Golden Tee Live 2010 PC problems

[Spitfire]

I have bought a couple of Golden tee live machines one has 2007 and one 2010 version. The PC running the games both were not working when bought.
Went through all the normal trouble shooting procedures such as swapping in working ram and working video card, new cmos battery, swapped cpu, swapped power supply which made the system go from doing nothing to all the fans and lights working on power up but still getting no signal on both monitor outputs?

Any idea what the problem still might be?

[mclovin]

I have heard if you pull the ram, video card, and hard drive out and try to boot if there is no beeping sounds it's your motherboard. That being said I have absolutely no experience doing that to confirm one way or the other. I'm very sure the motherboard on the nighthawk boxes can probably be swapped with a cheap motherboard from an older PC but I can't say for sure. That would save a load of $$$, maybe someone else has first had knowledge of this on this forum. Lilshawn and Ed12 are experts with these machines.

[Spitfire]

Yep no beeps at all with everything unplugged just the fans all running?? 2 nighthawks doing with the same problem

[ed12]

if shawm dose not chime in with the bios settings i will when i get in from the warehouse

ed

[ed12]

it depends on the mfg date
ie sept or later was gen2,eariler was gen1
if gen 1 leave out video card,and run base band video >vga<,gen 1 did not beeb on bios
when u swapped the bios bat u made it brain dead,to fix this vga,key-board
set the hard drive and date/time :date time very important: the first boot device :hard drive:
save exit reboot :not power off:
it should boot to the root
!mfg-date is very important!

ed

[mclovin]

Just curious how to get into the bios on one of these?

[ed12]

read lower post..
key-board
vga
1-small fast beep
"hint"-> esc key keep pressing it....

ed

[mclovin]

Ed is the motherboard and processor need to be a specific type or would any P4 3ghz compatible PC work?

[ed12]

with the black hawk i would just repair the mobo.
maybe shawn can chime in on the exacts ?

ed

[Spitfire]

it depends on the mfg date
ie sept or later was gen2,eariler was gen1
if gen 1 leave out video card,and run base band video >vga<,gen 1 did not beeb on bios
when u swapped the bios bat u made it brain dead,to fix this vga,key-board
set the hard drive and date/time :date time very important: the first boot device :hard drive:
save exit reboot :not power off:
it should boot to the root
!mfg-date is very important!

ed

Where would the mfg date be found? Tried all that's been suggested still fans run and no beeps. Have 3 of the same boards all doing the same thing?? Ummm

[ed12]

well if it dose not take all day ? here u go

ed

[Spitfire]

Thx to all who have tried to help but nothing has fixed my problem of no beeps at power up but all fans running. This all leads to faulty motherboard.  Any one have any replacement motherboards for this game or direct me to where I can buy one?

[ed12]

la775 is a common board
any p3/4 should do the job

ed

[Spitfire]

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/262467917479

Bought this will it suit my needs?

[ed12]

better then how it came from the factory

ed

[Spitfire]

Hey Ed motherboard doesnt run the game it just sits at the start screen. This also happened when i tried a random amd motherboard?? Must need a specific type of motherboard to run game not just an lga775 chipset one

[ed12]

it just is not un-packing the kernel
there is multi reasons for this
1=wrong video chip, it might be looking for the video card
2=missing info file on harddrive
as a rule the game will un-pack then tell u that it is having driver problems with the board

ed

[lilshawn]

sorry, I've been avoiding the forum due to the timeouts and lag it's been having. I used to check this forum a dozen times a day....now i can barely get myself on to check it every other day it seems. real hit and miss.

just something I noticed not mentioned here yet...

the CPU's (often core duos) that IT supplied with the board originally, don't have an IGPU in them... you must use a videocard otherwise it won't boot up at all. (due to there being no graphics to initialize. if you swap the CPU for a i3 or better processor that includes an IGPU on board, the system will work without a videocard and the integrated VGA port will operate.

[ed12]

that's way I was leaning towards #2 reason.
I thing I did not ask is do u have the cid board hooked up ?

ed

[Spitfire]

The harddrive and video cards are tested running this game and all work 100% with the game golden tee live 2010 which is on the tested harddrive. All cid, io boards are the same and tested working 100%. All that i have done is buy new mother board plug tested boards cid io power boards into mothermoard used tested power supply connected hard drive and video card and the result is it gets stuck at same spot on boot up??

