Quote Originally Posted by FABombjoy View Post
If all other CD functions are good - audio discs play, games load quickly, it could possibly be an issue surrounding the M5205. Either defective chip or problem with the audio mixing circuit.

I've had bad ones before where they distort the audio (I posted a sample here). If it's completely dead I'd probe the audio outputs first to make sure it isn't something further downstream.
Thannks for the tip. I'm quite a newbie at this, how would I probe the audio outputs? Thanks