Golden tee 2005

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I just bought a golden tee 2005 gt. The guy said it had some problems and sent pictures of the screen. He had unhooked the board (red) to send to get repaired but never sent it. Now that I have it I hooked it up and don't get any signal. I will list some things I have done and noticed. The lights on the board: status 1 steady green, status 2 not working at all (well more on this in a minute), then hard drive red led is solid, and there is 3 solid I think red led up close by status 2. I have 5.2v and 12v, the video card I put in a pc and it worked. The hard drive doesn't spin up when turned on but without the status 2 light working from what I gathered it's not booting far enough for that to happen. I have took all chips out and cleaned, checked for cold solder and looked at all traces. The last thing I done was took U117 chip out and turned it on, the status 2 light started working without the chip in and the hard drive startedspinning. Put the chip back in and it goes back to the old problem.
 
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Update: I had a 2001 board that had the same u117 and swapped that out. Got it to boot up after changing the video card from the 2001 as well. There are little lines around the trees so so.w of the graphics are not perfect but at least it's playable. I'm sure the card is to weak to run it properly and that's the problem. Is there any certain thing to look for in a video card or do they just run with the voodoo 3d cards. They are stupid expensive more than I paid for the whole arcade, so I need to find a substitute if possible.
 
Update: I had a 2001 board that had the same u117 and swapped that out. Got it to boot up after changing the video card from the 2001 as well. There are little lines around the trees so so.w of the graphics are not perfect but at least it's playable. I'm sure the card is to weak to run it properly and that's the problem. Is there any certain thing to look for in a video card or do they just run with the voodoo 3d cards. They are stupid expensive more than I paid for the whole arcade, so I need to find a substitute if possible.
The GT boards are somewhat problematic. They don't like moisture and seem to corrode and have problems if you bring a glass of water within 20 feet or put the game in a basement without a dehumidifier.

It sounds like you have some leaking caps in the signal lines. That would give you the missing bits to make the lines appear, or at least that's what I believe. I had to do a board swap with someone here - he sold me a good board, and took my old one for parts. It was pretty corrosion roached.
 
Those video cards go bad all the time. I've had plenty that displayed artifacts on the screen. Replace with a good video card and they go away.
 
Those video cards go bad all the time. I've had plenty that displayed artifacts on the screen. Replace with a good video card and they go away.
Do I have to get a voodoo card or do you know a good alternative to replace it with?
 
The GT boards are somewhat problematic. They don't like moisture and seem to corrode and have problems if you bring a glass of water within 20 feet or put the game in a basement without a dehumidifier.

It sounds like you have some leaking caps in the signal lines. That would give you the missing bits to make the lines appear, or at least that's what I believe. I had to do a board swap with someone here - he sold me a good board, and took my old one for parts. It was pretty corrosion roached.
The caps all look good, there was some corrosion from sitting when I got it, I have cleaned it off the best I could with a fiberglass pin
 
The caps all look good, there was some corrosion from sitting when I got it, I have cleaned it off the best I could with a fiberglass pin
Yeah. The problem is the surface mount components. A little corrosion starts up, and you can pop legs. Then you get an intermittent connection.

Try to "ring out" with an ohmmeter from each leg to the downstream pad. You have to get your lead on the pad solid, and then just lightly touch the lead from the chip, otherwise you could apply pressure to the lead and make the connection and hide a problem from yourself.

It's grueling work.
 
Yeah. The problem is the surface mount components. A little corrosion starts up, and you can pop legs. Then you get an intermittent connection.

Try to "ring out" with an ohmmeter from each leg to the downstream pad. You have to get your lead on the pad solid, and then just lightly touch the lead from the chip, otherwise you could apply pressure to the lead and make the connection and hide a problem from yourself.

It's grueling work.
Ive heard of a few people going over it with the hot air rework and it fixed there problem. However it could very well be the video card too and yes it has to be that 3dfx voodoo 2 card, they over heated really bad what i always did was glue a dc fan onto the heatsink.
 
Ive heard of a few people going over it with the hot air rework and it fixed there problem. However it could very well be the video card too and yes it has to be that 3dfx voodoo 2 card, they over heated really bad what i always did was glue a dc fan onto the heatsink.
Do you have a hot air rework system? And the skills to use it?

I picked one up from @greedycrisp and now have the equipment and bought the "stuff" that goes with it. I have a SMT board that was damaged, and I plan to use that for my practice.
 
Do you have a hot air rework system? And the skills to use it?

I picked one up from @greedycrisp and now have the equipment and bought the "stuff" that goes with it. I have a SMT board that was damaged, and I plan to use that for my practice.
😂 I bought a nice Hako 2-1 solder/hot air rework and ive yet to use it for surface mount components only to help to desolder the caps on newer video cards and mobos that can be stubborn and the iron a little but oddly I prefer my shitty old Weller plug in soldering iron to it so go figure. Ive been itching to though even bought the thermal tape to protect the nearby components. Have some neo geo and cps2 boards that have surface mount chips from battery damage toast was going play around on those lol so same boat lol
 
😂 I bought a nice Hako 2-1 solder/hot air rework and ive yet to use it for surface mount components only to help to desolder the caps on newer video cards and mobos that can be stubborn and the iron a little but oddly I prefer my shitty old Weller plug in soldering iron to it so go figure. Ive been itching to though even bought the thermal tape to protect the nearby components. Have some neo geo and cps2 boards that have surface mount chips from battery damage toast was going play around on those lol so same boat lol
I'd suggest finding something to practice on. Do what you'd like.
 
Yeah i will probably not the cps2 or neo geos right off the bat lol
Well, you can if you can accept the potential consequences of messing up the board.

I wouldn't. Buy something small or crappy and fiddle with it. I got my SMT stuff from a relay which got flooded by a latte machine. It has just enough parts for me to fiddle around and try out the hot air remelt station.
 
Well, you can if you can accept the potential consequences of messing up the board.

I wouldn't. Buy something small or crappy and fiddle with it. I got my SMT stuff from a relay which got flooded by a latte machine. It has just enough parts for me to fiddle around and try out the hot air remelt station.
yeah I watch a lot of videos from Mr SolderFix. He has great videos and British accent is hilarious lmao. Learned a lot of tricks from him. I just dont have time to do it all lol, been enjoying working on monitor chassis lately but check some of his videos out.

 
yeah I watch a lot of videos from Mr SolderFix. He has great videos and British accent is hilarious lmao. Learned a lot of tricks from him. I just dont have time to do it all lol, been enjoying working on monitor chassis lately but check some of his videos out.

He needs to remove the screen protector film from his temperature indicator. LOL
 
Mr SolderFix does what he wants. Dude is like a Legendary Solder Master Pro 😂
He really likes flux, flux on EVERYTHING!
Well, it does help make joints with solder or even plumbing with copper piping!
 
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