Slimline Keeps Freezing

[mannitol]

My Playstation 2 couldn't cope with games anymore (I think the laser died) so I splashed out on a "special" slimline (SCPH-75003) late last year. It has never been right and I've tried some of the things here (the guy I got it from has been no use). I used to think it was problems reading the media, or when using a cheat device. Now I am convinced it isn't.

The crashes/freezing is completely random as far as I know - the biggest culprit was Need For Speed: Most Wanted it seemed to die as soon as there was too much going on in the game i.e. crashing into loads of cars, spinning out of control and into a gate or something; however the original played a fair bit better it still crashed.

Maybe the laser is just naff, however I was assured by the guy the CC doesn't affect the laser like the earlier slimline problems.

Tonight I have two examples. One game froze at a "checkpoint" and I restarted but progressed farther, it later crashed and I had that really annoying "buzz" drone! another game crashed in an FMV, or when loading/checking memory card.

The memory card which I use BM with is one of those massive ones from Datel so not the standard 8MB. Could this be the problem? Even though I have this option in Boot Manager (1.7) on. The firmware also seems to be up to date on the chip.

I have tried the PS2 vertically and horizontally and this still happens. Would you think it could be the memory card? Even though this occurance is random and happens with or without the bootmanager memory card in slot one?

I got a 'special' PS2 because of the hassle having to do the work myself. Should I open her up and check all the connections? I have read that overheating may occur due to dry connections - could this be one of the problems?

Does anyone have the right diagramme so I can check everything? Again, the guy I got it from didn't have anything and wasn't much help.

Thanks in advance.

[Breath of Fire]

In my option, I slims suck, I have had 2 slims and both overheated which sounds like your problem also, this is fix easy by puting a BIG external fan blowing on the PS2 when it is playing fixed all my problem but I eventually got rid of the 2 slims and got 2 fatties!

[mannitol]

Sometimes it may crash after not even half an hour play - the playstation doesn't feel hot either :s I might chuck the slim; everytime I go to open the disc tray I keep pushing restart; not quite used to there not being a button there!

[Breath of Fire]

Yeah I got rid of my slims I hate them, get a v7 fattie they have the best lasers and in my option best all around system.

[cherrypie]

Hrrm, heat hasn't been an issue with my v14 (75002) Slim, it survived the hot Australian summer fine. I notice it is real fussy with media though, runs like a champ on pretty much any "Made In Japan" media but skips and freezes on most everything else.

[c0rderr0y]

Hmm no problems here with my slim run it for long times too. No problems with media either.

[jetcat]

+200 hours play on a v12 with CC and sumone fix and all games are burned on TDK DVD+r or Verbatim DVD+r at max 4x speed.One mech crash but still the same laser PVR802.Still working great

[mannitol]

Do you think I should check the wiring then?

[immortalrain]

So said your using a datel card, is it max memory? because that card freezes my suikoden game when saving. have you tried a standard memory card?

[mannitol]

Yeah that's the one immortalrain. I save onto my original memory card - on max memory I have BM and Action Replay codelists. I did notice that when playing FFX2 last night there was no crashing; I didn't run BM. Could BM on the max-memory card be a possible problem?