PlayStation Problem

This is annoying. My PlayStation 2 refuses to load the game I'd currently like to play, Need for Speed: Pro Street. I've been resetting the damn thing for the 284,565,374,343th time now, and it still wouldn't boot up. Instead, it barfs up the message, "Please insert PlayStation 2 or PlayStation format disc". Or something to that effect.

And you know what's more irritating? I've bought the game yesterday and after inserting the disc it loaded up on the first try.

It's frustration with a capital F.

In truth, this has been a thorn in the side of me for quite a while now, and I've gotten used to it. But the PS2 has apparently got a mind of its own and instead of working for me, it's chosen the absolute best moment to try and irritate me by acting up on me after SPM

And worse still, I can't open it up to clean the supposedly dirty laser. Well, I've popped open the top half, but stopping me from going further are four, microscopic screws. You know those? The ones with Phillips screw drives but are so shallow you can't put a screwdriver end into them? Yeah, those. I've got six precision screwdrivers lying by the side of my table and, yes, you guessed it, the ones that work are precisely...none of them. And it's not like they're screwed in half-heartedly, either - these are not so much screwed in as pummelled in and stamped on until the seal became so tight it could keep tectonic plates together.

At this point I've trying my very, very utmost best to resist a very, very strong urge to kick the PS2. Very, very hard.

Frankly, this unit has been under my custody for seven years now. But surely, Sony, out of all Japanese electronics manufacturers - let alone all electronics manufacturers, period - should make products that can survive an atomic blast. Instead, their products (at least the early PS2s - mine was one of the first) conk out at the first sight of dust. It's not like I didn't take care of it. Hell, I don't even travel with it anymore, since two of my cousins have similar ones (thank economies of scale for that). Which by the way, do work.

And worst of all, almost every single electronic product I own goes kaput after a while - my iPod, camera, etc. Why? Am I some sort of walking magnet for faulty gadgets? Does God hate me that much? Well, only He knows. I can only speculate.

You know what I wanna do now? Write to Sony's CEO a Christmas greeting card.

"I'm bored, irritated, angry, annoyed. Thanks very much, Sony. Merry Christmas."

EDIT 1: Finally got the right screwdriver for the job (RM10.50?!). Cleaned the laser using some alcohol. Slight scare with the ribbon cable connecting the on/off button to the motherboard, but UHU and co. sorted it out.

EDIT 2: That doesn't work either. Fuck it, I'm gonna watch Top Gear.