David P
Member
I went to fire up my Ms Pac Man last night and it wouldn't do a thing. I looked in on the PCB and gave it a nice once-over to check for bad/blown components. I noted 2 things.
1. When I tapped the ribbon cable going to the secondary board, a couple of times the game "beeped".
2. The Yellow 104 Capacitor on the VRam addresser board looks like shit. LOL I just had that board off a few weeks ago to reflow some of the solder points and reseat the board. I didn't notice the cap then, but I wasn't necessarily looking either.
Ok so, could a bad cap on that board cause the issue? I no longer have my Pac Man game to swap the board (if it's on the Pac PCB, now I don't recall). Secondly, I see the cap says 104 "something", LOL as in 104 152, or 104 I5Z. I can't make out WHAT exactly that component is. Can someone clarify the part? I'd like to hopefully drop into Fry's to pick it up, as mail order would just be ridiculous for the stupid thing.
Thanks!
1. When I tapped the ribbon cable going to the secondary board, a couple of times the game "beeped".
2. The Yellow 104 Capacitor on the VRam addresser board looks like shit. LOL I just had that board off a few weeks ago to reflow some of the solder points and reseat the board. I didn't notice the cap then, but I wasn't necessarily looking either.
Ok so, could a bad cap on that board cause the issue? I no longer have my Pac Man game to swap the board (if it's on the Pac PCB, now I don't recall). Secondly, I see the cap says 104 "something", LOL as in 104 152, or 104 I5Z. I can't make out WHAT exactly that component is. Can someone clarify the part? I'd like to hopefully drop into Fry's to pick it up, as mail order would just be ridiculous for the stupid thing.
Thanks!

