What was I thinking?  I had some free time and I was sick of my PS2 not being able to read Gran Turismo 4.  That game I have owned for months and have still not played (although it ran fine on a friend's PS2).

So I decided to fix the laser.

Yeah right.  I ended up pulling off the reset ribbon.  My PS2 must be a version -1 or something because the pictures online to fix it do not look like mine at all.  I made matters worse by unscrewing all kinds of things looking for where this ribbon could possibly go.

*Sigh*  I had a moment of silence for my busted machine and put it on the shelf next to all my older systems.

Does this mean I need to get a PS3?