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Jay_83 - Jan 29, 2004
  Jay_83 Jan 29, 2004
Hi,

I have a jap saturn (white flash (mk2)) and the cddrive is knackered on it. Can i just change it for the drive in my pal mk2? Or is there a problem with the voltage?

Thanks in advance,

James

 Tagrineth Jan 29, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Jay_83@Jan 29, 2004 @ 12:28 PM



 Hi,



I have a jap saturn (white flash (mk2)) and the cddrive is knackered on it. Can i just change it for the drive in my pal mk2? Or is there a problem with the voltage?



Thanks in advance,



James


The voltage is handled by the PSU.

Once power is sent to the system, it's always the same.

In theory, the other CD drive should work fine.

 Kaneda Jan 29, 2004
anyone know if a standard PC CDRom drive could fit in it ?

 Jay_83 Jan 29, 2004
well the answer about the standard cdrom drive is a def no.

I tried using the pal drive but it doesn't work oh well.

Anyway the problem is something other than the drive (which is what I originally thought)

Basically the saturn works for about 20 minutes fine, then all of a sudden the pad stops responding...but the saturn carries on playing the game in the background :S

After about another 10 minutes the machine crashes. Anyone have any ideas????

It's a jap white flash

 Scared0o0Rabbit Jan 29, 2004
The drive should work, assuming it's the same drive. If you're trying to use one that's a 64pin on a system that had a 32 or vice versa, I can definetly see that not working.

 Tagrineth Jan 29, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Scared0o0Rabbit@Jan 29, 2004 @ 07:13 PM



 The drive should work, assuming it's the same drive. If you're trying to use one that's a 64pin on a system that had a 32 or vice versa, I can definetly see that not working.


The system doesn't care what IC is on the board... in fact, what do you think the IC is for? Hehehe...

You can switch a 64-pin IC drive out for a 32-pin one.

 mal Jan 29, 2004
I've actually swapped CD boards of different type (64 pin and 32 pin ICs) and as long as you use the correct ribbon cable for the main board it worked fine. The mainboard of a '64 pin' Saturn has the ribbon cable slot the other way around compared to the '32 pin', hence the twist in the cable.

I've also swapped out a Sanyo CD board with a PC trap for a '32 pin' CD board.

However, there was one type of '32 pin' CD board that I found in a white Saturn that would not mod OK using the "A+B" mod method, nor was the CD board interchangable with another '32 pin' board. I'm not sure why, and I've never had the time to chase it up. The only external difference that I can remember (other than a different part number) was that it doesn't have the 33MHz (?) crystal present. Go figure.

 Scared0o0Rabbit Jan 29, 2004
I stand corrected.