I just took it apart agin to check all the wires with a ohm meter. All good.

1 wire on the back was touching 2 pads i noticed so i fixed that. I thought that might be the problem.

Put it together and...... still get black screen after swirls



Isnt a Original ps2 suppose to boot without turning off the chip?

Well yes but if you have the mod wired incorrectly, or the chip is bad, it will be patching the bios incorrectly thus screwing up the booting of originals as well.

Yes an original DVD Game will boot with the chip but a DVD MOVIE usually needs the chip turned off to play as the PS2 is being forced to boot a PS2 game by default from the chip, not a movie. So if you can put a DVD movie in the PS2 and power it up and the movie starts to play with no problems, without holding reset to disable the chip, this may indicate that the chip is not sending the default PS2 game boot data. I hope that made sense.

I am not 100% sure of how a magic V handles booting DVD movies, I mostly use Apple Pro but I believe they work exactly the same, as far as reset button changing the chip modes.

This is good information. The magic V switchs modes with the eject button though just so you know. And yes if you just put a DVD movie in with out doing anything the PS2 will be in PS2 mode and not boot the DVD movie.... if the chip is not patching the bios like ihaveanosebleed said it will boot up like normal.

what are the chances of having a defective chip? not including clones that dont work.



probably very low

yes very low

Summing things up

V7 39001
Chip- Magic V for V4-V8

after swirls it tries to load but i get a black screen and no sound
Dont get to the “Playstation 2” screen
Checked wires with ohm meter
Set DVD pot from 1200 to 1050
tried adjusting the white gear didnt change anything
Laser seems to be good
Cleaned laser lens with alchohol
Tried 2 different media No name and Maxell
Have not tried ritek media yet.



With Chip ON
PS1 Backups work
DVD PS2 backups dont work.
DVD Movies dont work


With Chip OFF
DVD Backup Movies work
DVD Movies work
DVD PS2 Games work



My PS2 boots like below

A PS2 with a good laser booting an original silver (PS2 game that is silver on the bottom and not a back-up) game boots like this.

1) When you turn on the PS2 and hit eject it will go to the ‘browser/system configuration’ screen
2) Put in the PS2 original silver hit reset, you will see the ‘Sony Entertainment’ screen, the electrons will swirl and go straight to the
3) Playstation 2 screen
4) Then a short black screen
5) Then the game boots




One thing im puzzled with is a original ps2 game should just boot up with the chip on. So if i get or try ritek media what difference is that going to make? If the chip on cant play originals why would it play any backups??

Like I said earlier if the chip is wired wrong or bad it will be patching the bios incorrectly thus making originals non-bootable as well. There very well could be a possibility the chip is bad if your totally sure the wiring is correct.

I believe I had the exact same symptoms on my Apple Pro when I broke a connection to pad # 5. Unfortunately there is no corresponding point for #5 on a Magic chip.

What do you mean broke a connection to pad # 5 ?

The chip pad was broken?

try looking at the cd/dvd controler or moving the chip that happend to another person on saturday.

wheres the cd/dvd controller?

What was wrong with the other guys on Saturday?

Well on your version PS2 the CD/DVD controller points would be the points you soldered to on the back of the PS2's mother board. Points D,E,F,G,H,I, and A,B,C and Y on the top of the mobo. In other words everything other then the bios points, reset/eject, power and ground.

would the length of the wires make any difference?

Its not exactly a pretty job as far as length of wire is concerned. I didnt cut any of the wires to fit.

no wonder and what wire did u use lol. i would redo all of it lol or send it to a pro.