Unsolved Mystery: Can Anyone Fix This Unrepairable PS2? 

I saw this 100ps2 repair video. Starting from 6:37, it looks like the same issue as your PS2. The guy use a heat gun to heat up a chip and it fixed the problem. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iLPczoUC0fU.html

Have you checked every leg of the chip to see if any is loose ? I am also thinking the Mechacon chip on the PS2 ( Game disk security IC) could be stopping your games from booting due to a short or damaged chip. Voltage injection is also a good idea to find shorts on the board. Compare the bad Motherboard with the good one using a thermal camera.That's all I can think about for now. Good luck and update us please !

One thing you can try is to address the shorted pins, take out the caps and any other component on their lines one by one and see if the short goes away. If not, try to lift those pins of the chip from the board and measure again. Hopefully you can narrow down the problem, so the rest of the chip can work again, letting you ps2 boot again your games.

Very nice video, thanks for uploading

Its pretty strange how most issues I see people having are with the midnight blue ps2. I have one, but its laser died. I was gonna replace it, but i opened it up and found it was the "impossible to find" PVR-702W laser. I had to get a new ps2. I really wonder if the midnight blue just had a major manufacturing issue?

Maybe a bad installation of the FMCB? or a ModChip doing some stuff? If it not modded then i should go with the firmware or you can try to solder the pins to make good contact again, that's something it happends with a N64 and re-soldering the processor fix sometimes black screen or no vídeo for some reason, i was gonna say DVD but it seems working just fine, another thing is that try to use both CD/DVD on your PS2 (White disc and Blue Disc) bc i encounter a weird problem where my ps2 only reads CD but not DVD and sometimes it does read DVD or try to load the dvd/cd and goes back to the menú memory card for some reason (i guess its a faulty DVD/CD but i doubt about it

Have you tried changing the laser IC? I had a slim recently that wouldn't read due to a bad Laser IC, replaced it and it fixed it. Not sure about the HDD issues tho

try voltage injection, sounds like a short somewhere on the board.

I have a PS2 that can't read discs and scratches them severely in the process HDL works on it perfectly though

I have the same problem the way i fix was to put it vertical the first time I did it it show the PlayStation 2 logo and it went back to the Bowser. the second time went after the logo and it froze. The third time i went in to the game and it allow me to play

2 things to try check current lazor for the typical solder bridge on new Lazer eyes 2 spindle doesn't seem to be going fast enough 3 flash new firmware

my playstation 2 also writes playstation 2 disc on the white screen, i press enter, it sends it to the same screen again, what should i do, i want to boot ps2, there is no other material

check the BA/LA chip, it might be fried, if not, reball or replace the cd/dvd controller

Free hard drive boot is kind of finnicky esp with the gamestars.

Oh noo

im thinking it may be a bad firmware, but i dont work on ps2s too often. Try loading a small iso off of a memory card

try dissambling the chip and try with a original copy,sometimes chips in these consoles go bad,just removing the 12 volt and ground connection should be enough to disable it

Chip swap between workings and non-working console?

Swap the chip from the good board and retest. If it solves the issue, at least you will have your answer.

This happened to me when I installed new laser and it was because of bad calibration

That issue is a mechacon failure

hi could you help me i was trying to region unlock my ps2 and went into launch elf but coulnt get out so i just restarted my ps2 but now when i put any type of free mcboot memory cards into it just stays frozen on the free mcboot screen can you please help me