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Likely to be your soldering, or maybe the 0014 vs 0019 bridges - have you tried both positions. If the chip was dead it usually prevents the drive from spinning up at all.

The big problem will be that not many sellers would be prepared to open up their units to find out. If enough people leave their system details in this thread, trends will emerge like maybe all UK 80200 units are to be avoided.

The very first mod I had from videogamecompany.com in the UK worked intermittently (about 1 in 50 attempts or so), the second one I got from him was totally dead (same symptoms as having the CD unit disconnected). This one from you Jandaman gives the same symptoms I got with the first but never...

The seller (Jandaman) knows his stuff, and I'm sure the mod works, just not in a 64pin Saturn.

I've got my third modchip now, this one from Jandaman. Mine is a UK PAL 64pin model and it also doesn't work. I get all CDRs behaving as audio CDs. I'm now going to give up and try and find a 32pin model. Thing is I bet most of the Saturns on eBay are 64pin ones that people can't mod :( and the...

Why would that make any difference?

I got my replacement chip from videogamecompany.com today and I still can't get it working with my 64pin Saturn. With the first chip I got discs to spin up but it went to the CD Player and showed 2 green cubes. Games would very very occasionally boot. Now I get no disc spin and two yellow...

No joy. I did get this though from Lan-Kwei:

What is so weird is that on the couple of occasions that it did boot my backups the various loads were taking place with no problem, even FMV which would be the first thing to go if disc reading was a problem. I think it must be some sort of timing issue. As for Lan-Kwei, I got a GBA flash cart...

Since pretty much everywhere has run out of modchips, I ended up paying £25 for one from www.videogamecompany.com. I have a round button 21pin PAL Saturn which all the sites that had sold chips cheerfully assured me would be fine. However it's a 64pin version and strangely only boots a CDR...