Sounds like someone has a refund coming on some chips;) Or at least exchanges...

OK, this is the latest developement in my story. I said to hell with putting a messiah in this PS2 and decided to put my magic back in. When I replaced the Magic chip it had the same affect as the irst two messiah I had tried. Went back in checked the bios clip and it was good. Then I retrimmed all the ends of the wires and did another complete reinstall of the magic. Still the same thing. What on earth could I have done to make a PS2 reject all chips? Don't let Sony get ahold of this one.

Now that its out the disc doesn't spin. The laser earches but no spinning. I am freaking out!!!

swap on bad chips is np,if it was the chips ;)

to me u have bridge,or possible solder ball behing the legs

cd/dvd drive problems means it could be a-i as well cd/dvd controller points

b and c bridged??

does the tray eject if not possibly ba58 chip , check the fuse

dont forget the obvius reset powr lead,it can be tested with a meter the wires appear seperate at either end of the silver foil

8x magnifying glass check whole board long job but it must be done,solder balls ,wire clippings are found in the most strangest places,both sides

I doubt that it is the CD\DVD controller as this is aon the backside and I cleaned it up real good with desoldering braid adter the unistall. Cleaned up all the points where the magic was connected very well. Only thing that I expected was the bios. After I romoved that damn bios clip I had noticed that i mashed solder all over the place. Did my best to clean it up but it is hard to see. I only have a 2x lens, have to wait for a friend to get home and bring his up. I checked out b and c they are good.

What does this mean?

nevermind. Got ti as soon as I posted. Thought you were talking about going back to the magic, sorry

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Yup I've given up on it. Only good thing about it is that I am negotiating selling the laser to Freakzilla. He has recently sent his PS2 to Bill who says that he needs a new laser. Good news is that mine happens to have about 30 hours on it. So I am going to see if we can work some thing out.