Pole Position II Board repair service needed

mwade109

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Hello, I picked up a Pole Position II sit down and after about a month of not retaining high scores I replaced the chip in 7E (E7?) and the game worked fine for about a week with the boards hanging outside of the machine but when I inserted them into their cage and closed it up, something would overheat and sound, mosty the chick that says 'prepare to qualify', would go away. Now I get a straight ram 8 error when I turn it on. I guess I would just like to send the boards out to get reworked, any one know who offers that service? Preferrably not an eBay person, I sent my Space Invaders to one of them and I still get no sound when an alien is hit, thats another whole story!

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Mike
 
Hello, I picked up a Pole Position II sit down and after about a month of not retaining high scores I replaced the chip in 7E (E7?) and the game worked fine for about a week with the boards hanging outside of the machine but when I inserted them into their cage and closed it up, something would overheat and sound, mosty the chick that says 'prepare to qualify', would go away. Now I get a straight ram 8 error when I turn it on. I guess I would just like to send the boards out to get reworked, any one know who offers that service? Preferrably not an eBay person, I sent my Space Invaders to one of them and I still get no sound when an alien is hit, thats another whole story!

If you want to see a pic, you can scroll down on our facebook and check it out:

http://www.facebook.com/expresspc


Mike

Replace all of your edge connectors, and you'll probably want to replace your 40 and 42 pin sockets. Your board interconnect might be shot as well... I have a PP1 here that just randomly freaks out after it's been on for a few minutes. Happens like clockwork. Pretty sure my issue is with the 2 big blue caps in the power section... I'd recommend starting with them and rule them out as the culprits. It takes about 30 mins to change them out and will save you some headaches in the future.

As for you Space Invader boards, are they Midway? If so, the sound section on the boards is really simple. At most you'll have to check a few traces, replace a LM3900, and maybe a resistor or a couple capacitors. Each sound has it's own little circuit, and if only 1 sound is missing... it really only leaves a couple of things to look at. http://www.brentradio.com/SpaceInvadersSoundRepair.htm
 
HI, welcome to the club
a quick search would have turned up the best guy in pole position repair

Dick Milikin
[email protected]

He's a member here



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I knew I saw that name somewhere. Here is a quote from the seller I got the machine from (about a month ago) when I let him know that the monitor neck was smashed in shipping due to there being NO bolts holding it down:
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"the first problem is this: I lost a bunch on this machine. I just spent $150 having Dick Milligan rebuild the boards, then I paid a tech from Jacksonville $110 getting the power supply fixed and replacing the accelator assembly and I paid $225 for the game to begin with, which I bought in Orlando and transported to my house"
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Sounds like everything in it has been rebuilt! Any way to tell if any of this is true by looking at the parts? I guess I will e-mail Dick Milligan and see. thanks.
Mike
 
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