Arcade Collecting > Merit/JVL Touchscreen
Trying to power up a Megatouch motherboard
ed12:
i am yet to see a ssd or flash drive in any merits i have ever worked on
90% were ide then with ion sata
ed
mahkeymike:
Im guessing here but, someone must have attempted to clone an official hard drive onto that IDE Flash drive and files either did not get copied over, or they got corrupted, which is why you are getting that kernel panic and crashing at various stages of the booting screen.
lilshawn:
previous to 2005 you where REQUIRED to have a specially firmware flashed drive from merit in order for a machine to work. in 2005 they changed the code to allow any drive to be used.
the special drives don't have their drive ID show up in BIOS as "toshiba" or "samsung" or whatever brand, they show up as "merit". the software boots and then checks the drive to make sure it's a legit drive.
ed12:
that unit would be a pre 2005
so how they got a flash drive/ssd to work is beyound me ?
the kernel would default to a death call every time
ed
mahkeymike:
--- Quote from: ed12 on July 04, 2014, 04:03:02 pm ---that unit would be a pre 2005
so how they got a flash drive/ssd to work is beyound me ?
the kernel would default to a death call every time
ed
--- End quote ---
besides patching the software, you could clone an official hard drive to any drive (CF,sata,ssd) the question is whether the software throws an error during or after install, or both. No maxx mobo here to test with but i am very curious. Maybe someone has 2004 force software they could make an iso i could download? Earliest version on merits website is 2005.5 and i know it doesnt prevent using non official hard drives.
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