I had a friend bring his Global VR V3 multi game arcade machine to my route location. Before it was brought to my location it was working, but when it got to the location it didn’t want to boot. After messing with the machine for a year I finally figured out what it was.

When I would turn on the system I would get a missing or corrupt file of PCI.sys. No matter what I did on the computer it would return to this. We ended up contacting Global VR about this and they were no help in trying to figure out the problem. Their end result was to send in the computer to be worked on or to buy one of their system discs, which in turn meant that we needed to buy all of the game discs for the machine. We ended up doing that. The result? NOTHING.

I looked around online for solutions and had not come across anything. I ended up buying a new hard drive for the system thinking that was the problem, it was not. After formatting and writing to a new hard drive with the same results I deemed the machine broken. My last thing was to try to change out the ribbon cable going from the hard drive to the motherboard. After the replacement, the machine booted up correctly, and the game worked. Since doing this near the end of 2017 I have had to replace said ribbon cable once. I have a bunch of used Dell computers that I have parted out so I have a lot of these cables to spare for the machine. Hopefully this helps with someone’s problem!