rossi46
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Post by rossi46 on Mar 21, 2008 20:32:07 GMT
I've recently received another donated mk.1 Saturn into the Rossi's Home For Abandoned and Unwanted Saturns. This one was pretty hard-up on its arrival, but I managed to coax it back to some semblance of life, by a mixture of surface cleaner, WD40 and compressed air. It was completely dead when I got it, then after the first strip, clean and rebuild, it powered up, but the cubes on the dashboard were mutated blobs and there was no sound. The ribbon strip was replaced from out of a pile of mk.1 bits I have and now we have sound and proper cubes. But also the error message, "Drive Empty".
It's not spinning-up, but it does go through the shattering logo boot screen, (rather than dumping us straight into the logo screen), so it's looking good. I tried cleaning the laser with alcohol wipes, but it won't spin cds. The red access LED flashes constantly all the time it's powered-up.
Any ideas, guys?
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Post by mick_aka on Mar 21, 2008 22:17:57 GMT
It's fooked, give it to me
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Post by rossi46 on Mar 21, 2008 22:31:36 GMT
It's the afore mentioned pile of mk.1 bits that yours is coming from. I stripped a non-working mk.1 last year to get the motherboard from it to send to a guy. Now I have the pile of bits and a case for modding.
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Post by chizzles on Mar 22, 2008 12:54:08 GMT
Dead Laser, it is possible to replace the actual laser inside the module without replacing the whole module - however it is fiddly fucking work, and you will go around the bend trying to glue it in-place.
Have you tried checking the ribbon that goes from the Laser head to the laser board inside the module?
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