Bizarre behaviour

[spedmetal]

Originally Posted by Frito

I'm thinking it's a chip defect more than anything since Originals play fine when in sleep mode. Otherwise it says "Please insert a valid Playstation or playstation2 disc..."

I'm gonna have to gamble and say the chip is defective. Dammit, i ordered it from Divineo. I wonder if they'll help. Cause otherwise I'm up **** creek

It’s not the chip that’s for sure! It’s your laser. Even though netmeck put a new one in there as it wears in a new laser will still need adjusting from time to time. It the laser takes too long to read the disc it will through off the timing of the chip, thus you will end up with the RSOD (please insert Playstation, blah blah) screen. Plus I don’t think it helped the drive assembly the way you have it all hacked open....might have put something out of alignment.
Any way a simple pot adjustment might fix this.