Area 51

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I just bought an area 51 arcade game. Every thing seems to work fine except today I turned it on and it started doin some auto self test thing for about 10-15 min. I think it said cojack at he top. Does any body know if this is normal, if so how often would it do this i have pluged it in and turned it on and off about 3 time max before this happed.

Another problem is that after playing it for about 20 min it started freezing every so often. as little as 5 sec, and as long as 4-5 min. the audio plays like a broken record. one time it froze as one of the S.T.A.A.R guys was saying something and it repeated for a few min. the video pauses. Any ideas on what this could be
 
Sounds like the hard drive could be failing, or overheating. Since it is locking up I would say its probably a hard drive issue.
 
think i figured it out

friend of the guy i bought it from told me to check a switch on the circuit board that puts it in to self test mode. said it might be stuck in between causing it to go in and out of self test mode, possibly causing freeze problem. it was in the on position. hoepully that was the only problem i'll have with it for a while. maybe this helps someone else too.
 
The harddrives and chips for that game are really sensitive to over and under voltages, so you should make sure you ahve a good power supply. Also the harddrives are getting old and might be going bad. If its a plain Area51 without the max force, and its a dual layer PCB, you should buy my upgrade kit that will convert it into Area51 and Max Force so you will have both games! LOL.... 80.00 shipped for entire kit with Compact Flash Harddrive or 65.00 shipped for the kit with normal harddrive..
 
^^^^^^^ top sells some good kits!!

id make sure you have about 5.2 volts at theedge connector, any higher or lower will pissthose boards off for sure,if voltages are good i agree with topless, its probhably a hard drive issue, especially if you handled it roughly duringmoving it.(whenever i move a game with hd, i take the hd out!!!)
 
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