The system went right into checking memory, and started loading from the GD-Rom drive. Turned it on and sure enough, no Error 24. So I went back to my Naomi setup and hooked up the drive. I was figuring it had almost no chance of working as I do not consider myself an expert by any means. Once done I placed the assembly back on track (ensuring the small spring that was under the rail was put back in place), and reinstall the rail and screw. You pull the rail out, slide the laser assembly off of it making it much easier to get that ribbon cable inserted into it. A trick that I figured out was to undo the screw holding the metal rail in place that the assembly glides on. The hardest part was getting the ribbon cable from the Naomi into the Dreamcast's laser assembly. The power cables (2 small connectors) make the trip with the gd-rom assembly as they are the same on both systems. The ribbon cable in the Naomi unit must be reused as the Dreamcast's ribbon is much to short. I heard there are two different drives used in a Dreamcast, Mine was a Revision 1 so the drive was 100% the same as the Naomi Unit. I removed the GD-Rom drive assembly from the Naomi unit, and repeated the process on the Dreamcast. So I threw both of them on the table and proceeded to take them apart. I learned that the laser assembly from a Dreamcast could be swaped into the Naomi GD-Rom unit and it would usually work. Of course me being as I am and not giving up on anything until every repair option had been exhausted I did some research. I was kind of mad now that I would have to spend another $75-$150 on a "new" Naomi GD-Rom drive. I read online that this error is either the lid on the drive is not closed properly (which wasn't the case), the disc wasn't present, or the drive died. Nothing worked? I reseated the Dimm board as well as cleaned the disc and laser lens. I figured something wasn't hooked up properly so I reseated all of the connections from the psu to the GD-Rom, as well as the SCSI cable going from the GD-Rom. So a couple days ago I got a new Naomi game in the mail, popped it in and was greeted with a nice Error 24 (GD-ROM NOT FOUND).
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