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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: GUTS on October 27, 2005, 09:27:02 AM

Title: Question to tech savvy people on Japanese Duos
Post by: GUTS on October 27, 2005, 09:27:02 AM

Are the CD drive thingies compatible with a US Duo?  I ask because I have a modded Duo that I love, but the damn redbook audio has been cutting out and it's really pissing me off.  I was thinking of just buying a Japanese Duo, swapping out the CD drive or the mother board, and then selling my old one on ebay or something for parts (last one I saw on there "for parts" went for almost $100!).

Title: Question to tech savvy people on Japanese Duos
Post by: MotherGunner on October 27, 2005, 05:00:09 PM

If anyone had an answer it would D-Lite.  He has alot of experience with that.

Title: Question to tech savvy people on Japanese Duos
Post by: Michael Helgeson on October 28, 2005, 03:43:05 PM

they are the same cd drive I do believe.same as Duo R even.

Title: Question to tech savvy people on Japanese Duos
Post by: SNKNostalgia on October 28, 2005, 04:37:40 PM

I remember D-Lite saying its more of a problem with the motherboard than the CD-Drive itself. Something about putting what was thought to be a dead CD drive into another system and it worked perfect.

Title: Question to tech savvy people on Japanese Duos
Post by: GUTS on October 28, 2005, 05:50:59 PM

Oh damn that sucks, yeah I forgot about that, thanks for the heads up.  He did say it was some problem with capicitors or something on the motherboard.

Title: Question to tech savvy people on Japanese Duos
Post by: D-Lite on October 31, 2005, 07:12:02 PM

The CD unit itself is the exact same on the US Turbo Duo and the JP Duo, DuoR, and DuoRX.

Regarding the CD unit and swapping it.  A new CD unit definitely seems to improve shoddy audio, but it won't solve the problem.  I still can't isolate what circuit is shitty on these things and it's driving me nuts.  I even figured out which circuit is responsible for the "speech synthesis" in the games and got replacement parts for that, but that's only a problem in very very rare cases (found one actually).

Title: Question to tech savvy people on Japanese Duos
Post by: MotherGunner on October 31, 2005, 07:18:00 PM

Hey D, a little off topic, but do you think my TE is salvageable?

How you been?

Take care!