Manufacturer: Global VR
Year: 2003
Monitor: 32 Inch Unknown (will get more info)
Steering Wheel Glitch
I had an odd issue where on one of these when you started the game with the gas pedal the steering would stop working. If I unplugged the usb cable for the steering and plugged it back in it would start working again. Once the race was over if I started a game with the start button everything would work again. My other NFS GT cabinet did not have the issue and it turned out to be the USB card. I was plugging the USB cabled directly into the computer because I did not have a spare. This is what I ordered and the problem went away:
Leader light always on
For some reason on one of the machines the leader light was always on so I swapped a known working I/O card and the problem went away. Likely there is a short on the surface mount chip that controls that function however I have not had time to identify where that may be.
http://fabozzi.net/project/need-for-speed-gt-repair-history/
I bought two of these machines so this will be a running tally for both
Game Cost: $20
- Computers, I/O PCBs, Sound Amp Board, FFB PCB, Security Dongles, Graphics Cards, Ram, HDD, RAM, and USB Cards: $365
- System Recovery and Game Disks: $75
- Nvidia 6200 AGP Graphics Card: $18
- ATX Power Supply X2: $10
- PCI Sound card: $14 (Bought the wrong thing :-()
- USB Sound card: $15 (DOA waited too long to return :-()
- Abort button with light: $11
- GeForce 6200A AGP Video Card: $30
- Locks: $25
- SATA to IDE Adapter: $7
- LED Light: $9
- Bolts and wood: $50
- Bought another computer: $140
Total: $789
- Why is the leader light on one machine always on? (not a huge problem)
- Collect money on location!
CPU: Pentium 4 2.40Ghz
Motherboard One: DFI PS35-BL Socket 478
Motherboard Two: Intel D865GLC Socket 478
AGP Video Card Machine One: GeForce 6200
AGP Video Card Machine Two: GeForce6200A
RAM: DDR
OS: XP Embedded
Machine One Hard Drive: I used a SSD hard drive but there was a computer glitch were the machine ALWAYS had $1 as the credits. Put the old IDE hard drive in and problem was not on that drive.
Machine Two Hard Drive: SATA SSD 128GB (IDE-SATA adapter required at first to load xp then you can use the SATA on board)
Optical Drive: IDE DVD drive
System Restore Discs: Part# 050-0032-01
Game Restore Discs: Part# 050-0031-01
Alternate Hardware Possibilities (untested by me however mentioned by a GlobalVR tech)
Motherboard: 865 chipset and AC97 audio
AGP Video Cards: TI-4200-128, GEFORCE 5700, ASUS 6600 or 7600GS
PCI-E Video Cards: 7600GS, 9800GT, 450GTX