CD32 Help. Anyone with links or experience please help!!

[Claw22000]

I recently bartered to get a SX1 with all the goodies.  The guy gave me a CD32 that he has taken apart and been unable to get back together working.  I believe I have it together however when I turn it on all I get is a blinking light on the front its the green light and it sends a morris like code.

the code is 7 flashes a long pause then 10 flashes 1 long flash then it repeats the 10 and 1 forever.  So any one know what that means?

Thanks

[save2600]

I recently bartered to get a SX1 with all the goodies.  The guy gave me a CD32 that he has taken apart and been unable to get back together working.  I believe I have it together however when I turn it on all I get is a blinking light on the front its the green light and it sends a morris like code.

Are you getting the flashes with the SX1 hooked up or not? I wonder why the guy had to open the CD32 in the first place. Problem sounds like a bad Kickstart or ram chips though...

[Claw22000]

Are you getting the flashes with the SX1 hooked up or not? I wonder why the guy had to open the CD32 in the first place. Problem sounds like a bad Kickstart or ram chips though...

I'm trying to get it working w/o the SX1 first and if the system dose not work I don't want to harm the SX1 as I will find a different CD32 for it.

For some reason the error blinks are intermittent as well I got up today and now when I turn it on it dose nothing.  It is turning on and the light is a dim green as well as the TV turns black from a signal feed.

I know that the guy said there was something wrong with it possible the CD drive going bad and went to work on it and just never put it back together.  But with an SX1 and a nice new Drive I can have all my game preloaded so the CD drive isn't a concern.

[rockape]

Hi

see  http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/amiga/cd32/index.html

There may be some info in there.

Regards, Michael

aka rockape

[smerf]

Hi,

Try this, strip down the CD32 down to the mother board, remove the CD drive ribbon, hook up the board to the power supply and your monitor or TV. Turn it on. Hopefully it will boot. I have done this with about 5 CD32 motherboards that I purchased several years ago. I am trying (one of these days) to put the motherboard in a laptop and figure out a way to hook up a cd drive. If your mother board boots, try to hook up the SX-1 and try a floopy drive or a hard drive attached to the SX=1. I have done this with 5 of the good motherboars that work. This should be equivalent to a A1200 now. You don't need the CD32 cd drive, the motherboard should work without it.

smerf

[Claw22000]

Wow Thanks Guys I will have to check that out when I get home tonight.  I will let you know what happens.  

Just to check no on knows the error codes from the flashing power led?  shouldn't them be the same or similar to the A1200?

Thanks

[CLS2086]

Take time to look at caps and around caps, they will leak soon like A600/1200/4000...

[jsixis]

the 2 big capacitors on the motherboard of cd32 are known to have been installed wrong. I had 4 cd32's but never experianced that problem but I had a good friend in New York who had that problem on both of his