[SurfDrifter]

Well, that's life...

I was cheated by "known" guy of mine for over 5 years.
I bought on December a v.9 PAL PS2 and went to "my guy" to install a Messiah2 chip. He installed and when i went to play, sometimes it didn't boot.

I called and said it might be a problem with the grounding.
After few weeks the only thing i could see was Red Screen with "insert ps or ps2 disc"...

Oh, i forgot to mention that i opened the PS2 2 days after purchase and saw that it was connected to RESET instead of EJECT. I told him and said that the new messiah2 work with RESET.

Anyway, after the Red Screens, i took it back and left my ps2 there for few days and gave it back to me as it was the first time.
Booting whenever it felt like.

So today, i went to another guy that i found on the net and told him to check my ps2. We opened it and found out that it WASN"T messiah 2, but Matrix MXL2.

I installed messiah2 and now and i'm still on testing it, but there wasn't any flaw up to now...I have checked PS2 backups DVD-R,DVD+R, CD-R and all the times it booted correctly.

Well, that was my experience with Matrix MXL2...
I wrote this, just to say my experience and NOT condemn all MXL2 chips. I might be "the one in 100" case here, but i felt like writing, moslty pointing out, how the some so-called modinstallers
are THAT greedy to gain money, selling other chips as "messiah2"
to gain few more bucks. That's what hurt me most and of course the fact that i knew this guy for 5 years and i had suggested him to many of my friends...