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dieseldogpi:

On my dedicated Golden Tee Fore cabinet.  I just got everything working, played it some with my pops when he stopped by and then turned it off.  When I went to show my wife the final product, the hard drive was making really wierd noises, like a whining noise, and the game wouldn't recognize it.  What the hell happened?  Do I need a new hard drive?  If I do, how do I get the old crap off of the broken one to put on the new one?  Thanks.


Kevin Mullins:

Check the power supply going to the drive first.

dieseldogpi:

what should be going to the hard drive?  I mean it's definitely getting power of some sort, cause I hear it spinning and then whining like crazy.

Kevin Mullins:

12v DC ..... same as any other PC harddrive.

Just seen weak power supplies cause weird issues, so I tend to check that first off.

mvsfan:

a weak power supply will definately cause odd things to a cabinet.

i hadnt played my cabinet for a while and turned it on one time and all i got was garbage on the screen, though the game still booted and ran.

so i switched the pcb and got the same thing on two more pcbs.

so i plugged them into my supergun and they worked fine.

it took me a while but eventually i came up with "bad Power" and broke out the multimeter.

Yup. Problem solved.

get a dmm if you dont have one and start probing your power supply.see if the voltages are all what they should be. if not, Remove, replace.

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