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So the other day I took my Sega Saturn to a friends house plugged it in, turned it on, and it started smoking. I unplugged everything of course, and thats when my friend conveniently remembered that the outlet I used was bad. After waiting awhile I plugged it into a different outlet and to my surprise it seemed to work fine. But as I soon found out, it started have major difficulties reading from the disc and the drive spinning at all. I am assuming my Once trusty Saturn is now toast, any ideas if I replaced the power supply or disc drive could my Saturn be saved? I’d straight out buy a different one but the one I have has a mod chip in it. Could I just take the chip out and put it in a different Saturn?

I am thinking you probably blew a fuse.

If I remember correctly, the PSUs on the Saturns are swappable. But replacing a blow fuse would be just as easy, if you know how to use a soldering iron.

fastbilly1 wrote:If I remember correctly, the PSUs on the Saturns are swappable. But replacing a blow fuse would be just as easy, if you know how to use a soldering iron.

So Replacing a fuse is great and all but even if I fix the power supply do you think that would fix the disc drive reading? I can still use the system but since I blew the supposed fuse the disc drive is having issues.

Your disc drive might not be getting enough power. Enough to spin but not enough for the laser. Break out the multimeter and get some readings.

Update: Saturn has been fixed! A capacitor was blown, after replacing it the Saturn once again works great. Thanks for the suggestions guys!