NFL Blitz 2000 Gold Invalid Settings

GrimJack0

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I have a Blitz 2K with a 1.4 boot ROM and 1.5 HD. The game plays fine but will not allow me to change any CMOS settings. Everything is invalid or fails, even the factory restore. Also, the additional settings menu has all the menu items duplicated.

Does anyone have any experience with this. I saw that someone had this problem and used a 1.4 HD image to solve it. Does anyone have this image for me to try?
 
try changing the battery? I had this happen to me once, and I think it was the battery needed to be replaced.
 
well, poo. I wonder if the hard drive version makes that big of a difference then.

I tried mucking with the Blitzes in MAME and it does the same thing in there. I wonder what causes that.

try running it WITHOUT the battery for awhile. let the NVRAM clear itself.
 
that happens when the drive is full also. If you are using an 8 gig your should try changing to a 20 gig drive.
 
Thanks for the suggestion. I made an image of the drive in it and wrote that to a 20G drive. I do not know the origin of the drive in it but it might not be an original drive. Could that drive be the problem where the size of the image was too small?
 
oh well that explains why it doesn't work right in MAME then. lol, you can't write to a CHD image.

I wanna say the drives for my Blitz games are all 10 gb.
 
I am back on this repair. Everything is OK except the Data Integrity Check which writes a test file to the disk. Then it reads it back. The write is failing so the test fails. This is the same symptom as the disk being full. The disk does not appear to be full but it is hard to know for sure. I wrote an image from the MAME chd and I also imaged the existing drive. These will create a certain partition size of about 8-9G. I am not sure how to increase the partition size without screwing up the game. I have a 20G drive in there now.
 
the CHD prog should only make the partition as big as the image itself. meaning it shouldn't matter what the size of the drive is at all.

clearly the MAME CHDs were from working pulls, so it's not like it's a bad image. I'd say try a different drive. I can't remember what the max supported capacity was for these boards, but I think it's 20 gb. meaning you need 20 gb and smaller.
 
Thanks. I did put in a 20G drive with the MAME image on it. It boots fine and has the same problem. It appears to be a board problem.
 
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