Oh No Asteriod Issues on My Birthday

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Oh No! Asteroids Issues on My Birthday

Well, Had my 41th Birthday party today and had a few friends over. Had all my games rockin'. I went downstairs a couples of hours later and my asteroids for wigging out. It looked like lighting bolts shooting across the screen. I powered it off. Once everyone left I went back down to check it out. I powered it back up and had nothing. The P1 and P2 start buttons where twinkling, but no video and no sound. Pressing P1 or P2 had no result. I did a quick check inside and found nothing obvious, that I know of.

Fuses all look good.
The PCB Red light was on.
The monitor (WG 19v2000), the red light was on.
From a quick glance, all Caps look good include big blue.

Can anyone provide any help?

Thanks
 
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Has the monitor ever been capped? Have you checked for proper voltages..and has the big blue ever been replaced?
 
The light on the monitor is telling us your monitor has self triggered spot killer mode which it will do when there is no gameboard signal reaching the defelection board. Also the p1 / p2 blinking lights tells us that the gameboard is malfunctioning. sounds like the lighting drawing across the monitor was your gamboard in its final drawing days. good luck best wishes with your game!. you may want to send your gameboard to http://www.elektronforge.com/

BTW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. go kick your asteroids board in the nads.
 
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Try re-seating the roms (clean the legs) and any other socketed chips before you send it out for repair.

Bill
 
Would also be worth putting it into test mode to see if anything happens. It's very likely a game board fault, or perhaps a power issue. Have seen MANY Asteroids go this way and it's always been a game board fault.
 
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