JLS2016
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Followed those instructions. Sound worked. Plays blind. Hooked up monitor... no neck glow. Guess I need to check those fuses but can't reach them. Pretty sure monitor fan turned on though 
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We noticed two plugs not plugged in but we didn't see anywhere to plug them. I'm guessing it's just relating to the Asteroids and they aren't supposed to be plugged in.
Vectors are a mess though. Words like Star Trek are readable but obviously some craziness here?
Well I guess you are lucky!!Working Star Trek w/ no monitor or board repairs...Congrats! BTW, don't sleep on that burnt power connector for the AC in. It definitely needs to be replaced or you will eventually have trouble. Resistance will only grow and it will burn more.
If it is complex then is this a good project to get my toes wet with or is this extreme with a newbie and I should pay someone else?
Thanks
OR...if you pay $100 for a hobby, do what you want with what's yours. And don't confuse the hippocratic oath with messing around on an old star trek conversion.I'm going to be blunt here.
From the questions you are asking, it doesn't appear you have much experience repairing electronics.
This is not the way to get that experience. If you use the wrong soldering iron, you will damage the board and may wreck it.
I see people throwing ideas at you, and I'm pretty sure you don't know what they are even talking about. Trifurcon connections are wonderful - do you have the right crimper to install them?
Soldering is part art, part skill. How much have you soldered in your life? For me, I'm nowhere near as much as some people here, but I have built kits and got them working, so I know how to solder.
So my advice to you is this: GET HELP FAST before you break something. It's not like parts for these things are on shelves. If you burn something or wreck something, it's done.
These games are unique, hard to find, and can be a bugger to fix. Our oath as people who fix these things is DO NO HARM!
If you want to learn how to solder, take a class on it, or buy a kit and make something, or get an old radio and desolder and resolder a lot of stuff on it.
Don't play Dr. Neophyte with this game.