i want to thank everyone but i feel like you keep ignoring a very major thing i keep saying about my issue, blank cds still make that sound, im fairly sure it is something with the discs, since ive had them on a shelf for a few years now, or maybe something with my laser which i think is unlikely considering older cd backups and all of my dvd backups work fine.
let me see if I understood.
The reader is making the reported noises when inserting the disks, but these disks that you inserted, are they blank disks, clean with nothing recorded, or are they burned disks, that you recorded the ISO of a game?
If the sound occurs only when you insert blank discs in the player, not when using recorded discs, the reason is simple:
It's because they are blank discs. The system is trying to locate the data on the disk, as it can't, it tries again, and again and again, and each time it forces the reader more, leading to these noises. Stop inserting blank disks and the device will return to normal.
Now, if the sound still occurs with recorded games, try to record the games on discs of other quality, lower and if possible originals.
If it doesn't work, you have two alternatives.
The first is to change the reader for a new one, but keep in mind that new readers for this device in 2022, only parallel lenses produced in china, but they are good too.
I bought one for the equivalent of less than 10 dollars a few months ago and it works very well, even being parallel.
The second alternative, which I recommend trying because it often works, is to regulate the reader by its trimpot.
First of all, know that the devs and hackers do not recommend adjusting this trimpot because it is done using high-precision lasers, and changing this trimpot increases the voltage and decreases the useful life of the reader, but in your case it would already be out, if it lasts another half year or a year, it's profit.
Personally, I always recommend trying to adjust the voltage regulation before changing the reader, I've saved many readers that way, both PS1 and PS2, So much so that a few days ago I recovered my teacher's PS2 slim just by adjusting this trimpot. The device only read a few parallel discs and with difficulty, I verified that it was original and it was very tired, I adjusted it by reducing the resistance from 770 to 700ohms, the addition of voltage being very small to affect the useful life of the laser, and it was enough to revive the device, it's like new.
