K7000 shutting off after on for about 30 mins??

parabolic

Well-known member
Joined
Sep 22, 2007
Messages
2,171
Reaction score
32
Location
Greer, South Carolina
Now I havent gotten too far into this as of yet, but I just picked up a game with a k7000 in it that has a beautiful pic and no issues whatsoever, but after sitting on for a while it will just shut off. I can restart it after 5-10 mins and its fine. Anyone experienced this off the top of your head?
I guess I can sit and wait for it to happen then check voltages and whatnot, I was just hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
Thanks!!
 
Sounds like bad traces/pads separating after heating up. You'll probably see some heat damage in the are behind the flyback, so start there...
 
what mod said. if you tap on the side of the cab (or the monitor frame) does the monitor come back on? I had that with the K7000 in my Street Fighter. I had a lot of stuff to reflow on the neckboard, I wound up doing the whole thing lol.

if the tube will just gradually fade out check the resistor along the side of the neckboard, that controls the heater circuit. check your neck socket, the video signal header.... there's probably a whole mess of stuff that needs to be reflowed. it's common on those.
 
I had a chassis that would do this, it ended up being a failing capacitor. Take a quick look at the chassis and see if any of them are bulging.
 
I had a chassis that would do this, it ended up being a failing capacitor. Take a quick look at the chassis and see if any of them are bulging.

another fine tip. yeah, if it hasn't been capped, do so. it's very easy on these. and the results are almost always dramatic improvements. :)
 
Had this problem with my gauntlet dark legacy (k7501) and it turned out to be a bad power supply. Replaced power supply and now no problems. The voltages all tested good too.
 
Had this problem with my gauntlet dark legacy (k7501) and it turned out to be a bad power supply. Replaced power supply and now no problems. The voltages all tested good too.

are you talking about the one on the chassis? cause the game power supply won't have anything to do with it. K7000 is a different monster anyway... requires an isolation transformer.

K7000 will have much simpler solutions. the unsolvable ones however are pretty difficult to track though, as evident by cadillacman's thread lol.
 
No. My game would shut off completely. I thought was all these things with the monitor or the hard drive or bunch of other things and it turned out to be the power supply.
 
Now I havent gotten too far into this as of yet, but I just picked up a game with a k7000 in it that has a beautiful pic and no issues whatsoever, but after sitting on for a while it will just shut off. I can restart it after 5-10 mins and its fine. Anyone experienced this off the top of your head?
I guess I can sit and wait for it to happen then check voltages and whatnot, I was just hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
Thanks!!

Does your game shut off completely, or just the monitor goes out?
 
Back
Top Bottom