Brother broke my PS2? Maybe I can fix it? Help!
 

I have a v7 NTSC ps2. I installed a Magic 3.1 chip about a year ago, and it's worked pretty well until now.

My brother was playing a DVD+R copy of Front Mission 4 and he turned it off to go eat. When he came back, he turned on the PS2 and now it goes right to a red screen with any DVD-R. Everything else seems to work (original bought DVD games, CDR, dvd rips, PS1 originals, PS1 cd-r, etc) but not DVD+R or DVD-R or any type of rewritable DVD. I've tried multiple brands of both +R and -R etc, all go right to a red screen.

The PS2 really hasn't been used very much (I would estimate under 200 hours since I got it) and I've never watched any DVD movies on it so I find it strange that something like this would happen.

Can anyone help me?

Did he knock it? Sounds like a wire has come loose stopping DVDR working. Do DVDR movies work at all?

This could be very likely that a wire has come loose as this happened to me a few months ago. I just took it apart and resoldered the wire and it worked like new again. A very light bump could cause this if the solder point was weak in the first place. Another thing which is less likely could be that the laser is ready to quit and just wont read backups any more but very doubtful.
We do need to know if the dvdr movies work as lufcfan has asked. That will help us determine if there is a laser issue evolving. Hopefully it is just a loose wire. ;)