Q*Bert fails to boot

ChaosJohn

Active member
Joined
Feb 8, 2005
Messages
1,640
Reaction score
18
Location
Burbank, California
So I've had my Q*Bert for a couple of years and it's always worked fine. But when I turned it on a few days ago, it failed to boot.

Q*Bert normally boots up and says "I am turned on". Right now it just says "errrrrrrrrrrr", and doesn't boot up.

All the voltage lights are on on the power supply, and the next step I was going to take was to check all the voltages going to the PCBs. But before I got into all that mess of wires, I thought I'd check with people here to see if the problem sounds familiar, or if you have any advice as to what might cause boot up to fail in that way - dead CPU? dead oscillator? power problems? something else?

Any tips would be appreciated. If not, then I'm in for a long afternoon of checking harness connections and voltages and re-seating chips.
 
So I've had my Q*Bert for a couple of years and it's always worked fine. But when I turned it on a few days ago, it failed to boot.

Q*Bert normally boots up and says "I am turned on". Right now it just says "errrrrrrrrrrr", and doesn't boot up.

All the voltage lights are on on the power supply, and the next step I was going to take was to check all the voltages going to the PCBs. But before I got into all that mess of wires, I thought I'd check with people here to see if the problem sounds familiar, or if you have any advice as to what might cause boot up to fail in that way - dead CPU? dead oscillator? power problems? something else?

Any tips would be appreciated. If not, then I'm in for a long afternoon of checking harness connections and voltages and re-seating chips.
Mine does this every day. I just open and close the coin door 2-3 times. It eventually boots.
 
Nope. That didn't do it. I opened and closed the coin door several times - sometimes it does nothing, sometimes it does the "errrrrrrrr" sound. But no image either way.

Guess I'm back on the debugging track.

Any other ideas would be appreciated. (and thanks for trying, Phet)
 
Nope. That didn't do it. I opened and closed the coin door several times - sometimes it does nothing, sometimes it does the "errrrrrrrr" sound. But no image either way.

Guess I'm back on the debugging track.

Any other ideas would be appreciated. (and thanks for trying, Phet)

Eh, it was worth a shot. Has your PSU been rebuilt? I have a tested/ working/ partially rebuilt one here that I am not using. I was gonna put it up for sale at 40 shipped. If you want it, let me know.
 
Back
Top Bottom