Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Andrew Partington Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: I think the phrase rhymes with "clucking bell"... (HELP!) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:24:05 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: public2-ward1-6-cust140.manc.broadband.ntl.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Cheers for the suggestions everyone. Though luckily about 20 mins after I posted the message I managed to coax it into booting - good thing it only needs to boot once, then you don't need the CD after that point. Maybe it was getting too hot or something? I definitely think its on the way out though. Derek: Thanks a lot for the offer of the laser unit. The deadline is on Monday though and I reckon the christmas post will slow things down, so i'll keep going as far as I can with this dodgy drive for now. Pal: Yeah, I tried all the old tricks of putting it upside down and checking if the lens was clean etc. When it failed, there was a clicking sound coming from the drive, this has since disappeared though (for now at least). When it didn't boot, it was just going straight into the screen you see if you don't have a CD in the drive. I read the problems you and Chris were having and it seemed like a similar thing. When the CD did load it was taking ages about doing it. So anyway, i'm probably back in the race (though hanging on by my fingernails at this point!!!) Thanks all Andy Andrew Partington wrote: > ... my Yaroze just stopped booting - just what I don't bloody well need > at this point (i'm trying to get something in before OPSM closes its > doors). > > Since a: it's going to take me ages to send the Yaroze back for repair > and b: i'm skint, would it be a wise manoevure to get down Game and get > a 2nd hand old-style PlayStation to nick the laser unit out of? I don't > suppose those PSOne models are compatible... > > > Grrr..... > > Andy P >