2005 Golden tee fore! Boot up help

[Javedisian12]

Hi, I picked up a 2005 golden tee arcade game today and the guy claimed it booted up and worked but we couldn't test it out because it was cold in his garage and damp.  He did say he'd give me my money back if it didn't work but I only paid 80 dollars for it so I would like to see if it is something I can fix for cheap before I ask for my money back.

At first it says it cannot find the hard drive then it goes to another screen and says it cannot detect a dial tone for the modem and the card reader fails as well.  So then it resets. 

I attached the screen below before it resets.  Please help!

Thank you

[ed12]

u mind flipping that picture and do not do it under floresent lights
i can not quite read it..
from what i see try powering off and gentley pushing down on all of the scoketed ics
then repowering it up

ed

[Javedisian12]

Sorry for the bad pic

[ed12]

to start with that board is in advanced service mode test..?
did u do that ?
if not u have a stuck switch >start or such<
the boot screen usualy only carrys chking disk 0/1/2
then chking modem
then cycles to game

ed

[Javedisian12]

No it starts out with this screen a couple times saying it cannot connect to the hard drive then after I press start a couple times then it does a video test then goes to that screen.

[ed12]

ok
leave the buttons alone until the game starts........

now
is the hard drive pluged in ? both power and ide cable ?
did u move it with the hard drive in the game ?

please note i am asking u basic questions
i will get tech as we go

ed

[Javedisian12]

Ok I just wasn't sure how long it would keep saying that it couldn't connect to the hard drive so I pressed start.  I have not opened up the game at all it was moved with the hard drive in it so I'm wondering if it came loose

[Javedisian12]

So I let it go without pressing start and it just keeps saying no hard drive detected and restarts and does it over again.  So guessing the next step is to see if the hard drive got disconnected somehow?

[ed12]

open the coin door
reach in and up to the left and right
u will feel a clasp on either side
un-clip them and then pull the full tray out >it will inculde the control panel<
the tray goes from front to back on an angle
there is a total of 4  clasps 2 upper 1's left and right looking from the front
then there is 2 otheres abouve them >leave them alone< they latch in the control panel only
we want control panel and tray toghter..

ed

[Javedisian12]

Ok I have the coin door open and this is what I'm seeing

[ed12]

reach up and around to your left and right
u will a clap on either side..1 each
un-do them and slide the tray and control panel out at once

ed

[ed12]

as that IS NOT THE ORIGNAL POWER SUPPLY
do me a favor and post a picture of the front of your cab.
i have a feeling it is a converion cab

ed

[Javedisian12]

Inside

[Javedisian12]

Front of the machine I cannot find the clasp that you are talking about just the wires up there for the controls and the dollar thing on the side

[ed12]

ya thats not a hs-5
it is a converison
open it from the back and we will see

ed

[Javedisian12]

Sorry finally got the back off

[Javedisian12]

Hard drive is making a clicking noise during boot up as well not sure if that's normal or not

[ed12]

clicking is the heads hitting
99% of the time the drive is shot
what dose the label on u15 say it is
i am hoping egale 2.09 ?

ed

[Javedisian12]

I know I sound like a total idiot but I'm new to this what is the u15? 

[ed12]

u15=boot rom
it is to the right of the second processer
it will be marked either boot rom # or gt-boot rom ###

ed

[Javedisian12]

Ok so I wasn't seeing it.  I did find a label that said u15 though

[Javedisian12]

Also here is a shot of the hard drive

[ed12]

ok thats is a v 1.07 or 1.7 either
with that boot rom u are drive locked in size (20gig)
if u wish to use larger drives any size ide/ssd/flash-drive
u must up-grade to egale 2.09 boot rom
with out 2.09 u stay locked to smaller ide hard drives

ed

[Javedisian12]

So would this work or do you know of a better site? 

