Ok, try #2. I tried to post this once, but, something didn't like the pictures that I tried to attach (screen shots of my cabinet screen), so, here we go again...
I was given a Golden Tee 2005 cabinet. The previous owner had a silver power supply and a green board. Someone told him he had a bad power supply, hard drive, and main board.
He swapped it to a red board, with a 2.09 boot rom, and an ATX style power supply.
The problem is, it turns on, boots to a screen with info about finding the drive, finding the modem, etc, then moves to a second screen, displaying some basic information, and looks like it's trying to load into the game, and then it hard reboots. Same process, over and over.
I checked connections on all of the IC chips on the board, no change. I took the drive out, checked it for errors. It had a couple. So, I low-level formatted the drive (wrote all 0's to it using the Western Digital hard drive utility (it's an 80GB Western Digital hard drive, IDE type)), found the 5.01.02 chd online, and wrote that using CHDMAN to the drive. Tried again. No change. I swapped in a known good ATX style power supply, and still no change.
The original drive in the cabinet has a locked up spindle motor or something wrong with it, so it's out of the question. I have looked into purchasing the option for a pre-loaded IDE to Compact Flash drive, which I don't mind doing, if it will help the problem.
I think I included everything I had typed out in my first try, so if I'm missing something, please ask, I'll get whatever information I can to get help on this!
Thank you for looking, and thanks in advance for any assistance!
Cody