I think it must be fried I even replaced the part that reads the disk (440ADM) to no avail just wish I could remove the chip and put it in my recently purchased model so I can play my sons ntsc games.

Thank you for your quick response Shadow, I tried this to no avail but fortunately for me I found used console for $29 and I'm back playing my games. I had better turn my PS2 back on in case I lose that as well because I have a lot more games for that.

I'm not sure I'm in the right forum, I live in Western Australia and have a SCPH7002 Pal system PS1. I was playing with no issues, I put the game on pause, when I went to continue the disc doesn't spin and the pause screen wouldn't let me use my controller, I have totally disconnected it from the po...