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What is the common point to begin troubleshooting this problem:
I'm sure it all ties together so I'll list chain of events.
1- Sound was not working for a day. player 1 through 3 commas had a hazy glow on displays.
2- game was moved in back of truck
3- boards reseated, sound came back on. displays were perfect. assumed this was fix
4- been working fine, and not moved or bumped since.
5- starting about a week ago, when turned on you hear a loud hum that diminishes within seconds in a tapered volume way. hum like the sound when a speaker doesn't have input on an old stereo/turn table
6- today the game was left on for a few hours. played a couple games and noticed the black knight was missing some random words here and there in sentences. speech was fine other than occasional missed word every 5 or 6 phrases.
7- after a few hours, played a game and discovered no sound. also noticed the comma's were glowing hazy again on player 1 through 3
8- turned it off a few hours and tried again. game plays fine, no sound, commas glowing hazy
This almost sounds like a bad ground somewhere but the game hasn't been moved at all to jiggle anything like the board seating. Although on one game I did give it a gentle side to side bump to unstick a ball which caused a tilt.
This was a home use game with minimal playtime and has almost zero repairs on it over the years. so the connectors are perfect, uncorroded and untouched. I don't see any obvious problems anywhere.
Any ideas where to start troubleshooting?
I'm hoping the display comma's help ring a bell and tie in an obvious problem to the sound with one of the experts around here.
Thanks a bunch.
I'm sure it all ties together so I'll list chain of events.
1- Sound was not working for a day. player 1 through 3 commas had a hazy glow on displays.
2- game was moved in back of truck
3- boards reseated, sound came back on. displays were perfect. assumed this was fix
4- been working fine, and not moved or bumped since.
5- starting about a week ago, when turned on you hear a loud hum that diminishes within seconds in a tapered volume way. hum like the sound when a speaker doesn't have input on an old stereo/turn table
6- today the game was left on for a few hours. played a couple games and noticed the black knight was missing some random words here and there in sentences. speech was fine other than occasional missed word every 5 or 6 phrases.
7- after a few hours, played a game and discovered no sound. also noticed the comma's were glowing hazy again on player 1 through 3
8- turned it off a few hours and tried again. game plays fine, no sound, commas glowing hazy
This almost sounds like a bad ground somewhere but the game hasn't been moved at all to jiggle anything like the board seating. Although on one game I did give it a gentle side to side bump to unstick a ball which caused a tilt.
This was a home use game with minimal playtime and has almost zero repairs on it over the years. so the connectors are perfect, uncorroded and untouched. I don't see any obvious problems anywhere.
Any ideas where to start troubleshooting?
I'm hoping the display comma's help ring a bell and tie in an obvious problem to the sound with one of the experts around here.
Thanks a bunch.
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