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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #20 on: August 03, 2015, 06:43:37 AM »
I also just opened up the sysmax.exe file in Notepad ++ and on line 151 in the .exe it says "Critical Memory Error"

Dont know what to do with this information though


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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #21 on: August 03, 2015, 06:31:14 PM »
Not that this is helpful but you could write it back to the file so it reads "Have a nice day". It won't change the outcome but will be a bit more pleasant when it occurs.
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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #22 on: August 04, 2015, 07:29:54 AM »
Was hoping perhaps theres a way to decompile the sysmax.exe file and somehow skip the security check perhaps or at least let it proceed past the "Critical Memory Error" point in the exe

Running the sysmax.exe file through PEID identifies that it is a Visual Basic executable - so was compiled in VB.

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #23 on: August 04, 2015, 05:55:24 PM »
Actually I am in Australia. (PoKerKard79)

I searched the internet and found the person who programmed and designed this game in UK (Simon Jones), but they haven't answered my email,
I even found the new business that NOVA Productions previous owner operates and still no contact.
Everywhere I turn there are dead ends, it's like here is this product but if you want service help your not going to find it.
There must of been, USB sticks floating around that upgraded the system, or service sticks or DVD to help if the hard drives went faulty in operation.
How did people or companies fix these things, where are the service manuals and technical schematics ?
We don't want to mass manufacture them just fix what we bought.
In all my years as a tech I have never been in this situation, HELP

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #24 on: August 05, 2015, 12:53:36 AM »
I also tracked down Simon Jones on LinkedIn. I wasn't able to directly contact him though.

This is frustrating as all hell. I have this massive machine that is entirely useless to me right now.  :banghead:

Please let me know if you manage to get any feedback from Simon Jones. Failing which I guess we cross our fingers and toes that Spitfire can somehow find a way around this issue.

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #25 on: August 08, 2015, 11:12:41 PM »
This problem is eating me up inside, I want to know what the TC 65 Terminal by Siemens did, it's a serial to cellular unit, but mine has no sim card inside the unit ? Also I looked at the data inside the security key, I was also able to make a backup of the security key using Acronis to a normal USB stick and replace that for my key and the unit booted as usual to the critical memory error screen. wireless signal strength .I also made a backup of the hard drive using Acronis and that was successful but gave the same result as above.
This is what I found inside the key data:
Address.exe sysmax001001 08003894427 Halfway house Oldham sysmax 15/09/04
location.mig 222222 QLD 2 ( I am in Queensland Australia)
Address.mig 11462 Nova Nova 03/08/09 (the 11462 is my machines serial number)
The 2 folders Bigdeal and Top20 seem to contain the same data  - 2 files in each folder (names.exe - Nova) and (plays.exe 8C 00 32 A5 18 5A A5 A1 18 5A)
I have no idea what Data.bin ,mram.ini or bootex.log do.
Without the security key in it gives an error (searching for Security Module) plug in the original or my backup and it continues to load sysmax.exe and show the critical memory error, not sure why it always says wireless signal strength and shows about 1 bar, this never changes, even though I have tried to plug in a network cable, put a sim card in the Siemens TC 65 and put in a physical wireless card and hooked up to the internet, perhaps is has nothing to do with Signal strength at all.
I would like to get hold of a backup of someones working hard drive and security module just to examine between my setup, can anyone help please looking for a way to help myself and others with the same problem.
Anyway enough for a weekend, I have so many computers and video game consoles to fix.


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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2015, 10:54:39 AM »
If the program is failing on this executable and you believe its a security module that either passes or doesn't.... why not create an executable of the same name that does nothing. It would get called from the main body of the program, do nothing, return no error code and the program may continue as normal ?
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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2015, 04:00:04 PM »
I know nothing about programming as I am a hardware engineer not software

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #28 on: August 11, 2015, 02:06:47 AM »
In the same boat as you BossGp - also pulling out my hair trying to figure this one out. I've been through all the same steps as you with the same results. This is annoying as all hell. I will gladly upload the contents of my USB NOVA device to dropbox for you to compare. I will even upload the POKERKARD folder on the harddrive for you to compare if you want.

Anything, if it can help get this issue resolved for us both and anybody else with the same 'Critical Memory Error' issue

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #29 on: August 11, 2015, 02:11:40 AM »
That would be great, also looking for someone with
A working unit to do the same, Acronis does
A great job cloning the hdd and security key

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #30 on: August 11, 2015, 03:22:27 AM »
It wont work.

I found a working machine and cloned its USB dongle and Hard drive using Acronis. An exact copy. Same issue. "Critical Memory Error'

I'll upload it anyway - will let you know when its available

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #31 on: August 24, 2015, 06:09:06 AM »
Hello again Spitfire

Was wondering if theres been any progress on your side perhaps?

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #32 on: September 18, 2015, 08:04:38 AM »
Hi -

I recently picked up one of these and also am stuck at the missing card reader issue.  I haven't had much time to really investigate this problem, so any help would be appreciated.
I'm documenting my time with this game on my blog, link below...lots of pics and I can add most anything someone needs there.

I made a full CloneZilla image of the hard drive and zipped up the entire "C" drive as well.  They are both posted on my website, so hopefully linking here is OK. 
http://www.scottcking.com

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #33 on: September 21, 2015, 06:36:33 PM »
Thanks for your post, I have been struggling with my machine trying to make sense of it for ages,goes through boot process and then stuck on "critical memory error" and wifi signal low, no paper work available, service manuals or technical papers, as if the machines don't exist or were never made, even the original makers of these don't want to know about it. I have seen your page and it gives me hope though, downloaded software and willing to try anything, thanks so much I appreciate it.

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #34 on: September 21, 2015, 06:46:01 PM »
Post a good picture of the cpu board ,
maybe there's some clues there.
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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #35 on: September 21, 2015, 06:57:10 PM »
The computer part is fine, it looks like what the other poster RevisionX posted on his webpage, I am a hardware engineer and tested the computer parts first
to me it looks like software and dongle issue ? all other parts seem to work as usual, although not sure on the 3G router inside the cabinet there is no
sim card inside so not sure of it's function, everything else is ok

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #36 on: September 21, 2015, 09:31:35 PM »
Hi -

Glad the drive data and image might help out.  I'm a software developer with a QA background, and I'll try to do some more debugging later this week...to me some of these things just look like a lack of proper exception handling combined with uninformative error messages and poor documentation.  I have (2) complete PCs, plus 3 dongles, so I can do some mixing and matching to see if these errors actually change up and start identifying and documenting them.

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #37 on: September 22, 2015, 03:14:25 AM »
This is excellent news :)

I'm in the exact same boat as BossGP - "Critical Memory Error" shows up during trying to boot in to Windows XP. I'm convinced this is software and/or dongle related. Nice to have a software dev on it now :)

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #38 on: September 22, 2015, 07:38:24 PM »
Well from experimenting with RevisionX Pokerkard files I can confirm the problem is definitely to do with the software and Dongle relationship,
replaced his PokerKard folder in my computer and fired up no longer able to detect security module, copied my original one back still has searching for security module message, therefore there must be some relationship between these two items, my guess if you could stop the software inside the pokeKard folder from looking for the security module then it should start up without errors.So by playing with this I have removed the critical memory error but caused another problem, oh well it didn't work before and doesn't work now.

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Re: Big Tony's Pokerkard
« Reply #39 on: September 23, 2015, 12:56:43 AM »
Hi, I recently bought a pokerkard machine, it was sold as part of a liquidation stock and came without keys.

I've just finished drilling out the locks and found an engineers note saying "Machine will not connect to Novalink, took the PC out for repair". So unfortunately I have a pokerkard machine without a pc inside it. But on the bright side, I do have 3 Pokerkard cards, a dongle, a router and a nice big machine with a monitor & touchscreen that work.

Now, Nova Productions Ltd (The company that originally produced the Pokerkard) has a bit of a chequered history,  it seemed to often close down and reopen with a slightly different name.

So I am guessing that Nova have pulled the plug on their server in the UK which would mean that all Pokerkard machines in the UK that needed to connect to the Novalink server would fail. Does anyone in the UK have a machine working that has recently connected to the Novalink server?

It also might be the same across Europe because the GDTronics (the European distributor) website is down, which might mean that that company has gone bust too.

For me it isn't a problem, I can still use the unit. I'll just bung a shuttle PC in there and taking the art assets uploaded by RevisionX and building my own version of the game in my spare time for fun.

But does anyone know anything about the touchscreen in this machine? who the manufacturer is and if the Nova connector card is anything special or different to a standard parallel port card? I guess my first test will be to get a parallel port card and test that with my own system.
« Last Edit: September 27, 2015, 09:36:18 PM by GoutArtist »

 

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