Hello to all.
Let me tell you about my buddy Gorgar. He has been with me for 20 years and played perfect for the first 12 years until he started getting sick. I shut him down and pulled his batteries 7 or 8 years back figuring when there was a point in my broke arse pay to pay life that I may have a glimmer of hope to once again hear his heartbeat. I'm still stuck in my pay to pay existence but got tired of seeing him dark and silent.
I know he needs a new master display (ball and match are blank which keeps me from setting it up but I was happy where it was).and I was told it wouldn't affect him internally. I was told over ten years back I could bring in my old master display as an exchange and take a good one home for 60 bucks.
About 8 years back we were playing him and the free game knocker solenoid froze and started smoking so I shut him down immediately. A couple of months went by and I figured I would fire him up. The knocker solenoid wasn't doing anything strange so I played a round. NOTHING seemed right, the sounds were not matching the actions, his heartbeat would race and carry on to the next player instead of resetting to a slow beat again. This was when I put him to sleep.
I assumed when I woke him up again all these years later that he would at least be in the same state, playable but off kilter. Nope, all he does is sit, lights on (not flashing) with 1496 1 (and the 1 will flicker back and forth and end up on 1496 3). I have checked for corrosion on or around the terminals, none, that whole board looks perfect, batteries are fresh and installed correctly. I followed some tips given to me when I introduced myself and no matter what I do I can't even get him into attract mode let alone play mode. After doing the open door off on hoe down a few times the closest I got to attract mode was him acting like he was scoring a last ball or something. Solenoids would reset, he would spit the ball out and very very very faintly (volume is turned up) I can hear him counting down bonus points with the lights matching and player one in the 800 thousands. Then all of a sudden, right back to lights only with all 4 four players slowly accumulating points.
Most of the time it's 1496 1(3) though.
While I was messing around I noticed the driver board has 100% issues, perhaps this is messing around with his brain and may explain symptoms above that may not end up being battery or memory protect issues?
My guess this has something to do with my knocker solenoid and may very well cause issues that I described above, but who am I to judge? I am mechanically inclined, fix my cars, lawnmowers or whatnot, a household handyman but when it comes to electronic repair I am so very lost and would NEVER even attempt to solder a computer board nor would I even know where to begin testing and with what to test with and what it all means. LoL
I have no problems removing the boards, replacing this, replacing that but I don't do circuit boards. Here are a couple pics showing the more than obvious. I'm sure you guys will know what that particular rom thingy does and what it may interfere with, any help would be greatly appreciated keeping in mind my eyes may glaze over and roll to the back of my head if you start to tech me out too much. ;c)
If there is anyone local (Lake Simcoe, Barrie, gta, Bradford) that may have a spare functioning driver board and could make me some sort of exchange plus cash sort of deal it would sure save me some heartache knowing that this board at least won't be an issue. This would allow me to fire him up, cross my fingers and go from there.
Let me tell you about my buddy Gorgar. He has been with me for 20 years and played perfect for the first 12 years until he started getting sick. I shut him down and pulled his batteries 7 or 8 years back figuring when there was a point in my broke arse pay to pay life that I may have a glimmer of hope to once again hear his heartbeat. I'm still stuck in my pay to pay existence but got tired of seeing him dark and silent.
I know he needs a new master display (ball and match are blank which keeps me from setting it up but I was happy where it was).and I was told it wouldn't affect him internally. I was told over ten years back I could bring in my old master display as an exchange and take a good one home for 60 bucks.
About 8 years back we were playing him and the free game knocker solenoid froze and started smoking so I shut him down immediately. A couple of months went by and I figured I would fire him up. The knocker solenoid wasn't doing anything strange so I played a round. NOTHING seemed right, the sounds were not matching the actions, his heartbeat would race and carry on to the next player instead of resetting to a slow beat again. This was when I put him to sleep.
I assumed when I woke him up again all these years later that he would at least be in the same state, playable but off kilter. Nope, all he does is sit, lights on (not flashing) with 1496 1 (and the 1 will flicker back and forth and end up on 1496 3). I have checked for corrosion on or around the terminals, none, that whole board looks perfect, batteries are fresh and installed correctly. I followed some tips given to me when I introduced myself and no matter what I do I can't even get him into attract mode let alone play mode. After doing the open door off on hoe down a few times the closest I got to attract mode was him acting like he was scoring a last ball or something. Solenoids would reset, he would spit the ball out and very very very faintly (volume is turned up) I can hear him counting down bonus points with the lights matching and player one in the 800 thousands. Then all of a sudden, right back to lights only with all 4 four players slowly accumulating points.
Most of the time it's 1496 1(3) though.
While I was messing around I noticed the driver board has 100% issues, perhaps this is messing around with his brain and may explain symptoms above that may not end up being battery or memory protect issues?
My guess this has something to do with my knocker solenoid and may very well cause issues that I described above, but who am I to judge? I am mechanically inclined, fix my cars, lawnmowers or whatnot, a household handyman but when it comes to electronic repair I am so very lost and would NEVER even attempt to solder a computer board nor would I even know where to begin testing and with what to test with and what it all means. LoL
I have no problems removing the boards, replacing this, replacing that but I don't do circuit boards. Here are a couple pics showing the more than obvious. I'm sure you guys will know what that particular rom thingy does and what it may interfere with, any help would be greatly appreciated keeping in mind my eyes may glaze over and roll to the back of my head if you start to tech me out too much. ;c)
If there is anyone local (Lake Simcoe, Barrie, gta, Bradford) that may have a spare functioning driver board and could make me some sort of exchange plus cash sort of deal it would sure save me some heartache knowing that this board at least won't be an issue. This would allow me to fire him up, cross my fingers and go from there.
