Recent content by GoIllini34

I check my local craigslist for stuff pretty regularly and I found a lady listing a bunch of arcade games. I don't know if the prices are decent or not, but it's worth a look. I just use "dart" as my search word, but I'm sure "arcade" would work too...thought I'd pass this along!

Well, I opened the power supply and the fuse is blown - however, it is soldered onto two posts. I'll have to take it out and put a new one in and hopefully that's the reason why this thing isn't working.

Is that the technical term? I will check it out tonight - keep your fingers crossed for just a fuse! As for soldering, I'll let someone with experience take care of that. Thanks for the advice!

No sound, no game lights, no nothing...just the marquee light. So if the fuse in the power supply is blown, then there is potentially more damage than just the fuse? I read the links that ken posted - very informative - but I am going to wait for my brother to come by (he has an MMU) and check...

are there other fuses that I'm missing? The only one I can find is the one on the rear of the cabinet near the switch. Is there another place I should be looking for a bad fuse? I would LOVE if it were just a fuse to replace...

I don't know if these photos will show anything - but maybe you'll see something that I'm missing. main board: monitor board:

I'll be able to do that tonight when I get back home from work. Yesterday was spent with my mom and my fiancee's mom as well as a grad school paper. I have the manual, but I'm sure that does you no good to see what I can see. I'll take some pictures and load them up early this evening. Thanks!

Thanks for the link - that should definitely help. Although, I'm seriously contemplating calling in someone who routinely works on these things, because I may be in way over my head. Not like I couldn't eventually figure it out, but I want to play it again this year!

No, I have no idea what a multi-meter is, although I'm guessing it's some sort of electronic diagnostic tool that let's you know what parts are working/not working or something like that? The main board "looks" fine, but fine to me could mean completely screwed up to anyone with a knowledge of...

no, no sound our anything. It's just dead when I try to "coin it up" as you say. So the 9" monitor could be the problem and is not allowing the rest of the machine to work?

I have the manual, but I don't understand all the schematics. There was a fuse in the back, but would there be fuses in the power supply? I'm guessing the power supply is the grey box with 120V stamped on it? also, there was some black fuzzy/dusty stuff near the monitor connections, could that...

Ok, so I left my dart board plugged in and went tooling around the house. When I went back into the garage, the screen on the dart board was off, but the overhead light was still on. There was a slight "burning" smell coming from the inside of it. I opened it up and didn't see much of anything...