Mario Bros Power up Trouble

Phetishboy

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I have a switcher in this machine. I have the switcher set at 5.01 V at the screw terminals. Every time I turn the machine on, it won't boot right away, instead I get a white screen. 1-10 minutes later, it will boot up. Now I recently noticed that the coin door lights are dark until it boots up as well. I started fiddling with the bulbs in the sockets, and started getting funny sounds, resets on the board, dimming marquee light, etc. Now if I push on the first bulb in the daisy chain, the game will boot right up, but now the second socket won't light up, even though the bulb is good. Both sockets measure 4.89V. WTF is going on? Electrical short, 5V being overtaxed by the bulbs? Should I try the -5V line for the bulbs, or will that screw up the audio?
 
Thanks, you've been very helpful. Now maybe you can help me fix my Popeye. I installed the HSS kit, set the dips to freeplay, and everything seemed fine. For about 5 minutes. Then the screen went white, and stayed that way for 3 hours. I tried powering it on and off in that time but it never booted up again. Turned it off. Left for 4 hours, came home, powered it up and the game came right on. Started a game, played about 3 minutes, then the same thing. Garbage shows up on the screen for a brief second and then the screen goes white. No game, no sound, just a white screen. I tried booting to test mode, unplugging the power connectors and edge connector, nothing. It did this once in a while before the HSS kit was installed, but would usually right itself, boot back up and stay booted for several hours. This time, it stayed unbooted for several hours. Is my power supply going bad? I have the original Popeye PSU in this machine.
 
Thanks, you've been very helpful. Now maybe you can help me fix my Popeye. I installed the HSS kit, set the dips to freeplay, and everything seemed fine. For about 5 minutes. Then the screen went white, and stayed that way for 3 hours. I tried powering it on and off in that time but it never booted up again. Turned it off. Left for 4 hours, came home, powered it up and the game came right on. Started a game, played about 3 minutes, then the same thing. Garbage shows up on the screen for a brief second and then the screen goes white. No game, no sound, just a white screen. I tried booting to test mode, unplugging the power connectors and edge connector, nothing. It did this once in a while before the HSS kit was installed, but would usually right itself, boot back up and stay booted for several hours. This time, it stayed unbooted for several hours. Is my power supply going bad? I have the original Popeye PSU in this machine.

I am happy to say that this problem has been licked. I bought a different power supply from Oregonarcade and the white screen is no more. Now, does anyone rebuild the Popeye PSU's? Looks like a pretty simple set-up. Still needing to figure out the Mario Bros issue, but even that seems to only be a minor inconvenience now that old Popeye stays running without issue.
 
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