Golden Tee Fore! Issues

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Just wondering if anyone is familiar enough with this game to help out.

I've been given a board to look at because the owner is having issues and I have never had a Golden Tee. For whatever reason he purchased a new hard drive thinking it was this, but according to him it didn't help. From what I can see on my test setup, the board boots, displays:

Golden Tee Fore! 2002
Model #2011 SN 013735

It completes checks on File Systems 0 and 1.

Shows:
Loading Game
Disk Load Completed

Then shows:
USA Golden Tee Fore! 3.00.07
Build 13:13:50 May 30 2002

Software Version #400300
Key Code #40400

Board Serial Number 00013735-F
Hardware Version 6
Voltage OK

System Status OK Initializing

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It also shows something in blue that I can easily read on my little test monitor.


After all this it reboots. I'm not sure where to go after this, but the owner is asking if he should just buy a new board. Any ideas from GT owners? If a new board is recommended does anyone have one for sale?

The drive I was given for testing is labeled '2004 Golden Tee Fore!'


Thanks!
 
up the voltage on your power supply. these things are sensitive to power and sometimes wont boot due to power..

I have tried bumping up the +5 to about 5.2 and at that point the intial startup screen indicates 'Voltage HIGH' and it still doesn't boot so I moved it back down a little.
 
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up the voltage on your power supply. these things are sensitive to power and sometimes wont boot due to power..

Yep,
Your boardset is booting up and stating it's an 02.....you say the hard drive is a 04. You need to try it with a 02 hard drive (or a 04 boardset).

Edward

So a 2002 cannot be converted to a 2004 by simply replacing the hard drive? Apparently he was told it would be fine from the person he bought it from... go figure. Is there a different Boot ROM that can be used to get it to load the 2004 drive? What's the difference between the boardsets - anyone know?
 
So a 2002 cannot be converted to a 2004 by simply replacing the hard drive? Apparently he was told it would be fine from the person he bought it from... go figure. Is there a different Boot ROM that can be used to get it to load the 2004 drive? What's the difference between the boardsets - anyone know?

If I'm not mistaken.....It takes a new hard drive and a chipset to convert.

Edward
 
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