My PS2s hate me.....

**enigmaxtreme** · 02-28-2013,07:38 PM

Last year I went and bought a second hand V7 PS2 and got a Modbo 4.0 installed so I could play backups without swapping or patching or whatever and it has become one of the most frustrating situations I've had to deal with any console whatsoever.

Everything was working fine until I tried to play backups of the Resident Evil series and discovered none of the backups work, NONE! Not 1, 2, 3, Directors Cut or anything, I tried numerous versions even bought a CD Burner to burn at a slower speed and nothing, all I ever got was a black screen. Then I noticed that a backup of Silent Hill 2 would only work half the time and then stop working all together. Silent Hill 1, 3 and 4 would all work easily but I couldn't get this game to start past the PS2 logo.

So a local console modder and repairer informed me that it may be the lens, so I went and bought a PS2 lens off eBay (yeah yeah I know) and got it installed hoping it would fix the issue, if anything it just made it worse discs would take forever to start up when turning on the console. So now I'm getting the old lens put back in.

I then decided to buy a new PS2, it was a V9 and handed it to the modder to take my Modbo out of my V7 and pop into the V9, after he managed to find a solder pin small enough for it I get a message a day or two later saying he can't get it to work and that all he gets is a black screen, no boot screen whatsoever, Yet it still worked in the V7.

So right now I'm waiting for him to put the Modbo back in the V7 who is just as frustrated as I am.

So here I am, at the end of my rope, looking for some answers......

**x06xp** · 02-28-2013,11:14 PM

whats funny is if those were the only games that didn't work then you could had just bought them off ebay instead of buying another ps2.

**enigmaxtreme** · 02-28-2013,11:36 PM

Originally Posted by x06xp

whats funny is if those were the only games that didn't work then you could had just bought them off ebay instead of buying another ps2.

Well the second one only costed me 30$

**x06xp** · 02-28-2013,11:46 PM

never mind then i take it all back.

**abhisun007** · 03-01-2013,02:44 AM

better to use opl0.9 with mcboot for all ps2 games

**SP193** · 03-01-2013,06:32 AM

Just go with the v7. The SCPH-50000 series (v9 to v11) has got more problems with the laser.

You may be using too cheap discs if you can't get your console to read them... especially if you hear clicking noises. Use Verbatim DVD-R discs that were manufactured by Taiyo Yuden or Mitsubishi.

Burning your discs at a lower speed may not necessarily help with improving the quality of the burn, unless your burner has got some problems with burning reliably at higher speeds...

If you can get your hands on a network adaptor, just connect a ATA disk to it and use OPL to boot your games. That way, you will not only be saving your original discs, but your console's CD/DVD drive as well.

Oh, and I hope that this laser you got was meant for your console. If your console had a R-type laser (HD7 or KHS-400R), it needs either one of those two as a replacement. If it had a KHS-400B or KHS-400C, you should get a KHS-400C as a replacement.

If you got the wrong type of laser, you need to use the lenschanger program to manually set your console to use the new laser.

**enigmaxtreme** · 03-01-2013,06:00 PM

If it was the wrong kind of laser would it not work at all or just ineffectively

**enigmaxtreme** · 03-05-2013,10:00 PM

So I got my PS2s back and I'm about to rip out my hair and start sobbing.

The V7 has the modchip back in and all there is a black screen. I don't even think the discs are spinning

The V9 lenses are completely buggered, It won't read any discs at all

**SP193** · 03-05-2013,11:43 PM

Originally Posted by enigmaxtreme

If it was the wrong kind of laser would it not work at all or just ineffectively

Honestly speaking, I don't know. I don't actually do Playstation 2 repairs, but I'm just repeating what I've learned from the forums here and by tinkering with its software.

Whatever it is, it's probably best to assume that even if it works... it won't work well.

Originally Posted by enigmaxtreme

So I got my PS2s back and I'm about to rip out my hair and start sobbing.

The V7 has the modchip back in and all there is a black screen. I don't even think the discs are spinning

The V9 lenses are completely buggered, It won't read any discs at all

Could you just send them to someone else? No offense meant to your local modder/console serviceman, but what if he just wasn't up to it? It sounds to me as if your consoles just got worse in condition after they got sent to him. D:

**enigmaxtreme** · 03-06-2013,12:27 AM

Originally Posted by SP193

Honestly speaking, I don't know. I don't actually do Playstation 2 repairs, but I'm just repeating what I've learned from the forums here and by tinkering with its software.

Whatever it is, it's probably best to assume that even if it works... it won't work well.

Could you just send them to someone else? No offense meant to your local modder/console serviceman, but what if he just wasn't up to it? It sounds to me as if your consoles just got worse in condition after they got sent to him. D:

Thats easier said then done, I live on the Australian island of Tasmania and hes really the only game in town, not to mention he has been doing this for years. To be fair the V7 wasn't in the best shape to begin with. So now I've bought a PS2 Slim with Free McBoot the other two are in my cupboard until I can figure out what to do

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