I think my Saturn is finally dying-HELP!

[sych]

After 15 years with the same console Its starting to give me some problems.

Whenever I turn it on, the graphics don't appear to be loading properly. Sometimes the Saturn logo comes up but without the word font beneath it. And then as soon as it passes this screen and moves on to an actual games the picture distortion continues. i.e pixels distortion all over the screen and colour distortions .Most recently played SF Collection and E.Honda was green. Other games like Fire pro wrestling cause the Saturn to completley freeze and stop working especially if I'm doing a league mode watching a CPU vs CPU match, it completely freezes.


Now after scrutinizing this Hardware section, I realised it could be a case of alcohol on a cottonbud lens clean but just wanted to be absolutely sure before I do anything on impulse. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[yuji]

I haven't experienced that kind of trouble on my Saturn, but why don't you give the cotton and alcohol a try.
It should not hurt the Saturn if you do it nicely and soft.

[mick_aka]

Anything like this? :

[sych]

Yes exactly like that! But most of the time its the other wat round, the planet is there but the text is missing. I found that if I leave it on with certain games inside and ignore it for about 30 minutes, it has usually sorted itself out by the time I come back and change the game over.