EXAMU eX-Board owners thread

Hey all,

Is there a recommended IDE DOM size and brand for backing up my carts?
the smallest is 977mb and the largest is 1.9gb.

is there maybe a possibility of a larger DOM with GRUB as a bootloader allowing us to pick which partition to load? Do the internal usb 9 pin headers support keyboard functions at boot up?

thank you,
-Dan

Hello guys! So after 3 years getting my stuff out of the storage I found out my brand new kit has a flat battery . Just get a black screen

What is the best way going forward,? I own a OG kit

So I have all the games and art /books music cd etc etc which I think is pretty rare (I believe I am missing 1 game? )

Was looking to sell the kit and all games but need to get the mobo working again

Any help would be appreciated!

Flat battery won't stop it from booting. It will just clear the BIOS settings. You have some other issue.

@nem shit then I need to see what the issue is let me check around . Thx

It works again! It was giving me a message after hooking up to vga . That I had to hit F1 so I replaced the battery while under power . And behold! It’s Alive again.

But now on every boot it gives this massage so I think I have to go into bios set the time using the password and the auto power at ac loss and then save ? As it won’t boot without me shorting the pins the start the pc

If you or anybody have screenshots of correct bios settings it would be great

@nem and any idea what value this set has ?

Thank you

You have it correct. Enter the BIOS, make sure power on is set to auto on power loss and save settings. I think the checksum error should correct itself.

nem said:

You have it correct. Enter the BIOS, make sure power on is set to auto on power loss and save settings. I think the checksum error should correct itself.

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Amen brother !! All good again . Thank you for the help and quick responds @nem

Hey guys could use a little help. Just received a EXAMU exboard with Daemon bride and having problems with the picture vertically scrolling. I tried adjusting the vertical hold on monitor which helped but the picture is still scrolling. I have dip 1&2 on as well as dip 8 on for 15khz. I checked all connections and weather I have the power switch on back of pcb up or down does not make a difference.

I have an ex board with arcana heart 3. I had plugged in the adapter and it wouldn't boot. Tried it over jamma edge too and nothing, no signs of life.

I quickly found the replacement board and swapped over the bios chip, put it all back together and still does not turn on at all, replacement board was powered using a normal atx power supply to reset the settings. So I know it isn't dead

I also made sure jumpers on new board matched the old one.

Any advise anyone can give me to bring this ex-board back to life?

Sorry for the resurrection, but this seems to be the thread for this question. We have an EX-board with Daemon Bride. Works fine and everything (well, on the external psu anyway) and I've done the preventative cap replacement. My question is, is there some way for me to change the game/update to Additional Gain without finding the little cart?

I think that was only on Nescafe (I call it this) live.

FPJ said:

Sorry for the resurrection, but this seems to be the thread for this question. We have an EX-board with Daemon Bride. Works fine and everything (well, on the external psu anyway) and I've done the preventative cap replacement. My question is, is there some way for me to change the game/update to Additional Gain without finding the little cart?

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I have written games to the appropriately sized DOM and they boot alright on my examu. I had not heard of this particular variant but I see a version on Archive.org, and it might work if you bought a DOM and wrote it. I am tempted to try it out but I am not sure I have any modules left. fwiw the 7z file threw up a bunch of virus warnings when I unzipped it but that also happens on some other ex-board dumps for me.

Today, I noticed my Examu exboard is not working at all. I opened it for replacing the CR2032 battery inside but there is no sign of life. The test and service buttons, the reboot button or the power supply switch, nothing works.

Do you have an idea about how to fix it?

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I have written games to the appropriately sized DOM and they boot alright on my examu. I had not heard of this particular variant but I see a version on Archive.org, and it might work if you bought a DOM and wrote it. I am tempted to try it out but I am not sure I have any modules left. fwiw the 7z file threw up a bunch of virus warnings when I unzipped it but that also happens on some other ex-board dumps for me.

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Oh cool. Thanks. I may look into that. The Steam version is out now, but it'd be cool to be able to put it out in a Vs City.

Well a few years later and I finally tried my Arcana Heart 3 board. After some troubleshooting I finally figured out the only problem my board ever had was a flat cmos battery. I switched back to the original motherboard (carefully transplanting the bios chip back over), Bench booted the original board, went into bios settings (with ps/2 keyboard) set it to turn on when it receives power. I had inspected the internal psu everything looks solid. Put it all back together and it works fine off the original brick. So this "broken" exBoard I bought for $60 shipped nearly 4 years ago now, just had a bad cmos battery. I would use this as a word of caution, make sure you check your bios settings if your board doesn't turn on, it may have just lost its memory and does not know to turn on when it receives power.

I just had the strange urge to try this one again and luckily my instinct was right and the board just had a very minor problem.

Oh and on that note, if anyone has any original cartridges or kits they do not want, just let me know.