If you have a Bally/Williams pinball game from the '90s and it starts doing weird stuff that doesn't make any sense (like, say, repeatedly delivering balls or reporting errors which the testing diags show shouldn't exist)
...reseat the CPU on the main board.
...reseat the CPU on the main board.
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Sorry, too specific?
I love that sort of tinkering but I'm also kind of wrong in the head.
It is just... beautifully lit as it came from the factory and it should be kept all original.
But be aware the connectors in the backbox can overheat from the current
If I remember right the game drew ~160W from the wall with LEDs and it's drawing ~200W now after I swapped back to incandescent.
IT’S Y-2K !!!!
One of the Mars rovers used stock Motorola data radios. They just replaced all the connectors with soldered wires, and all the electrolytic capacitors with better types. And put it all in epoxy.
http://www.iki.rssi.ru/mpfmirror/rovercom/radio.html#:~:text=With%20the%20Motorola%20radio%20chosen,of%20shock%2C%20vibration%20and%20temperature.
Several of my vintage computers have all-new components, save for the ones designed by Jay Miner.
Also, I had an old CRT TV that to “fix it,” I’d whack on the side. Same era.
Fixed some of the weirdest issues with PCs this way.
From a GPU that was acting slow to a PC that wouldn't POST.
It's scary, and be careful of the pins, but don't condemn the board
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Make sure you don't put contact cleaner anywhere near solenoids, switches, sparky bits, etc., as it lingers and catches fire easily. D:
But there's one licensed game I need to get my hand on... you can probably guess what it is
1) Open palm slap it with your non-dominant hand.
2) Do a hard reboot. Then repeat #1.
"The Fascination of the real Ball Game"
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-die-faszination-des-echten-kugelspiels#t=0
Downloadable Talk from german Chaos Computer Congress #38C3 containing english subtitles.
Hope you like it!
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Or it could be something else entirely causing it. I don’t know.
It stopped, but then when I tried to play a game it was all messed up. Power cycling/factory reset did nothing - but reseat worked