lifereboot
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Hey all,
I used my new DK upright daily for nearly 5 months with no audio problems. Recently, I was 30 minutes into a game when the audio started screeching popping and cracking. To correct the broken audio I ordered a Nintendo audio board cap kit but I botched the soldering job (stupid), so I bought another Nintendo audio board from a KLOV member to replace my broken one. When I swapped in the replacement audio board my DK worked 100% again...
...for only one week. The same thing with the screeching popping and cracking happened again yesterday, after about 20 minutes of gameplay.
This time, I was making a gameplay recording, so I actually got footage of the audio board as it failed. Here is the youtube link. You can watch the whole thing if you want to see my machine and stuff, but the link will take you to the stage where the audio fails: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hms4mFKIVLY&t=18m
I have a THIRD audio board in the mail coming to me, since replacing the audio board fixed the problem last time. What I'm concerned about is that something is causing these boards to fail and I'm not sure what.
Could it be just bad luck? The capacitors went in both boards, and there's nothing really wrong with my machine that's causing these boards to fail? Or is there something wrong in my cabinet that I should adjust before installing my third audio board once it arrives?
If you watch the video from the 18min mark, you'll see that towards the top of the level it screeches, and then the sounds that were previously working are missing. The "collecting points" noise that you get when jumping over a barrel or collecting a prize is gone. The noises for the story animations are gone. The only sounds that seem to remain are the DK "pounding" noise and the Jumpman walking noise.
Would appreciate your input. Thanks!
I used my new DK upright daily for nearly 5 months with no audio problems. Recently, I was 30 minutes into a game when the audio started screeching popping and cracking. To correct the broken audio I ordered a Nintendo audio board cap kit but I botched the soldering job (stupid), so I bought another Nintendo audio board from a KLOV member to replace my broken one. When I swapped in the replacement audio board my DK worked 100% again...
...for only one week. The same thing with the screeching popping and cracking happened again yesterday, after about 20 minutes of gameplay.
This time, I was making a gameplay recording, so I actually got footage of the audio board as it failed. Here is the youtube link. You can watch the whole thing if you want to see my machine and stuff, but the link will take you to the stage where the audio fails: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hms4mFKIVLY&t=18m
I have a THIRD audio board in the mail coming to me, since replacing the audio board fixed the problem last time. What I'm concerned about is that something is causing these boards to fail and I'm not sure what.
Could it be just bad luck? The capacitors went in both boards, and there's nothing really wrong with my machine that's causing these boards to fail? Or is there something wrong in my cabinet that I should adjust before installing my third audio board once it arrives?
If you watch the video from the 18min mark, you'll see that towards the top of the level it screeches, and then the sounds that were previously working are missing. The "collecting points" noise that you get when jumping over a barrel or collecting a prize is gone. The noises for the story animations are gone. The only sounds that seem to remain are the DK "pounding" noise and the Jumpman walking noise.
Would appreciate your input. Thanks!



