mecha
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ok, I come up with lots of oddball stuff on here, that much is obvious. my family bought a closed arcade's inventory, so there's a lot of gremlins lurking in that machinery, myself and 2 techs had to fix them all.
one problem still persists however, and it's with our Wild Riders. someone else posted a similar topic very recently, but after I've dabbled with a few different areas on it, the game still freezes. so here's my list of changes/repairs:
1) adjusted +5V and 3.3V (to 5.20 and 3.5 respectively) -- I did this because at the problem points where the game would lock up, I noticed the 3.3 would dip down to 3.25~ --- can anyone confirm that this is normal or if it will be problematic if I leave it at 3.5?
2) cooling fan wouldn't spin -- with my WD40 magic I was able to get this to work again. since the problem continued after adjusting the PSU, I figured it was heat-related. however, it still continued...
3) I removed the ROM card, and just went into the BIOS test to see if it would lock up at all. it didn't. so I powered down and reinserted the ROM card...
4) I ran the Game ROM test. IC1 and IC2 both came up with BAD messages. everything else checked out...
5) for fun, I wanted to see if this was intermittent -- the second Game ROM test resulted in all GOOD messages for every rom. (I didn't power down or change anything with the hardware itself before doing this)
6) I then played the game, and it didn't freeze up again.
so is this a matter of just poor conductivity between the ROM card and the main board? last year this same problem occurred and sometimes on power up the game would give a "GAME NOT SUPPORTED BY MAIN BOARD" error. eventually this went away, and wasn't an issue for over 13 months.
I'm running out of ideas here.
one problem still persists however, and it's with our Wild Riders. someone else posted a similar topic very recently, but after I've dabbled with a few different areas on it, the game still freezes. so here's my list of changes/repairs:
1) adjusted +5V and 3.3V (to 5.20 and 3.5 respectively) -- I did this because at the problem points where the game would lock up, I noticed the 3.3 would dip down to 3.25~ --- can anyone confirm that this is normal or if it will be problematic if I leave it at 3.5?
2) cooling fan wouldn't spin -- with my WD40 magic I was able to get this to work again. since the problem continued after adjusting the PSU, I figured it was heat-related. however, it still continued...
3) I removed the ROM card, and just went into the BIOS test to see if it would lock up at all. it didn't. so I powered down and reinserted the ROM card...
4) I ran the Game ROM test. IC1 and IC2 both came up with BAD messages. everything else checked out...
5) for fun, I wanted to see if this was intermittent -- the second Game ROM test resulted in all GOOD messages for every rom. (I didn't power down or change anything with the hardware itself before doing this)
6) I then played the game, and it didn't freeze up again.
so is this a matter of just poor conductivity between the ROM card and the main board? last year this same problem occurred and sometimes on power up the game would give a "GAME NOT SUPPORTED BY MAIN BOARD" error. eventually this went away, and wasn't an issue for over 13 months.
I'm running out of ideas here.
