Just replaced mine last night thanks to this video. Also for those without soldering iron. What I did was just heat up the tip of a flat head screwdriver for a little on the stove top until it was hot enough. I barely touched the soldering blob in a scraping motion and it came off. So you don’t need an iron, everything is now connected and my ps2 reads discs again!

Have you run across a PS2 that the disc will spin, but not very fast and there is a clicking noise as it spins? I don't want to spend the money for a replacement laser if thats not the issue. Thanks Scott

Fixed - The problem with mine, was not only the laser eye needed replacement, but it was also clicking when i would turn on the system, and it was not reading disks, so I cleaned and greased up the gold track screw thing, so that it would spin properly again, because it was so stiff and clogged with gunk, the laser mechanism could not spin the gold track screw properly. After the cleaning it, and making sure the track screw was loose and could spin properly again, the console worked fine.

What do you do with the melted solder after taking off the solder blob? Do you shake it off the laser or scrape it off with the iron?

Gonna attempt to try and replace my laser on my Slim PS2, it stopped reading any discs awhile ago and the repair shop I brought it to quoted me about $150 total to repair and said at least it would have a warranty covering to fix it, But I wanna try this myself. Mine is modded though so what is the exact laser I'd need to buy for mine? Link please if possible Thanks much

Hello. I bought new laser and removed solder blob but laser still has problem to read discs. Is there something else I can do? Thank You

my ps2 will not read my games is it the laser or something else

What kind of screwdriver did you use to remove the tiny screws? I'm new to this.

Did you try adjusting the laser with a multimeter? I think people accidentally hit the lens taking out and putting in discs sometimes which causes the error. Often the laser is still working but needs a new setting. Sometimes a laser is genuinely dead though but it's something to consider. Plus use old discs because if you adjust too much it will burn the disc.

Hey what soldering iron do you use? Will one of the 20 dollar ones work

Couple of things I learned doing this repair. The rod rests in two little white plastic pieces that aren't attached to anything. Likely they'll fall out of place when you remove the rod, so make sure you check where and how they fit beforehand. A photo may help

Great video, thank you for this. My PS2 is working great!

Thanks for video easy to do and is working again. Would have never thought to remove solder bead so glad I watched before I tried it on my own

Thanks! did the replacement in like 10 minutes games run perfect!

going to attempt a fix with your video this week. wish me luck!

This made me despise ribbon cables and gave me patience

Thank you for this guide! Just used it to replace mine :)

Thanks for making this video, I appreciate you going through each step slowly and clearly. I have two questions though, what temperature did you have your soldering iron at when removing the blob on the replacement laser, and what wattage of soldering iron do you have?

I just replaced mine, the old one started having trouble reading disks and then one day wouldn’t read any. It’s still not working though, the disk isn’t even spinning. There is a light buzzing sound.

Thank god we have the same version and i can work on it easily because i think other versions are little bit different.