Harmony Encore Cart troubles.

[kamphuna8]

I have had a Harmony Encore cart for about 3 and a half years (ordered July of 2018) and it almost always showed the SD Card Initialization error message but with some fiddling, or switching Ataris, I could usually get it to work, usually with some rapid on off of the Power switch. Within the last 6 months or so it got to be a real struggle, and seemed to only work once (per sit down session of playing Atari), then when I had to power it off to switch games it would just show the SD initialization error.

 

I wasn't sure what the issue was, and also wanted to get one of my Ataris recapped and modded to output RGB ( I got the Tim Worthington 2600RB kit ) and I use a SNES multi out, using HD Retrovision component cables to a Trinitron).

 

Yesterday I got the modded Atari back ( a heavy 6er that says Tele Games) and tried it and still showed the same thing, never got to work.

 

I then tried the Bios Firmware update as I had seen in the manual and per this post as this post seemed to match my issues the most with what this poster was describing

I used the USB tool to download and Copy the Bios several times and used the original SanDisk 8GB card I had been using plus a Kingston 32GB micro housed in a SD card adapter. Ever since I tried to use the tool, it shows a new message saying Boot Update Tool at the top and then SD Card Initialize Error, whether I have an SD card in the Cart or not. I've attached the error messages.

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you

 

kamp

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Have you tried a different SD card?

[kamphuna8]

I've tried several. I did order a new one and it works like a charm. Seems like the first one SD Card slot needs fixing or something.