Ps2 freezing at begining of network game install onto hdd

[Bat Rastard]

And, i did get a game installed now, which is awesome, but it froze like 1 minute into the game play lol...making progress

Which is why I stopped using HDL Serv. It was always a pain to get working, and about 7 out of 10 games transferred by such method would freeze within the first 5 to 10 mins. They would continue to freeze until I hooked the drive up to my SATA dongle, and have WINHIIP repair errors on the drive, which defeated the entire purpose of HDL serv. Might as well eliminate the middle man if I'm hooking the drive up to my PC 70% of the time, eh?!?

[synergies14]

The game Resident Evil 4 likes to freeze on the cutscenes, in both opl and hdloader. ive tried 2 other games but they seem to work fine. i've tried 2 different images from different sources, they all boot up fine untill a cutscene is supposed to happen, as soon as the cutscene is supposed to trigger, it freezes b4 it can trigger. So there is no skipping a cutscene to prevent it from freezing either. my hdd was fully formatted with winhiip and formatted with 48bit. Its only a 100gb drive.

EDIT: i had it installed on my usb hard drive and it works perfectly fine. Maybe it will work if i just hook up the drive directly to my computer and install it that way? do you think having the drive formatted in 48-bit maybe causing the issue?

[synergies14]

Which is why I stopped using HDL Serv. It was always a pain to get working, and about 7 out of 10 games transferred by such method would freeze within the first 5 to 10 mins. They would continue to freeze until I hooked the drive up to my SATA dongle, and have WINHIIP repair errors on the drive, which defeated the entire purpose of HDL serv. Might as well eliminate the middle man if I'm hooking the drive up to my PC 70% of the time, eh?!?

Yea but without a dongle, hooking up my drive directly to the pc is such a pain...im not lazy..but its very INCONVENIENT lol.

[sojakai]

I use the next best thing to the USB hardrive tray, The Pullout HDD Tray. Mount the main Tray into your computer, Put a HDD into the Sled. Slide the Sled into the Tray till it clicks into place.

1. IDE= Go to Device Manager, click on Disk Drives, then Action > Scan for Changes. It should find update and work fine...
2. SATA supposedly just has to be plugged in and it works fine, but I don't have any SATA drives nor worked with them, so I don't know for sure... Someone will probably say.

I love these things. Its easy to swap out HDDs, or when reloading windows, just pull the other drives out by 1/2inch and then I don't have to worry about choosing the wrong drive. You can also put in other devices into the Tray for temporary usage. I kinda wish that I could hook one up to my Fat PS2 for easier connecting of the HDD when I need to Winhip it.

[synergies14]

i hooked my hdd directly up to my computer and i scanned it for issues with winhiip and no issues came up(everything had a green check). But, the "repair" button still appears, so does that mean i have to repair it? Its weird that the image of resident evil works on my portable hdd and not on my internal hdd. The other games on my internal hdd work just fine (so far).

[Bat Rastard]

do you think having the drive formatted in 48-bit maybe causing the issue?

I doubt it. My 200GB Seagate Barracuda was formatted in 48-bit mode as well as an older 60GB Maxtor using WINHIIP. No issues either way.

Yea but without a dongle, hooking up my drive directly to the pc is such a pain...im not lazy..but its very INCONVENIENT lol.

I swear the following episode of Match Game exists somewhere in GSM's vault, or it's just my wishful thinking ...

GENE WOOD: "My friend Bat is soooooo lazy ..."

PANEL/AUDIENCE: "Hoooow lazy is heeeeee ..."

GENE: "I once busted him trying to install Team Viewer on his BLANK ..."

*cue "Swinging Safari" bass-line*

BRETT BUTLER: *jaw hangs open agape*

CHARLES NELSON RILEY: "Oh, dear Christ!" *fans himself with Brett's purse*

RICHARD DAWSON: "Charles's mind is in the gutter keeping Brett's jaw company, I see!"

GENE: "Is that conjecture, Richard, or did you cheat by looking at the monitor?"

