Sega CD won't start up...

[Veepa]

My Sega CD will not start up... I've got the Genesis plugged in, the Sega CD plugged in, and I've cleaned the Genesis connection. It shows the outerspace screen when I turn it on, but the light on the Sega CD won't come on, and it won't read a disc...

I've looked around on the forum, and it seems that the fuse may be bad... but I don't really have any experience soldering, so I don't know if I could repair it myself.

Any ideas?

[Jibbajaba]

My Sega CD will not start up... I've got the Genesis plugged in, the Sega CD plugged in, and I've cleaned the Genesis connection. It shows the outerspace screen when I turn it on, but the light on the Sega CD won't come on, and it won't read a disc...

I've looked around on the forum, and it seems that the fuse may be bad... but I don't really have any experience soldering, so I don't know if I could repair it myself.

Any ideas?

Can you open the CD tray by hitting the reset button? Your problem sounds very similar to mine.

Chris

[Veepa]

Oh sorry.. I forgot to mention that it's a model 2 Sega CD.. so it doesn't have the tray.

[lakeflaccid]

I've looked around on the forum, and it seems that the fuse may be bad... but I don't really have any experience soldering, so I don't know if I could repair it myself.

If you've got a voltmeter/continuity tester, you should be able to test if the fuse is bad. No soldering is required, and that way you will at least know what the problem is (or isn't).

Go to http://www.mrvfone.com.au/sega/fuse.htm for disassembly and fuse location instructions. You should, once located, be able to test the continuity across the fuse. Just put one probe of the tester on one lead, the other probe on the other lead.

[omnedon]

If the fuse is bad, you should not get the SEGACD screen at all.

[SuperShark]

If the fuse is bad, you should not get the SEGACD screen at all.

This is very true, something else must be wrong other than the fuse.

[Veepa]

But I get the screen even if the Sega CD isn't plugged in!

[omnedon]

It's posessed!

Run!!!!!

My gut reaction to that is it's impossible. x_x

[Veepa]

I swear!

I just retryed it to make sure I wasn't a moron.

I have no AC adaptor in the back of the SegaCD, yet the screen still comes up with the outerspace deal.. and the Sega 1993 ver 2.0, crap.

[Jibbajaba]

I swear!

I just retryed it to make sure I wasn't a moron.

I have no AC adaptor in the back of the SegaCD, yet the screen still comes up with the outerspace deal.. and the Sega 1993 ver 2.0, crap.

Im going to have to check out my segacd unit then. If the screen still comes up when the fuse is blown then thats probably what happened to me as well. When I turn on my system, there are no lights or anything coming on, but the opening screen pops up.

Interesting development....

Chris

[Jibbajaba]

OK I checked mine, and the start-up screen doesn't show up when I unplug the AC adapter from the unit. This should rule out the fuse, right? I am assuming that if the fuse is blown then the unit gets no power at all, correct?

Chris

[SuperShark]

It's posessed!

Run!!!!!

My gut reaction to that is it's impossible. x_x

DEMON SEGA CD SYSTEM!!!

I never thought it was possible! Sega has always been so good to me that I could never think of them going and getting posessed! That's insaine! That's impossible! Unless it really is posessed, this guy MUST be joking or something! This is just to plain freaky!!!

God help this man, and his Segas which appear to of become posessed somehow! Free the systems from the power of the dark side! Bring them back to the light side and get them working right again so that they may be used for good fun gaming! God help us all!!!

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[omnedon]

I was kidding. Are you?

[SuperShark]

He said that the thing will start up when not pluged in yet it won't let him play his games!

I thought you were being completly serious, and as for me, I was being kinda serious! What's wrong with you to now be asking if the thing could possibly be messed up enough to be posessed? Maybe you to are posessed and you are trying to cover up for where one of your friends my be hiding, in this gaming system!!!

This story is to crazy to be true, unless one of a few very illogical, near impossible, highly unlikely things have happened, and the system getting posessed is a true possibality! It is true you know that people and things can and have been posessed by 'demons' or whatever your relegion calls them before! I will end this rant now while people still think I'm crazy and to avoid talking any more about relegion as that may offend some people if I say the wrong thing according to whatever they believe!

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[Slate]

I've seen photos of a SCD2 In action.. Attached to a Genesis 2... And the SCD2 didn't have ANY cords coming from it (At least that;s what i saw in the photo)

This is very wierd.

[SkiDragon]

Im sure some of the pins on the expansion slot have voltage. Maybe that is all that is required to make the title screen come on. Did you ever plug the Sega CD in? Did you try an audio CD? Does the machine make noises like it is attempting to read the CD?

In a somewhat related question, when running a Sega CD 2 hooked to a Genesis 2, is the stereo sound from the Sega CD the same as the stereo from the Genesis?

[FABombjoy]

Getting a title screen would make sense; the Sega CD BIOS appears to occupy the same memory location that a cartridge would. I wouldn't expect it to read any CDs without it's own power connected, but having it at least start up seems quite possible.