Help with my Saturn

[emurozii]

Hi. I have two PAL Sega Saturns. One has a 50/60 switch, and the other does not. The Saturn with the 50/60 switch will freeze often on most of my games (despite the discs being in top condition) and it the disc drive makes a lot of loud noises. My other Saturn, without the 50/60 switch, will play all of my Saturn games fine, no problems whatsoever.

So I'm wanting to swap the disc drives around, if you know what I mean. I was just wondering if there were any guides for this, or any YouTube videos that could help me with this. It's not a hard thing to do, I realise that, but I want to be careful when doing this and not muck anything up.

And incase anyone asks, I have tried to fix my 50/60 Saturn before resorting to this. Well, I've cleaned the laser anyway....That's all I could do. I could try cleaning it again as well as lubing up the sledders, but I don't think that will help, because they wouldn't be the cause of the horrible grinding noise it makes, I think.

Here's an example of what happens, incase anyone might be able to help me with an easy fix for my 50/60 Saturn instead. Say I'm playing Shining Force 3. It will work all the way up to the first battle, and at some point in the first battle when I make an attack, it will always just go black and stay there (when it goes to load the bit that shows your character attacking the enemy, the 3D bit). It does this on some other games too, like Shining the Holy Ark for example, it always freezes on a certain boss. Yet my other games: Virtua Fighter 2, Fighting Vipers, Daytona USA, Sonic Jam and Clockwork Knight all work fine on it. Although when the screen is black when it's loading something, like, let's say, a stage or the next fight for example, it will make a bit of a grinding noise, but my other Saturn is practically silent.

Anyone know what I could do? I will try cleaning the laser with Alcohol and lubing up the sledders just incase it actually works, but I don't think it will. If it doesn't I'll have to resort to swapping the disc drives around in the two Saturns like I had originally intended.

Thanks!

[korn16ftl3]

And incase anyone asks, I have tried to fix my 50/60 Saturn before resorting to this. Well, I've cleaned the laser anyway....That's all I could do. I could try cleaning it again as well as lubing up the sledders, but I don't think that will help, because they wouldn't be the cause of the horrible grinding noise it makes, I think.

just out of curiosity did you try adjusting the pot?

http://segasaturngroup.proboards.com/in ... 217&page=2

if your going to write the laser with the switch off as dead might as well run it into the ground and make sure its dead eh i wouldn't worry about the grinding if switching the lasers is going to be your solution either just because well your going to write off the laser as dead so like i said use er up.

also if a laser is going to be your soloution i would think you would have to make sure that its the same hardware or at least the same count of pins on the disc assembly motherboard ribbon wire as the the disc assembly ribbon wire connector

this is a modchip install guide for a saturn but it pictures all the clear differances between laser assemblies:

http://www.robwebb1.plus.com/saturn/sat ... uide_2.htm

u should ask some one else about for example replacing a model 2 64 pin IC laser assembly with a 32 pin model 2 laser assembly as i dont know if that can be done or not but the ribbon wires do match (i think)

just to be safe wait until some one that has played more with the saturn to confirm as i havent had many hardware issues with a saturn before and the saturn is still really new to me at the moment