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Golden tee stop working
lilshawn:
it appears we haven't even reached the point in the computers boot process where the hard drive comes into play.
computer boot process is like so (sort of):
1 power goes to board.... bios microcode performs power on self test (post)
2 POST....bios microcode checks for things it needs to run.... ram,CPU and a display device. if they not found, play a long distressing beep.
3 if ok, it kicks the CPU to start and the CPU reads code from BIOS rom and performs each action in turn... this....
4 CPU initilizes video device
5 CPU tests ram (if enabled)
6 CPU plays "beep" to confirm the POST completed without error. if there is an error, try to beep some kind of error message (short and long beeps)
7 CPU runs more BIOS code to configure the system to get ready for boot. (harddrives, ports, ram speed settings, other bios settings) and configures the motherboard accordingly.
8 hard drive initialised and ready for data read/write
9 CPU loads boot stuff from selected boot device (as configured).
10 stuff starts to load, programs run, operating system does things.
by the sounds of things, you are getting stuck somewhere in 3, 4, 5 but not so far as 6. your board is kind of working becasue you can jump it on with the power switch jumper (so low level computer stuff is running)... but not so far along as completing the POST (power on self test) where it plays the beep (signifying POST is complete and ready to boot.) and not far enough that the CPU is able to put out it's own beep error code.
this makes me believe you still have a ram issue. since we have eliminated the videocard and you say the cpu is "new"...but the computer still behaves the same as the old one... i'd say ram.
really if all you swapped from the old system is videocard and ram and you tested the videocard and it works... process of elimination says ram to me.
Encryptedmind:
Thanks for the response. ya im not hearing a beep at all on the CPU. So the ram does it matter what ram is used?
lilshawn:
it's going to depend specifically what board you have. I believe you have a somewhat newer board than the one i have here in my office... but it should still be DDR2 ram. (DG965SS?) if that's the case, it will take DDR2-533, DDR2-677 or DDR2-800 (AKA PC2-4200, PC2-5300 and PC2-6400)
I would stick to 1GB maximum (either 4x256, 2x512mb or 1x1gb) as some software installations can get weirded out and think less than the appropriate amount is present and fail when large amounts are installed.
if you have the DG31PR board that only has 2 slots (2x512 or 1x1gb) ...that board is spec'd to accept DDR2-677 or DDR2-800 only
and no ECC ram, boards can't handle it. just standard.
apparently highest speed DDR2 ram sticks sold by crucial memory (DDR2-1000 AKA PC2-8000) are backwards compatable with slower speeds. as always your mileage may vary, motherboards are picky about their ramming. ;D
Encryptedmind:
K so i tried the ram and video card in my other pc and its working just fine. I checked around on the internet and found a video to test some stuff. Like remove battery move jumper. Put jumper back and battery. Still no beep. Removed the video card and powered up cpu and still no beep. Removed ram and powered back up and still no beep. So is there anything else i can check? Almost seems like the motherboard is garbage to me. I dont know what to do. Any chance you have a working golden tee board that can i try or buy from you. Ill give you my two old boards if you wanted and fix them and re-sell them if possible to fix.
lilshawn:
maybe you just received a bad board. if you bought it off ebay, i'd probably file a claim on it and see if you can send it back and recover your money.
I actually just bought a board off ebay to repair a machine, so I don't have spares.
I can offer you a list of motherboards used in the Golden tee machines. Depending on which year you have on your drive, is going to depend on how "high" you can go. From oldest to newest list I have here is:
for socket 775
D915GUX
DG965SS
DG31PR
socket 1155
DB65AL
DH61CR
i also have listed:
IMBM-B75A-A20 (i have noted on my list this board requires 2017+ not sure if this was actually use in production machines or used as replacements i'm not sure where i got the number from...perhaps one that came in for repair.)
I can confirm some of the motherboards used in the power putt and super strike bowling indeed work for golden tee, but have very old videocards (some using AGP) in a pinch they will work, but run pretty slow. In our business slow is better than not working at all.
as for the old boards, it's best to repair stuff like blown caps and whatnot while it still works... once it goes dead, you have a less than 30% chance of it coming back alive again. I have a mountain of dead motherboards as a testament to that. (i posted a pic on the forum a while back of it)