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ECS ION Motherboard Boot Error
mahkeymike:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 17, 2013, 12:59:08 pm ---the ECS board used in the radion/evo/fusion/elite/vibe machines was the last of the force line before they switched to ION. if the board is not repairable and you can't obtain a direct replacement, you can attempt to switch it with an AMPTRON with the same "intel 810e" chipset board and has the same C-Media CMI8738 audio chipset as the ECS.
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I have a ECS board with same i810e and cmi8738. Works up to 2007.5. 2008 and up wont install without patching files in the iso. Havent figured out yet what device ID is causing it to be blacklisted.
--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 17, 2013, 12:59:08 pm ---Ion boards will not work with force I/O boards. I'm currently looking at obtaining some ION I/O boards and attempting a swap with them to try and upgrade them to ION technology.
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This is not true. I have used the old classic force IO boards and the evo force IO boards with ION mobo's and ION keys with no problems.
--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 17, 2013, 12:59:08 pm ---
It's been really backburnered due to the fact that my feeling is that AMI will no longer be supporting ION line beyond the 2013 year.
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My Sig begs to differ :cheers: >:D
--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 17, 2013, 12:59:08 pm ---in the mean time throw a handful of 1000 uF and 470 uF caps at it. They are a pretty tough board. I've had more successes than failures with the boards. I have 3 ECS force boards in a pile that couldn't be resurrected by re-capping them in the past 5 years
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In my other thread I mentioned that regulators were burnt and SMD ceramic caps were broken off and another chip had a leg bent touching another. Its probably got soo many things wrong not worth trying to fix. I would need another board for cheap that maybe just has a bad onboard video chip that i know i could replace those other parts.
lilshawn:
ahh! i see i see. :lol It hadn't even dawned on me we where talking about that same board. little bit of thread creep going on here.
mahkeymike:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 17, 2013, 03:55:39 pm ---ahh! i see i see. :lol It hadn't even dawned on me we where talking about that same board. little bit of thread creep going on here.
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Yeah I had originally pulled the board from the radion because I was going to convert it into an ION with a RX board for a friend. I had then sold the force board that was in it. Friend procastinated on buying the radion and the force board i sold got returned broken and here i am..lol. Not sure what to do now. Listed on CL and it got flagged. So havent tried that since. No idea why it was flagged, It had all official parts and legit key.
pinwizz69:
As an actual pro tech on Merit games with 31 years experiance I can tell you to simply go to Merits tech support web tech support/games page and to troubleshooting and theres a list of tech alerts for boards, hard drives and monitor fixes. You can also call them direct at their tech support hot line. I own about 18 of their games and repair and sell them still even tho I,m semi-retired now :cheers:.
Theres a VERY good board repair source on ebay. His name is Dave under Megatouch store. DO NOT attempt to repair a board if you don't have serious experiance doing so you,ll be :hissy: :angry: :timebomb:. You can easly "toast" a board :'( !! I have the equipment to. Even changing a cap on them takes serious knowlege how to without damage to the board. I have a HAKKO 470B desoldering and a 936 soldering station and know how to use them correctly. There's tricks to use them correctly and I was shown by a electronics proffesor @ a local collage. No, I don't take outside board repair work. Dave does and anyone bad mouths :blah: him they are clueless !! When I was the service / route manager and owned 40% before they sold out ( I took the parts,equipment and wharehouse stock in trade as my payout) in Islamorada in the keys of the biggest route from Marrathon to Homestead I used him exclusivly as I was to busy to repair boards.
I do now but still use Dave when I have a :angry:*##@& :timebomb:* board driving me nuts. He WILL NOT take calls. Email him for info to send a board from Ebay.
Merit has a page that crosses software with keys.
Merit games are FAR superior to the Williams version which pretty much copied Merits games. Earning wise Merit blew them not just outta the water, outta the galaxy !! Every one we repalced a Merit with we immediatly got complaints.
Tech wise the same.
Given Williams got in late and went out of business :banghead: should kind make it clear.
My Wife won't even THINK about selling hers and when it has problems you can guese which one is #1 on my repair list !! I keep a spare board and harddrive on hand just for hers :cheers: !!!
NoRefunds:
I'm having good luck using the RX board on the IONs. I've had several RXs on the street for a few years now and none have come in with board problems and that is awesome for any megatouch board. The RX boards can be found on ebay for about $100 or so. It's a little peace of mind when I have machines over 4 hours away from the shop. I think you have to run 2010 and later software, but that was just a rumor I heard. Use a new sata hard drive and put the 300 watt power supply in there and it boots right up the first time and seems to work well. Machine is running much cooler than the egg cooker ecs p.o.s.
I'm not praising this board at all. I hate the fact that the cpu is soldered to the board. Thanks merit.
A few wires and harnesses can be removed when using the rx board.
You do have to get creative when mounting the i/o board.
I've tried the other asus board mentioned above with mixed results. You have to fight some loading and audio issues.
Has anyone heard ANY info about 2014 ION updates? I won't go "live" until I have to and I also enjoy still being able to link these older merits to the jukebox. I won't bother asking about JVL updates. ::)
I'll take some pics of the next one I do which should be within a week. Two IONs in the shop right now and I just ordered some more boards. <rant> I can't remember the last time there wasn't a merit in for repair. One goes back out, two come back in. For years its been like that. :angry:
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