tray is noisy and I wanna make that more reliable, and it needs a new disc tray bezel, as well as a fan cover since the current one is a little cracked, it doesn't help that the heatsink in mine looks different
I remember when I restored a C64 a few months ago. It didn't look as bad, but it made my hands itch just touching it. Thankfully it cleaned up nicely and I don't itch anymore. It still has some graphics glitches, but getting a vic 2 (might be the problem) could be difficult in current times. Getting a color SRAM shouldn't be hard. I'm thinking of doing the VIC squared mod since it's NTSC. A PAL Vic would tell me if the vic is the problem or not. I may actually order the mod even though I won't be able to get a PAL vic for a while.
Jan, I'm wondering why you didn't clean the inner part of the Laser Lens? A little tough to get to but I'd bet you'd find a lot of dust in there based on the looks of the rest of the System...-Mark.
Some versions of the "fat" PS2 make more fan noise than others. I've seen at least 4 different versions. There are also 3 or 4 different versions of controllers, they look the same from the outside but are very different on the inside.
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Careful using alcohol on the laser lens or other parts that may potentially be acrylic. It can cause the acrylic to cloud up or even begin to crack.
Good point! I did this about a thousand times and never ran into issues. Probably a good idea to not leave the alcohol on the lens for too long.
Ok, maybe they're glass lenses, I don't know.
The isopropyl alcohol evaporates pretty quickly.
Got a ps2 bundle really cheap locally, and after a clean it looks near mint! Even the controller still has a matte finish which most of the time is worn down.
Also a little edit here, the controller contacts for ps2 controllers are slightly different compared to the ps1 contacts, as they are more of a dome shape on the bottom due to the ps2 controller having pressure sensitive buttons. Replacing them with ps1 contacts will prevent you from using that feature, but it wasn't used much anyways.
Yes, I noticed that after finishing the video, I ordered proper replacement parts but they haven't arrived yet. I'll most likely do another episode about the controllers sometime, I got two more broken ones to fix.
@@JanBeta Sounds good!
Yeah shipping is wonky atm. Ordered a Game Boy Pocket from Japan and it took nearly 3 months to arrive
i remember bitd i used to open these up and many of them just needed their lasers cleaning or lubricant on the little rods it was held on.made some decent money doing that. also lost some because some of them where chipped and the lasers were burnt out :(.
You've inspired me to dig out my ps2 from the closet and give it a bath also :) Unfortunately, both my gamepads came up dead - probably the contacts on that elastic ribbon that buttons press against deteriorated with time (seeing as as I can get response when shorting correct pins). Good thing the Chinese are still making spare parts and knock-off controllers...
Leaving the power chord while putting the ps2 back together
The mains cable has two sides. The one in the outlet was unplugged. You can see me plugging it in from around 25:20.
Proves you don't need the most powerful console of that generation to be a great machine :)
Haha, yes!
I think you could replace that mess with something a bit thicker to prevent more dust and hair and stuff from coming in.
Hey. I need help regarding my PS2. I m facing this problem for the first time. It was working pretty well last month. I will list all problems. If there's any question regarding then please ask. Here's what issues I started facing:
1. There is no display. When I connect the PS2 and turn on the power button from the back. The reset button shows the red light. I then click on it and then the Green and Blue lights turn on. The fan at the back starts working. The disc tray is also working, but there is no display.
2. After clicking on reset multiple times it then starts to display but the start-up music is out of order. The sound gets hanged. The controller is working (i can enter to and go back from browser and system configuration ). If I click on the reset button again then there won't be any display again. Same issue. And if it displays (after resetting many times) and then when I insert any CD. Loading gets hanged, and if the game works out of the blue moon then there is no sound.
Would be happy for the reply. Thanks.
I’ve just bought a job lot of ps2’s and ps1’s to repair and restore good times ahead I’m after a Xbox crystal original rarer than hens teeth lol great video jan all the best
Hey, thanks! Hope your repair marathon goes well and you can source an xbox crystal eventually. These consoles deserve some love. :)
@@JanBeta thank for the reply jan I’ve been a follower for a few years just discovering your older videos lol all the best and keep doing the fantastic job you do god bless
I've done alot of those DVD drives and what I end up doing it taking it completely apart till their isn't anything on the drove I pull the laser put and all the cables and make sure their all cleaned and I wash all those plastics really well , I clean all the contacts and the rails and then put new silicone grease on all the parts it takes Patience to take it apart , all the consoles of the ps2 consoles are magnets for dust , the og Xbox is the same other than the clock capacitor issue thats all that happens on the og Xbox , bit I like doing a complete cleaning on the ps2 is nice and relaxing
Oh, that sounds like a tedious job. Probably worth it though if you want to really get the dirt out of all the mechanical parts.
It is just takes time but the problem you had where you should have taken the whole drive out and disassembled it completely I have taken it apart till it has nothing I take the cage out and the motors and the laser assembly and clean everything
If your pal region the fan is really loud but if you are in u.s. region its quite.
Thanks for Another Great Video!!👍✌
That was a dusty one ! Hehe. Once I've got a console that had so much dirty inside I couldn't believe ! I caught so much because of its dust I almost gave up
I still have to take a closer look at the circuit boards, I suspect even more dust in there still.
