Need someone for Star Wars PCB repair

alejandromad

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I think my Star Wars has fallen ill.
I am going to do a bit more troubleshooting but it seems to be a vector generation problem of some sort.
More details to follow...
In the interim, who can I contact to beg for (and pay for) their repair skills?
 
I think my Star Wars has fallen ill.
I am going to do a bit more troubleshooting but it seems to be a vector generation problem of some sort.
More details to follow...
In the interim, who can I contact to beg for (and pay for) their repair skills?

I used Bill at Bills video repair here in MA. GREAT guy and super helpful. Couldnt be more reasonable either.

Tell him Chris in Sudbury Sent you!

Bills Video Service
508-695-8891
 
Thanks for the tip. I'll give him a call.
I'm certain it's the PCB set.
It was left on overnight by my son and his friend, for a total "on" time of about 18 hours.
It looked fine, and played fine, the morning after and then I turned it off.
Turned it on later in the day and it started collapsing in a cyclic pattern during a game.
It will sit on the test screens indefinately as long as they aren't the screens with the cross hatch pattern (which collapses) or the following self-test screens with the boxes that start off large and shrink down. The ones of those that do show up, just collapse to a quarter of the screen size.
There are no "hardware" or "mathbox" errors in test.
It used to do all the self-tests just fine.
During gameplay it might stop workng completely... I just played it through a few times on easy... the second time through the towers were all missing... there are 'artifacts' on the screen all the time.. the shots from the enemies in every stage are basically invisible... maybe a couple of red lines (instead of white).
 
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