kennyboy
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I got a beautiful Berzerk yesterday that was shipped a considerable distance to me.
Upon turning it on for the first time, there was no vertical deflection and all I was getting was a single horizontal line in the center of the screen. The vertical deflection board on the monitor chassis was nearly completely unseated from vibration during the shipping, so reseating that board solved that problem and my Berzerk was working perfectly for a couple of hours.
Then, right in the middle of a game, the screen went dark.
Booting up now only gives 7 flashes/beeps, instead of 8, and the game does not boot.
The monitor is on and functioning, but nothing ever comes up on the screen. Switching DIP switch 9 ON, which is supposed to bring up a diagnostic screen and/or crosshatch pattern, and then reseting does indeed make the LED come on and stay on, and I can hear a change in the buzz of the monitor like the screen is showing a different image, but nothing actually shows on the screen. It's not completely off, there's just nothing but the glowing back background of a blank monitor image.
I just read back throuh every Berzerk related post on here I could find back to 2003.
Right before the game stopped working, I was playing a game and ran directly into a wall, which should have killed me, but the game acted like I had just exited the room and did the "chicken fight like a robot"' and scrolled to the next maze (which I thought was weird) and then died a few seconds later.
Is there anything obvious that pops in anyone's mind when it stops after the 7th beep?
I've read the 7th beep info in the PDF manual, but it hasn't helped.
I'm hoping someone on here knows of something obvious I should try.
Any advice from someone who's been here before would be greatly appreciated.
Upon turning it on for the first time, there was no vertical deflection and all I was getting was a single horizontal line in the center of the screen. The vertical deflection board on the monitor chassis was nearly completely unseated from vibration during the shipping, so reseating that board solved that problem and my Berzerk was working perfectly for a couple of hours.
Then, right in the middle of a game, the screen went dark.
Booting up now only gives 7 flashes/beeps, instead of 8, and the game does not boot.
The monitor is on and functioning, but nothing ever comes up on the screen. Switching DIP switch 9 ON, which is supposed to bring up a diagnostic screen and/or crosshatch pattern, and then reseting does indeed make the LED come on and stay on, and I can hear a change in the buzz of the monitor like the screen is showing a different image, but nothing actually shows on the screen. It's not completely off, there's just nothing but the glowing back background of a blank monitor image.
I just read back throuh every Berzerk related post on here I could find back to 2003.
Right before the game stopped working, I was playing a game and ran directly into a wall, which should have killed me, but the game acted like I had just exited the room and did the "chicken fight like a robot"' and scrolled to the next maze (which I thought was weird) and then died a few seconds later.
Is there anything obvious that pops in anyone's mind when it stops after the 7th beep?
I've read the 7th beep info in the PDF manual, but it hasn't helped.
I'm hoping someone on here knows of something obvious I should try.
Any advice from someone who's been here before would be greatly appreciated.
