Background:

I purchased a pile of "dead" 32x's about five years ago at a surplus store.. I assume it was around the time Sega Canada "closed shop". At the same time I picked up several boxed units, Sega CDs and Genesis as well as tons of Saturn controllers...(unforturnately the SS controllers were all the original US style.)

Many of the 32X's worked fine.. I think the stock I bought were all customer returns.. some of the customers probably just couldn't figure out how to hook up the 32x...

I managed to get most of the non-working 32x's working by reattaching the ribbon cables inside or just finding obvious problems, such as detached wires on the mobo etc., and as of now, I only have 2 of the non-working ones left.

Problem:

One does absolutely nothing... the "Produced blah blah blah" boot screen comes up, and then black screen regardless of whether a 32x game or Genesis game is inserted. I am going to assume this one is really dead.

The 2nd, will allow Genesis games to play fine, but not 32x games, so I am led to think it is salvageable... I have done some searching but I haven't been able to find any info on this specific problem, so I thought I'd plant it here and see if anyone can help me out.

Thanks!