dogcow Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 I have a max force that is intermittently freezing. I assume its a hard drive issue. I got a spare board/drive that supposedly is a different game but will work in the same cab however the board doesnt match and i cant figure where the connections hook up. i dont even know what game it is. here is the board any ideas? anyone have a manual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billnuts Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 intermittent freezing is 95% hard drive every time I had a gaunlet dark legacy, war, final assult, revolution X, and buck hunters all the same... hard drive.. got a replacement from ebay and back in business you can do you it yourself with norton ghost if the hard drive can be read but thats time consuming and you would still need to buy a blank hard drive. by the time you buy the drive get two hard drive cables, and norton ghost... just get one from ebay eventually it will lock up and the hard drive with just click click click its a easy $30.00 fix you can see if its the motherboard but the only issue is overheating feel the chips if they burn your finger..as in within 1 second thats the problem bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogcow Posted September 12, 2012 Author Share Posted September 12, 2012 ever tried these? worth it? http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAXIMUM-FORCE-COMPACT-FLASH-HARD-DRIVE-REPLACEMENT-KIT-/150511282301?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item230b2be87d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogcow Posted September 12, 2012 Author Share Posted September 12, 2012 well i definately need a new hdd now, damn thing fell over getting it off the truck now it doesnt work. monitor and marquee seems to come on tho but nothing else does. red light on the board comes on. i found out the other board is a site 4 supposedly works in the same cab i guess now i get to find out of that is true LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billnuts Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 the flash memory work too on some games the bootup was too fast and would cause errors but they would self correct but i think they worked out those bugs if you turn it on and all you hear when you get close to the hard drive is click click click or feel it and cant feel it spinning then its deadville bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrCorey Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 some drives are encypted thou. like Carnevil, and house of the dead, and some have a dongle on them so you cant copy the software. like big buck world. it runs on a dell pc and you get the drive image and a restore disc dvd set. and a dongle which has to go into a usb port. DDR gives you a disc too, but it's encrypted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogcow Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 some drives are encypted thou. like Carnevil, and house of the dead, and some have a dongle on them so you cant copy the software. like big buck world. it runs on a dell pc and you get the drive image and a restore disc dvd set. and a dongle which has to go into a usb port. DDR gives you a disc too, but it's encrypted. from what i've read u can just download the chm file that's used for MAME and write it to a hard drive using an imaging software and pop the drive right in the game. i dont have a spare hdd now so i am gonna try swapping out the board with site 4 and see what happens. hopefully the monitor isnt shot from the fall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrCorey Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 sudo-happ sells replacement drives for most games for around 200.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogcow Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 well its just a 1.5g IDE hard drive, u should be able to get one for 30 or 40 bucks max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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