Asteroids needs help! No video/sound

viewsonix

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Picked up an Asteroids and it has no video/sound. Power up the cab and you get the spot killer light on the back, plus the red LED on the PCB light up. The P1/P2 switches light up and blink at start up. If you coin it up, you can press P1 and only P1 lights up, and same with P2.

I'm guessing it's like 'half working' but no idea on this.

Where do I start on this? Please use simple commands because I'm half ready to ship the board out to someone to get it 'fixed/checked' since I have no tech skillz.



Thanks in advance.....
 
I just got one Friday and sounds like I had a similar issue. It worked at the seller's. Then after I got it home no video or sound. I unplugged the connector to the main board and plugged it back in and then it worked fine. The issue occurred again later when I was trouble shooting another issue and tried unplugging the main board and plugging it back in. I wound up basically painting a thin coat of solder onto the main board pins when it occurred the second time to tighten up the connector pins. Powered up fine after that.
 
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P.O. did a 'wiring fix' on this one, and soldered a black and a red wire directly to the pcb itself. Apparently there was connector burn or whatever on part of the pcb connector.

Anyone want to speak up about being able to fix Asteroids pcbs should pm me btw.
 
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