Missile Command Board Repair Desperately Needed

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Who is the best guy on here to help me fix this Atari board, long story short is I pulled the trigger with an ebay seller in Texas who tried fixing my original Missile Command PCB, after sending my original board back to David for the same video problem 3 times, seller sends me an email stating he can't figure out the problem and will send me a replacement board, replacement board received, worked great for few months then I lost all game sounds except for the 3 launch missile fire buttons, I can hear the my missiles launch, other than that no ship, no explosions, no other game sounds, same in test. I'm out $125 for the original service repair, plus $60 in UPS Ground shipping the board back and forth for the same repair. Any advice or direction is truly appreciated.
 
Swap out the pokey and see if that helps. I have the multigame installed in mine and it has a pokey test, not sure if the std board has that test or if its a function of the multigame. Check the manual and it should tell you.
 
Update, received an email from David in Texas asking me to send the board back to him for repair, to be fair I guess I should give the original repair source the benefit of trying to resolve my issue, seems like he is standing behind his work which I find refreshing in todays world.
 
I wouldn't go too hard on your repair guy. Unforunately arcade boards can be a PITA, some more so than others. I've had boards working here on the bench fine for a days at a time and then all the of the sudden they go down for no good reason.

I feel your frustration, hopefully the next repair will be your last for a long time.

Anthony
 
Sorry, I wasn't trying to comment on the repair guy (I don't know him), more so on the fact that some boards just don't want to stay working no matter what you do sometimes.

Anthony
 
MC is a PITA but you have to replace the ROM sockets for stability. After 30 years of squeezing the ROMs' legs the socket retention gets weaker and there are divots in the legs of the ICs. Cleaning and reseating the ICs helps but the chip will naturally seek sitting back into place where the divots are and the chances of an intermittent contact go way up.

MC also has the dreaded 4116 drams and they also are a failure point.

But the good news is once you get the board repaired and rock solid (and sometimes they need a second visit to the repair shop as a marginal chip decides to die after several hours of operation), they will stay that way for quite awhile.

Bill
 
My goal here was to find another skilled hobbyist to repair the sound problem on the board, after receiving this board as a replacement for my original I assumed that David in Texas would basically tell me I'm out of luck, out of warranty, the usual...in fact just the opposite, David welcomed the board back for repair of the sound issue at little or no cost to me. Now, having said that, my were not meant as negative feedback toward the original board guy, just a post seeking a second opinion on a new issue, basically I jumped the gun and came to a conclusion that David would not be interested in doing the repair. It's just been one of those frustrating scenarios starting with the original board having a video problem which after 4 attempts could not be traced, then the replacement board developing sound issues, David never charged me for all the attempts to fix the original board, all covered under his goodwill including the replacement board.
 
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