Yes it is!!! Im about to throw it away!!
I cant understand a lot of strange things that are happening!! im going insane with this!!
Situation is this: i got a CD 32 PAL + SX1 from a polish guy, who sent it to France. My sister brought it to me yesterday. Ooops! No power supply, no external hard disk, no external floppy drive, no rgb-vga converter (as was stated on the ebay auction). I managed to find the power supply from my NTSC CD 32 unit i also have.The black brick, original power supply that comes with the cd 32.
I begun testing it. Lot of strange things happened. The machine begun making a lot of noise every time the cd-rom read a disc. And i mean a big noise, making it impossible to use the machine with the volume on. If i disable the SX1, no sound problem.
Next, the hdd. I managed to use an old hdd from one of my 1200. The hdd is old, 3,5´´ and 4.3 gig. I couldnt use it inside the SX1, so i opened the SX1 cover, took the cable, installed everything and used a power supply connector that this guy built.
I have to do 2 resets before the machine finally boots from the hard disk, guess it has to do because its a slow spin hard disk. Used the jumper to let the machine delay 10 more seconds in order to boot. Once it boots, i get checksum errors on the hdd (none of this errors happended if i use it back on my 1200), and it keeps asking me for "insert volume DF0" just after the workbench is fully working.
After a random time, between 10 and 15 minutes, the machine freezes completely, so i have to switch it off, and turn it on again. This happens all the time.
Next, i tried the FMV card with some VCD movies i have. I cant watch any single movie, because the machine freezes, makes glitches, green pixels come to the screen, sound is perfect and fluid, but picture is like if it were in slow motion.
Im not sure, maybe the laser of the cd 32 is old and very used? I tried the FMV card with and without the sx1. Same thing happened.
So here´s the situation. Maybe i need more power supply? Maybe i need a pc adaptor to use a pc power supply to feed up more power?
I tried the FMV card in the NTSC machine i have, and it works perfectly.
On my other SX1, i have a 2.5´´ internal 800mb hard disk, that refuses to load half of the stuff that is installed. Besides that everything seems to work ok on that machine (the ntsc one).
Any suggestions, ideas, comments please?!
Cheers!
Sebastian
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