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Golden Tee Fore Complete
Question from Frank: I bought a Golden Tee Fore. I knew the trackball did not work. I thought maybe some cleaning would fix it or I could just replace it. The machine would come on and get to the point where you had to use the
trackball to select the number of players. So I unplugged the power and took off the trackball. I cleaned it and put it back on. Now it won’t boot up all the way and I get a scrambled screen. I did nothing but took the trackball off. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks, Frank
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Response from Jonathan: Frank,
From your pictures and description, it looks like you could be having either a power supply issue or a problem with your hard drive. We recommend starting of this repair by checking the voltages coming out of your switching power supply. The voltages on switching power supplies in Golden Tee cabinets tend to drift over time just because people are pretty rough with them. Try hooking up a multimeter and checking the DC voltages coming out of it. You might even try turning it up a little past +5 VDC to see if it helps. With that said, please keep the +5 VDC line under 5.2 VDC. Anything above that might damage the chips on the board.
If the voltages getting to the board are good then it’s possible that you could have a hard drive problem. In this case, it would be best to replace the hard drive with a compact flash kit as they are more reliable. You can get compact flash card kits for games such as Golden Tee Complete from Arcade Services. Here is a link to their page: http://www.arcade-service.com/parts/flash-cards/. If you already have the 2.09 Boot EEPROM then you can just order the compact flash card itself. Otherwise, make sure you get the 2.09 Boot EEPROM with your kit. Now, there is a small chance that you could have a controller fault on the board but this is pretty rare so hopefully just replacing the hard drive will fix the issue.
The last picture you sent is very interesting. It looks like the monitor is out of sync at the point when this picture was taken. Of course, it’s hard to know if this is caused by one of the issues we’ve listed above or if it’s a separate problem unto itself. In any case, if you do all the steps above and the monitor is still out of sync then you may want to check the sync wire that runs from your main board to your monitor chassis. It’s also a good idea at this point to touch up the solder on the pin where this wire connects to on the monitor chassis. Hopefully one of these two suggestions will fix the issue. If not, then you could have an issue with some parts on your chassis itself.
Hope that helps. Thank you for your question and good luck with your repair.
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