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I was playing Shining Force CD about a Half hour ago and all of a sudden my Sega CD just freezes so I restart it and now when ever i start it theres no music no Sega logo or Sega Cd logo and the ready and access lights don't even turn on all it shows is the background can anyone help me?
I would say start the troubleshooting. Clean the contacts of the Genesis, then the board inside the CD.
Clean everything very well, laser, disks, contacts and connectors. Unfortunately Sega used boards and edger connectors instead of hard wiring everything. Has to be taken apart to do the inside contacts.
mine is on the fritz and i'm trying to get it working so i can sell my whole sega rig. Unfortunately i can't post a new topic yet
So it displays the bakground for the bios screen but nothing else? That's rather odd...
Yeah and thats it nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by kool kitty89
Good news everyone my Sega CD works again and better than ever! Now if you will excuse me I have to go and finish playing Shining Force CD!
Did you do anything, or was it an electronic miracle?
I just realized mie crashed in a very simmilar manner, except that it boots fine, but gets funky graphical glitches after running for 5-10 minuts, and then crashes after hitting reset or turning the console on/off. Same thing happens after hitting reset (and ejecting the tray) a couple time. Games will at least play though and unlike yours the ready lite always lights up, but not the red access light. (having it off for 15-30 minuts "resets" the issue so to speak)
Considdering the same thing happens if you boot with the mainboard to CD drive ribbon cable dissconnected (static screen, ready light only), I think it's may cable that's the problem. Perhaps the temporary functionality is due to partially working contancts that have borderline high resistance, and maybe build up some charge or something until it's non-functional. I need to try cleaning/polishing the ribbon contacts (the cable looks okay overall, save for a small pinch over one wire that doesn't look to have broken the wire)
The drive is a bit noisy too (gears grinding like its trying to push the sled pas the stop), but it works fine, and I've heard of plenty of other old disc drives that behave similarly and work fine. (my only worry is stripped gears)
I'd like to know what happened or anything you did, too.
kool kitty, open that beast up for a lube job with lithium grease quick like. Stripped gears are a bad thing.
A model 1? you'd be better off throwing it in the garbage than trying to fix it. It's not worth the hassle.
There should be a new rule at Sega-16 so that people suggesting the above could be banned immediately.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christuserloeser
I see people are still butthurt that I trashed a broken model 1 Sega CD that refused any and all repair attempts. Well, I enjoyed tossing it because it was a broken, useless paperweight.
Maybe if you had sold it for parts instead of tossing it, you'd be able to make some money off it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diosoth
Don't attempt to throw 'Logic' into the discourse.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApolloBoy
Futile at best.
I don't think anybody's 'butthurt' about anything you may or may not have done in your life Diosoth, it's more about how everybody can't find anything 'worth knowing' in what you say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diosoth
Just because one unit is broken in some way that seems unfixable, doesn't mean all broken units are impossible to repair.