[ed12]

I know this sounds mundane and u may have already did this.
but just hook it up as a normal computer
and make sure it is working right

as I tried to explain something is holding it back from un-packing the kernel
and if it is the mother board? it should not show up so soon.
that as a rule comes after un-packing
Linux is very robust
also make sure that the drive assignment is set right (most important)
and did u transfer the ram from the old mother board ?
if so then this is why I am asking u to try it as a normal computer first


ed

[Spitfire]

The new motherboard came with its own ram and was tested working. Umm will plug in another hard drive and test motherboard. Is there any bios settings that need changing?

[ed12]

if the bat has not been changed ? then it should be plug and play
for normal usage

ed

[Spitfire]

So new motherboard works with game. I noticed in bios that the hard drive wasnt showing up so changed sata plug and all working as it should. Thx for all the help.
Now to see why the monitor has died urghhh

[ed12]

congrads
make crib notes
happy playing

ed

[Spitfire]

So in regards to montor it shows up very out of focus and if i turn the focas on the flyback all the way it only gets to atound 90% right.  If i leave there on power up next game there will be no picture until inturn focus and screen back to original position.  Is there any fix for this or is the flyback on its way out?

Also for some reason i am now getting no sound or works intermittently. I noticed this showing up in the startip screen have i some how corrupted the sound file or can you tell me what this means?

[ed12]

the screen problem could be due to a pic tube starting to gun down and or a bad fly back.
I tend to go with the picture tube as that is a sign of age.

if u look at the Linux kernel un-folding u can clearly see the fail msg.
chk the sound file.
and or front panel stuff
as it is beening told 906 ? that's loud

ed

[Spitfire]

the screen problem could be due to a pic tube starting to gun down and or a bad fly back.
I tend to go with the picture tube as that is a sign of age.

if u look at the Linux kernel un-folding u can clearly see the fail msg.
chk the sound file.
and or front panel stuff
as it is beening told 906 ? that's loud

ed

Whats that mean ed?? Do i need to turn the volume down to get volume back?? There are 2 volume control buttons inside cab at front. Are they faulty? Please advise?

[ed12]

hi
well I did point out that the audio-kernel is not un-packing.
in windows it means >drivers not found<
in Linux it says > kernel not un-packing<
they both mean about the same

the normal way for golden tee of any kind to turn volume up or down
is through there on screen menu
906 is a very loud output which will give u overload/clipping

ed

[Spitfire]

Still was unable to fix the sound issue. Can you please direct me to how you would fix this please Ed? You told me to check the sound file. How do i do this? Also saying driver not found. Sound was working fine not sure what i Changed to stop the sound from working now?

[ed12]

sorry for the delay
i will look into the cd tommrow as it is at the warehouse .
un-less it is on the software update stick ?
either way it is at the warehouse also

ed

[Spitfire]

sorry for the delay
i will look into the cd tommrow as it is at the warehouse .
un-less it is on the software update stick ?
either way it is at the warehouse also

ed

Thx Ed seems strange though that all eas working with sound and still i can here the speaker static on boot up even though seems alot louder and then the error shows up and no sound at all even static goes. Hope to hear from you soon mate

[ed12]

ok I just got it home..i knew u would be up.
u have a bad kernel...
let me pick them out
1=live right ?
2=Blackhawk rev 2 ?
is this correct ?
the reason I ask
if I up-load the wrong kernel we can make it worse

ed

[Spitfire]

ok I just got it home..i knew u would be up.
u have a bad kernel...
let me pick them out
1=live right ?
2=Blackhawk rev 2 ?
is this correct ?
the reason I ask
if I up-load the wrong kernel we can make it worse

ed

Ed the game version is GT 2010 live. The motherboard running the game now is the one i supplied the link to above.

[ed12]

gen 1
let me find the s/w

ed

[Spitfire]

So ed you think its a software issue?? Not a hardware problem. Seems strange as all was working perfectly.

[lilshawn]

unfortunately I don't know much about linux so i'm not much help on that front.

has the sound maybe been disabled in BIOS accidentally?

can we confirm by comparing the old board and the new board that indeed the sound chip is the same? (board i have here is a realtek alc888s)

if the sound chip is not the same (for whatever reason) the driver the software loads might not be compatible. i know some runs of boards change some chips because of availability usually they get marked as V2 or revX or whatever..

[ed12]

that's what I was after..
thk-u for chiming in shawn

ed

[Spitfire]

Im sure i was having this issue with the old working board but could be mistaken. Im going to try the working pc from other machine with hard drive and see what happens n report back.

[Spitfire]

So boys i pulled the nighthawk out of the other machine to test sound and sound works as it should. Here is the board number of the working pc.