Do PS2s always crash?
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Flatmate hired out a PS2 for the week to play with while on holiday, and a few games to go with it. Anyway I've been playing WRC - Rally Evolved for a lot of the night, (seeing how far I could get through in one go as he didn't get a memory card with it) but its crashed twice for no apparent reason within a few hours and made me start again.
Do they all do that? or is that just a bad example being a hire one. I can only remember having an xbox crash on me maybe once in the last 2 years, which is quite remarkable considering its made by microsoft. Surely it can't be that hard to make a games console which doesn't crash?
Do they all do that? or is that just a bad example being a hire one. I can only remember having an xbox crash on me maybe once in the last 2 years, which is quite remarkable considering its made by microsoft. Surely it can't be that hard to make a games console which doesn't crash?
I've had mine since the UK launch and never had a single problem with it. However that's not to say they can't occur, the PS2's main issue was the laser getting out of alignment and failing to read the disc correctly (mainly displayed as Disc Read Error).
Fixing it (if its your own machine) is quite straightforward, I've done it for a couple of friends machines, the instructions can be found on the web (I have the link some place) and resolves the problem in almost all cases (certainly all the ones I've done it on).
The unit in question being a rental machine makes prior abuse quite likely, as I doubt they are exactly treated that well by all those who rent them.
Regards
Gideon
Fixing it (if its your own machine) is quite straightforward, I've done it for a couple of friends machines, the instructions can be found on the web (I have the link some place) and resolves the problem in almost all cases (certainly all the ones I've done it on).
The unit in question being a rental machine makes prior abuse quite likely, as I doubt they are exactly treated that well by all those who rent them.
Regards
Gideon
gideon said:
The unit in question being a rental machine makes prior abuse quite likely, as I doubt they are exactly treated that well by all those who rent them.
Indeed. In college we rented a PS1 and Tekken just to fool around on for a night. They'd been out about a month at that time; it's was buggered... kinda worked but the plastics were cracked and the game disks were scratched to buggery.
When your friend takes it back I wouldn't mention a word of it or he'll quite possibly face a very large bill for wrecking their machine ("Worked fine when we rented it to you." they always work perfectly when rented even if wires are hanging out.)... hand it back, get you deposit back if applicable and walk out.
decent graphics, nice reasonably realistic handling etc. mr_yogi said:
GravelBen said:
Do they all do that?
Yes they do, that's why the PS2 is s
t and Sony never sold any 
100 million?
My PS2 has been running strong since I got it. If it's crashing regularly it's most likely faulty - if its a rental one it's probably taken a fair bit of abuse.
mr_yogi said:
GravelBen said:
Do they all do that?
Yes they do, that's why the PS2 is s
t and Sony never sold any Actually, you're right. The PS1 crashed, so did/does the PS2, the PS3 can crash.... indeed so can the Xbox and it's offspring the 360, the Gamecube and Wii can crash and needless to say so can a PC. Hell, I remember my old original Gameboy crashing as I remember seeing various Sega consoles fall over.
Any electronics device can crash... even my Nokia 6680 crashes from time to time
But they shouldn't crash all that often unless something is wrong 
Fidgits said:
weird.
I've had the same PS2, what, 7/8 years and i dont think it crashed once?
I had an original PS for a fair few years too, and i dont ever remember that crashing?
I've had the same PS2, what, 7/8 years and i dont think it crashed once?
I had an original PS for a fair few years too, and i dont ever remember that crashing?
Not really that weird, all it takes is one part of a system to run just a little bit out of tolerance (be it a RAM chip, the optics or the PSU to go funky for a split second and so on) and the system has a wobbly. The fact you've gone through two generations of system with no incident suggests good build quality.
As an example the gameboy crashing was due to being undervoltage (dead battery).
GravelBen said:
Flatmate hired out a PS2 for the week to play with while on holiday, and a few games to go with it. Anyway I've been playing WRC - Rally Evolved for a lot of the night, (seeing how far I could get through in one go as he didn't get a memory card with it) but its crashed twice for no apparent reason within a few hours and made me start again.
Do they all do that? or is that just a bad example being a hire one. I can only remember having an xbox crash on me maybe once in the last 2 years, which is quite remarkable considering its made by microsoft. Surely it can't be that hard to make a games console which doesn't crash?
Do they all do that? or is that just a bad example being a hire one. I can only remember having an xbox crash on me maybe once in the last 2 years, which is quite remarkable considering its made by microsoft. Surely it can't be that hard to make a games console which doesn't crash?
I'd suggest a little practice and breaking for the tighter bends........
gideon said:
I've had mine since the UK launch and never had a single problem with it. However that's not to say they can't occur, the PS2's main issue was the laser getting out of alignment and failing to read the disc correctly (mainly displayed as Disc Read Error).
Fixing it (if its your own machine) is quite straightforward, I've done it for a couple of friends machines, the instructions can be found on the web (I have the link some place) and resolves the problem in almost all cases (certainly all the ones I've done it on).
The unit in question being a rental machine makes prior abuse quite likely, as I doubt they are exactly treated that well by all those who rent them.
Regards
Gideon
likewise, I had mine from UK launch and had no problems with it crashing or locking up Fixing it (if its your own machine) is quite straightforward, I've done it for a couple of friends machines, the instructions can be found on the web (I have the link some place) and resolves the problem in almost all cases (certainly all the ones I've done it on).
The unit in question being a rental machine makes prior abuse quite likely, as I doubt they are exactly treated that well by all those who rent them.
Regards
Gideon
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