How Common are Ram Errors in Atari Game PCBs?

time4akshun

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Hey All,

So I am an old school collector who never really got into the PCB repair part of this hobby and who's wants to do a bit more here now that I am back into the hobby. I just picked up a really nice Millipede conversion (believe it was Kangaroo underneath). I tested the game at the sellers location, bought it, loaded it, and got home to experience gameplay resetting.

Messed around a bit with the edge connector and now I have getting 2 beeps with a space in between which I believe means the 2E/E2 RAM chip is bad.

So two questions:

1 - Is this a totally common Atari PCB issue? I seem to remember the same from an old Millipede I had...

2 - Should I stock up on RAM chips to deal with this in the future or is this a one time fix?

Thanks all

Gil
 
RAM going bad is somewhat common on all classic era games. Regarding stocking up.....well, there's a ton of different RAM used throughout these old games.

Edward
 
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