[ottoman]

Had another thought.

Red screen has nothing to do with the laser.

If you have laser probs then you either get a black screen followed by the browser page after about 30 secs or you get a disc read error message.

If u getting red screen then this is a booting problem.

As you know that yr back-ups are okay then the only other things can be your boot proceedure or the chip fitting.

Read up on booting instructions and see if you can get a PS1 backup to work.

If this works then your chip is working okay.

Try a movie on DVDR in there and if this works then yr laser is okay.

If you get to this stage the best thing is to go back inside and check the chip fitting again.

If necessary remove the chip, check the PS2 works fine without it and then start again with proper wire etc.

Good Luck!!!!!!