PGA Tour Golf by Global VR & EA Sports Owners Thread

[ed12]

i would as a rule
check the bios
to make sure hd is the first boot device
if not then reset it and see
second if it is not first boot device then make sure your bios time is right
if it wrong replace battery reset and make sure hard drive is first boot device
if yes then on the dongle is a # and country code u want that so we can match the dongle s/w

ed

[brad808]

When I first powered it up it booted to this

Decided to run the recovery CD and it stops part way with this

I believe my recovery CD is screwed.

[ed12]

your hard drive is done
replace it
up-load a picture of your dongle showing can/usa/eu and #
#is the build

ed

[brad808]

Thanks Ed. Any HD will do?

[ed12]

40 gig and up
thats a older champ 3 canadian
dam that looks like my writting ?
current build is team challange 5-xx

ed

[brad808]

40 gig and up
thats a older champ 3 canadian
dam that looks like my writting ?
current build is team challange 5-xx

ed

Is there a link to the latest version I should be installing?

[brad808]

I'm almost positive my recovery CD is screwed. New drive, exact same error message during image center scripting process. There is a big piece of the CD label scratched out. I think I need to get my hands on a disk image before I can get much farther.

Or it could be that the computer that is housing everything right now isn't compatible. I have no idea. Seems just like a generic computer to me, definitely not original. MSI motherboard.

[ed12]

i had them load with that mobo before
would need to look in the warehouse and see if i have 1 (disks)

ed

[brad808]

OK thanks. It's completely possible this came from you at some point since your in my area.

[ed12]

what area ? if u do not mind
because if it is mine
then i should have them disks and will gladly give them 2 you.
like i said it looks like my writting on the dongle.

ed

[brad808]

Brantford. You came to my old place to drop off a GT board a while back. Would have been a couple years ago though.

[ed12]

oh i remeber u now
ya funny story i fixed that board a few months ago..
knew the board was mine from the writting on it
i wonder if that game came from g@g ?

ed

[brad808]

Not too sure where it came out of. I picked it up with about an inch of dust on it from a storage shop in St Kitts.

[ed12]

ya we never sold into st kits
but i have service work in welland ?
and i did have a few of the pga's liberated
are u still in brantford ?
if so pm me your info
i will see what i can do my end for u

ed

[brad808]

Sent you pm, thanks for the help.

[abreakey]

I was wondering if anyone knows of a place I can buy a marquee for Team Challenge.  Mine is currently Challenge, but I'd like the marquee to be the correct version.  It isn't a huge deal, but if I could find one that would be great.

Thanks - Adam

[ed12]

brad808
please chk your resuce disk #
lets hope it is pn#050-0024-01
as that is the 1 i have and used for 3

ed

[brad808]

brad808
please chk your resuce disk #
lets hope it is pn#050-0024-01
as that is the 1 i have and used for 3

ed

Yes that pn rev b if that matters.

[ed12]

ok i will try to get u the iso

ed

[brad808]

ok i will try to get u the iso

ed

Awesome much appreciated.

[ed12]

ok i have it
man is it small
let me find a host
get back to u

ed

[brad808]

ok i have it
man is it small
let me find a host
get back to u

ed

Megaupload maybe?


I might be able to use my Google drive somehow if need be.

[ed12]

i found a reged to a up-load site
will get it up there for u

ed

[ed12]

i will get it up there tonight

ed

[brad808]

Thanks again

[lilshawn]

for future, mediafire is pretty good. it's free to sign up, and if you spam a couple email addresses and sign them up to the site, and do some twitter/facebook shilling, they give you more free space it's not hard to get up to the 55 gigs of upload space totally free.

also https://mfi.re/?j6dnmqo link for if you want to sign up and give me another Gig of space.   

[brad808]

Did you manage to get the iso uploaded somewhere Ed?

[ed12]

brad808
this is the http link
u place it right into your adress bar
file is named res.iso
https://ufile.io/55115

ed

[brad808]

brad808
this is the http link
u place it right into your adress bar
file is named res.iso
https://ufile.io/55115

ed

Thanks Ed the recovery ISO works perfectly.

Unfortunately after it completes it just brings me back to the original blue screen I was getting.

Any suggestions now?

[ed12]

yes very long listen colse
go get parition wizzard "mini" google it that way
hook the drive up as a slave to your main coumpter or "best" is usb drive
install mini
run mini in "adm mode"
if it is usb? un slave it
go to its hard drive #
as a rule it is #2 for me
go to the paritions it lists
delete them
then go to the drive its self #2 and clean it
then try to reload
if this fails ?
u need more work

ed

[brad808]

The error message seems to be directly related to the hard drive but I've now tried 3 separate drives with the same result. 2 of the drives were pulled from working systems just to test this  . Are there any boot specific bios settings I should be looking at? I feel like there must be something else preventing this from booting because hard drive failure doesn't seem likely.

[ed12]

ok exactley what do u mean by "pulled from working systems" ?
as the term confuses me ?
do u mean windows working systems ?
or pga working systems ?

ed

[brad808]

ok exactley what do u mean by "pulled from working systems" ?
as the term confuses me ?
do u mean windows working systems ?
or pga working systems ?

ed

Working windows systems, just various old computers I had loaded up for testing purposes. I was under the impression the recovery CD was formatting and creating a new partition table so any IDE drive would be compatible?

[ed12]

nope and nope
u must do as i stated
then u have a fighting shot at it

ed

[brad808]

nope and nope
u must do as i stated
then u have a fighting shot at it

ed

OK I'll do that and report back. If it fails I'm tossing the p4 in the garbage and mameing the thing. It has already consumed too much of my time.

[ed12]

to each there own
but i see your point
it is not a team challange after all only a 3

ed

[Spitfire]

Working windows systems, just various old computers I had loaded up for testing purposes. I was under the impression the recovery CD was formatting and creating a new partition table so any IDE drive would be compatible?

Hey Brad I have used old windows XP hard drives and ran the recovery disks with no issue what so ever and contrary to what Ed is saying I beleave the recovery and game disks reinstall win xpe on the drives and they have worked fine.

I would be looking at you ram with this issue and changing that and trying new ram or start with 1 stick in a different ram slot and see if you still get the blue screen as don't thinks it's a hard drive issue mate

[ed12]

spitfire
i will concour and hand u a point
but u see where u and i differ
is i WORK in this all day long.
it has always been my experince to fully clean the drive, so there is no under lying issuies with it going out the door
to the coustmers loactions and or home users ussage..the point of that has been well proven and talked about countless times
so there is no need to dewell on it.
yes i did not tell the @ to chk the rams,but a back ground on this tells u he is using different mobos and 3 different hard drives
 i would want to cross the t's and dot the i's
but to each there own

ed

[brad808]

So far I have tried clearing the drives out with the partition manager and also tried running kill disk on them (writing zeros on all sectors). No luck. I've tried each of the two sticks of RAM running individually in each of the two available RAM slots and no luck.

[ed12]

for shits and giggles if u have a copy of xp ? or 7 ? see if it will load up and work
then atleast u know hardware is ok
if u do not let me know i will see if i can up-load a xp for u

ed