I have a nice pink (slim) PS2 with a broken optical drive that I’m trying to fix. I have a replacement drive that has an identical code to the broken one and that visually looks identical except that one of the ribbon cables is longer. I put it in following the instructions from iFixit, but the new drive does not seem to spin up (though it does move the read head, it sound like).
I put the old drive back and try again, with the same result. This is surprising because the previous drive could read CDs (PS1 games) but not DVDs, so I fixed it worse than it was before.
Does anyone have suggestions for where to start troubleshooting? What could have possibly gone wrong to cause this?
Did you try both ribbon cables? One from the old drive, and one from the new one?
Briefly looking online, a replacement ribbon cable (L shaped?) appears generic and covers many model numbers
Sort of; each device kept their own ribbon cable which meant I tried both, but not on the same device. I’ll look into that, thanks!