Golden tee live upgrade help

Here is what I would do:
1. Remove the video card and plug your monitor directly into the VGA port on the motherboard and reboot. Any difference? If it boots, you most likely have a bad video card.
2. Remove and reseat the ram. Reboot
3. Replace your hard drive with a known working drive.
4. Replace the motherboard.

I'm assuming you have the CID and the I/O board plugged in to the motherboard with the USB cables. If not, you should see errors screens in red text.

I have spares on all of these above except the hard drive. The oldest drive I have is a 2008.
Let us know what you find.

Clay
 
I have a newer motherboard graphics card and newer software to update your nighthawk if interested.

Here is what I would do:
1. Remove the video card and plug your monitor directly into the VGA port on the motherboard and reboot. Any difference? If it boots, you most likely have a bad video card.
2. Remove and reseat the ram. Reboot
3. Replace your hard drive with a known working drive.
4. Replace the motherboard.

I'm assuming you have the CID and the I/O board plugged in to the motherboard with the USB cables. If not, you should see errors screens in red text.

I have spares on all of these above except the hard drive. The oldest drive I have is a 2008.
Let us know what you find.

Clay

I will try this and get back to you with my results!
 
Something became unplugged and I'm not sure where it goes!

Help!

Two wires yellow and blue comes off the audio plug part.

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Something became unplugged and I'm not sure where it goes!

Help!

Two wires yellow and blue comes off the audio plug part.

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IIRC those wires go to the RESET pins on the Motherboard. (Again IIRC the BLUE pins)

I think it has to do with if the USB I/O card detects a lockup of something it will send a reboot command to the PC.
 
I've been through the mess that is trying to upgrade a Golden Tee Live setup to its highest levels. There isn't much difference in terms of boot times being reduced--they are what they are.

If the game reboots during its Linux startup, the video card is likely incompatible. I tried a video card that was the exact same make/model (Geforce some number) but the brand wasn't exactly what was recommended by IT and sure enough, it didn't work. The video card MUST be the few select brands on the list from IT.

RAM: I got the Nitehawk computer with 1 GB of ram and upgraded it to 4 GB because that's what the motherboard supported. It may help a bit here and there, but it's not worth spending money on it. If you have spare RAM laying around that works--throw it in there, but buying more RAM isn't going to do much.

Video card: This is where it kinda makes a difference. Get the best card that your year supports. I have 2014 and it supports up to a 2 GB video card which cuts down a bit on the stuttering. If it still stutters, you might run the game on 720P which has minor details that aren't as vivid in 1080P like leaves blowing around in the distance. You can switch the dips back and forth and reboot to see if it makes a difference.

Hard drive: Might as well make an image of the old hard drive and put it on a solid state drive. One less thing to worry about and it will speed it up a little bit. I guess you could also try a 128 GB compact flash/SD/micro SD card?

Summary: If you have a Nitehawk and it works there isn't much use in spending money on upgrades to the system beyond getting rid of the old hard drive or possibly a video card.
 
I don't know what CPU the Golden Tee Live (original) used, but I do know SSB used a 2.0GHz Celeron. The 865 motherboard supports socket 478, and a noticeable boost can be obtained by using a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 (Northwood).

For reference, my upgraded SSB 2007 has a P4 2.8C (512KB L2, 800FSB), 512MB of RAM, a Geforce 7300GT, and a 120GB SSD. Startup times are short and the framerate never drops below 60.+
 
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