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Title: Replace hard drive on AVP machine with 2.0 brain
Post by: Bill Hill on May 03, 2017, 01:41:56 PM

I have an IGT AVP machine with a 2.0 brain box running Da Vinci Diamonds.  I think that the current hard drive in the machine is bad.
 
I’m getting these messages:
• "No system launcher is found or determined system boot fails"
• "Can’t find hard drive"
 
I work in IT so I have access to another hard drive to replace the bad one. The good news is a have an eKey 7. I have two USB sticks labeled Da Vinci Diamonds and a license USB. 
 
Not sure how to remove the brain but I think that I can figure it out. I’m hoping that the hard drive I’m replacing is a standard computer hard drive. I’m asking you advice on how to reinstall the game on the new hard drive. 
 
These are my questions:
• Do I need to format the new hard drive and if I do what format would I use a FAT or FAT32
• In the AVP-How-To-Guide it talks about the “Write Enable Jumper”.  I think that it is attached to the brain currently.  Does that make sense that the jumper would still be enabled. 
• To install the software do I 1) insert the eKey 7 into the USB port on the brain 2) insert the two Da Vinci Diamonds USB sticks into the side board 3) insert the license USB into the side board
• Restart the machine

Title: Re: Replace hard drive on AVP machine with 2.0 brain
Post by: morspeed on May 09, 2017, 09:47:03 PM

I don't know how far you got but yes it is a normal HDD. I am not sure but when I try to start from scratch I always get an error that is "missing Library system .so" So something is amiss starting from scratch. I normally back up my HDD when I get them with an imaging software. Then you can load the image on a new drive and done. The jumper should not be in the brainbox while running. If it was you would get a red error screen at start up.  The only thing you need is to short the prongs where the jumper goes with something to enable. In later models it was changed to a switch.

Title: Re: Replace hard drive on AVP machine with 2.0 brain
Post by: Bill Hill on May 10, 2017, 11:23:54 AM

Thanks for responding.  The hard drive I used to replace the bad one was from a Windows machine.  At first I got the same "missing Library system .so" message.  I reformatted the drive to FAT32 which is the default format for a hard drive and the problem went away. 

Again thanks for responding. 

Title: Re: Replace hard drive on AVP machine with 2.0 brain
Post by: morspeed on May 10, 2017, 02:26:40 PM

Well that is good to know what it needs to be formatted to.