occasional boot failure
 

My PS2 v9 with self installed Matrix Infinity very occasionally boots to a black screen, and a restart fixes it. I'm using an original Front Mission 4 disc and it does it consistantly, will only play after I reset the machine, then it's fine.

Is this somewhat normal, or is this going to create bigger problems for me down the road?

try booting it with the chip disabled sence its the origianl and see what it dose

Yup.... that’s normal. The infinity has that little bug. Especially with original games... and even more so on the v9 and V10. Like lets say you have a original game in the drive on its closed and you have had the PS2 turned off (not in standby) for awhile, then you turn it on to standby and hit reset to boot the original since its already in the drive. It will boot and you will see the PS2 logo with the infinity version under it... but them when it goes to actually load the game it will just sit at a black screen right?? Well instead of turning your PS2 on with the reset button hit eject then tap reset.... works every time. Not a big deal really.

Perfect, thanks.

Are their any other cons to this chip? As its what I am looking at and it seems to have a lot of Pros, but I would still like to know the Cons.

Thanks

Hopefully this'll be fixed in a firmware update :)

The other con is that between the PS2 Logo and the boot of the actual game there is a 10 second wait at a black screen, you can make up for this by quickbooting the chip so that it skips at least the browser and PS2 logo which saves you ten seconds, then you just watch the black for 10 seconds and it evens out.

As far as I'm concerned these are very small issues.

I dont really think that will bother me too much, because of all the pros it has, nothing can be 100% pro.

Cheers

Then thats about all you should be aware of. I've been extremely happy with it.

I have never had this problem when booting a PS2 game, on any console I have modded with the infinity. Now with PSX games I have seen long boot times, but this is easily over come by holding circle to force the chip to PSX mod and bypass the auto boot feature. Or if you boot with no controller in port 1 it will take a long time too...... but who would do that.

Oh by the way, the DMS3 V9 has the same bug that I spoke of on the V9 and V10 consoles.... not really a con, just a bug that is easy to get around.**Edit*** well I take that back, the DMS3 doesnt have quite the same bug but similar, you cant turn on the console with the eject button when its been in standby for a while, have to hit reset then eject.... also not a big deal.

Well on my machine, between the PS2 logo w/ the infinity sub logo there is about 10 seconds of black before the first screen of the game boots. The reviewer of the Infinity detailed the same issue but it's relatively unnoticable unless it's pointed out.