showtime reset problem

scott1982

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My blitz/showtime cab is having a problem. It does its rom check and everything is fine with no errors. Pick which game you want and teams etc and everything is great....Then right before the kickoff the screen went to a bluish/green screen and about 5 seconds later the game rebooted and passed all checks again. What seems to be the problem? Thanks for your help.
 
hard drive might be going bad. could be a low voltage issue too, I've seen that on the "newer" Atari/Midway games with hard drives.

I know you can't magically pull a Blitz/Showtime hard drive out of your you-know-what, but if you got a meter handy I'd check the +5 voltage first, I think what you're looking for is about 5.10V with Vegas boardsets... maybe someone else with more experience with these will chime in.

if that number's too low, it'll affect your hard drive if it's not getting enough juice, I'm going to assume your hard drive is plugged into the port on the game board and not the power supply.

otherwise, your hard drive might just be bad too, if it does it in the same spot every time, that is. rom check is kind of pointless on these, run the hard drive check instead, if you get a lot of errors, that'll explain some things. :)

user ToplessZ sold compact flash kits for these, but last I heard from him he was going into the air force academy or something and wasn't going to be making/selling the kits for a few months, though I saw him post some other items for sale recently, maybe send him a message. make note of which version your roms are, I think it displays it on power up, cause the hard drive revision has to match or else it won't work.
 
Will it play the basketball side?

I had one that would play the football just fine, but select the basketball and it would crash and reboot.

I bought a new hard drive and matching chipset from ToplessZ on here and it fixed it just fine....
 
It will play the basketball just fine but not the nfl blitz. It will reboot right before kickoff everytime. Where is the best place to get this hard drive from. I sent the klover a pm but havent heard back from him. Thanks.
 
do you know which version you've got? mine's got 3.0 roms/disk, if it's the same I could dump it for you and upload it. you'd just have to use the chdman utility to extract it to another hard drive. I'm sure you got one of those laying around or know someone that has an old hard drive.

I forget how big the disk image is, I think like an 8.4 gb drive will get it though.
 
im pretty sure its the 3.0 version. Not 100% sure though as im at work right now. Will know for sure tonight though. :)
 
that's fine, I won't be at my games until then anyway. :)

I've been meaning to dump my hard drive, cause it seems to be a problem with various members, like the MAME one doesn't work. always the best bet to copy what you've got. if we got the same version though I don't think it'll be an issue.
 
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