[ed12]

that will do it

ed

[Javedisian12]

Ok so what will I be looking for in a hard drive?  Thank you again for all your help

[ed12]

any size ide once u get the new boot rom
there is a few steps i will have u do with the new drive
nothing special but it dose sasitify your mind it will not a drive problem

ed

[leapinlew]

I dropped by to see if Ed was yelling yet and so far it's just a love'n and fix'n festival.

[Javedisian12]

Haha for sure thanks for not yelling at me I'm new to it all but I'm enjoying learning.  I will let you know when I have the boot rom and hard drive

[ed12]

hmm leapinlew u must be bored.?
ya let me know when the boot rom comes in.
in the mean time what do u have u can write the new harddrive with
usb2ide ?



ed

[dlaventu]

Sorry to post in this thread, but I have the same problem with a Golden Tee 2005 and a broken Maxtor HDD.

I changed the boot rom to Eagle 2.09 (from 1.06).

I tried 5 replacement 40GB HDD (2 Maxtor, 2 WD, 1 IBM).

I used CHDMAN to create the HDD from MAME CHD files
  golf_fore_2005_v5.00.00.chd
  golf_fore_2005_v5.01.00.chd
  golf_fore_2005_v5.01.02.chd
  golf_fore_2005_v5.01.06.chd

When I try to boot with the any HDD, and any image, I get Hard drive detected but the filesystem check doesn't seems to work.
I have 3 partitions on the HDD and the CHDMAN creation worked fine, but I can't find why it hangs on filesystem check.

I read on another post that you could send your canadian HDD image to someone, do you think you could send it to me so I can try that image instead?

Thanks!

[ed12]

how long dose it sit in chking file system ?
or dose it not go beyound that (10mins)


ed

[dlaventu]

It take forever, there's no activity on the hdd led... never get past that.

When I run the test by holding start everything looks fine but only the filesystem doesn't seems to pass.

[ed12]

power off
find sw51
turn switch on
power back up
tell me what u get
i will be on line for a byte yet

ed

[dlaventu]

Every test were done with SW51 all 4 dip switch to ON

[ed12]

ok thats what i thought would happen
btw sw51-2/3/4 are used only for country code
i just need to ask u a few questions and i will beable to explain to u whats going on
are the 3 leds blinking ? status1/stsatus2/ide1
next when u wrote the chd file
was the drive blank and clean ? or did u just over-write what was already there ?
if u wiped this drive which s/w did u use ?

ed

[dlaventu]

I tried without wiping the HDD, but after that I followed what you said to someone in another thread, wipe with mini parition wizzard and chdman to create HDD.

I'm not at home right now but I think that status 1 (next to boot rom) always blink and status 2 doesn't blink but is on. The ide 1 blink on the hard disk detect phase, but stop after that.

Sometimes when the HDD is detected I don't get the filesystem check on the screen and there's no ide 1 led activity. Other time I get the filesystem check, the ide 1 led blink for 2-3 sec and the stop.

Do I need the latest CHD image to test (golf_fore_2005_v5.01.06.chd) or any of these should work?

Thanks for the help!

[ed12]

no
the chd your using is fine
you have me confused at status 2 led light not blinking
as that is the subsystem ready status (blinking) means the buss is acctive
did u by chance have u53 out ?
if u did power the board off and pull the chip (make sure) u have no bent pins.
i would not think it is backwards ?,because the status 2 led would not light up
status 2 beening on soild means something is holding the sub buss into hold (lock-up)
worest case u need a new(used) u53..

ed

[dlaventu]

I will confirm the status 2 led state when I get home tonight, it was from memory but I can be mistaken.

The game was working before, but the HDD didn't like the ride (forgot to remove it before transport). I removed everything to inspect and clean the board, so the chip should be ok, it was doing the same thing before the cleanup.

Since I only changed the boot rom to use any HDD, I'm not sure why u53 would have a problem. Let me check that tonight and I'll get back to you.

[dlaventu]

I checked and I was wrong, the two green lights are blinking. The ide activity led blink for the first few seconds and then turn off when I get the checking filesystem message.

The u53 is well inserted in the socket, I don't see any problem with it.