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Golden Tee 2005 testing

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alrolon800:
I am in the cape coral, fort myers area of florida.

alrolon800:
where is the location on the base memory chip?

lilshawn:

the DRAM chips are U16 U17 U18 U19 and U110 U111 U112 U113. (MT48LC1M16A1) on the green boards.

i would try pushing on each one in turn and try booting up. maybe it's just a broken solder joint. the board flexes in the direction most known for breaking solder joints on surface mounted chips. if they were turned 90 degrees, it's not a problem. if you do find one that works when pressed down, you can TRY reflowing it. the pins are a little on the small side and prone to bridging if you don't use lots of flux. it may be best to get a professional to look at it.

check for spills, crud, corrosion around any of the chip legs. it's not uncommon to have stuff spilled into the cabinet, get on the board and start corroding things. look for scratches on the board that may indicate a slipped screwdriver or the like. check for solder pads on the backside that look like something may have been knocked off like a resistor or capacitor. if it never had anything there, it will have nice smooth solder bump... if something has been knocked off, it will be jagged or rough.

There are some components prone to getting bent and broken near the edge connector. (some resistors and transistors near one of the screw down holes) make sure things are all in one piece there too.

If you end up throwing in the towel on your board, I'm in canada and have a green board pulled from an old GT 2005 machine. i'm 99% sure it works, it doesn't have a video card (was robbed to fix another machine)...so you'd have to transfer the card and security chip bootrom and whatnot to it.


--- Quote from: Tom-94 on March 05, 2019, 05:56:59 am --- If anyone is willing to part with a complete board or just a replacement security chip please send me a message. Have had a complete board for last few years which I’ve nailed it down to a failed u53 :((

--- End quote ---

unfortunately complete machines where the last of the series using that board before it got swapped to actual PC hardware (called the "nighthawk" system). So piles of complete system boards got sold off. because of this,  so there are no "extra" security keys like there are with other years. (you replace the security key with a new one and load new software when you upgrade from one year to the next.) but in this case, a whole new system replaced the game after complete. so spare complete security keys are few and far between and usually only turn up when someone trashes a cabinet or a board fails. this is why you can find piles of 2002/3/4/5 security keys out there.

Tom-94:
Lilshawn,

Yeah I thought that was the case. I have a couple sets of 2005 chips its just so disappointing going from the complete 26 or so courses back to 7. Not many people want to ship to Australia off eBay so this may have to do.

alrolon800:
well I turn it on and it does nothing. wait about 10 min and then resets when I push button and tells me checksum mismatch. I really feel reflowing board will fix it. I push down on ic's, sometimes it tests, sometimes not.

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