Fatal crash...

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Hey folks

I searched the forum in vain, to find an answer to my unusual happening last evening. I started out with the Nürburgring 24 hour enduro the evening before and raced myself for about 3 hours before handing the car over to my co-pilot (B Spec of course) and went to sleep. Obviously the next morning I left the B Spec on after seeing that my Nissan R92CP had lapped out the Alfa DTM car for like 4 times to go to work.

I came back in the evening and found myself (or teamster at least) #1. I tried to click OK but the game ha simply freezed and did not accept any input whatsoever. I hooked off the steering wheel and hooked on the game controller... Nope... So no matter how heavy I shed tears, I reset the game to zero :ouch:

Did something like this ever happen to anyone and what could be the problem ?

I checked the power adapter (I have a slimline) and PS2 bodies for overheat but no, thaty was not the problem and both were perfectly normal by means of heat. I checked the steering wheels adapter and self and found them to be sound as well...

I hope I am not dwelling in the wrong area again... :guilty:
 
youre brave doin a 24hour enduro on a slimline. those things just have no cooling at all! yes i lost the settings for my Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII GSR Drift car which had taken me 5 hours to setup! argh!!!! all you can do is start again. Damn it!! :sly:
 
Famine kept his slimline on for I think it was 400 hours with no problems.

I've A-Specced all the endurences with my slimline, no problems, I also keep it on all night sometimes, leaving it on B-Spec El Captain endurence to get money.

To sum up, my slimline PS2 has never suffered, despite being on for long periods of time :)
 
George Morley
Famine kept his slimline on for I think it was 400 hours with no problems.
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A total of 1000 hours for all three 24 hour races.

George Morley
I've A-Specced all the endurences with my slimline, no problems, I also keep it on all night sometimes, leaving it on B-Spec El Captain endurence to get money.

To sum up, my slimline PS2 has never suffered, despite being on for long periods of time :)
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Snap.

slider-s15
youre brave doin a 24hour enduro on a slimline. those things just have no cooling at all!
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They have a heatsink on the top and an internal fan. But they also have the major heat source - the transformer - removed from the case. Less cooling for less heat. But since it relies on radiation and environmental convection currents (rather than creating its own with an extractor fan) it must be placed somewhere with good airflow, rather than shut away in a computer desk.


modik - if your guy was on B-Spec, what "OK" were you trying to click on? Had he finished the race, or was he still driving?
 
The only alternative reason to what Famine has said is that, if you keep turning your Playstation on and off many times, it wears it out.

I just turn mine on and keep it on all day.
 
I turn mine off every night or when I'm not playing I put it on standby. Electric bill has been over $200 here last few months, so I'm trying to conserve some power. Not doing to great, but hey, it's doing something. That doesn't mean I haven't left it on for 2 months in a row at times though. No problems, but then again, I have the older PS2 model.

This is a little off-topic, but wasn't it something like 1/3 of the 1st shipment of the Xbox 360 Pro systems supposed to have overheating problems?

Anyway, Modik, you should plan out your 24 Hour B-specs so thatyou can have it done and ready right when you wake up in the morning.
 
My PS2 is about 2 years old and usually I turn it on to race and turn it off as soon as I've finished. That's why there's a save to memory function. I do this to conserve electricity. I use my PS2 down in the basement and it's relatively cool (no airconditioning). I made sure that there is plenty of space around it to allow airflow. So far I have not had one single problem with it. That's with turning it on and off a number of times during the day for months at a time when I used to play GT steadily.

Only recently have I been leaving it on for eight days or so to run each the 24 hour races in A-spec. I'm not willing to do more than a couple of hours at a stretch because it's so boring and I lose focus. I worry about local brownouts and power failures doing damage to the PS2. I'm in NYC and the electrical grid is being heavily stressed due to the current heatwave. Yesterday local temps reached 98 degrees.

I only have about six hours to go on my last 24 hour race and that will be the final 24 hour race I'll ever do in GT4 in A-spec. I don't even need to B-spec them anymore.

I have my fingers crossed that no harm will come to my PS2 since I'm not sure if I'll ante up for a PS3 until the prices come way down.
 
Here's a hint, not that this was likely to be the issue, if you have a desk fan of some kind, leave it on and over the PS2...it works. Usually after 24 hour races I can barely touch the ps2 it's so hot (this is a slimline one), but with a fan on it's luke warm at most.
 