I leaned a new term today "worm gear", Everyday is a school day ! Also i wonder if using parts from a PS1 controller will effect the pressure senitive nature of the d-pad & 4 right hand buttons on the the Dualshock 2 controller !
Yeah I'd be concerned about that too. I don't know if I'd consider the parts interchangeable.
Nice video!
Well, i bought a PS2 brand new when it was the best gaming console.... that's before the Euro! and it was pricy like 2500 Francs something like that but it was a DVD and a gaming console excellent right? well when you turn it on the first time you notice a really loud low cost fan.... so, for movie as long as you not watch them with a really powerful hi-fi and super loud it's useless... and well your is like a new one it's noisy... for the games, it was a revolution i mean real 3D a really powerful CPU well, it have all the needed and the controller is excellent it's pressure sensitive for all the key with means with the D-pad from the PSX controller you have put it might not be pressure sensitive anymore... and for the L and R trigger when you put the controller back together you have to put them after it's totally assembled with the screws. it's way easier (triggers are not pressure sensitive)
Not sure if I mis-saw something, but it looked like maybe the L and R shoulder buttons got reversed when re-assembling. Not that it makes any functional difference!
Oh, that may be. I'll have to take another look at that.
Great vid! I have one as well, got it for $20 at a goodwill donation store recently and cleaned it up, but this helps for the future, thank u. One thing I'm going to do to upgrade is get the SATA adapter and put games on a hdd, you should check it out.
Yes, I'm going to do the same, already have an IDE/network adapter here. Coming up in a future episode. :)
I think there's a battery in there to replace as well, I think it's a lithium coin cell.
Me too the o g original Sony PlayStation 2 is a good system all of my old school retro videogames I own are well taken care of just take apart the PlayStation 2 clean all the dust out especially the heatsink and the fan I fixed a lot of original Sony PlayStation 2 systems I took my PlayStation 2 apart I cleaned my o g PlayStation 2 with rubbing alcohol glass cleaner q tips tooth picks and tooth brush
great job! PS2 it's still my fave console and i'm soooo worried that something could happen to it since buying a spare one it's too expensive XD I have a slim one (the last model that came out 90004) that i treat like gold :P i just hope ps5 will allow to play ps2 discs so i don't have to worry anymore :D
Ha! That would actually be a brilliant move by Sony. :D
And we are still waiting on PS5 to play PS2 disc ..me too guy ...Sony Fk'd Up with that prescription mess digital nonsense smdh
Du musst die Hauptplatine ach sauber machen ..und Fon der unter Seite die Wärmeleitpeds erneuern die sind komplett ausgehärtet sonst überhitzt die Konsole
Nice. I have several I should try to either hack or replace the lasers on.
Best of luck! Wonderful consoles. :)
Nicely done!
Well done.
Thanks Roger! :)
Oo, I have two of those not working atm, plus one working, no worries. This should prove useful. :) Plus a few controllers not functioning...
i had a cooling fan mod on mine
I was wondering if it's possible to flip the fan to blow inwards and install a dust filter on the suction side but of course they had to use some weird nonsymmetrical proprietary fan :/
Mine has an issue,when door opens, immediately close back and i cannot put the cd,any idea of the issue?Thank you in advance.
If that's an SCPH 30003 then it had a very loud fan even when new
Yep... the later 5000x series were much quieter! :-)
The ps2 fan is pretty loud from factory
For every console that i restore i use to wash the case just as you did, but the top part is dirty very close to the model sticker and i would like to preserve it from getting water.. any tips?
Jan good refurbish. can you do some video's on mods to it?
I am also fond of the PS2 and it is the only console I have ever bought straight after launch, but it was definitely worth the money! The fan is really loud on mine, too, as with all of the early models as others have said. If you can find a way to replace it with a quieter fan, I would be very interested! I believe it's a 7V fan. I tried replacing mine with a 5V fan of the same size and ran a cable from the 5V at the USB connector... it was even louder than the original fan and always running at full speed, so that was no good. I know it would be possible to take a fan from a later edition fat PS2 and swap it over, but then I would need to find a spare console to act as a donor. I have a hard drive in my console too which seems to make the fan run faster as soon as the HD kicks in.
I remember thinking that my PS2 would double up as a DVD player when I first bought it (remember how expensive DVD players were back then!) but the fan noise was too much when watching a film!
The cheap chinese network adapter clones that take SATA drives have worked well for me. I have a HD full of games on the go. The clones do not have the network connector, but seriously, who needs that today?
Cut and strip the red wire for the original 12V fan and solder a 47 - 220 ohm resistor in series to drop the voltage. You'll have to experiment with the value to find the speed you want. 7V is probably best. Obviously you can undervolt a 12V fan but don't try to run a 5V fan on any more that 6.5V.
Hehe ohh wow! It’s the loud model with the full speed fan! Very noisy machines even when they were new. But lucky for us they made quieter models too.
Ah, I didn't know there was a quieter model. This one got a lot quieter already with the fan cleaned but it's still quite noisy.
Oil the bearing and maybe wire a resistor in series to undervolt it. You'll have experiment with the value. That should make it quieter.
Well Done!! Great Job👍✌