Could be a lot of things. I had one with similar issues and it turned out to require a lot of testing and lifting of parts from some spare units, as well as drive calibration. Turned out to be a lot of work.
This is why I emulate. I'm glad people keep these things alive, and continue to do so as long as possible, but it's a lot of effort and money to do so. Broken capacitors, lasers, drives (CD-based consoles introduced moving parts, yet another potential point of failure), damaged discs... It's all just too much when Father Time always wins in the end.
You could potentially kill/harm yourself on the capacitors in the power supply or cause an explosion or a fire, when booting it up after some kind of uneducated alteration to the PCB. So, if you have to ask how to do it, don't do it. Buy a new one or send it in for repair.
The PS One doesn't have an open power supply like the PS1.
OP is fine messing around with the one, can't give him directions where to look for this particular problem though.
Could be a lot of things. I had one with similar issues and it turned out to require a lot of testing and lifting of parts from some spare units, as well as drive calibration. Turned out to be a lot of work.
This is why I emulate. I'm glad people keep these things alive, and continue to do so as long as possible, but it's a lot of effort and money to do so. Broken capacitors, lasers, drives (CD-based consoles introduced moving parts, yet another potential point of failure), damaged discs... It's all just too much when Father Time always wins in the end.
Why don't you have a go and get back to us?
Laser assembly is cheap and easy to replace
You could potentially kill/harm yourself on the capacitors in the power supply or cause an explosion or a fire, when booting it up after some kind of uneducated alteration to the PCB. So, if you have to ask how to do it, don't do it. Buy a new one or send it in for repair.
The PS One doesn't have an open power supply like the PS1. OP is fine messing around with the one, can't give him directions where to look for this particular problem though.