Journey Video Error

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Hello everyone!
My latest issue has been with Journey. It's been flaky in the past few months, starting with weird "feedback" sounds during the attraction mode. It would also occasionally freeze with garbage on the screen. Eventually, it simply wouldn't boot. Even though the power supply was rebuilt by the previous owner, I was still suspicious so I ended up buying a heavy duty amp and adapter from Arcade Shop. I finally got to installing it last night, and while I had it apart, I cleaned and reseated all of the socketed chips. I played it for a game last night and everything seemed fine.

This morning, I powered it up briefly and everything seemed okay. The interconnect cables are sketchy at best, and I got a set of the SCSI replacement cables when I purchased the game, but never installed them. I figured that it might not be a bad idea to do it while everything was still apart. I installed one, powered up, got a sound error and a flaky screen. Removed it, replaced it with the original one, and no longer had the sound error, but still had the video issue. I don't think the cable swap really had anything to do with the video error, but I mention it just for thoroughness' sake.

Here's a video of what I've got:


I really don't think this is a monitor error. I suppose it could still be the interconnect cables, but I'm wondering if it could also be any sort of RAM error? Any thoughts? Tanks for the input!

Derek
 
Well, just for closure. I ended up reflowing the solder on all of my header pins and replaced the interconnects with a Bob Roberts set and got it to work. In the process I burned two interconnects...one of my flaky originals because I misaligned it by a hole. The other one was a new replacement. The thing with Bob's is that they're wide, so you have to shave/Dremel the connector. Additionally, they have double rows, and even though I thought I had the top to top and the bottom row to bottom row connected, I somehow had them reversed. So if anyone has problems connecting them, try connecting them the other way.
 
Seems that the link to the video has changed. I thought I had this fixed, but it's still an ongoing issue. Sometimes, I don't even have a video screen...I shut it off, then it works with static and a rolling screen. Sometimes, it works perfectly, and then goes bad after an hour. I have all new interconnect cables, and the entire cab has new harnesses that were made just a few years ago. The monitor has been recapped, the cassette interface board has been completely rebuilt, and it's running off a switching power supply...I replaced the rebuilt linear power supply thinking that would help. CDJump did a board repair on this 2 years ago, for a different issue, but he never had this problem. Maybe bad caps on the SSIO board?


 
I had a similar issue w/ the Squawk n Talk in my EDOT.

I switched out pretty much all the socketed chips, no luck. I eventually sent it to cdjump, and he could not replicate the issue. He did replace the CPU socket and crystal because it did lock up on him once. When I got it back it worked and has been fine since. Doesn't help you much since Journey doesn't have this board, but maybe look at one of the others.
 
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