Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Pete" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Skipping PSX Date: 8 Jun 1998 18:21:42 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 37 Message-ID: <01bd9309$fa17e2a0$1d3963c3@default> References: <357ad1c6.6697290@news.scea.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host5-99-57-29.btinternet.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Matthew Hulett wrote in article <357ad1c6.6697290@news.scea.sony.com>... > Hello, > My PSX has developed a funny quark. When I was playing FFVII last > fall, I noticed that the animated scenes were skipping, but I just > figured the unit was overheating slightly. > Now, after having my PSX on for 30 minutes, it starts to skip quite > bad, even locking up on level loads when it misses tracks. The > interesting thing is that if I turn it upside down, it starts to work > just fine again. It's not overheating, I keep it well-ventilated. > Any ideas what's wrong, what I need to do to get it fixed, and what > it will cost me? > Thanks, > Matt How old is your playstation, is it your Yaroze? A couple of mates of mine (here in England) bought their playstations when they first arrived in this country. After six months of hard use, mostly sitting on the carpet, one started to skip and eventually refused to read discs altogether. Dixons (his place of purchase) exchanged it no questions asked. The other still has his and has to sit it at all sorts of angles to get it to work. I've been unreliably informed that there was a problem with the older playstation's laser mechanism, causing it either to distort due to overheating or just wear out from darting back and forth reading data. I also heard that Sony will exchange older troublesome playstations here (at a price), no doubt they do the same in the US. Pete.