Help booting imports with no solder mod?

[Haer]

Upon hearing the bad news, that Suikoden III was not going to be released in the UK, I decided the best option was a mod chip. After looking at the various choices, I settled on the no solder mod(Cheap and easy is all I can afford).

With this, I got the Swap magic boot CDs required.

However, when I try to boot using either of these, a blue border appears in the top right hand corner, and then nothing.

I then tried to boot with my friends Action Reply 2 - Which got a little bit further, taking me to a black screen before stopping.

The Disk is an original import, normal games work fine, and its a v4 ps2. First installation attempt led to the power not coming on, however this has been fixed.

Any ideas what I can do?