fast and furious Tokyo drift keeps freezing up

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Hey guys I have a couple of these drift cabinets and sometimes they will play fine, but most of the time after between 15 and 45 minutes or so it'll freeze up especially if its being played. They both do it, but one does it more often. I recently did the restore disk on both of them, hoping that would help the issue. I'm curious if I need to install more ram or another mother board or something because what's in there is just too old? and then I was curious if I did go that route what would be a good one to replace it with. If anyone has any experience with these games or other computer based games and how to fix them when they start to freeze up that would be awesome. thank you
 
Check your power supply. Does this one have a standard ATX power supply or something different?
 
just found this topic and I might give this a try. not too experienced with making my own hard drives though. Because of the restore disks would I be able to put blank hard drives in?

 
standard atx part of the computer power supply. they also are pretty old as well but the voltage coming out is fine.
Do you have a Thermaltake Dr. Power tester?

I found that these PS fail under load after they heat up.

Yes, hard drive failures can cause this. But so can power supplies.
 
Do you have a Thermaltake Dr. Power tester?

I found that these PS fail under load after they heat up.

Yes, hard drive failures can cause this. But so can power supplies.
I don't have one of those. I was thinking the same thing. And that maybe since it's so old even if it just has a hiccup that would cause the issue. Is this something I should Google and look into purchasing or would there be a better route to go?
 
I don't have one of those. I was thinking the same thing. And that maybe since it's so old even if it just has a hiccup that would cause the issue. Is this something I should Google and look into purchasing or would there be a better route to go?
If you own the game or games with these power supplies, it's a tool you need. I have one from working on Big Buck Hunter and Rockin Bowl-o-Rama (aka - The Money Pit). I use it for working on older PCs as well when I have a need to do that.

If you mess with:
NBA Jam
NFL Blitz
NBA Jam / NFL Blitz 2000
Mario Carts
BBH
RBOA

Any other computer based game.

You need one.

But its likely to be the hard drive.
 
If you own the game or games with these power supplies, it's a tool you need. I have one from working on Big Buck Hunter and Rockin Bowl-o-Rama (aka - The Money Pit). I use it for working on older PCs as well when I have a need to do that.

If you mess with:
NBA Jam
NFL Blitz
NBA Jam / NFL Blitz 2000
Mario Carts
BBH
RBOA

Any other computer based game.

You need one.

But its likely to be the hard drive.
Oh man I had a rockin bowl o rama and never had a single problem with it, ha ha i heard people always talking about it having issues though. what a cool looking game that thing was. Anywho ok I think Ill pick one up then, because I mess with a lot of the games you are talking about for sure. Can I just pick up one of these guys:

or

amazon one seems a bit nicer, but I know sometimes old and simple are the better way to go?
 
If you own the game or games with these power supplies, it's a tool you need. I have one from working on Big Buck Hunter and Rockin Bowl-o-Rama (aka - The Money Pit). I use it for working on older PCs as well when I have a need to do that.

If you mess with:
NBA Jam
NFL Blitz
NBA Jam / NFL Blitz 2000
Mario Carts
BBH
RBOA

Any other computer based game.

You need one.

But its likely to be the hard drive.
also do you know if I will need a new hard drive or if I can use a new blank hard drive with a restore disk?
 
also do you know if I will need a new hard drive or if I can use a new blank hard drive with a restore disk?
It depends how it is paired. I'd get a SSD and take an image of your current drive, and transfer it to the SSD. That's the safest way. At least as I understand it.
 
Oh man I had a rockin bowl o rama and never had a single problem with it, ha ha i heard people always talking about it having issues though. what a cool looking game that thing was. Anywho ok I think Ill pick one up then, because I mess with a lot of the games you are talking about for sure. Can I just pick up one of these guys:

or

amazon one seems a bit nicer, but I know sometimes old and simple are the better way to go?
Get the Amazon one. The cheaper one just shows you if they are in range, the Amazon one shows you where you are at.
 
If you do change the HDD, format the new one with MBR first. The restore disk will go through the entire process and then fail to boot if the drive is GPT-formatted.

Dr. Power is great to have!
 
If you do change the HDD, format the new one with MBR first. The restore disk will go through the entire process and then fail to boot if the drive is GPT-formatted.

Dr. Power is great to have!
Ohhh good to know. I did one last night and it totally worked thank you! Got lucky and it was formatted the correct way. Now just waiting to see if that fixed my main freezing problem. Won't know until my kid really goes for it ha ha
 
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