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Offline Matt_H

Re: The Holy Grail for CD32 users - The SX32 Pro
« on: May 26, 2006, 04:31:16 AM »
Personally, I think the SX32 is way overrated. It looks great on paper, but I could never get it working properly - even with a bigfoot power supply and heatsink on the 030. And the batteries on them leak.
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: The Holy Grail for CD32 users - The SX32 Pro
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2006, 07:15:12 PM »
@ Rebel-CD32

The whole thing's just incredibly unstable. Crashes all the time. Usually it can't even get to the CD32 startup anim. On the occasions I've tried it with a hard drive, the startup sequence fails by saying that it can't find DF0: (with a floppy drive attached, of course). This has happened on 2 different CD32s. It also can't properly detect when floppy disks are write-protected - the documentation says this is a known flaw. Apparently there are also loads of unknown ones too. I just tried it all again last week - no luck.

It was designed for the European market and I have NTSC units. One's a Rev 3 motherboard, don't know about the other. Maybe there are timing differences that cause them to fail? Even so, booting into PAL doesn't help.

The SX-1 on the other hand, is very reliable. Too bad it's so ugly.

@ PaSha

Could a crappy power switch really cause all these problems? I'm no expert, but it seems like if it powers up, the power switch is working properly. Please explain - I know you're well-versed in this area :-)
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: The Holy Grail for CD32 users - The SX32 Pro
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2006, 07:59:19 PM »
@ PaSha

Well, I think I have an appropriate PSU - genuine bigfoot model. As to the switch, does the "bypass" on the linked page mean that if the CD32's plugged in, it's on? Or does it just offer an additional route for current to compensate for the crappy switch?

Oh, and thanks for the motherboard revision info. :-)