Gauntlet legends Purple screen

aboy1411

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Need Gauntlet Legends Help......

When I turn the game on the screen is purple. At the very bottom of the screen you can barely make out the the outline of the info pane for the players. But I cant tell if its just screen burn in. The sound does not come on.

I have checked the power and im getting right at 5 dc. So I don't think that is the problem.

LED 8 is not on, on the sound board. The manual says that means its locked up.

On the LCD until today it showed either a 6 or 8. It has always done a count up, and now it stops on 4. None of the led's on the pcu board light up.

I can hear the hard drive spinning when i put my ear up to it.

Im know there is some problem but im not sure what. I don't know if the pics will help. One of the pics I am holding a connector and I can't figure out what it goes to.

I have searched the threads and have not found this problem.
 

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I happen to have my game open tonight.

Give me another shot where you've pulled back a bit and can see the complete SIO board.

There should be a 4 connector power cable that plugs into the hard drive and plugs in just front of the heat sinks in the lower right corner of the board but I can't see that in your pics.

My cable is red, brown, brown, yellow though. Not sure that makes any real difference though.
 
The cable you are holding looks like a power cable for a hard drive.

Im pretty sure the hard drive is plugged in properly. The wire in question goes towards the front of the cabinet. I have found pics with it plugged in. My best guess is that it goes to part of the coin mechanism. There is a part of it I am missing. I just cant find the mate to the plug.

I talked to the guy who sales hard drives for GL on ebay for $25. He said he also sells video cards for $75 shipped and that he does work on them. I just want to try and figure out what is wrong with it before I start buying things.

I turned the last pic but it still loaded sideways.
 

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Im pretty sure the hard drive is plugged in properly. The wire in question goes towards the front of the cabinet. I have found pics with it plugged in. My best guess is that it goes to part of the coin mechanism. There is a part of it I am missing. I just cant find the mate to the plug.

I talked to the guy who sales hard drives for GL on ebay for $25. He said he also sells video cards for $75 shipped and that he does work on them. I just want to try and figure out what is wrong with it before I start buying things.

I turned the last pic but it still loaded sideways.

Error code 4 is not a video card problem. And you can get the video cards cheaper here from someone on KLOV (toplessz).

I can't recall what error code 4 means; let me look around a bit.
 
I'm a picture packrat; I happened to have saved 2 pics of my original power supply in my GL cabinet before I replaced it. I use the pics both to help with replacements (did that wire REALLY go there?) and for archival purposes so hopefully this will help out a little anyway.

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I don't see that color connector coming out of my power supply; I'm thinking that's probably not significant.
 

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I think your right that its insignificant. And I have read those threads too. I think mine is both the hard drive and the graphics card. I think im just gonna send it off. I think it can all be fixed for under a $100 which seems fair to me.

Thank you so much for your help and the pics! I found out myself why its good to keep the old pics. I had to dig mine up not to long ago for hooking a game back up.
 
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Dude, I really don't think it's your graphics card and hard drive.

For a bit over $100 you can probably get a new boardset.

But if you do send it off to be repaired, make sure they tell you what the '4' code was so that it can be added to the Borg Collective mind here. :)
 
Dude, I really don't think it's your graphics card and hard drive.

For a bit over $100 you can probably get a new boardset.

But if you do send it off to be repaired, make sure they tell you what the '4' code was so that it can be added to the Borg Collective mind here. :)
What do you think the problem is? It has only showed the 4 one time. It consistently shows the 6. Im a technical idiot.
 
What do you think the problem is? It has only showed the 4 one time. It consistently shows the 6. Im a technical idiot.

Oh, it's consistently flashes at 6? Then it probably is a hard drive error.

I thought it was consistently flashing at 4...

Mine too is acting a bit cranky at the moment and about 1 time out of 10 it won't boot up. Still waiting to catch the error code though.
 
Mine does not boot at all. But everything looks ok. But when i hit the S1 reset sometimes the lcd seems crazy. I got the game cheap enough its worth it to pay the dude.

The dude who sells the hard drives, this is his bio, "Mike Yosha (owner of Arcade Services) has over 20 years of Midway/Atari Factory repair experience and specializes in surface mount repair of Atari and Midway PCBs."

http://www.arcade-service.com/

Maybe he will give me the codes.
 
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Mine does not boot at all. But everything looks ok. But when i hit the S1 reset sometimes the lcd seems crazy. I got the game cheap enough its worth it to pay the dude.

The dude who sells the hard drives, this is his bio, "Mike Yosha (owner of Arcade Services) has over 20 years of Midway/Atari Factory repair experience and specializes in surface mount repair of Atari and Midway PCBs."

http://www.arcade-service.com/

Maybe he will give me the codes.

That would rock if he did. Even if you found out what '4' stood for that would be helpful.
 
Actually these are LED codes too but it's a 1 digit LED number display rather than individual LEDs that light.

And it is crazy.

I wonder if the info would be in the MAME code and could be extracted from there?
 
I had Mike repair one for me a few years ago. He couldn't actually fix it because the cpu was bad and it was proprietary so there are no replacements. He just sold me a replacement cpu pcb which is running my sportstation now (with an upgrade kit I purchased from him). He also repaired several other pcbs for me as well. I'd ask him if he'd worked on one before and he'd say no but let me take a look and they all came back working. He fixed my KI which was pretty cool.
 
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