to help progress the development pace of my emulator, i bought a coregrafxII and CDRom2 unit several months ago. everything seemed to work ok, but i addmittedly didn't played it much. as i started using it a bit more, and with some cdrs, i've noticed that it slowly seems to be getting worse performance -- both on originals and cdrs. the symptoms are read errors on start and increasingly long load times, even in the original.
i attempted clean it a bit once and even tried to vacuum some dust out of it, which actually worked great for a bit of time. relatively speaking of course, because i've only played it about 25-30 hours in this time.
i've noticed that the power supply that came with it is what appears to be a cheap replacement. instead of supplying 12V to the cdrom. it runs at 10V and has 2 output cables, one for the cdrom and one for the coregrafxII. i then read a thread, on here, that seemed to indicate the power was very important in properly reading discs, which got me a bit hopeful.
can you use just any generic adapter with the right number of volts? how can i find out how many amps it needs? anyone know where to get a good replacement one, along with the replacement joining power cable?
anyway, does anyone know a good place to replacement power adapters, or perhaps have a few pointers on what i can do to get a little more CDR play out of the unit. i've guessed that maybe hte laser unit is just finally dying and i may just have to get a new one at some point, but that's such a bitch. it took me a few months just to find this one and not have to sell myself into prostitution just to buy it. i've also noticed that a fair amount don't seem to come with the original power supplies, or at least in europe. oddly, mine is one for 240v, but with an US plug style.
the whole point of buying it with the cdR was so that i could write test programs to improve the emulator, but it's not becoming a pain in the ass to do. so yeah, any tips would greatly be appreciated.
Topic: cd reading problem (Read 229 times)
