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
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
