Random DK Resets... board issues?

jbarket

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Hey guys,

So I picked up my first cab last week. It's a DK cab that I _believe_ was originally a Popeye cab. Back instruction sheet is for Popeye. Anyway, I spent some time giving it some love, and other than the fact that it's completely missing the sound board, it appears to be in good shape.

However! When I started playing it, it went weird on me.

After being on for a bit, it started getting weird. First, I started getting some weird artifacting... random pieces of girder where it shouldn't be and things like that... and then the second board started being weird every time. The flames would stop moving, wouldn't change color when I got the hammer, et cetera. At this point, whenever I beat the second board, DK falls and instead of loading the third board, it resets. High scores wiped and everything fresh as a daisy.

To me, it sounds like an issue with the PCB, but I really don't have any experience here. Since it's missing the sound board and I've had no real luck locating _just_ a sound board, I was planning on replacing it anyway, but I'd like some opinions on whether or not replacing the game PCB will fix this.

Thanks guys.
 
Nevermind, I take it back. Played through again, this time when I beat board 2 the whole screen flipped... high score and such at the bottom upside down... with 000s everywhere.
 
You need to check that you have good voltage to the board and then clean and re seat all the socket chips.

Are you missing the amp from the monitor chassis ? what do you mean sound board ?
 
I have a TKG3-UP board. The SOU board is just, missing. Completely. It's CLK -> Video -> Mounting Bracket -> CPU -> nothing. Dangling ribbon cables that I assume used to connect to it.

I knew it didn't have sound when I bought it... it was originally in a hospital so you can see how the attract sound and such would be irritating as all hell... but I figured it was turned down or disconnected. I was pretty surprised it could run without the SOU board.

Everything else appears to be intact. What I _believe_ to be the amp on the monitor looks clean, and I'm definitely getting a hell of a hum if I turn the volume up on the monitor. Just nothing going from the game to the monitor because no SOU board.

I assume to check the voltage all I really need to do is break out the multimeter and well, check it. I'll try and do that tomorrow. Thanks for the advice.
 
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