This is a Pac I picked upa while back, which I stuck a 96-in-1 in. I played it a while back, but forgot to turn it off… It chugged away for 3-4 days before I noticed, because it's in my detached garage. It seemed fine, but the next time I went to play it, the text/ghosts/Pac started to glitch out intermittently.
I haven't started to diagnose things yet, just curious if people had seen this before. Presumably the ROMs aren't the issue… I'm thinking either power supply, bad socket, or a crystal. But I don't really know what the hell I'm talking about, and I haven't done any work on this or similar machines yet.
I looked through some lists of common Pac problems and didn't see mine. Also read through the manual to see if the test points on the PCB were labeled, but I didn't see anything there, either. I guess just find the +5 line on the edge connector and start there?
I haven't started to diagnose things yet, just curious if people had seen this before. Presumably the ROMs aren't the issue… I'm thinking either power supply, bad socket, or a crystal. But I don't really know what the hell I'm talking about, and I haven't done any work on this or similar machines yet.
I looked through some lists of common Pac problems and didn't see mine. Also read through the manual to see if the test points on the PCB were labeled, but I didn't see anything there, either. I guess just find the +5 line on the edge connector and start there?


