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Post by prabmire on Sept 17, 2012 12:43:01 GMT
Hey guys,
got a saturn model 2 here which came this morning, was hoping to play deep fear after I clock off, but it doesn't seem to spin discs, i've opened it up, checked the ribbon cable and the green plug but nada.
You can see the CD spindle move say 1 click when you power on but thats it, any ideas?
Prab
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Post by mick_aka on Sept 17, 2012 12:52:15 GMT
move the spindle by hand and just make sure it's not fouling the casing...
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Post by prabmire on Sept 17, 2012 13:01:08 GMT
It moves fine mate, not catching or anything, I even tried reseating the ribbons and checking it while the saturn was apart and same issue
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Post by mick_aka on Sept 17, 2012 13:09:22 GMT
Have a good luck at the mechanism, make sure there's no foreign material in there, if it moves ever so slightly but not fully it sounds like it's jamming.
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Post by prabmire on Sept 17, 2012 13:22:08 GMT
I'll open it up again and reseat everything, and then take another good look at the cd mech, really gutted about this  |
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Post by mick_aka on Sept 17, 2012 13:28:42 GMT
Worst case scenario, I have a good spare model 2 laying around...
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Post by zyrobs on Sept 17, 2012 13:59:36 GMT
Could be that it's not seeing the disc, it won't spin discs unless it can see a disc. So bad laser or the tray is too high/low.
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Post by prabmire on Sept 17, 2012 14:15:35 GMT
Well I've tried it with a few discs aswell, i got the console from mancity and I know for a fact he tested it out before sending it and was working fine, just had it apart again, disconected and reconnected the ribbon cables, had a fiddle with the spindle but nada |
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Post by Yart on Sept 18, 2012 2:17:18 GMT
is the CD door button down?
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Post by prabmire on Sept 18, 2012 9:08:23 GMT
Yeah it was when i was testing it out, will have another try with the casing off and pressing the button again
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Post by buckoa51 on Sept 18, 2012 9:39:31 GMT
I had one like this and I fixed it believe it or not by keep prodding the laser with a cotton bud, I think when cleaning it initially I must have poked it too hard or something. Probably in transit the laser's got jolted or something.
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Post by prabmire on Sept 18, 2012 10:14:10 GMT
Ok mate I'll try that, hopefully pulling out the ribbons and reseating them hasn't caused any other issues!
Prab
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Post by prabmire on Sept 18, 2012 10:36:44 GMT
Just tried the cotton bud on the lense, no such luck, does anyone know if I could put the mod chip into a model 1 or would it be easier to transfer it to another model 2
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Post by zyrobs on Sept 18, 2012 13:08:17 GMT
Just tried the cotton bud on the lense, no such luck, does anyone know if I could put the mod chip into a model 1 or would it be easier to transfer it to another model 2 Depends on modchip and the type of hardware in the model 1 (there are 3 different pal motherboards in model 1 machines). |
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Post by Yart on Sept 18, 2012 16:46:23 GMT
OOOOHHHHH... you're using a modchip?!
Is it a Racketboy? A Racketboy chip did the exact same thing to my Saturn. After removing the chip the drive worked again. (Build quality on those chips kinda suck)
CD player's green boxes that turn into red spheres when music plays stuck at red spheres?
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