PS2 Slim - No Power Repair:
After doing some repairs for someone local I got given some trash consoles for free to use as spares.
One of them was a PS2 Slim that is horribly warped to the degree it looks like a vehicle had run over it at some point and was not powering up at all:
There is no way to see how badly it is damaged without opening it up.
So I opened it up, expecting to see a cracked motherboard PCB:
Well this is looking promising. The PCB is not cracked!
Could it be as simple as the power connector is damaged?
BINGO! I re-soldered the connector back to the motherboard and it lives again:
However I can not get games to load because the top of the case is too badly warped and needs to be removed to be able to use discs.
@speedlolita provided the image below which shows the two points (A+C) that need to be held down to fool the PS2 into believing the disc tray is closed:
I then successfully tested it loading both DVD and CD based games:
Sadly this PS2 Slim needs a new case but otherwise it is working perfectly again!
For now it is going into my spares box.