Hope everyone is surviving the hurricanes everywhere. For those of still fortunate to be at this, I hope I have an easy one.
I have a Galaga standup that I just bought two days ago. Seems not to have been tampered with much. When I dragged it home and powered it on for the first time I got a solid blue screen (with no self test). Checked +5 voltage, all good. Plugged it in a few times while reseating various plugs between the board and the monitor. Something did the trick and I thought I was in the clear. However, after unplugging it four or five times and then plugging it back in, it has repeated the problem at least three times. The back of the cab has an interlock and I've not had enough hands to hold it and move things around and see what's happening on the screen but twice I simply unplugged the harness cleaned the edge connectors with an eraser, and plugged the harness back it and it has then booted properly. I can't imagine that cleaning it again is actually doing anything. A pic of the screen is attached. That's what it did on each occasion.
Also, an unrelated problem. I've been forced to unplug it because the power switch on the top of the cabinet doesn't seem to function. The switch looks to be a momentary plunger switch with only about an 1/8 inch of travel. (Until I looked through the manual, I assumed it was a volume switch). I don't see how this thing could possibly control the circuit. I've attached a pic from above and below. Is this the proper switch? It doesn't appear that it is loose or have any way to add additional travel and pushing it does nothing.
I have a switch that functions that way on the side of a Lethal Enforcer cab and would love to have it function so that the cord isn't being handled daily. No way I'm leaving a 40 year old machine plugged in until I know it won't burn the house down.
I have a Galaga standup that I just bought two days ago. Seems not to have been tampered with much. When I dragged it home and powered it on for the first time I got a solid blue screen (with no self test). Checked +5 voltage, all good. Plugged it in a few times while reseating various plugs between the board and the monitor. Something did the trick and I thought I was in the clear. However, after unplugging it four or five times and then plugging it back in, it has repeated the problem at least three times. The back of the cab has an interlock and I've not had enough hands to hold it and move things around and see what's happening on the screen but twice I simply unplugged the harness cleaned the edge connectors with an eraser, and plugged the harness back it and it has then booted properly. I can't imagine that cleaning it again is actually doing anything. A pic of the screen is attached. That's what it did on each occasion.
Also, an unrelated problem. I've been forced to unplug it because the power switch on the top of the cabinet doesn't seem to function. The switch looks to be a momentary plunger switch with only about an 1/8 inch of travel. (Until I looked through the manual, I assumed it was a volume switch). I don't see how this thing could possibly control the circuit. I've attached a pic from above and below. Is this the proper switch? It doesn't appear that it is loose or have any way to add additional travel and pushing it does nothing.
I have a switch that functions that way on the side of a Lethal Enforcer cab and would love to have it function so that the cord isn't being handled daily. No way I'm leaving a 40 year old machine plugged in until I know it won't burn the house down.
