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shrimp
Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 3
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:34 am Post subject: Disk Drive replacement, Double Pro Fighter |
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Now I've been up all morning and still haven't got this darn thing to work. I get the message "No Disk" when trying to perform all the tasks where the disk drive is used. I have now also tried another disk drive that works on my computer. Still the same message.. Any thoughts? And yes I have tried different disks
/shrimp
EDIT: It's the Double Pro Fighter Q+ (CD-rom version) |
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MottZilla
Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 765
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: |
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Some background information might help. Did you just aqquire the DPFQ+, or have you had it awhile and it suddenly stopped working with disks? Did you have it in storage or just unused for along time and when you powered it up again it wasn't working? Maybe it's a loose/bad connection between the DPF PCB and Floppy. Or maybe it's a blown fuse or something. I'm sure someone else around here probably has a better idea of what could be wrong. |
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shrimp
Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 3
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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I just bought the DPFQ+, the guy who sold it couldn't get it to start at all, so it was sold "As is". It had been in his possession for a long time. I guess that it has not been used recently. All that was actually needed was a NTSC->PAL converter. Things not related to the disk drive works fine.
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MottZilla
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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You don't have an NTSC system to try it on and see if that makes any difference do you? Again the most common things I would imagine are a blown fuse or a bad connection like a loose cable. You're probably going to have to open it up, just be sure to use the usual sensitive electronics common sense. In other words don't do it while standing on carpet or something, discharge yourself of static electricity, etc. It could be something obvious if you're lucky. |
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madman
Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 598
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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I've heard of a lot of problems with PFQs in the past. It could be a bad floppy controller chip. Who uses floppy disks today anyhow I'd order one of Tomy's parallel port cards and use that. |
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MottZilla
Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 765
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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He makes a good point, plus if you can load ROMs that way, it's much better than off the floppy. Much faster no doubt, and no file splitting required for multipule disks. Ofcourse I am amused by putting in several floppy disks to load games on my GDSF3. |
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shrimp
Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 3
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Might be the way to go for me.. Just hate it when my stuff doesn't work. Everything looks alright inside the unit. And it starts up just fine. Well well.. Right now there was only a few games I needed to backup, but since I need these dumped pronto, I'm meeting up with a guy this weekend to dump them with his eprom-reader. Thanks for the help though! I think I'll have to order the parallel-port card in a not too distant future.
Thanks
/shrimp |
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