Also Modik, try taking a vacuum cleaner and put it to where the PS2 has its heat vent and suck some of the dust out. Makes it run faster, and doesn't void your warranty (as far as I know)
 
This is why i hate the new ps2, I think that is was designed so that it would crash and people would buy a new one,:scared: sorta like new coke,:dunce: looks good , but its just a buncha s****:grumpy:
 
Is there any possibility to open up the PS2 without ruining it?

I'm thinking about opening it up 'cus it's full of dirt and stuff I can't remove it all by just blowing, can I? ;)
 
Pink_the_Floyd
Is there any possibility to open up the PS2 without ruining it?

I'm thinking about opening it up 'cus it's full of dirt and stuff I can't remove it all by just blowing, can I? ;)
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That'll just push the dust in further :indiff:. If you open the PS2, warranty = dead. Period.
 
being a computer freak/and using my friends slim there is a huge chance of overheating.
Even a little overheat can cause a computer to malfunction. It won't completely destroy it (unless it gets way to verheated) but things will start to not work
Real life example-When I played a 3d multiplayer game on my computer in 40* C heat, I noticed that my screen would sometimes freeze for 1-6 seconds.
Now its cooler and it doesn't happen.
PLus, we all know about those messages in the news "'any sony playstation slimline buyers can refund their ps where they bought them due to an overheating problem"
 
@ Pink - If you're pS2 still works fine, and it's just dust, open away. It won't damage it in anyway as long as you're careful, though it will kill your warrenty. But heck at the price you can pick up a new slimline or brick ps2 it wouldn't matter lol.
 
<_Spike_>
@ Pink - If you're pS2 still works fine, and it's just dust, open away. It won't damage it in anyway as long as you're careful, though it will kill your warrenty. But heck at the price you can pick up a new slimline or brick ps2 it wouldn't matter lol.
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Yeah, and if your warranty is expired, that's basically your only choice. Open it.
 
Well ,it's 2-3 years old and it runs 100%, I'm just concerned about it's ability to complete 24 hours races...

It's running quite warm now but that'll be because it's quite close to the wall, I might hang it out of the window :lol:
 
Wow... I've felt a hot PS2 in my life, slimline or the brick. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus do you people not know how to take car of your stuff? My PS2 sits out in the middles of the floor were it get's great air circulation. (i think)
 
Pink_the_Floyd
Is there any possibility to open up the PS2 without ruining it?

I'm thinking about opening it up 'cus it's full of dirt and stuff I can't remove it all by just blowing, can I? ;)
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Since I am an ex PS2 modder I know how to open them without voiding your warrenty.

All you have to do is find the void sticker and take a blow dryer to heat it. It will start to peel, wait for half of it to come off then pull it off. Now unscrew the screw's and there you go. All you have to do is put the sticker back on.
 
Mine is on the floor of ceramics under an air vent it runs really cool especially when its getting air from the vents.
 
I had also problems with the cooling of my slimline ( DVD reading errors), everything is cleaned, no dust and but it overheated.:scared: I've found out that the temperature of that thing is very variable with different materials under it, if it stands at a wooden desk it overheats very fast, same thing with a carpet, but the glass desk seems to keep the temperature low(er). 💡 I put a DVD-box under the laser that there is some space between the CPU and the floor.

However, I put a cooling fan in front of it, that solved the problem, but the noise it makes is very annoing. :indiff:
 
Master_Yoda
Wow... I've felt a hot PS2 in my life, slimline or the brick. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus do you people not know how to take car of your stuff? My PS2 sits out in the middles of the floor were it get's great air circulation. (i think)
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Anywhere that it can get air from all directions should be good. I keep mine on my tv stand, never overheated once (but I have the "brick" PS2). Maybe giving a rest once and a while would do it some good too :indiff:
 
See dude just make sure its on a cool surface, therefore it will always have cool air and just for insurance pick up a mini fan OR do like what I do and have it under an air vent especially when the A/C is on the vaccum from the inner part of the fan will pick it up.
 
Just guess how hard it is to keep it cool in the Middle-East!:indiff:

But we have tiles, and the A/C is normally on full, but it keeps turning off for no reason whatsoever.
Any ideas?
 
Is air around it completely except for the bottom? Seems like it "breathes" easier with tthe more air it can get to.
 

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