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Time Crisis 4 Super 256 not booting

flippnswitchez

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I picked up a Time Crisis 4 Dx for 150 bucks. When I picked it up it was giving a blue screen on both monitors and I don't recall what they said. It has been over a year. I am finally getting around to working on them and neither are booting or displaying anything now. When powered on the hard drives are not spinning up I noticed. I made a new drive and tried it in both but nothing. I checked the voltage coming off the power supply and both the 5v and the 12v are solid. I proceeded to pull the boards out of the case to see if I saw anything visibly burnt or damaged. Everything looked good. Any ideas where to go from here? I am not familiar with these boards.
 
Check voltages with tester and see some other stuff like fise or the outlet and power supply
 
Checked all fuses. Everything was good. Checked voltages at the PSU and drive. They all check out.
 
Could the dongles have gone bad? Try cleaning the contacts with some IPA. Blue screen could indicate a bad drive or dongle or both.
 
I cleaned the dongles and nothing. I do not get any kind of screen anymore. Checked all the voltages at the test points and they are good. Still nothing on the screen at all. I happened to unplug the HDD because I was trying to see if it was spinning. Which it was not. But when I plugged the ribbon cable back up it spun up. Decided to mess with that a bit.

So on power-up, the HDD will not spin up. Unplug the ribbon cable and it will start to spin. Plug the cable back in and it will continue to spin but that's it. I left to run and see if anything would happen but nothing did.
 
try to replace the IDE ribbon cables with new ones. The same 80 wire type. Sometimes the old cables aren’t making a good connection anymore. Also make sure the cable is firmly connected to both the HDD and system.
 
Be sure to try new ribbon cable from i/o to main, it controls the GD-rom drive and will not boot without it. The internal ide ribbon cable will also keep GD-rom from booting. This is a power hungry system and usually want boot below 5.2-5.3v. More than likely your GD-rom drive crapped out on you because they do that, ALOT! There are several compatible replacement drives, there are many post on this site covering those so I won't. If all else fails I have two fully working Namco246 Time Crisis 4 systems one with enhanced attract mode I'll gladly sell you.
 
Clucas79 said:
Be sure to try new ribbon cable from i/o to main, it controls the GD-rom drive and will not boot without it. The internal ide ribbon cable will also keep GD-rom from booting. This is a power hungry system and usually want boot below 5.2-5.3v. More than likely your GD-rom drive crapped out on you because they do that, ALOT! There are several compatible replacement drives, there are many post on this site covering those so I won't. If all else fails I have two fully working Namco246 Time Crisis 4 systems one with enhanced attract mode I'll gladly sell you.
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Time Crisis 4 uses a hard drive, not a GD-ROM. Also the game can boot without the I/O boards connected. It’s also a super 256 game, not a 246 game.
 
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… did you check the screens with something else?!
 
Be sure to try new ribbon cable from i/o to main, it controls the GD-rom drive and will not boot without it. The internal ide ribbon cable will also keep GD-rom from booting. This is a power hungry system and usually want boot below 5.2-5.3v. More than likely your GD-rom drive crapped out on you because they do that, ALOT! There are several compatible replacement drives, there are many post on this site covering those so I won't. If all else fails I have two fully working Namco246 Time Crisis systems one with enhanced attract mode I'll gladly sell you. Ho
Franco23444 said:
Time Crisis 4 uses a hard drive, not a GD-ROM. Also the game can boot without the I/O boards connected. It’s also a super 256 game, not a 246 game.
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Yeah I'm think time crisis 3
 
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