My ps2 is making a grinding noise and is not reading any discs, the discs hardly spin but when they do it grinds loudly. Im willing to take apart the ps2 to fix this, please help.

Could be worn drum bearings.

Back up your files and buy a replacement drive the grinding noise is the hard drive experiencing mechanical failure and may stop working soon.

If the grinding noise occurs while you have a disc inside then it could be the len rubbing against the Cd. This problem normally happens in Slim Line editions of playstation2's. If the disc is blue coated, the playstation2's lens finds it hard to read the disc. Resulting in the lens moving closer to the disc. This is avoidable, try standing up your playstation. Or avoiding Blue coated disc.

okay, try this. hope this helps. what you're looking for is a post by Nintendoman (kyle)(#2186); post date saturday, Dec. 31,2005 to fix that grinding noise --> mattread.com/2004/01/ps2-disc-read-error-fix also try www.powerfulguides.com/ps2 ;D

stand your playstation upright

its grinding against the side

hope that helps

Well, Sounds to me like the Bearings are going out, but it could make that noise a good while, before it goes completely out.. Replacement would possably be more cost effective, Kinda hard to beleive !!!!!!

they are a compaq format. some ps2s only read dvd rom formats. check the back of the cd case

the reason it makes the "grinding" noise is because the motor that moves the lens to read the disk is dieing, this generally happens when you have played your ps2 for a long time, this only happens to older consoles.

Crack open the DVD case and see whats going on and try fixing it yourself. OR Buy a new drive off of eBay and transfer the firmware key over from the old drive too the new one.

If you begin dissassembly from the tub down, you wil come to the transmission with the spindle sticking out of it. If you undo the bendable tabs all around the transmission it comes apart in two halves. Careful, its full of oil. The spindle has a plastic gear bolted to the bottom of it. It meshes with other gears in the tranny. It has sheered teath and is making the noise.