Cart Fury Help

Kopey

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Hi everyone. I just picked up a Cart Fury this past week and was hoping to get some advice or help here. First off the game was sold to me as "non working" as I was told the hard drive was shot. The two known issues so far are: 1) HDD is shot and needs to be replaced and 2) No battery installed on PCB. With regards to the missing battery, do you know if the game will boot without the battery? I've searched online and read comments that it's just for saving wheel calibration settings etc... but then I also read some posts saying that if the battery is dead then the game will not boot. If that's the case then perhaps the HDD is fine and it's only a battery issue. Knowing my luck I highly doubt that's the case. I ordered a new battery from mouser tonight as it should have one installed regardless.

I was about to order the compact flash replacement version from Ebay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/151080340448); however, I have a few IDE to Compact Flash adapters that I ordered before for my megatouches so I figured I would give it a shot myself first to try and save some cash. Here's what I did. I downloaded the Cart Fury CHD file. I placed it in it's own directory along with chdman. I then hooked up my IDE to CF adapter with a 16GB card to my old PC and typed the following in command prompt:

chdman extracthd -i cartfury.chd -o \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 -f

It took a bit and then completed with no errors. When I plug it into my Cart Fury nothing happens just like when the HDD was connected. Apparently there is a LED light on one of the boards that indicates whether there is HDD activity or not. If LED light is solid then the HDD is probably shot. If it's blinking then that means it's probably okay. I just downloaded the manual so I need to see if I can figure out what each light is on the boards. I am including a link below to a picture of my boards with the game on in case someone is familiar with them all.

Anyways, sorry for the long winded post. If anyone has any knowledge to share it would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Robert

http://digitalorange.ca/arcade/cartfury/IMG_7628.JPG
 
and yes it should boot up with no battery, But will not save settings or keep time.
 
Is the hdd ribbon cable on the correct way,, Red line side to pin 1? If this is correct do you have another hdd to try?
 
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Is the hdd ribbon cable on the correct way,, Red line side to pin 1? If this is correct do you have another hdd to try?

Yes, the ribbon is correct. I do not have another HDD to try. I dug up about three old 40GB hard drives but none of them work. I had that IDE to Compact Flash adapter so I gave that a try. After reading several posts last night it appears that I do not have a compatible compact flash card so that is probably why it didn't work for me. I might just order a HDD replacement today from Arcade Services and order a compatible compact flash card from amazon so I can try it out myself when I have time. Thanks for the reply.

Robert
 
Just a quick update. I ended up ordering the Compact Flash kit which should arrive on December 1st. I probably should have ordered a HDD replacement as well just to store as a future backup. Oh well. Once the CF kit arrives I will post an update on whether it worked. If it doesn't then it looks like I may have a problem with the I/O board. Fingers crossed that it's just the HDD though.

Robert
 
Well, I know it seems like I am just having a conversation with myself here in this post (haha) but I figured I would keep posting my updates until I get the problem resolved because it could help someone else one day.

So my Compact Flash Kit came in and I installed it today. I turned the game on and it's doing the same thing. I'm getting the "d" error on the little LED display which means HDD failure. I also watched the HDD activity LED (LED 3 on the board) and it never lights up at all, not even at power up. So it looks like I have a bigger issue here. I am going to check more information out at the link provided by Brtlkat.

I will keep posting my updates as I know more. Thanks.

Robert
 
I had a similar issue with a Roadburners, showed "error 6" or maybe I'm reading upside down and it's d. Lol...
I ordered a CF card from arcade services and it still showed the same message. I broke down and ordered a known working board set and hard drive and got the game up and running. Tried the CF card I ordered with the known good board and it showed "error 6" hard drive failure. Replaced it with the good hard drive and worked fine me.
I don't want to bad mouth the place but I know for a fact that the CF card I bought was bad and it came from the same place you got yours from.
Hope that helps a little
 
I had a similar issue with a Roadburners, showed "error 6" or maybe I'm reading upside down and it's d. Lol...
I ordered a CF card from arcade services and it still showed the same message. I broke down and ordered a known working board set and hard drive and got the game up and running. Tried the CF card I ordered with the known good board and it showed "error 6" hard drive failure. Replaced it with the good hard drive and worked fine me.
I don't want to bad mouth the place but I know for a fact that the CF card I bought was bad and it came from the same place you got yours from.
Hope that helps a little

Thanks for the information. Now you have me wondering whether my new compact flash kit is working or not. I re-imaged a new hard drive and it didn't work either. But I have no idea whether I imaged the damn thing properly so who knows. Are you able to tell me what you paid for the new working board with HDD? I don't have very much money to spend so I'm just curious on what I would be looking at roughly if I shopped around for a replacement board and new HDD. I had a guy lend me an extra video card to try but it didn't make any difference. So it's either my main board or the HDD. Who knows. Thanks.

Robert
 
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