New Gp32 Owner!

[sbt]

Hi, after loving my GP2x I bought a new BLU from Craig as he is now offering them again and already starting to regret it :angry:

I got it yesterday and borrowed a SMC from a friend tonight to get going on it.
Installed the software on XP (SP2) and thought that would be it... but no.

When I start GP32 Manager it starts up and then displays 'an error occurred in GP32 during process' then it hangs and then I get another message saying timed out. It then keeps throwing up the Timed out message whenever I click on anything and also throws up 'Communication Error' although Windows happily pings so say it is connected.

I thought I would format the SMC card via GP32 Manager but it starts..... and then times out.

The GP32 seems happy enough when it's in the GP32 - it doesn't complain about having no card inserted but if I put the SMC card into my external card reader it doesn't show at all nor in my internal reader.

The card borrowed was from an MP3 player and I understand that sometimes they can become corrupted via Windows format?

I have also tried the format utility mkdosfs_GUI.exe fromt he archive but nothing.

I appreciate that this is now an old piece of kit but as it stands it seems pretty worthless or more to the point £70 of worthless.

Has anyone any ideas? Could the GP32 be borked as in GP32 manager it does say 'Waiting' constantly when PC Link is connected.

:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

Thanks for any help.

 

[trooper]

What screen appears when you first turn the GP32 on ?.

This one ?.

Or this one ?.

Trooper

 

[Hooka]

Windows XP SP2 doesn't work with the drivers as provided by Gamepark... search google for firefly & GP32 he made some updated drivers that do work with SP2

 

[Iorgy77]

Once you get it up and running you wont regret it, great little machine the gp32.

There is usually a few sleepers on #gp32 on efnet just waiting to jump up and help a new gp32er like yourself out.

 

[sbt]

@Trooper

The second one thankfully. I guess that's the English Version!

@Hooka

Thanks, I'll do that now.

@Iorgy77

I'll nip on tonight.

I can only presume that the SMC is borked. I have now tried it in 2 ext card readers, 1 internal card reader and also the ext card reader on a Linux box and nothing.

Worst thing is I haven't got any cards and I am dying to try it out so I am sulking quite badly at the moment :lol:

Cheers guys - I'll no doubt be back.

BTW - is it true that the SMC cards can be corrupted via an ext card reader and Xp?

PS - from 1st impressions I can see why GP32 owners were upset when the GP2X came out - the GP32 feels a lot better quality all round.

 

[___]

Yay! Got my gp32 blu from craigix today too! And it does feel a lot better then the gp2x. God... the gp32's stick is so much better it's not even funny anymore.

One thing I wonder about: There was no smc card included in the parcel although it says so on the shop-page of gbax. I hope that they forgot to include it... smc cards are pretty expensive these days. Maybe they made a mistake though and weren't even intending on putting smc cards into the parcel.

 

[sbt]

One thing I wonder about: There was no smc card included in the parcel although it says so on the shop-page of gbax. I hope that they forgot to include it...

I mailed them - they said they had found them and would send one out.

[EDIT]

Got a couple of SMC cards now and they work so it must have been a borked one I had before. Great - I can finally test it out.