Bought my first pin and the display broke is it replaceable?

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Bought my first pin and the display broke is it replaceable?

So I bought a southpark pinball game. I drove 3 hours to pick it up. I play it when i get to the location everything is fine. I throw it in the back of my suv. When i get home i plug it in and the dot display thing is all screwed up. Are these replaceable or fixable?? If someone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated
 
Dot Matrix display assemblies are replaceable by simply unbolting and unplugging the bad one and plugging in a new one. Be advised they are expensive though.
 
Check all the connections to the display and between the boards in the backbox before replacing the display... one could have come loose in transit.
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/Tim
 
Yeah that will work. I would go though Pinballlife.com first though. Again, check all your connections, there is a ribbon cable going to the display. Check its connections. Make sure it is properly aligned on the pins. Be careful with it though. Your display may be just fine.
 
So I bought a southpark pinball game. I drove 3 hours to pick it up. I play it when i get to the location everything is fine. I throw it in the back of my suv. When i get home i plug it in and the dot display thing is all screwed up. Are these replaceable or fixable?? If someone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated

define screwed up? if its missing lines an edge trace is broke and can be fixed. see guide on txpinball.com. if the display is showing some garbage either reset the cabling and or replace dmd cable/s. or if you have extra money buy a new display.
 
yes, definitely check the connections. when i brought my star wars home, the same thing happened (it flashed the manufacture date & ROM version over and over and over and over...that's all it would do).

i've also seen the ribbon cables get pinched and sort of develop a short depending upon how you put down the head. even if everything is reseated, jiggle that mofo a bit to see what happens.
 
Just the other day I was swapping power boards, powered back up and my display was showing garbage. Checked all my connections twice and still didn't notice that one connector was not plugged in properly, took me a while.

Hopefully it's that simple.
 
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