Blitz 2000 Gold Reboots..and reboots..and...

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I have a Blitz 2000 Gold Seattle pcb
I have a brand new Blitz 2000 hard drive (bought off ebay)

I plug in the drive, dip switches are correct, turn on the machine.

P.O.S.T. comes up, everything green! HD checks out, all parts of the PCB check out.

Screen goes black....flashes some colors

Reboot.

P.O.S.T. comes up, everything green! HD checks out, all parts of the PCB check out.

Screen goes black....flashes some colors

Reboot.

The Seattle has LEDs instead of a number, and the flashes are not very telling.

I've searched the forums, nothing like this to be found. Do I have a bad boot chip?

Does anyone have any for sale?

Thanks much in advance!
 
does your boot rom match the version of HDD? contact the guy you bought the HDD from to see if he has the correct boot rom. I hope you did not buy a used or unknown hdd. Assume that anything other than new drive is bad.
 
thanks for the tip!

I'm not sure what version boot rom it is, the sticker is gone. Is there another way to tell?

When I bought the pcb and drive, the guy said it was version 1.5. The hard drive that was sent with it was dead. I bought a new version 1.5, and it's checking out green...

I tried turning on dips 7 and 8 on the U8 to force it into test mode, but it still didn't get past the HD test screen.
 
thanks for the tip!

I'm not sure what version boot rom it is, the sticker is gone. Is there another way to tell?

When I bought the pcb and drive, the guy said it was version 1.5. The hard drive that was sent with it was dead. I bought a new version 1.5, and it's checking out green...

I tried turning on dips 7 and 8 on the U8 to force it into test mode, but it still didn't get past the HD test screen.

I have a GOOD Blitz 2000 Gold drive, perhaps I could try copying it to a known working comp hard drive you got laying around. I think it has to be greater than 4 gb. unless you wanna take the pepsi challenge and download a MAME image.

is this what you called me about the other day? sorry for not getting back.
 
Check your voltages on the board. These boards are notorious for increased resistance @ the JAMMA connector due to heat. Check the voltages, if they're low clean the edge and socket connector and check again.
 
I have a GOOD Blitz 2000 Gold drive, perhaps I could try copying it to a known working comp hard drive you got laying around. I think it has to be greater than 4 gb. unless you wanna take the pepsi challenge and download a MAME image.

is this what you called me about the other day? sorry for not getting back.

Thanks for the offer man, but I already went out and bought a good HD on ebay :( I'd be willing to swap boards tho! lol

and yes, I did take the Pepsi Challenge, downloaded the image for MAME, and CHDMAN.exe wouldn't extract or copy it to my hard drive. I kept getting an "Invalid File Version" message. I actually tried 2 different downloads, and neither worked.

And no, I didn't call..musta been someone else?
 
Check your voltages on the board. These boards are notorious for increased resistance @ the JAMMA connector due to heat. Check the voltages, if they're low clean the edge and socket connector and check again.


Thanks a ton1 I will definitely do that when I get back home. The board was a little dusty, and it's an old cab (NBA Jam originally) to boot. Spent several years up in Canada.

I should be primary concerned with the +5?
 
If you end up needing parts I have all of the boot eproms, security chips, harddrives needed for this game, and others for the Seattle boardset.
 
Check your voltages on the board. These boards are notorious for increased resistance @ the JAMMA connector due to heat. Check the voltages, if they're low clean the edge and socket connector and check again.

I know it's Vegas, not Seattle, but funny story about a Road Burners we picked up. the game ran at about 4.85~V for almost a year. and the hard drive was plugged into the board, not the power supply for power. :)

it finally errored once, gave me some nonsense about "strike 3 times, you're out!" or something funny like that.


CHDMan, I'm not like Master II at operating it, but I was able to make a copy of my Road Burners hard drive with it (thought that was the problem I had above before breaking out the meter..) by following the directions step by step. I think I got my info from www.revisionx.com cause I've been there about 2385235 times for Killer Instinct drive information.

am I correct in understanding that every game after KI and KI2 that ran off a hard drive DOES NOT have security requiring that exact same model drive? cause I see Happ sells replacement 20 gb drives blank (and massively overpriced, I might add). if that's the case, I imagine you could theoretically just go the CF route, and not have to worry about this sort of thing for awhile. :)
 
If you end up needing parts I have all of the boot eproms, security chips, harddrives needed for this game, and others for the Seattle boardset.

Will do..but does it sound like a bad boot eprom?

arcademojo on ebay is a great guy to get HD's for this game from.

Actually yeah, that's where I got it. Very reasonable price.
 
Home environment?

commercial. on an average of about 8 hours a day. (if you include the winter months) it's in my family's arcade. bought about 60 games as part of a liquidation lot last year.

game never exhibited any strange behavior until one night I was playing SFA3 and saw the game reboot itself, and then it had a complex error message screen. so I copied the hard drive to a .chd image, and then for fun, I metered the power supply when I went to reinstall it. it was one of the few games that worked and didn't require me to fix anything but the vertical linearity on the monitor. :)

I contribute my useless knowledge from my 'travels' the last year, because I know what GARBAGE games can do, and all the various tricks of the trade to correct the problems. on a budget, no less.
 
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