Ms Pac PCB eBay fail - from a shady place in Cedar Park, TX 
I won a board on feebay for my Ms Pac #2, it was listed as missing one of the daughter boards and the ribbon cable, otherwise complete.
I wrote the seller, asking if they could provide more info, so I could better evaluate if it was just someone's trash or something saveable.. They replied that they had pulled the board to install a 48 in 1 in their machine..
I pulled the trigger and bought the board, it arrived yesterday, and sadly it does not work. I tried swapping multiple components off of another board that I have, but no luck. Up by the edge connector there has been alot of resoldering, and one of the traces on the back up by the connector has already been jumpered. An additional trace near the jumpered one has a rusty scratch across it, so I guess I have to try to jumper that one and see if it will come up.
I'm getting moving garbage on the screen, but it won't boot. I swapped out quite a few 2114's last night hoping to resolve the issue, tried swapping daughter boards, ROMs, everything. No improvement.
As I was concerned would probably be the case, it looks like I bought someone else's junk. I guess the whole reason I wanted to post this is, try to be considerate of the fact that who you're selling to might be another KLOVer (if in fact the seller is a member here - but I'm suspecting they are).
I won a board on feebay for my Ms Pac #2, it was listed as missing one of the daughter boards and the ribbon cable, otherwise complete.
I wrote the seller, asking if they could provide more info, so I could better evaluate if it was just someone's trash or something saveable.. They replied that they had pulled the board to install a 48 in 1 in their machine..
I pulled the trigger and bought the board, it arrived yesterday, and sadly it does not work. I tried swapping multiple components off of another board that I have, but no luck. Up by the edge connector there has been alot of resoldering, and one of the traces on the back up by the connector has already been jumpered. An additional trace near the jumpered one has a rusty scratch across it, so I guess I have to try to jumper that one and see if it will come up.
I'm getting moving garbage on the screen, but it won't boot. I swapped out quite a few 2114's last night hoping to resolve the issue, tried swapping daughter boards, ROMs, everything. No improvement.
As I was concerned would probably be the case, it looks like I bought someone else's junk. I guess the whole reason I wanted to post this is, try to be considerate of the fact that who you're selling to might be another KLOVer (if in fact the seller is a member here - but I'm suspecting they are).

