Need help with my damaged Saturn

[Deleted]

Hi,

i need help with my Saturn. Yesterday i try to start my Saturn and nothing happend. The green power LED is flashing. The console dont boot and is like dead. I do not really know what this cant be. Is the drive broken? Please help.
Its a jap grey Saturn, has some special features, so i need to repair it.

regards
Chris

[mick_aka]

Flashing power LED in my experience has always denoted a power board problem, strip it out and see if anything is obviously wrong, could be as simple as a dry solder joint somewhere.

[Deleted]

Thank you for re. You see anything is wrong on the pictures?

[mick_aka]

without having it in my hands and wiggling components to check the solder joins I really can't help

[termis]

In addition to what mick suggested:

I've had that symptom when I was fooling around with some mods and there was a short in some jumper somewhere, so if you have any any type of region/video refresh rate mods done to your system, I'd carefuly check the solder points for those areas to see if anything came loose.

Lastly, I'd disassemble everything - taking apart all the PCBs from the case, make sure there's no loose particicles anywhere rolling around (which may cause a short between some points), and put it back together and see if that makes a difference.

[pulstar]

I've had this before when I tried my first region switch years ago and it was as termis suggested there was a short on the board. If you haven't attempted any mods to the board then it is probably a power problem. If you've got a multi meter test the outputs on the PSU, at least you can rule it out.

[Deleted]

I changed now the power board and CD-Drive, nothing .
Here a small video:



No outup signal. Also checked the reset button.

edit: Fixed it, was a cable making a short

[mick_aka]

Glad you got it sorted!