Hardware Dead EFA Linker II

PizzaPasta · Aug 22, 2008

Man, this is a problematic cart. It just stopped working, when I turn on my GBA it just gets the "Gameboy" screen and nothing happens. When I have the EFA client search for the card it says that there is zero capacity on the card and all of the ROMs that were on it are now gone.

I can't open it up because the screw was already slightly stripped and I kind of made it worse. This sucks.

Any ideas?

how_do_i_do_that · Aug 24, 2008

you didn't charge it for 8 hours or you have a motherboard with nForce chipset that doesn't detect the cart properly.

PizzaPasta · Aug 25, 2008

how_do_i_do_that said:
you didn't charge it for 8 hours or you have a motherboard with nForce chipset that doesn't detect the cart properly.

No, I made sure to charge it for 8 hours when I got it and I have no idea what chipset is in my mother board but the EFA was working fine for like two days and suddenly stopped.

If I had either of the chipsets mentioned in your sig it wouldn't have recognized it at all in the first place right? I should also mention that my GBA doesn't even recognize the cart.

how_do_i_do_that · Aug 25, 2008

the nForce doesn't pick it up at all. the SiS chipset detects it but can't access it properly. you also need to do it from a 1.1 or 1.0 USB port and not a 2.0 port.

PizzaPasta · Aug 25, 2008

Hmmm. It was working great for like two days and then quit all of the sudden. I was playing for a bit and then turned off my GBA only to find that the GBA wasn't recognizing the cart when I turned it back on.

When I hooked it up to my computer I get this message in the client: "NO Long Card ROM left: 0.00Mbits RAM left: 0Kbits."

Also, I'm using it from a 1.1 port and is there any way I can find what kind of chipset I have without opening up my computer?

gillescwb · Oct 12, 2008

I`m facing exactly the same problem! did you find any solution on it???
Thanks for reply!

how_do_i_do_that · Oct 13, 2008

turns out the EFA-Linker II selling on DX is a fake, it is more or less a 1G version of the EFA-Linker simple, a double sized version of the purple cart.

If your program can't detect the cart and the correct size, YOUR COMPUTER IS USING A USB CONTROLLER THAT IS INCOMPATIBLE. READ my sig WHY.

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