Freezing

[Claym99]

lately, my GP2X has been freezing within 15 minutes of turning it on. I know my batteries are good. What else could the problem be?

 

[clarky2o2o]

this seems to be a common problem lately.

is it similar to this 1

Mysterious Rom Loading Problems. Sd Card?

and

gp2xmess problems

 

[Claym99]

no, however so far it's only been happening in SquidgeSNES. The Roms load and I can play for a random amount of time until it just freezes. the screen doesn't go blank. Changing the clockspeed doesn't help. sometimes the GP2X doesn't even load. I have a F100 with firmware 2.0.0

 

[Shikaku]

Try reinstalling the firmware.

Also try upgrading to 2.1.1. Note: upgrading probably won't work by itself. If you want to upgrade, I would reinstall 2.0.0 first then upgrade.

2.1.1 is much less crashy, and has better reading times as well.

 

[Claym99]

reinstalled 2.0.0 then 2.1.1

still freezing...and does it in all emulators..any clockspeed.

 

[Shikaku]

Then it's either a faulty GP2X or a faulty SD card...

 

[Claym99]

if it's the GP2X...I've opened it so I can't return it can I?

 

[Rodeo]

To test if it is the sd card or an sd card reading problem load squidgesnes or similar with one rom to the internal nand ram and just try to play it from there without an sd card in the rear slot.

If the GP2X works fine then your next step would be to try a new or known working sd card.

hope this helps

 

[Claym99]

I tried it with SquidgeSNES...it froze.

 

[Shikaku]

if it's the GP2X...I've opened it so I can't return it can I?

Depends on what you did afterwards. Unless you really messed with it (ie headphone fixing is alright), you can probably return it, or you can just send it to EvilDragon if you don't want to take a chance.

 

[Claym99]

I just opened it up to take a look at it..didn't do anything.

I bought mine from gbax.com

And sound just stopped working in NeoGeoCD...I didn't mess with the game zip or anything and it used to play the mp3s in it.

If I go into the music application songs will still play in there...

 

[Claym99]

Why would I contact EvilDragon? I didn't buy my unit from him....

 

[Shikaku]

Why would I contact EvilDragon? I didn't buy my unit from him....

Well just contact Craigix then =/