But yeah, it can be rather inconvenient, too. I used to install my drive on the spare headless computer that runs my Magicjack phone either by a dangling IDE cable or the SATA dongle from my old Abit nForce2 board, and then using Team Viewer from my primary computer, running WINHIIP. Oh, did I mention that bastard only has 512MB of RAM, and the PSU's +12v rail would drop to 11.4v (or below), bringing tranfers to a crawl? Or my cat would play with the dangling IDE cable?!? Definatey had to start using my primary computer. It's too bad my SATA dongle is too old to support ACHI/HotPlug - I'd never have to shut down for 45 seconds after hooking the drive up, and waiting another 2 minutes at the WinXP login screen for the HDD activity LED to taper off a bit so my tasktray loads completely ...

i hooked my hdd directly up to my computer and i scanned it for issues with winhiip and no issues came up(everything had a green check). But, the "repair" button still appears, so does that mean i have to repair it? Its weird that the image of resident evil works on my portable hdd and not on my internal hdd. The other games on my internal hdd work just fine (so far).

It's been a while since I played RE4 and -- to make bad news worse -- it was on a earlier beta of OPL before the migration to per-game config files (possibly the release version of 0.8 - it's been that long). So I don't have the configuration data any more. But I know it gave me no problems whatsoever. Since that was before VMC was part of OPL, I'd suggest disabling VMC and even IGR. If it still freezes on you, try going to UDMA 2 or UDMA 0, and maybe earlier revs of OPL.

It's a CAPCOM game -- known to throw CDVDMAN out of whack, so slowing the HDD down or trying a 25 to 50 value on the callback timer may help. I'd also be wondering if its an issue with heat - my Seagate can get rather toasty in the bay of my phatty PS2; about 45 degrees celsius and it'll hit 50 if I didn't blow out the front bottom vents out with compressed air every few months.

I use the next best thing to the USB hardrive tray, The Pullout HDD Tray.

I could use 3 of those things ...

Ugh ... must ... pull ... away!

They're quite secksy ...

[sojakai]

Rat, I think so too. Its really nice not having to open the case to swap a drive, just pull the handle of one of the drives in the PC, shove in PS2 HDD in Tray, and tell the computer to "Scan for Hardware Changes". Then just run winhip. When finished, reverse the process. Just have to remember which ones are locked in place and which are unlocked.

Oh, and that's just the pic that I found quickly. My father's PC has some really nice looking Black and Silver ones. Mine are the standard Cream/Beige plastic.

[synergies14]

lol Rat you had the right idea with hooking the drive straight up to the computer. I did that, even though there were no errors, (being a computer fixer and all that good stuff) i decided to just erase the disk again and do another full format (and yet another full format after that) on it using winhiip. I then just chose to install the games back on there while it was still connected directly to the pc. And to my amazement, it actually worked. All of them, including RE4...and i couldn't believe the speed of the install either lmao, a few minutes compared to ~30-40 mins. over the network. Yea, screw the network method lol.

[Bat Rastard]

Yeah, for the all the tedium having to shut the PC down and rebooting Windows twice, watching Winhiip tear it up is pure dope. Makes the effort really worth it. In the 20 to 40 minutes it takes for a network install of just one game, Winhiip can just about fill an 80GB drive. It mirrored my old 60GB Maxtor on to the 200GB Seagate in 25 minutes, and spent another 35 minutes on fresh rips of 10 other ISO I made from a storage shed visit (which is now 30 yards away instead of way across town) ...

And sojakai, it's too bad some company never came out with a serial I/O extender for the PS2 that when screwed on, the IDE/SATA connector and molex folded over the top of the PS2 (sorta like an SLI bridge for two PC video cards). The back could still have an Ethernet port and (a developer's wet dream) an LPT printer port. Such a design would remind me of the Gameshark Pro from the PSX days; HDDs could just click-lock in place and lay naked on top of the PS2 instead of roasting in the bay ...

[sojakai]

I will have to look around again. I swear I remember seeing a modified network adapter that allowed the HDD to sit outside the Fat. And I wouldn't worry too much about that HDD Bay in the Fat. Its a good amount of alum surface to HDD and the fan is pretty good at pulling air through it. But I wonder if the PS2 could handle a stronger fan.

Maybe do the MCP-35x Pump Case Mod to the PS2 for better air flow. (Cutting slits in the case for better heat dissipation.) All those ridges down the sides should hid them pretty well.

...Or a Mod Case for the PS2, like the Flip Top, But has giant fan and extra slits under the HDD for higher air flow... I always joke about living in a Wind Tunnel anyways, whats one more. (I hate using the phone in my room, people can't hear me over my computer's fans, and that's when I have just oiled them.)