Slam_Bradley
Active member
I picked up a Ms Pac cocktail from a fellow KLOV'r Tuesday. The night I brought it home, the machine worked well aside from it rebooting once within the span of about 3 hours (happened right after a level was cleared).
Then came Thanksgiving day and I plugged the machine up along with another machine for my visiting family to play. It looked like it started to come up as normal but then the screen went black and the number "2" and what looks like a white ghost with the letter "M" on it in the upper-right portion of the display. So, I unplugged it and then gently pressed on all the chips on the PCB. Plugged it back in, same thing. Turned it off again.. peered inside and scratched my head a while. Plugged it back in again. The game came up again! A couple of people played the game about an hour and it reset once but the game came back up.
About an hour later after everyone left, I got to play the machine some before turning it off. It resets on me before I even clear the first board, and goes right back to the black screen with the 2 and the white ghost. Today I've been in a bit of a turkey coma, so I've yet to plug it back up again much less break out the multimeter and start checking voltages. I just wanted to run this by you guys to see if someone recognizes this as something common. I'm thinking either a power issue or PCB issue.
Everything seems to be original aside from the nice Wells Gardner replacement monitor that was thrown in. Same old power supply, etc.
Then came Thanksgiving day and I plugged the machine up along with another machine for my visiting family to play. It looked like it started to come up as normal but then the screen went black and the number "2" and what looks like a white ghost with the letter "M" on it in the upper-right portion of the display. So, I unplugged it and then gently pressed on all the chips on the PCB. Plugged it back in, same thing. Turned it off again.. peered inside and scratched my head a while. Plugged it back in again. The game came up again! A couple of people played the game about an hour and it reset once but the game came back up.
About an hour later after everyone left, I got to play the machine some before turning it off. It resets on me before I even clear the first board, and goes right back to the black screen with the 2 and the white ghost. Today I've been in a bit of a turkey coma, so I've yet to plug it back up again much less break out the multimeter and start checking voltages. I just wanted to run this by you guys to see if someone recognizes this as something common. I'm thinking either a power issue or PCB issue.
Everything seems to be original aside from the nice Wells Gardner replacement monitor that was thrown in. Same old power supply, etc.



