Model 1 saturn not reading games!

[prabmire]

Hey all, i decided to dust off the old model 1 and have it as a permanent fixture in my living room, the last time i played it was in january and it was working fine, but to my surprise today it wasn't reading any game discs, I would put them in and it would just come up as the CD player, i tried rebooting the machine with an action replay cart and it would just hang on the loading bit of the AR, i really don't want to have to part with this saturn, could it just be a knackered laser/drive, I can get a model number off the back of it in the morning if that helps, would rather fix it and use it!

Prab

[zyrobs]

Clean it out. I had a system that hanged up when trying to boot any code, and it was caused just by the amount of dust inside it.

[prabmire]

cool will open it up

[sg1000]

You tried cleaning the eye of the laser with cotton bud with a bit alcohol?

[prabmire]

Tried my CD lens cleaner disc on it today to no avail, so gonna get some isopropranol alcohol tommorow and try that! if that fails i'll open her up, i refuse to lose this saturn because the model 1 is so much nicer then the model 2!

[zyrobs]

Clean the motherboard under the heatsink too, not just the cd lens.