Not getting power to brain box

[marcbollinger]

Yup, I appreciate the help guys.


FWIW on the PCI card, the 3 top status leds are amber and the ones on the bottom are green.


I’m hoping I don’t need to replace the whole brain box... do you have any idea of trying to do a HDD swap might trigger this?

[Harvs]

Did you plug in the little 2 pin harness to the back of the PCI card?

And you will need to wipe the machine if swapping HDs, then pop an OS on it and then your games.

[marcbollinger]

Yeah, the green and black two pin wire is plugged into the card. Yeah, I know I need to do that, but can’t even get to diagnostics due to the signature error.


I was just curious if there was some security thing in place that would detect a drive swap and lock things up.

[Harvs]

Yeah, the green and black two pin wire is plugged into the card. Yeah, I know I need to do that, but can’t even get to diagnostics due to the signature error.


I was just curious if there was some security thing in place that would detect a drive swap and lock things up.

Nah, unless your PCI card took a sh!t, all should be working (if it was before all this). 

[marcbollinger]

Yeah, long story short, I was having issues with optics not registering system wide. Traced it down to a frayed ribbon cable (piece of s@it design). I suspect maybe the bad ribbon cable shorted something out on the card.


It’s always something with these.

[marcbollinger]

Just to update this thread, everything is working again, but what I did doesn’t really explain it.


All I did was unplug the green cable from signature card to bypass on the front cpu door. Boot it, it came up fine. Turned it off, plugged it back into signature card, booted. IGT Signature Not Found! Again..  power cycled one more time and it’s working flawlessly now.


Maybe the cable wasn’t seated properly, but who knows.