Help 100% Urgent Tech Matter - Dedicab Hard Drive Corrupted

Rahzel · Trick Member Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Location: Urbana, IL

I attempted to install the r8 patch on our itg2 dedicab this morning. I've installed a patch on this machine before (specifically, r5 about 6 weeks ago) and everything went fine. However, this time, after I installed the update and pressed the green button to restart the machine, the machine attempts to boot, but after many screens of boot text, I get a msg that says something like:

Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable groove tty1

groove login:

It asks for my groove login for about two seconds, plays the reset.wav sound and restarts. The process seems to repeat indefinitely, though one time I was able to return to game mode and it had ERASED ALL SCORE AND BOOKKEEPING DATA ON THE HARD DRIVE. The machine had reverted back to r2, with factory default settings across the board. Needless to say, I'm flabbergasted. (I tried installing the r8 patch again and now I'm in an infinite loop or machine cycles).

Please respond or call me ASAP - if you happen to get this message this morning, the number at the Rec Room is 217-333-2415.

I await your response. Thanks!

Edit: I can reach the operators menu by pressing and holding the service button as the machine boots. I can edit the factory settings and such but when I exit the ops menu the software version is r2.
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Rahzel · Trick Member Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Location: Urbana, IL

Update: pressing and holding the service button during startup somehow fixed this problem. Our high scores are still gone.

Roxor, please respond to my Service Ticket and I'll give you more info about what happened. This was a pretty serious bug

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Rahzel · Trick Member Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Location: Urbana, IL

Update: I can't reboot the machine without pressing and holding the service button. Otherwise, I get that error again and the machine perpetually power cycles. Any ideas as to how this can be remedied?
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orb · Trick Member Joined: 20 Nov 2002

have you tried posting this on the roxor games forums?

edit - nevermind , i see you have

Rahzel · Trick Member Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Location: Urbana, IL

Update: the service button was sticky on and for some reason the safeguard for performing a factory reset (which happens when the service button is pressed and held during bootup) didn't work. I think that this feature needs a better safeguard, as our high scores are gone because of a sticky service button.
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Reven(G) · Trick Member Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Location: My House

mwuahahaha that is 1 less itg cabinet that i dont have to hate!!! LONG LIVE DDR!!!

EDIT: I REGERT NOTHING!!

ClassicSass · Basic Member Joined: 25 Dec 2005

You broke our machine!!?? I had to log into ddrfreak to see this!!??

Err.. wait. So is it fixed or what?
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arnoct · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject:

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Rahzel · Trick Member Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Location: Urbana, IL

I fixed it. The service button was sticky on, causing the machine to perform a factory reset every time the machine reboots.

I cleaned out the service button and no more problems.
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ClassicSass · Basic Member Joined: 25 Dec 2005

Nice job.

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Hellacious · Trick Member Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Location: Michigan

This is why you backup all the high scores to your usb stick from the machine every once in awhile. I mean if you have access to the service button then I am positive you have access to the test mode button which would allow you to copy your machine high scores over to your usb card. In which case if you had done this, you could have put the high scores back onto your machine from your last saved machine to usb card. So yeah, might want to look into doing that. I do it about once every 2 weeks or so.

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Armadillo King · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject:

Wait...you mean my Far East Normal marathon score of 81.31 from six months ago is no longer on the machine as the high score? NOOOOOOO!!

Oh well...at least now us lesser people can feel a sense of accomplishment as opposed to being "Out of Ranking" on everything now.

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Meh. I'll think of something to put here later.

J. S. Mill · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:17 am Post subject: