I have one last ditch attempt idea then I don't know what else to do; I asked U of C Engineering School if they had a student that wanted to collab on an engineering project. They can X-Ray boards there and I need to see if any internal traces are severed on the GPU board (due to the board flex...
I was working with a dude who was RE'ing the boot sequencing in MAME debugger to try and get it to spit out some meaningful information about the error messages. More on an FPGA dev but ill touch base again
I hate Konami error codes. They truly mean nothing unless you MADE the board in Konami...
The board set ekorz sent does not have this issue. Heat sinks are all making solid mechanical contact to the IBM chips. That being said you can see the board flex. I have a feeling some internal traces are severed on the GPU board
Ive gone over every board closely looking for physical damage...
They are all sadly just large doorstops
I am dealing with E1 error which seems to mean "shit could be anything. Good luck kid"
Attempts so far: cleaned the ever loving hell out of every connector, rebuild the PCB from parts back to its stack and checked with a scope to see if there was any...