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**Video Poker, Keno, Slots, 21** Gaming machines => IGT AVP (Including G20,G23) => Topic started by: bpracer on June 22, 2021, 03:17:31 PM
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I have an IGT AVP SMLD running a 3.0M CPU.
About every 5th or 6th boot I get a "No System Launcher Found or Determined System Boot Fail" error and the machine Fails to boot.
I cycle the power and the machine then boots and plays fine.
Has anyone seen this or have any idea where to start looking for the error?
Thanks!
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I would replace the hard drive/ssd to see if it fixes the issue. Or SATA/power cable if your ssd is not directly attached to the mpu's sata connectors.
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Did you ever find a solution to this? I had the same problem and now I get the message every time. The hard drive is a newer SSD drive.
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Going to be directly related to the SSD or HDD.
If its a HDD drive clone it over to a SSD. If its currently a SSD drive how big is it? I have noticed that larger drives (like the EVO 850 or 860) will sometimes do that but the smaller drives like this one
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0722XPTL6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0722XPTL6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) work fine.
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That is the exact hard drive I have in there bought right from Amazon. Problem started a month or 2 after installation. Maybe it's a dud.
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I worked on a friends trimline with an AVP 3.0 that would fail to boot every so often with the no system launcher found until it finally quit booting altogether. He had a pny ssd, i picked up a standalone hard drive duplicater and a sandisk ssd (slightly larger in gb) cloned it and put the sandisk ssd into his machine and he hasn't had a problem since. On one of my smld cabs the same thing, had a platter hard drive duplicated it to a sandisk ssd all good now, no missing system launcher, no more random restarts.
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Here's the drives i used, the duplicator ignores the additional space on the hardrive and writes the identical size of the drive you're clonning.
SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 530 MB/s - SDSSDA-240G-G26 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F9G43WU/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_DKE94HXPW4Q8XXREQ1G1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F9G43WU/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_DKE94HXPW4Q8XXREQ1G1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1)
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Did you ever find a solution to this? I had the same problem and now I get the message every time. The hard drive is a newer SSD drive.
As others have stated here, I also replaced the harddrive.
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New hard drive ordered. I will let you guys know. Thanks for the help
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Most likely hard drive but also check your 50 pin ribbon cable from backplane to I/o card in the brainbox. If not seated securely or not tight fit, worn out, can cause also cause that error especially from moving cables or jarring the doors
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I checked that cable, even replaced it with one I bought on here and still the same issue. I'm going to attempt to clone the hard drive tonight and hopefully that solves it. If not, I'll try to find a OS on here and start fresh.
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I can't confirm this, but I seem to get this problem occasionally if I haven't been using the machine much and the telltale battery loses it's charge. I've suspected it is caused by a telltale battery with a low charge because if I keep the machine on long enough for the battery to recharge it seems to start booting again. Again, just a theory, for what it's worth. The problem also goes away if I clear the cabinet memory.
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I attempted to clone the hard drive which took a couple hours. I put the new hard drive in and it was blank. So I reinstalled the old hard drive and it worked. I'm not sure if there's any issues with the SATA cable or if something loosened with jarring the door and I just missed it . Tomorrow I'm going to clear the cabinet memory and hopefully do a few trouble free restarts. But for now, I'm going to enjoy playing it and start looking for an OS.
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How did you clone your drive? The telltale battery will throw an error if discharged.
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Why would you want to Clear the cabinet memory on a perfectly good running machine?
That makes no sense.