problems with PS2 dvd drive

[grim1010]

Hi everyone. I'm new to the site and feel bad about comein right into it with a question but here it is. I have a PS2 that when i try to play games on it one of 2 things happens. A> It comes up in the browser as "Disk read error" or B> It will pull up the disk icon below the mem. card icons but when i select it, it will load to a black screen for 5 seconds then go back to the browser with all three Icons again. I can get my Swap magick to work (sometimes,  its tempermental) and it loads my back-ups just fine. This is the second time it has happend, i took the drive out of my older (same version drivers) PS2 and it worked for about a week and started doin this again. I have tried cleaning the disks as well as the drive lens and am now at a complete loss as to what the problem could be. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

[Boost]

I've done this to many older fat PS2's in the past and it has worked 100% of the time.
follow this tut it's not that hard.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/ps2.ars/3

BOOST

[Art2Fly]

and if you have the slim version, what kind of flip top or sensor blocking method are you using?

[grim1010]

Cool Boost thx very much,  i will try that just as soon as i get home and hope for the best lol. and sorry Art it is a fat PS2,   i shoulda been specific on that.