school me on golden tee complete boardsets..

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OK heres the short version of this story:

- sell my boss a gt05. works perfect.
- boss decides to upgrade to complete.
- we find a local dude who works for it, sells us a "good" complete greenboard and drive.
- boardset problematic from the beginning, graphics issues cold but better hot. Very obious hot air rework reflowing done on this board.
- swap hard drive and same result.
- +5 verified good at 5.1 at all times.
-cleaned all edge connectors etc. this is not a simple fix.

After several calls he admitted the boardset is faulty but "i dont have another green one right now"
Hmm ok. Yeah let me pay you $400 and have nothing here lol f-that.....

- I take a red board, and swap out power supplies. Again OBIOUS hot air rework done to this board. This board works but has funny ghost yellow lines in all the greens. My boss decides he can live with this minor issue as long as the boardset keeps working otherwise.
-board works for a couple weeks and now keeps freezing and locking up with all kind of weired graphics issues. fan still works on graphics card.
- recheck +5, again, constant at 5.1 before and during game lockup. SOmetimes gameplay just locks up with good graphics, can hear birds chirping etc but no inputs work.

Basically i can can put his original board back in, all is well.

SO im to the point where i think this guy fucked up pretty good.

I still have his good green board. If it possible to swap a couple "complete specific" chips from the red board onto the green board we have and "make" a good working complete board? If so, which ones?
 
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I doubt you could swap chips from red to green or vice-versa but I really have no idea. My first step would be to swap the video cards on the two boards and see if that helps. The video freezing sounds like a video RAM issue.
 
ok now im really screwed i think..

so i reinstall his original gt05 boardset. I decide to try using the complete hard drive for gigs. Doesent boot just resets. Ok no big deal..

Put it all back togther all the original stuff, now it says checking filesystem like it used to but then flashing red says checking filesystem 1

wtf? never seen that before.
 
ok now im really screwed i think..

so i reinstall his original gt05 boardset. I decide to try using the complete hard drive for gigs. Doesent boot just resets. Ok no big deal..

Put it all back togther all the original stuff, now it says checking filesystem like it used to but then flashing red says checking filesystem 1

wtf? never seen that before.


It may have a few items to check if hard drives have been changed. I have seen this. Have you removed the video card, cleaned well with rubbing alcohol and make sure bot esn nuts are firmly tightened down. Also check on your boot chip version. Sometimes this makes a difference, but not too often. 6.0.1 iirc the software version on the hdd.
 
You can send the bad GT complete to IT and they will repair it.. (costly)

the chips that need to be changed to make one IT board into another are:
Xlilinx chip (208 pins) next to small 8 pin socketed chip (surface mounted, difficult to unsolder and transfer unless you are skilled at it and have the correct tools)
security chip
then you need the harddrive.

I have done it successfully. but it took patience and it wasnt pretty afterwards.
 
i was afraid of that... fyi the whole checking filesystem thing i guess trying the wrong hard drive made it do that, once i left the proper drive on it for awhile it booted up and now it is back to booting up normally.

the guy we got this from seems to think the video card will cure all of out ills with this redboard.

He says the greenboard video card will work on the redboard, but not vise-versa.

i still have that working green 05 board so were going to rob the video card from that and try again.

if that dont work, i dont know what we are going to do. Its sounding like hes not going to stand behind it even though this is the second boardset weve gotten from him that has obiouslty been repaired on and is having issues. This guy sells alot of these boards on ebay so i guess i will out him if i have to, id prefer it doesent come to that.
 
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ok all be damned. Installed the green video board from our working gt05 xtra board onto the gt complete redboard, all is well. graphics issues gone and game no longer locks up, freezes, or goes screwy.
 
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ok guys its all fixed. THe video card was aparently the issue with the complete boardset locking up and odd graphics etc... with the good greenboard video card its been all good.

Now i still have a good working 2005 xtra boardset and drive, but now no video card. I can have it but it isnt much good wihout a video card lol..

Has anyone used a standard pc video card on one of the fore series boards or is this really a golden tee specific piece? sure looks like a pc video card...

If you dont want to answer here for whatever reason feel free to pm.
 
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