PS2 v6 w/ duo mod problem booting

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So you have only tested those two back-ups right? What is the PS2 doing exactly? Are you getting the RSOD screen (red screen of death), disk read error, or what when you try and boot those back-ups. So you don’t know if it’s the media, your laser, or the install. 3 things you are going to want to do right off the bat.

1) Get a PSX original, buy one if you have to, they are very cheap these days. Boot up the PS2 according to the PSX boot procedure which it to hold the eject button until the blue light comes on. If it boots you know you at least have that much of the chip installed and working correctly. Then make a back-up of it and do the same thing, then you will know if your PS2 can read CD-R media or not, also use good media to back-up your CD-R like TDK.

2) Get a DVD original movie if you don’t already have one. Boot it up the same way you would as a PSX game, if it boots and plays it good this will also prove to you what the PSX side is working, but more importantly coming next. You want to then put the PS2 in standby and boot it according to the PS2 game boot instructions for the Duo and boot the DVD movie instead of a game. If it goes to the browser screen and tells you it’s a PS2 game but won’t play the movie then this is a good indication that the Duo is patching the bios correctly. If it plays the movie then you know your install is incorrect or the chip is defective.

3) You want to test your laser to see how well it reads media to determine if it a laser issue or not. I use the following procedure to test lasers and it is 90% accurate.

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

The reason you need to know all this is 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 throw 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.

Lastly if its at all possible you might want to just run out and get some good media to burn to like Verbatim DVD-R's or better yet Ritek DVD-R's but they will be harder to find in retail stores then the Verbatim's.

Good luck and update us with your finding.