[spedmetal]

What ihaveanosebleed has said is all very correct and thorough information. Follow it to the "T" and you should be able to diagnose this problem. If all this fails the last thing it might be like stated is a laser issue. If after cleaning your laser lens with a cleaning disk (or Q-tip and rubbing alcohol which would require taking the top lid off the DVD drive), before adjusting your laser unnecessarily try this to see if your laser is tired.

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

With a PS2 that is having laser problems it will go 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 to
3) The browser screen and sit there for a while before
4) The short black screen
5) Then it finally boots

This is needed to know because a PS2 with a tired laser may not read DVD-R’s or if it can it might take a longer time to read them then it should which can through off the timing of the chip. This is usually only the case with the V4 and earlier PS2’s that came from the factory with crappy lasers.