War Gods CHD Files

so I got a wargods board that I have been trying to sell because I didnt have a med res monitor well I Found out that if you switch dip 1 to "OFF" and dip 2 to "ON" on bank 1 it changes the game to std resolution so I tried that out and it works. Now after the board goes through it's rom check and everything is 100% it says "checking harddrive" this is where it fails it reads "check harddrive or cable" the obvious quick thing to do is swap the cable but I checked it out and all looks good. so I am thinking it's the HDD I have access to a spare HD how would I load the chd files onto the new HDD?

Any help would be appreciated.

ignore my ignorance

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=170921&highlight=CHD

Are you sure the drive and cable are both good. I believe worse case scenario you can replace the hard drive with a solid state storage device with the Image on it using a ide to compact flash adapter.

mainman said:

Are you sure the drive and cable are both good. I believe worse case scenario you can replace the hard drive with a solid state storage device with the Image on it using a ide to compact flash adapter.

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at this point im not sure either the HD or cable are good. I used a usb to IDE adapter and plugged in the HD I could hear it running but I was unable to browse the drive. im going to pick up a new cable today after work, should be more than a few dollars for a cable. I have an extra compact IDE drive, worse case I can just reload the CHD's if I can find them onto the new drive.

I was able to re-dump the CHD files on to the spare HDD using the chdman.exe tool, looks like it was successful, I will give the board a try this evening to rule out the HD.

got past another screen to another error, this one reads,

"FILE LAUNCHER ERROR!
Error loading start.out

Error code 1:

File system init. error

CANNOT CONTINUE "

If its anything like the KI boards. You can't just put in any ide drive with the image in it. You have to replace the boot rom on the board with a special boot rom that can boot from any ide device.

The original boot rom on the board is looking for a particular model of ide drive. Which its possible to find that model but the one for KI 1+2 is an old seagate laptop model drive of 400mb which I found a site selling them but was like 100 bucks. Send an email to maximus@revisionx.com. He mights be able to help you.

He sold me the Ki2 boot rom needed to use any ide device, which I used to put the chd file on a CF card.

cool thanks for the info.

got it working!, weird the original HD just started working, whatever im going to go with it.