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Always one step short... I/O board Help?

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Darien:
Browsing around and I haven't found exactly what I'm looking for...  Sorry if it was mentioned elsewhere. 

Sob Story:

I've got arcade and pinball down but I'm a total noob at Megatouch.   I bought a ... 5 (6?) off Craig's list a few years ago for my mother.  Single board Classic cabinet. Easy.   Well since then she's been begging me for a better setup.  I ended up reusing her classic cabinet/touchscreen with an itx,  a vga crt, and windows/Simpletouch.  In the meantime I thought peice by piece I could make up some kind of Authentic since they seem to be so expensive at auctions.  So  I've got a legit cabinet, a legit key, a legit enough HD, an I/O... So, I'm no pirate! if merit still has employees to spy...


Well, today I had some vacation so I thought I'd try to put it all together but I'm still coming up short. ...

I've got:
A "2005" key (SA3083-09 R00)
The square I/O board
a black and a white touch controller.
a motherboard with an i810 video chipset

I bootup to a "MAXX" screen no matter which controller is plugged in. and then get a message that I have an "Invalid Key  for PG3002-01 V15.02 !!!"  I get the same notice without the IO board plugged in at all.  Should there be more wires to it than the USB cable? (J6 looks like it might take power.)

  I have the USB in J5A, Jp5 & 6 are towards it. JP1 is shorted. The tech manuals don't seem to describe the other pins (possibly because I should have a self-explainatory wiring harness to plug in)

Darien:
Booting the hard drive: USB Video Sound and network pass ....  I do get two failures. One for "health sensors" and one about error opening mixer.

Tried burning the 2005.5  (which says it's 15.10) software to CD to see if I could reload the drive (maybe 2005.5 ISN'T on here?) but after I tap "Yes, I agree" (so the controller works, obviously) it ejects the tray and gives me  'Error detected (#-514) Please reboot to perform entire upgrade again."  I've tried burning three times. The drive is on secondary master IDE.... Am I missing something there... perhaps despite their size they should be on DVD (since that's what merit implies?)

mahkeymike:
Wont work with just any "i810 chipset" Mobo. It will just keep reboot looping. The problem is your SuperIO is the wrong chip. And is the reason your seeing [FAILED] when the harddetect script is checking Health sensors to make sure its a ITE chip and trys to load the it87 driver module. I am guessing your Mobo has a intel smsc chip and needs the smsc47m1 driver module. You need to patch the harddetect script to load that module. Also the oss mixer Failure is your sound card "oss" (open sound system). Again, you need to patch a script to load the correct driver module.

And by the way, just because you have a legit IO board and key doesnt mean your no pirate matey. Merit considers you a pirate even if you bought the official mobo used in force from someone else like newegg. I dont agree with them, but its no wonder Merit went out of business and stopped all megatouch operations. Being too greedy has its disadvantages i suppose. Anyway....I need more details about your mobo to help you.

Darien:
Ah, just who I was hoping would respond. Thanks.  I narrowed the board down (from my giant stack) based on something you said in a thread. I figured worst case scenario I buy an Asus TUW-LA off eBay ($20 with chip) and PM bug you for details.   

This is the ONE I found so far I already have with a compatible-ish video set... I was excited when I passed and it didn't say video unknown! apparently it's a lot pickier about video than network (always "passed").  Technically I'm past the reboot loop and sitting at the key screen  but I see what you're saying those are going to be I/O problems. 

I can find next to nothing on the motherboard  MS-6351 v1 because it's a really weird form factor out of an old slim case (MSI-6215 NetPC). Looking at the Manual for the whole PC: The chipsets are Intel 815E & Intel ICH2X 

So *looks around for black helicopter* patching the script... Throw it in another PC and edit the script to load different driver modules? I'll admit I haven't actually "looked" at the drive yet just tried booting it. 

Thanks again for your assistance,
Darien

mahkeymike:
Im not sure why but the harddetect script looks for and i815 chipset even though they never used an i815 mobo for force. Basically it checks the pci bus for the ID of the chipset. In your case "Intel Corp.*82815" and if it matches its happy and passes. The problem is the north/south bridge chipset revision doesnt match during the booting of the main binary and it defaults to Maxx and now gives you invalid key because it wants a Maxx key and you have a force key. I have not done much peeking around in the 2005 software so i dont know exactly how to get around this. Its possible a 2005 maxx key would work with what you have but those keys are actually expensive on ebay and i would suggest you get a cheap ion key (they are cheap on ebay) and an asus A7N8X-LA  mobo (also cheap on ebay). You can use that square force IOboard so dont worry about that. You can also use the force touchscreen controller aswell.

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