Mysterious, mind boggling, unsolvable Arcade Legends Computer Problem, U Can Fix????

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I have an Arcade Legends 2 arcade game, this sucker works perfect for about an hour, but if you leave it in attract mode, when it gets to Street Fighter II (not always, but usually) it freezes. If you let it sit there for awhile, it will eventually lose sync. If you hit the buttons, etc. nothing will do anything. Reset the game, and it immediately works fine.

If you power up the game, and move over to Street Fighter II, or the games before Street Fighter II, it shows the attract just fine. It's only after you let it just do it's thing for an hour or so, it'll hang and almost always on the Street Fighter II artwork.

you can play Street Fighter II just fine. You can play it for 6 hours.... but if you let it go through attract for about an hour, the thing hangs up.

Replaced the power supply. Didn't fix it
Replaced the hard drive with a nice hacked one with more games even...... Didn't fix it
Replaced some of the motherboard caps.... Didn't fix it.

Explain.
 
I know nothing of these, but searching the forums show mentions of potential drive failure.

example of a thread regarding Arcade Legends 1:

*EDIT* scratch that, missed the part where you said you replaced the drive
 
I have an Arcade Legends 2 arcade game, this sucker works perfect for about an hour, but if you leave it in attract mode, when it gets to Street Fighter II (not always, but usually) it freezes. If you let it sit there for awhile, it will eventually lose sync. If you hit the buttons, etc. nothing will do anything. Reset the game, and it immediately works fine.

If you power up the game, and move over to Street Fighter II, or the games before Street Fighter II, it shows the attract just fine. It's only after you let it just do it's thing for an hour or so, it'll hang and almost always on the Street Fighter II artwork.

you can play Street Fighter II just fine. You can play it for 6 hours.... but if you let it go through attract for about an hour, the thing hangs up.

Replaced the power supply. Didn't fix it
Replaced the hard drive with a nice hacked one with more games even...... Didn't fix it
Replaced some of the motherboard caps.... Didn't fix it.

Explain.
Have you tried running the system diagnostics?

Where did you get the new drive?

It sure sounds like a bad drive sector or read-write error, which causes a lock up.
 
Definitely not the hard drive, I have two different hard drives with completely different images from two different places, and the one I bought to replace it with was tested and working by a very reputable source.
 
Couldn't find much on the hardware other than this service procedures bulletin mentioning it being an off the shelf Pentium 3. If you know the hard drive is good I'd run through checking the other components. Those symptoms sound more like a memory issue/leak to me, especially since you're saying it'll load the data just fine but hangs if it's been running awhile. If you can't test memory and it's got two sticks, hell I'd pull one and see if it crashes, then swap sticks and try again. If it's definitely a PC I'd see if you can run full system diagnostics on it from the BIOS as well as run memtest86 to see if it's got any issues with RAM.
 
I did swap the Ram sticks with others and same exact issue... and I can't see how it's heat related because it'll come right back up and work after you turn it off and back on again. Sicne it usually does it at the exact same place I think it's got to be something with how the hard drive works but not sure, i'll try to mess around with the BIOS like r3v mentioned....
 
My pc in the shop had a bad cpu fan and would shut off and come right back on for a while before it would shut down again. I would pull the cpu cooler and clean it and apply new paste. I know some of the older Dell's came from the factory with not enough cpu paste.
 
Saw they had some pretty detailed BIOS Configs for certain models on their website, might not hurt to replace the CMOS battery, wipe the BIOS settings and reconfigure it.

For fun, you should shoot Chicago Gaming an email to see if they've seen this type of issue before and it's not on their bulletin site.
 
Sounds like you have an original Arcade Legends since it has a hard drive, AL2 is circuit board, AL3 has Flash drive. Anyway I ran my Arcade Legends for an hour and half in attract mode, it did not hang up on any games. I would contact Chicago Gaming through their website technical support and set up a ticket and ask them.
 
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