EDIT: I just spent a whole day troubleshooting two X3s. Don't be an idiot like me. If your system isn't booting, start with removing your memory sticks and plugging in just one.
Original, now outdated post:
Seems I have managed to brick two X3s. I bought a faulty USFIV from YJ sometime back. I had hoped it would be a GPU or PSU issue. However, when I plugged it in, it booted normally and then threw a 0203: I/O INITIALISATION ERROR when loading the game. I thought it might have been a faulty control PCB (the board you plug the dongle into), so I swapped one in from a Lord of Vermilion IV I had. Plugging it in and I get no video signal at all from the system. No Type X3 logo, no nothing.
So I swapped the original control PCB back, but now the motherboard doesn't work with that either. Same problem, no video at all.
Sounds incredibly stupid. So I then tried LoV IV with the control PCB from USFIV. Same goddamn thing, no video. I put the original control PCB back in. Yup, that motherboard is bricked too. For the record, LoV IV was perfectly working before this.
What the hell. Was this common knowledge that you shouldn't swap control boards on these things and have I just missed the memo?
Original, now outdated post:
Seems I have managed to brick two X3s. I bought a faulty USFIV from YJ sometime back. I had hoped it would be a GPU or PSU issue. However, when I plugged it in, it booted normally and then threw a 0203: I/O INITIALISATION ERROR when loading the game. I thought it might have been a faulty control PCB (the board you plug the dongle into), so I swapped one in from a Lord of Vermilion IV I had. Plugging it in and I get no video signal at all from the system. No Type X3 logo, no nothing.
So I swapped the original control PCB back, but now the motherboard doesn't work with that either. Same problem, no video at all.
Sounds incredibly stupid. So I then tried LoV IV with the control PCB from USFIV. Same goddamn thing, no video. I put the original control PCB back in. Yup, that motherboard is bricked too. For the record, LoV IV was perfectly working before this.
What the hell. Was this common knowledge that you shouldn't swap control boards on these things and have I just missed the memo?
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