Gorf Stopped working... this is a good one!!!

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While swapping out ROM boards on my Gorf ... it stopped working!!! I was pissed... I thought I had screwed something up... I essentially have 1.7 good board sets, the one that I'm running in the cab and another set that is partially working.

So I go about swapping out all of the known good boards and nothing....

Until I tried another cage ... I thought weird...

So I pull the "bad cage" out of the cab and pop all the boards out and low and behold... a friggin' eprom label had fallen off and fit nicely into the board edge connector socket!

DOH!!!

Moral of the story... Watch out for those dried up labels... you can't see them fall off especially in the bottom of the cab when you are popping boards in and out.
 
This is the kind of thing that can drive you nuts if you don't catch it...
 
This is the kind of thing that can drive you nuts if you don't catch it...

No kidding right?

To add insult to injury... I make it a point to rebuild the power supply of every game I get... this time I only replaced the caps, .156 headers and sockets... none of the regulators or power transistor...

I thought awe crap ... "the one time I don't replace everything gets me" but I checked and checked and re-checked the power supply... even with the o-scope... everything was good.

...so yes...it started to drive me nuts.
 
This is the kind of thing that can drive you nuts if you don't catch it...

ahhahaha i know thats right, probably something just a goofy is what wrong with my upkicker in my haunted house pin, its a real head scratcher cuz you can maually activate the relay, the board are good by swap, and known good board made no change, and the tune is played by the cpu signifying it hitting that upkicker hole. soooooooo, pretty strange! eprom issue? possibly, i doubt it but what else could it be! probably a stick inside the connector lolz!!!
 
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