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Hi I'm here to try and find out some more information for a client. I work as a computer repair technician. I had some one bring me a computer that was apparently the inner-workings of an arcade game. The game being as far as I can tell PGA Tour Golf. I have no idea what version it is outside of what is on the various stickers on the case.
On the bottom of the case:

DFI - I'm assuming this is the maker of this particular PC

Serial# --------
Then below the serial number is
04/04/2003

Model NO:
PRO GOLF

On the top of the case:
A Windows XP home edition OEM key for DFI Technologies INC.
As well as a yellow sticker:

PGA GOLF Asus Video Card
V 1.2 REV. C
Canada Version 03/13/2003

From what I was told by my client and from some testing the motherboard is shot. Now I have contacted the company Global VR and asked for some assistance. They were not much help. They basically told me that the motherboard is proprietary. They didn't seem to keen on giving me any other information about the game or parts for it.

I have no knowledge of arcade games or claim too. But what makes this board different from a regular of the shelf motherboard? Outside of the I/O board and a dongle that's connected to the parallel port I don't see a difference. There's even a windows xp key on the top of the case. My client also had told that when the machine boots up it goes to windows xp and then loads the game.

My client would be very grateful as would I for any kind of help.

Kris
 
I never had to repair the actual PC, but I've done the conversion of installing this in a cab and making it work. Mine was a PGA Tour Challenge III, and it also booted to Windows XP before loading the game. Mine wasn't a dedicated cabinet, and need an interface board that was separate from the PC in order to boot. Otherwise, it would give an error on the screen about no response or something disconnected (been a while).

I recall downloading the conversion manual off of their website back then, and it had the instructions for hooking it all up so it would work, but I don't think it had any relevant technical documents for repairing it...
 
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